Superkilen:Public Park in the Nørrebro With Artifacts From 60 Countries

Superkilen:Public Park in the Nørrebro With Artifacts From 60 Countries
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Superkilen is a public park in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by the arts group Superflex with the collaboration of BIG architects and a German landscape architecture firm called Topotek1, the park is considered one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in the Danish capital. Filled with objects from around the globe, it is designed as a kind of world exposition for the local inhabitants, covering over 60 nationalities, who have been able to contribute their own ideas and artifacts to the project.

Shrek a Merino Sheep Who Escaped Shearing for 6 Years

 Shrek a Merino Sheep Who Escaped Shearing for 6 Years
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Shrek was a Merino sheep, a castrated male, belonging to South Island, New Zealand, who gained international fame in 2004 owing to his gigantic coat of fleece. Shrek became famous after escaping his enclosure and evading the shearers for six years by hiding in caves. Merino sheep are usually shorn annually but Shrek managed to escape the blade for six years straight. When he was finally caught, the sheep was unrecognizable. “He looked like some biblical creature,” said John Perriam, Shrek’s owner.

50 Year oOd Bonzai Tree Into Space for Exobiotanica Project

50 Year oOd Bonzai Tree Into Space for Exobiotanica Projectazuma makoto sends 50 year old bonzai tree into space for exobiotanica projectTokyo-based artist azuma makoto in collaboration with john powell of JP aerospace have completed a botanical space flight, sending a japanese white pine bonsai suspended from a carbon-fiber frame, and an arrangement of orchids, hydrangeas, lilies and irises, among other plants into the stratosphere. launched with a specially equipped balloon from black rock desert in nevada, the mission, entitled ‘exbiotanica’, was conceptualized to let different plants step into the unknown, away from earth.

2016 Fortwo and ForFour Microcompact Cars

2016 Fortwo and ForFour Microcompact Cars
2016 Smart Fortwo
2016 Fortwo and ForFour Microcompact Cars
2016 Smart Fortwo
Mercedes  has unveiled its all-new 2016 Fortwo and ForFour microcompact cars. The smallest car sold in America is still just 8.8 feet long in two-seat, two-door form, and features the model’s unique “Tridion Safety Cell” design, but everything else about the car has been fully updated. The new Smart car will feature three engine options, 60 hp option and a 71 hp and 90 hp three-cylinder option.  Each car can be equipped with a five-speed manual or a twinamic six-speed dual clutch transmission.

Wonderfull Aurora Borealis Dance Across the Night Sky

Wonder full Aurora Borealis Dance Across the Night Sky When the night sky began to fill with eerie green streaks of dancing light, astrophotographer Kwon O Chul turned his camera upwards to capture the dazzling display. Located near Yellowknife in northern Canada, the auroras were so incredibly bright that the Korean photographer needed only mere seconds to capture the luminous phenomenon, which is caused when solar winds are pulled into the earth's atmosphere by magnetic force and the sky illuminates with a powerfully mysterious veil of colors that move and flow overhead.

Train to the clouds:World Highest Railways

Train to the clouds:World Highest Railwaystren-a-las-nubes-11
 Located 4,000 meters above the sea level in the Andes, Tren a las Nubes or “Train to the clouds” is one of the highest railways in the world. It begins its journey from the city of Salta, in Argentina, at an altitude of 1,187 meters, passes through the Valle de Lerma, enters the Quebrada del Toro and finally ends its journey at the La Polvorilla viaduct (4,200 meters). During the 16-hour trip, the train travels 217 km and climbs a staggering 3,000 meters. It crosses 29 bridges, 12 viaducts, 21 tunnels, swoops round two gigantic loops and two switchbacks. Train to The Clouds got its name from the numerous clouds that are often seen under bridges and around slopes.

World Largest Salt Flat Cono de Arita in Argentina

World Largest Salt Flat Cono de Arita in Argentina
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Near the south border of Salar de Arizaro, the sixth largest salt flat on earth and the second largest in Argentina, 70 km from the village of Tolar Grande, lies a strange volcanic pyramid. An almost perfect cone, it rises unexpectedly in the middle of the salt pan. This is Cono de Arita and it looms majestically 122 meters above the Salar. Its name comes from the Aymara language where Arita means “sharp”.

Old Aircraft Gee Bee Model R: A Cute But Dangerous Airplane

Old Aircraft Gee Bee Model R: A Cute But Dangerous Airplanegee-bee-model-r-2
The aircraft had a very peculiar design characterized by a thick stoutly fuselage complete with low-set monoplane wings and lack of a conventional empennage. The airframe was essentially built around the massive radial piston engine mounted at the extreme forward of the design.

Verruckt, The World's Tallest Waterslide Opens To The Public

Verruckt, The World's Tallest Waterslide Opens To The Publicverruckt, the world's tallest waterslide opens to the public Verrückt, the world’s tallest waterslide at schlitterbahn water park in kansas city, kansas, has officially opened. the slide, which translates to ‘insane’ in german, requires thrill-seekers to climb 264 stairs up to a platform standing at 168 feet, which measures 94 inches taller than the statue of liberty. before plummeting down at speeds of up to 65 miles-per-hour, visitors need to weigh themselves to ensure the combined weight of the two or three passengers on-board does not exceed 550 pounds.

Beautiful Island of Gaztelugatxe

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Gaztelugatxe is a little island situated in the Bay of Biscay just outside the Spanish coast in Basque Country. The island is crowned by a small hermitage called San Juan de Gaztelugatxe dedicated to John the Baptist, that dates from the 10th century, but could be as early as the 9th century. With another small neighboring island, Aketze, they form a protected biotope that extends from the town of Bakio until Cape Matxitxako, on the Bay of Biscay.

Zaha Hadid Builds Miniature LEGO City For London Festival Of Architecture

Zaha Hadid Builds Miniature LEGO City For London Festival Of Architecturezaha hadid builds miniature LEGO city for london festival of architectureThe first LEGO battle between stirling prize-winners zaha hadid architects, rogers stirk harbour + partners, stanton williams and witherford watson mann took place at the london festival of architecture during june 2014. the competition organized by the royal academy of arts asked teams to create a proposal for a new cultural quarter in london.

Aston Martin DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo At Goodwood Festival Of Speed

Aston Martin DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo At Goodwood Festival Of Speedaston martin DP-100 vision gran turismo at goodwood festival of speed
Developed by the aston martin design team, the DP-100 vision gran turismo has been designed as a virtual-only GT racer available for gran turismo 6. as with the CC100 speedster concept, many of the design cues visible in DP-100, such as the light blade rear lamps, foreshadows the future of aston martin.

Beautiful Waterfalls of Hierve el Agua

Beautiful Waterfalls of Hierve el Agua
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Hierve el Agua is located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, about 70 km east of Oaxaca city, and 14 km southeast of the town of Mitla. Hierve el Agua is Spanish for “the water boils”, and the name comes from the bubbling natural mineral springs that are found here, that run into bathing pools on a spectacular cliff-top location.

Creative Paper Birds

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Paper birds from Diana Beltran Herreraflickr set]. Impressive, so real!

Creative Colorful Canopy of Umbrellas Graces the Streets of Portugal

Creative Colorful Canopy of Umbrellas Graces the Streets of Portugal
It's that time of year again! A new canopy of colorful umbrellas has been created over the streets of Portugal. Two years ago, photographer Patrícia Almeida introduced us to this whimsical installation put on by production company Sextafeira Producoes for the annual arts festival Agitagueda.

The Gerry Judah’s Incredible Car Sculptures

The Gerry Judah’s Incredible Car Sculptures
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Each year, London-based artist Gerry Judah creates a massive sculpture in tribute of an iconic car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, an event held annually in Sussex, UK. This year Judah erected a soaring 26 meters sculpture featuring two Mercedes-Benz racing cars – a 1934 Mercedes-Benz W 25 Silver Arrow and a 2013 Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 W04, speeding past each other in midair, connected though a 90 meter steel arch. The sculpture celebrates 120 years of motorsport heritage by Mercedes-Benz.

Amazing Art of Cormorant Fishing

Amazing Art of Cormorant Fishing
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Cormorants are a family of sea birds whose diet consist mostly of fish. These birds are masters in fishing – they wait for their prey on sea shores or by the side of rivers, and at the right moment dive underwater, propelling themselves with their wings and feet, and catch fish with their specially designed beaks. In ancient Japan and China, fishermen have learned to keep and train these birds to help them catch fish in rivers. This is known as cormorant fishing or “ukai” in Japan. It is still practiced in select places in Japan, particularly in the Nagara River in Gifu Prefecture, where the ancient art has a long history going back to more than 1,300 years.

Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotine

Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith + hal kirkland paper cut participants with guillotine
Paper artist mandy smith and interactive creative director hal kirkland have collaborated on ‘paper cuts‘, an participatory sculpture that invites an audience to experience — head first — history’s most infamous apparatus of death. unlike it’s violent predecessor, however, this guillotine’s ‘blade’ offers nothing worse than a harmless paper cut.

Amazing Building Look Like Lotus Flower Sculpture

Amazing Building Look Like Lotus Flower Sculpture Melbourne-based architecture firm studio505 has designed and completed the Lotus Building and People’s Park that’s located in Wujin, China. Its impressive physical form resembles the flower for which the building is named, and its petals dramatically rise out of an artificial lake. Accompanied by an eight acre park, it’s used as a civic building and a landmark whose distinctive presence ties the community together.

Tomas Moravec Hacks A Wooden Pallet To Glide Down Tram Tracks

Tomas Moravec Hacks A Wooden Pallet To Glide Down Tram Trackstomas moravec hacks a wooden pallet to glide down tram tracksIn the city of bratislava, slovakia, czech artist tomáš moravec has fixed wheels to a standartized europallet, fitting it between existing tram lines and taking it for a spin down the street. the wooden platform — a basic feature of any warehouse — has been reinterpreted as a functioning vehicle, giving a totally new purpose to the shipping unit.

Amedee Lighthouse at Amédée Island in New Caledonia

Amedee Lighthouse at Amédée Island in New Caledonia
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The Amédée lighthouse is an iron lighthouse located on Amédée Island, 24 km away from Nouméa, New Caledonia. At 56 meters tall, it is one of the tallest lighthouses in the world and the first metallic lighthouse constructed in France.

Hälssen & Lyon Tea Calendar

Hälssen & Lyon Tea Calendar
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 Just take a look at this absolutely brilliant Hälssen & Lyon tea calendar.

Creative Hand-Carved Crystal Sculptures Mimic DSLR Cameras


Creative Hand-Carved Crystal Sculptures Mimic DSLR Cameras Photographers and collectors will surely want to check out these intricately designed cameras made completely out of crystal! Developed by Fotodiox, two hand-crafted models are made of premium grade crystal and designed to look like a smaller version of a Canon 7D or a Nikon D90.

Beautiful Azaleas of Shiofune Kannon-ji Temple in Japan

Beautiful Azaleas of Shiofune Kannon-ji Temple in Japanshiofune-kannon-ji-12 Shiofune Kannon-ji is a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple in Ome City, in Japan, about 30 minutes by car from Yokota. The temple is located in a bowl-like depression surrounded by hills covered by azalea bushes. Between April and May, the hills are set ablaze with color when the 20,000 azalea bushes are in full bloom. Paved paths suitable for strolling wind through the bushes.

Business Cat Tie

Business Cat Tie Business Cat TieCheck out this business cat tie for your cat's business meeting or wedding. They’re available from Amazon for about $7.50(USD) each.

iZZi Silm iPhone Camera Case

iZZi Silm iPhone Camera CaseiZZi Silm iPhone Camera CaseBased on a successful kickstarter campaign, the iZZi Silm iPhone Camera Case($110) features a built-in 4-in-1 lens solution for iPhone 5/5s, simply turn the spindle and choose from four pro-grade lenses, macro, 2x telephoto, 180-degree fisheye or wide angle.

Amazing Picture:The Statue of Liberty from Above

Amazing Picture:The Statue of Liberty from Abovestatue-of-liberty-from-above-aerial-satellite-photoIn celebration of the Fourth of July (The United States’ Independence Day) we see a satellite view of the iconic Statue of Liberty, a neoclassical sculpture located on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor (40°41’21″N 74°2’40″W).

The Ajanta and Ellora Caves of India

The Ajanta and Ellora Caves of India 
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Ajanta and Ellora are two monumental rock cut caves that define Indian art and architectural accomplishment. Though these two monuments are separated by a distance of approximately 100 kilometers they are often mentioned together since their aesthetics and importance are at par and the fact that both are situated in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra.