Linnea Stridis an emerging Swedish artist currently based in Stockholm who has a pretty impressive style. Her realistic paintings, particularly those depicting subjects playing with water are stunning. Check out some of her works.
Patrick Case and Jesse Sebelko rake the car out of snow in Yu Claire, Wisconsin. After a wind speed of 64 mph temperature dropped to -10. (Tony Dejak / AP) Heavy snowfall in Merrillville, Indiana. Snow and cold have caused problems on roads in northwest Indiana. (JD Pooley / AP) A truck collapse near Meysvillya, Kentucky. (David Goldman / AP) Homeless man Robert Metzner cycling in Cincinnati, Ohio. Metzner said that he had been a year living on the street....
Members of a local winter swimmers' club went swimming in the ice-cold Yenisei River with the air temperature at about -36 degrees Celsius in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, in what is acting like an annual tradition of the club.
The winning bid was placed by London-based art dealer Michael Tollemache, who outbid three others during the auction. Birds of America was first published as a series of sections between 1827 and 1838. Only 119 copies were published of which fewer than a dozen are in private hands. Each of the printed book were colored by hand, and it was an extremely laborious process. Audubon employed a rather shocking technique to produce the book....
Dutch artistBert Simonshas discovered a way to create very life like 3-D sculptures out of paper. He first maps his subjects' faces using sophisticated tracking technology and feeds the data into a computer.
Finally, after spending some $2 billion on the project, the Congress pulled the plug. When the project was canceled, 22.5 km of tunnel and 17 shafts to the surface were already dug. For almost fifteen years the SSC was nothing more than the most expensive hole in Texas. Hunts unique selling point for Collider Data Center was its location and infrastructure. The entire complex is clear of flight paths and out of hurricane, tsunami, earthquake and flood zones....
From grassy fields, to tornadoes and volcanoes - Matthew Albanese has done it all. “DIY Paradise”. Created using cotton, salt, cooked sugar, tin foil, feathers & canvas. The darker rocks are made of mixed tile grout, flag crumpled paper & wire. The Earth is a video still projected onto the wall. Inspired by the Apollo 11 mission. Tornado made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss Paprika Mars. This model volcano was illuminated from within by 6-60 watt light bulbs....
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The Essen Motor Show is an auto show held annually in the city of Essen, Germany. It is the world’s largest tuning fair, like Europe’s version of the SEMA show. The 43rd anniversary of the event was held from 27th Nov to 5th Dec 2010.
TheKensington Doll House Festivalis considered one of the premier dolls house shows of the world. The event is held annually at the Kensington Town Hall in London.
It was the brainchild of Jim Reinders, who constructed it as a memorial to his father in 1987. Carhenge has since become a tourist destination, drawing as many as 80,000 visitors annually to the site. Carhenge consists of 38 automobiles arranged in a circle measuring about 29 metres in diameter. The heelstone is a 1962 Cadillac. Three cars were buried at Carhenge. Their “gravestone” is a car that reads: “Here lie three bones of foreign cars....
Jorge Rodriguez-Geradais a Cuban born artist based in New York and Barcelona, and founder of the artists direction Culture Jamming in the New York City. Rodriguez-Gerada creates gigantic portraits of anonymous people in charcoal which scale the walls of buildings in different cities around the world. The artistic process begins with the search for the city, the building, and most importantly the person to be depicted. This person must have a sense of belonging to the city that hosts the artwork, and must accept being converted into a monumental hero....
Italian artistFranco Recchiabuilds complex miniature cityscapes from discarded computer parts, casings, circuit boards and electronic components. The sculptures are on exhibition at the Agora Gallery in NYC until July 2011. [viaBoing Boing] Related Capacitor Bikes Brilliant Printed Circuit Board Sculptures by Steven Rodrig
