Set of cool and funny gadgets by inspirefirst...
Real-time ASCII (a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet) Google Street View....
The World’s Smallest Horse according to Guinness World Records is Thumbelina from Missouri, but another tiny horse named Einstein may take her place when he turns 4, which is the minimum age required for the record. Einstein is from New Hampshire and unlike Thumbelina, he doesn’t have any dwarvish features, he has the same proportions as any other horse – he’s just much much smaller.
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A beautiful collection of underwater captures by the Moscow based photographer Katerina Bodrunova with the series Underwater Tango that mix the beauty of underwater photography with the passion of Tango....
Ray Anthony Villafane - (March 5, 1969) is an multi-talented artist who is best known for his American Pop Culture sculpting abilities. He has also received nationwide recognition as a Master Pumpkin Sculptor on the Food Network's "Challenge" Show for sweeping all three rounds in their 2008 Show....
Calvin Nicholls is a master when it comes to the art of paper reliefs. He manages to capture an essence of gracefulness in each of his sculptures. In this particular collection where the focus is nature here are many of the seventy-five sculptures that were created for the Follet Collection Resources Campaign in response to a request of licensing from art director Lee Sievers. The full collection remains on display at their international corporate headquarters....
Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, in which a skilled origami artist can make some incredible things. This is an image gallery featuring origami with dollar bills – there are some very creative minds at work here....
The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is an international mountain sightseeing route some 90 kilometers (56 miles) long. The route goes across the 3,000-meter-high North Alpine mountains, the so-called [roof of Japan,] and connects Toyama and Shinano Omachi. You can enjoy the panorama by taking a train, highland bus, trolley bus, cable car, and ropeway. Since the lines opened in June 1971, the Tateyama mountain area has been transformed from an isolated spot into one of the nation’s best sightseeing areas, where a million guests visit every year....
Christian Faur is an artist based in Granville, Ohio. Looking for a new technique, he experimented with painting with wax, but he didn’t feel the results were satisfactory.Then, at Christmas in 2005, his young daughter opened a box of 120 Crayola crayons he’d bought her, and everything clicked into place. Faur decided he would create pictures out of the crayons themselves, packing thousands of them together so they become like the colored pixels on a TV screen. He starts each work by scanning a photo into a computer and breaking the image down into colored blocks He then draws a grid...
Female pilot Anna climbs out the cockpit of Japanese electronics company Suidobashi Heavy Industrys newly unveiled robot [Kuratas] at the Wonder Festival in Chiba, suburban Tokyo on July 29, 2012. The [Kuratas] robot, which will go on sale with a price tag of one million USD, measures four meters in height, weighs four tons and has four wheeled legs that can either be controlled remotely through the 3G network or by a human seated within the cockpit. (Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP Photo)...