Drinking is a sin in Buddhism but they certainly dont have any issues with building temples from beer bottles. In the north-east of Thailand, is a temple built from more than 1.5 million recycled beer bottles. Besides being ego-friendly, the disused bottles don’t fade, provide good lighting and are easy to clean.
Hilo Chen was born in 1942 in Taiwan and moved to New York in 1968 after living in Paris.
Damian Ortega creates mind-blowing sculptures suspended in mid-air. Ortega finds a way to turn everyday objects into extraordinary pieces of art. As he says, “I’m interested in those very everyday attempts to produce meaning. (Humorously, Boston Globe called it a “car manual diagram brought to life.") Materialista Materialista is the word used in Mexico to describe a truck that transports construction materials. What our mind identifies as a truck is actually only the vehicles chromed parts and the space between them....
In Montreal, swimming pools and children’s splash pads are also staying open longer. Visitors enjoying themselves in a water park in Ontario. A girl swims in Lake Ontario in Toronto during 30-degree heat on July 5. Four-year Diane Jennings plays in the spray of a hydrant in the upper Manhattan district of Washington Heights. Decosta Jennings and his daughter Diana jets under an open hydrant in the upper Manhattan. A woman and child in the spray from a fire hydrant during a heat wave in Brooklyn....
It is a reality that would threaten the survival of the very civilization that made it possible. The project was led by the United States, and included participation from the United Kingdom and Canada. The scientific research was directed by American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. It resulted in the creation of several research and production sites whose construction and operations were secret.
If this is true than Antisa Khvichava is the oldest living woman in the world. This was said by the spokesman of the civil registry who was present at the Justice Ministry. She is known to speak only the local language of that area. While Russian officials claim she is 130 years of age, her age has not yet been verified. According to records, her original birth certificate is missing....
The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East. It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Biologists estimate that a sixth to a quarter of all Pacific salmon originates in Kamchatka. Kuril Lake is recognized as the biggest spawning-ground for sockeye in Eurasia. Bears have a good time during the spawning season.
The war ended before any could be sent to other locations. Although the WAVES officially ceased to exist, the acronym was in common use well into the 1970s. See another great collection of photographs ofWomen in World War 2.
ArtistLisa Lichtenfelsis acclaimed for pushing the boundaries of fabric sculpture. Photographs of her sculptures are often mistaken for photos of living beings. Lisa Lichtenfels was born near Erie, Pennsylvania. After graduation from the Philadelphia College of Art, she joined Disney studios as an apprentice animator. While working with Disney, Ms. Lichtenfels began experimenting with stop-motion figurines with positionable bodies and nylon skin. Creating those simple, cartoon-like figures inspired her to attemptrealisticsculpting in fabric and set into motion her twenty-year career....
Located on Highway 12, in Wisconsin, U.S. is Dr. Evermores Scrap Metal yard that features a wide variety of strange metal creatures to form an steampunk orchestra, a band of 70 bird-like statues, made from different musical instruments. The Bird Band, as this unusual orchestra is commonly known, is made up of a giant metal cello, tubes, flutes, xylophones and bells. Tom Every, the creative genius behind Dr. Evermores scrap metal world, built every one of the statues, without any blueprints or previous designs....
Also seeminiature bikes made from capacitor, resistors and other circuit parts. I love how he makes the compound eyes with ceramic capacitors.
Sam Nielson is an artist based on United States who work at Avalanche Software/Disney Interactive Studios. Checkout his profile atDeviantArtand hisblogfor details on each illustration and some more.
Yesterday, wepublished several picturesof Spanish men and women celebrating the annual festival of San Fermin. Bull running is a very dangerous event.
