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Last month, a 100 Km (60 miles) long traffic jam was created on the Beijing-Tibet expressway. The jam had entered its10th day when reports first broke out on international media on April 23, 2010. Fortunately, the jam seemed to have been cleared by August 25, according to aYahoo report. Other cities around the world face similar congestion headaches. The 60 Km Beijing traffic was still not the record breaker. According to the Guinness Book of World Records those dubious records belong to France and Germany....

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“This is a very laborious process, but the result is worth it”, he explains. Mark plans to publish a book from these pictures.

Randall Rosenthalis an amazing artist who creates incredible wooden sculptures. His wood creations are so realistic and so detailed that it is very easy to be mistaken. Look at this image below. His sculpture called “Lunch Money” took six weeks to carve and another six to paint. It was later sold for 25.000$. The Making [viaCrooked Brains]

The best thing about art is that they can show up in any form in the most unusual places. The food industry is one of the places where we have seenplenty of examples. Here are some more food art, this time in the form of delicious sandwiches. Sources:Insanewiches,FunkyLunch

Every year, on the first Sunday of September, the Historical Regatta is held in Venice. This is followed by four separate boat races. The winners are awarded flags in place of medals. The pig ceremony has been abolished since few years ago after protests by some animal protection organizations. PETA is always ruining the fun.

But one artist in San Marcos, Texas is elevating these dust-covered canvases to the level of high art. Scott Wadeuses filthy car windows as canvases to create incredible but temporary masterpieces. I lived on a long, dirt road for over 20 years. ‘Mostly I would draw funny faces, then I started experimenting with ways to get shading. At first I would use the pads of my fingers and brush very lightly to get grey tones....

Brooklyn-based artistAlex Roulettecreates oil based paintings that look incredibly real. In his most recent series titledFabricated Realism, all the landscapes and subjects that Alex paints are actually invented. Click to enlarge My current series of paintings depict fabricated American landscapes. The invented landscapes arise from archetypal citations of past and present cultural influences. Placing figures into these landscapes is an attempt to take advantage of the viewers natural ability to extrapolate narratives....

Attempts To Flyis a photo series by photographerConan Thaiin which he freezes people as they leap into the air. Each image serves as a record of the attempt to fly. In doing so, we neglect the paths that diverge and intersect our intended direction.

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French painter and collage artistAnastassia Eliascreates tiny scenes with paper inside cardboard toilet paper tubes. The details and depth of each piece is impressive.

The talented Ukrainian artist Vladislav Erko has created an absolutely amazing deck of playing cards based on authentic traditional Ukrainian costumes. [viaTrendland]

The 12th Buenos Aires Tango Festival and the 8th Tango Dance World Championship came to a close this August. The annual competition featured 400 couples from 23 countries. This year Chizuko Kuwamoto of Japan and Diego Ortega of Spain took the grand prize. Here is a collection of pictures from the competition.