Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category
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Life-Sized Lego Forest In Australia
One of our favourite companies, Lego, has designed and installed this life-sized LEGO forest in the Living Desert in the Australian Outback. The forest consists of 15 pine trees and 15 flower sets all 66 times larger than their toy counterparts (that sets trees at 4m high!) and are made out LEGO built the forest in celebration of the company’s 50 year anniversary. John Peddie, the ...
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World’s Largest Building Made Of Recycled Beer Bottles
Las Vegas is now home to the world’s largest building made from recycled bottles called the Morrow Royal Pavillion. The 30,000 square foot manufacturing facility was created by LAs Vegas Entrepreneaur, Scott McCombs, and is made from more than 500,000 beer bottles that were collected from Las Vegas strip hotels and crushed into tiny glass bits. The crushed glass was then formed into a concrete composite ...
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Handy Dandy Storm-Proof Matches
REI’s Stormproof Matches are meant to be used by backpackers, hikers and extreme sports fanatics who find themselves at a loss for fire due to inclement weather. The match will not let go of a flame until the chemical coating has entirely burned out, making it somewhat easier to start a fire in the rain (a lot of rain…like…a storm). To extinguish the fire prematurely, the ...
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The Creepy Burning Earth Fire Pit
Backyard fire pits would be so much more exciting if everyone used the Third Rock Earth design by Fire Pit Art. USA-based Fire Pit Art is a company that produces creative heavy duty fire pits for residential and commercial use (including custom designs). The Third Rock design features a large orb with negative cut outs of the Earth’s lands, while the two thirds of water space ...
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The Amazing Pet Jellyfish Bowl
Apparently, jellyfish are becoming a fad in the world of ornamental aquariums, and Jellyfish Art is a company that is aiming to introduce jellyfish as pets to the masses as living works of art. Jellyfish require special water flow patterns to survive, and many large-scale aquariums are fully equipped to house these magnificent creatures. Jellyfish Art has developed a special type of tank that will allow ...
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Alien Looking Frost-Covered Arctic Trees
Italian photographer Niccolo Bonfadini is responsible for capturing these moments that were frozen in time – literally – in the Article Circle. The fluffly-looking ghostly creatures are actually snow-covered trees that have been completely covered by the snow and frost that is typical in the region. Bonafadini loves to travel to remote places and photograph the subjects that Nature has to offer. We love these photos ...
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Gorgeous Time Lapse Video From The Intl. Space Station At Night
Every frame in this video is a photograph taken from the International Space Station. All credit goes to the crews on board the ISS. Knate Myers removed some noise and edited some shots in photoshop and then compiled and arranged the images using Sony Vegas. The music is Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor) composed by John Murphy and performed by the City Of Prague Philharmonic. The ...
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English Gin With An Earthworm In The Bottle
Combining the Commonwealth’s favourite tonic-y tipple with, well, the Earth’s favourite worm – this libation hit the jackpot on a new boozy conversation starter. Raised in the fertile fields of southern England, these are some real down to earth-worms. Nutritious and *ahem* delicious, the largest member of the Oligochaeta family isn’t just the juicy prey of the blackbird anymore. We’d love to say that no earthworms ...
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9 Mesmerizing Photos Of Exploding Ink
Uk-based photographer Mark Mawson is renown for his incredible works of art that capture surreal moments under water. These images are part of his “Aqueous” series, featuring exploding plumes of ink photographed under water. Images from both the Fluoreau and Electreau collections are shared here. The ephemerality behind his work and gorgeous colours have us mesmerized for sure – we can almost imagine the puffs of ...
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An Under Water Guinness Bar
The next time you are enjoying a delicious pint of Guinness, imagine what it would be like to be drinking your dark, frothy brew deep-sea style. Thanks to London-based architecture firm, Jump Studios, you don’t have to come up with all the details in your imagination. Jump Studios recently completed the design of a submarine interior for the first ever deep-sea bar that is located in ...
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Jumbo Fingerprints Made From Random Stuff
American artist Kevin Van Aeist produced this collection of photos appropriately titled Fingerprints that features jumbo-sized fingerprints made out of everyday items (some of which are positively random in the best of ways). The artist uses his own fingerprints as his subject matter and attempts to use the materials that comprise the print to define the character. For instance, the fingerprint made out of yarn is ...
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Beautiful Flowers Made With Splashes
American artist Jack Long not only has talent, but an immense amount of patience and vision to boot. Long is credited with the creation and photography of these beautiful images of flowers – each one compiled out of photographs the artist took of splashes, then put together to resemble flowers. The pots, stems, leaves and the flower heads are all photos of splashes (look closely…it’s true) ...
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Photographs Of London Captured In Puddles
London-based photographer, writer, cartoonist, filmmaker, poem-writer, internet junkie and musician, Gavin Hammond, has managed to give everyone a taste of London Town in a unique and beautiful way with these photos of the city’s architecture and attractions as captured in the reflections of puddles. If there was ever a cool way to see London, we think this is it, besides, with all the rain those jolly ...
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Elegant Electro-Motorcycle Concept
Designed by Springtime, The BOLT concept motorbike is a beautiful combination of the polished and sophisticated features of naked-style sports tourers and the streetfighter stance of supersports. The minimal aesthetic is somewhat deceiving as dual electric motors put out around 80kw, launching the bike with an amazing amount of torque. Other features like a clear digital display and stunning LED lighting effects leave little to be ...
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Gale Force Winds + People’s Faces = Brilliance
Lithuania-based photographer and artist, Tadao Cern, has produced a hilariously cheeky photography collection entitled “Blow Job”, featuring 100 portraits of people’s faces as they endure gale-force windows blown directly at them. We love this series for so many reasons, and wish Cern would photograph us getting all gale-force-wind-blown, but for now we’ll just admire the affects on others. THINK THIS IS FUNNY? CHECK OUT THESE PHOTOS ...
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5 Photos That Blend Day And Night Together
Well known photographer, Stephen Wilkes, has created an incredible collection of blended art works that feature a landscape photographed in the night blended with an image of the same landscape from the day time. The collection, “Day to Night” was created with hundreds of photos over the span of a single day. Wilkes carefully adjusted the shutter to allow for proper exposure as the sun began ...
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7 Gravity Defying Art Installations
German-based artist, Cornelia Konrads, works with natural materials and suspended wires in order to create amazing installations featuring gravity-defying works of art. The sense of weightlessness and ephemerality in her work has gained Konrads a fair amount of exposure. Her stacked logs, branches, suspended snow balls and beautifully arranged branches that form a doorway to a clearing are truly unique works of art. Plus, did we ...
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Sleek Solar Powered Sun Lounger Design
Architecture students at MIT have designed and developed the Soft Rocker – a solar powered outdoor rocking lounger where you can relax and charge your electronics the green way. Led by professor Sheila Kennedy, the rocker uses the human power of balance to create an interactive solar tracking system that utilizes a 12 ampere hour battery storing the solar energy harvested during sunlight hours – this ...
