Ritemail Picdump � 65 more images after the break...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Blinded Men Statues Ascending High into the Sky
Karma is an intriguing sculptural installation by Korean artist Do Ho Suh that presents countless men sitting atop one another while shielding each other's eyes. Like his Cause & Effect piece, which features a spectacular tornado of figurines, Karma presents figurative sculptures ascending into the sky like a human ladder. However, in addition to being perched on each other's shoulders, they are successively blinding one another which leads one to wonder: Why? The artist has caught our attention over the years with misplaced houses, a robe made of dog tags, and symbolic floor installations; but it's his use of the human form that is most thought-provoking. His work continually questions one's identity and individuality by using the human body. These stainless steel men, though recognizably different entities, appear to move as one. While the piece is open for interpretation, it makes one question whether the idea behind it is to present the figure of a man blindly following in the path of his ancestors before him, who have risen a step closer to the heavens with each new successor in the lineage. 07 more images after the break...
Glittering Mosaic of the World Map
English artist Chris Chamberlain has completed his ambition to build a large scale mosaic of the world using hundreds of thousands of tiny, twinkling pieces of glass. He used 300,000 hand-cut squared shape stained glass; 1,238 jewels totalling 260 carats; over 6,900 internal LED lights; and 80,000 pieces of glass.
The project, titled Jewel of the Universe, took Chamberlain 3,500 hours to complete over the course of 27 months. Constructing the piece out of 12 varieties of gems�amethyst, aquamarine, citrine, diamond, emerald, iolite, peridot, ruby, sapphire, tanzanite, topaz and zircon. 11 more images after the break...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Maria Sokolovski � Seasons India Photoshoot 2009
Italian beauty Maria Sokolovski is the face of a famous Indian fashion brand name " Seasons" these are some of her unforgetable photo shoots that she has done. 36 more images after the break...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Earth�s Most Incredible Places
Although as far as planets are concerned Earth is relatively moderate with regards to its climate and geography (good thing too!), there are places even in our own world that may surprise you with their level of extremeness. Whether it�s the coldest place on Earth or the deepest trench in the sea, get ready to have your mind blown by 25 of Earth�s most incredible places!
25. Hottest Inhabited Place � Dallol, Ethiopia
Dallol, EthiopiaWith an average daily temperature of 34.4 �C (93.9 �F), it should come as no surprise that these days the city little more than a ghost town. 24 more after the break...
Exquisite Oil Paintings By Marey Jane Ansell
Mary Jane Ansell is a British artist who creates exquisite oil paintings that grace classical elegance with an almost regal oddity � capturing perfectly that eerie alienness so revered in fashion. 12 more images after the break...
You & God � Awesome Conversation
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Me: God, can I ask You a question?
God: Sure
Me: Promise You won�t get mad � � � �
God: I promise
Me: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today?
God: What do u mean?
Me: Well, I woke up late
God: Yes
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Monday, 25 February 2013
Shocking Lip Makeup Looks Like a Hungry Eye
You might be thinking, "Is that an eye with some sort of trippy contact lens or lips with some clever makeup?" If you guessed the latter, you'd be correct! Swedish makeup enthusiast Sandra Holmbom, aka psychosandra, created this wildly illusionary look for her lips, mimicking an eye.
From the intricately designed iris to the delicately applied eyelashes, the makeup artist has meticulously created a third eye on her face in a most creative and unexpected way. The slight part in her mouth adds to the mind-boggling effect that causes one to do double-take. While the artist has created a visually stunning effect with great attention to detail, Holmbom admits that she just wanted to do something weird and adds, "Pretty, it's not, but I had fun anyway." 02 more images after the break...
Adjustment in Life
Adjustment in life � 33 more images after the break...
Amazing Portraits Made out of Junk by Zac Freeman
American artist Zac Freeman forms unique portraits out of all kinds of small and used materials. Each of his objects comes from scraps of trash that are leftover from the things that we regularly consume. From colored buttons and plastic bottle caps to metal tabs from soda cans, Freeman puts all of the unused and unwanted objects to use in a fresh new way.
To build each portrait, Freeman glues the pieces together on a wooden canvas, compiling all of these unwanted pieces into a stunning representation of a person's face. From up close, viewers can enjoy the unique significance of the individual pieces, while from a distance, the objects all blend together into one realistic portrait.
Freeman uses actual garbage in his pieces because he says, "I feel the junk is more powerful being present. It is an actual thing to be reckoned with that existed in this time and place and carries energy in and of itself. The result is a time capsule of objects that reflects our culture." 13 more images after the break...
Alberobello a Unique Italian Village
Alberobello, the city of drystone dwellings known as trulli , is an exceptional example of vernacular architecture. It is one of the best preserved and most homogeneous urban areas of this type in Europe. Its special features, and the fact that the buildings are still occupied, make it unique. It also represents a remarkable survival of prehistoric building techniques. There was prehistoric settlement in the Itria and the tholos (dome-shaped tomb) tradition of building may have come to the region at this time. The present settlement dates from the mid-14th century, when what appears to have been an uninhabited area was granted to the first Count of Conversano by Robert d'Anjou, Prince of Taranto, in recognition of his service during the Crusades. He and his successors colonized the area by moving people from their other fiefs, allowing them to build cottages known as caselle.
However, recent research suggests that scattered rural settlements that began around AD 1000 gradually coalesced to form the village units of latter-day Aja Piccola and Monti. Tradition has it that drystone walling was imposed upon the new settlers so their houses could be quickly dismantled. This served two purposes: recalcitrant householders could be dispossessed easily and, later, it would be possible to avoid taxation on new settlements. In the latter case the buildings could be reconstructed equally rapidly. This is known to have occurred in 1644 to thwart tax inspectors sent by the King of Naples. However, historical and comparative analysis suggests that this technique was a minimal physical response to local conditions, later to be exploited for punitive purposes. 32 more images after the break...
Saturday, 23 February 2013
The Weird Sport of Goose Pulling
Goose pulling is an old sport originally played in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, England and North America from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The sport involves a goose that is hung by its legs from a pole or rope that is stretched across a road. A man riding on horseback at a full gallop would attempt to grab the bird by the neck in order to pull the head off. Whoever makes off with the head is declared winner and becomes the noble hero of the day. Goose pulling is still practiced today, in parts of Belgium and in Grevenbicht in the Netherlands as part of Shrove Tuesday and in some towns in Germany as part of the Shrove Monday celebrations.
During the old days a live goose was used. To make the sport challenging, the goose's neck was generously oiled to make it difficult to retain a grip on it, and the bird's constant fluttering and flailing made it difficult to target it in the first place. Sometimes "a nigger� with a long whip in hand was stationed near the target who would harass the horse as he passed by.
The prizes of a goose-pulling contest were trivial � often the dead bird itself, other times contributions from the audience or rounds of drinks. The main draw of such contests for the spectators was the betting on the competitors, sometimes for money or more often for alcoholic drinks.
Today, instead of live geese, dead ones are used, but that doesn�t make the sport any less brutal. Even during the old days when animal brutality were common, goose pulling was often frowned upon and sometimes compared to the barbarous practice of bull-fighting. 10 more images after the break...
Portraits Created from Love Letters
Portraits Created from Strips of Paper Cut from Love Letters � U.K. based artist Jamie Poole creates large scale portraits using strips of paper cut from poems and pieced together with painstaking precision. For his latest project Jamie used love letters and poems that his fianc� wrote to him over the last 2 years to create this incredible life-like self portrait. Jamie says of his work, "As text is layered the words, lines and phrases are repeated and embedded into the work creating a unifying physicality." 07 more images after the break...
The Atlantic Ocean and The Caribbean Sea at Eleuthera
Eleuthera is one of several islands that lies within the archipelago in The Bahamas, about 80 km east of the capital city Nassau. It is long � about 180 km � and thin - only about 1.6 km wide in places. The light blue waters of the shallow Caribbean Sea on one side of the island stand out in stark contrast to the deep blue of the Atlantic Ocean thousands of feet in depth. One of the best places to see this extraordinary juxtaposition is at the Glass Window Bridge.
The Glass Window Bridge is about two miles east of Upper Bogue and joins Gregory Town and Lower Bogue at the narrowest point on the island. It is one of the few places on earth where you can compare the rich blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean on one side of the road and the calm turquoise-green waters of the Exuma Sound (Caribbean Sea) on the other side, separated by a strip of rock just 30 feet wide.
Over the natural rock bridge, a concrete bridge has been built that connects the northern and southern points of Eleuthera by a paved road. The Glass Window Bridge is one of the most visited places in the island. 05 more images after the break...
Manhattan of the Desert Shibam � Yemen
The city of Shibam, located in the central-western area of Hadhramaut Governorate, in the Ramlat al-Sab`atayn desert, is best known for its towering mudbrick skyscrapers. This small town of 7000 is packed with around 500 mud houses standing between 5 and 11 stories tall and reaching 100 feet high, all constructed entirely of mud bricks. The bizarre skyline that the high rise buildings bestow upon the city has earned Shibam the moniker "Manhattan of the Desert."
Shibam is often called "the oldest skyscraper city in the world" and is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. Its plan is trapezoidal, almost rectangular; and it is enclosed by earthen walls within which a block of dwellings, also built from earth, have been laid out on an orthogonal grid. Shibam was founded in the 3rd century AD, but most of the houses you see here dates only to the 16th century, following a devastating flood of which Shibam was the victim in 1532-33. However, some older houses and large buildings still remain from the first centuries of Islam, such as the Friday Mosque, built in 904, and the castle, built in 1220.
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In general the windowless lower floors are used for grain storage, with areas for domestic use above and those for family and leisure above that. The main room on the second floor is used by men for socializing. It often has wonderful carved plasterwork and freestanding decorated wooden columns supporting the ceiling, while women's areas are found higher, usually on the third or fourth floor. The highest rooms are for communal use by the whole family, and on the upper levels there are often bridges and doors connecting the houses. These are a defensive feature, but also a practical one � especially for old people who find it difficult to walk up and down the interminable staircases. 08 more images after the break...
Funny Trees Project
"The Tree Project" is an ongoing art project since 2006 inspired by the beauty and the decay of nature. We are constantly in search of new forms of expressions and we love to play with unusual surfaces and locations. In the Tree Project we visualize the atmosphere of the moment, the usually hidden spirit and dreams of the trees and the the living nature which surrounds us. By painting eyes, faces and grimaces on the trees, by ornamenting and dressing them we emphasize our close and unique connection with nature. Thereby reflecting that trees are exceptional and beautiful living individuals. This stands in contrast to the often destructive and indifferent interaction with the environment of mankind. Please note that we take environmental issues serious: for all tree-paintings shown here we use natural and biodegradable colors that will fade away after a while. 28 more images after the break...
At The Right Moment
At The Right Moment � 41 more images after the break...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Giant Labrador Sculpture Marks Its Territory on a Museum
A 28-foot-tall sculpture of a black Labrador relieving itself is currently installed on the side of the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Newport Beach, California. The installation, known simply as Bad Dog, is a new outdoor piece by artist Richard Jackson that is claiming its temporary territory throughout the run of the 74-year-old artist's first retrospective exhibit titled Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain.
The sculpture of the giant naughty pup leaving its golden mark on the building is made of 52 digitally cut pieces of fiber glass and composite materials that were assembled on-site. Once the structure was intact, Jackson entered the sizable sculpture with a bucket of yellow paint to be splattered on the wall. Now, the mechanized sculpture squirts a stream of yellow paint on its own. It is one of Jackson's many "painting machines" that excretes pigments in an unusually creative fashion. 04 more images after the break...
Skype Office in California
Skype has somewhere around 250 employees in the Palo Alto area and neede to renovate their current space to be something more work-friendly and enjoyable. To do this, they hired Blitz, who has this to say about the project: �Skype�s primary goal was to create a world-class office that would differentiate them from their Bay Area competitors in the recruitment of talent. The project entailed a tenant improvement of 54,000 square feet of existing office space to support 250 employees involved in high technology development.
The space reflects Skype�s spirit of innovation in a highly functional yet creative workplace designed to encourage interaction and spontaneity, as well as meet specific acoustic requirements in support of their extensive use of AV. The project is registered for and seeking LEED Silver certification.� 19 more images after the break...
Portraits with Chewing Gum
Anna Sophia Matveeva, from Makiivka, Ukraine makes sticky representations of superstars from an exceptionally atypical material � utilized mulling over gum. Each one of her craftsmanships numbers over 1,000 bits of mulled over gum.
22-year-old Anna Sophia Mateeva states she concocted the thought of making abstraction with mulling over gum by mishap. She was voyaging with a companion in an car and they were both biting on the rubbery treat when she acknowledged the versatile texture of the gum made it a perfect abstraction medium. She recognized a couple marks of hued air pocket gum and chose to give it a go, just it wasn�t as straightforward as she supposed. As a substitute for biting on each bit of gum, Anna attempted letting them in water then afterword modelling them with her hands, however she observed the material got folded and might not adhere to the canvas. The creator later studied its a compound in our salivation that makes the gum quite an amazing material to work with, so she began biting without end at her procurements, until she acknowledged it was improbable for her to bite every bit of the gum she required, without anyone else present. Besides this is where it gets disgusting�
Ms. Mateeva required over 1,000 bits of mulled over gum just for the picture of Apple author Steve Jobs, so she asked her spouse, her relatives and some of her associates to bail her out. Regardless of the possibility that the gave bits of gum were hard, they held the required salivation chemical, so they simply require some time in the microwave before being stayed onto the canvas. Every of her mulling over gum works of art holds the DNA and spit of regardless a couple of dozen individuals, and Anna formed and put every last piece with her exposed hands. In any case, the creator told The View she is not in any way nauseated by the procedure, as she sees herself needing to adapt to the same issues as a dental practitioner or a surgeon. 04 more images after the break...
Jail Turned Into Luxury Hotel � Hotel Het Arresthuis
Het Arresthuis is a 19th-century-prison turned luxury hotel in the Netherlands. The newly repurposed jailhouse has been completely redesigned with chic, spacious, modern motifs while maintaining its rich history as a former penitentiary. The building's new function invites visitors to take advantage of the hotel's unique Deluxe and Comfort suites while indulging in the venue's relaxing amenities�a sauna and a fitness center. Doing time never sounded so good!
The facility's 150 holding cells have be transformed into 36 luxurious rooms and 7 suites, including four special suites known as The Director, The Jailer, The Lawyer, and The Judge. These notable quarters are situated across the establishment's former warden chambers and sports area. Though they all offer similar perks like a comfy double bed, a rain shower, air conditioning, a flat screen TV, free WiFi, and even a personal coffee and tea machine, each suite is said to have its own character and style.
Additionally, the hotel has several communal areas that include a bar and restaurant. With a good sense of humor, the establishment jokingly assures visitors that they'll be offered a scrumptious menu that consists of more than just water and bread. 15 more images after the break...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Bird Nest Hanging on a Telephone Pole
Looking more like something out of The Lorax than what you would find in Africa's Kalahari Desert, these fantastically decorated telephone poles are actually home to the aptly named Sociable Weaver bird.
The communist little soarers don't just build massive homes for their own kind�they even allow other species of birds to settle down in the nests, which could very well hold up to 100 birds at a time. According to the San Diego Zoo, the South African pygmy falcon Polihierax semitorquatus (otherwise known in layman's terms as good-for-nothing squatters) "relies completely on the sociable weavers' nest for its own home, often nesting side by side with the sociable weavers."11 more after the break...
Monday, 18 February 2013
Creative Handbags By Kathleen Dustin
These bags are going to blow your mind off. Kathleen Dustin, who is Master of Arts, designs and makes very weird handbags. Kathleen Dustin All bags are made from polymer clay, which is famous for a special strength. Then, individual bags emphasizes painting, applique and thread, using the author�s technique. Her collections feature fruit-shaped bags, flower bags, casket bags, brush bags, icon bags and collage bags with Renaissance paintings on them.
The originality and beauty creations Kathleen has appreciated in Europe, many of its products are exhibited in the museums of North UK�s principal museum of Fine Craft, Ornament magazine and the Wenham Museum (Wenham, Massachusetts). But not only the beauty and originality are the hallmarks of creations Dustin, her handbag is a functional, which, in turn, has been able to assess customers. 20 more images after the break...
Toy Robots Made from Recycled Electronic Components
Portugese product designer Marco Fernandes built some fun robots out of electrical components salvaged from the trash heap. So far Fernandes has designed nine figures as part of his R�bot series, I think #R�bot nine is definitely my son favorite. 04 more images after the break...
Alan Friedman�s Photographs of the Sun from his Own Backyard
Alan Friedman is a fascinating guy. By day he�s a maker of greeting cards and a lover of hats, but in his spare time he�s a self-proclaimed space cowboy who points a telescope skyward from his backyard in downtown Buffalo, directly into the light of the sun. Using special filters attached to his camera Friedman captures some of the most lovely details of the Sun�s roiling surface. The raw images are colorless and often blurry requiring numerous hours of coloring, adjusting and finessing to tease out the finest details, the results of which hardly resemble what I imagine the 10-million degree surface of Sun might look like. Instead Friedman�s photos appear almost calm and serene, perhaps an entire planet of fluffy clouds or cotton candy. From his artist statement:
My photographs comprise a solar diary, portraits of a moment in the life of our local star. Most are captured from my backyard in Buffalo, NY. Using a small telescope and narrow band filters I can capture details in high resolution and record movements in the solar atmosphere that change over hours and sometimes minutes. The raw material for my work is black and white and often blurry. As I prepare the pictures, color is applied and tonality is adjusted to better render the features. It is photojournalism of a sort. The portraits are real, not painted. Aesthetic decisions are made with respect for accuracy as well as for the power of the image. Although the photos above are amazing, Friedman offers extremely high-resolution views of his work on his Tumblr and you can pick up some prints over on Photo-Eye. He also recently gave a TEDx Talk. 08 more images after the break...
25 Celebrities who were Cheerleaders
The list of celebrities who were cheerleaders. Some of the women on the list will make you think, �ah, yes, of course she was a cheerleader.� Others? Yeah, they�ll surprise you. � 25 Celebrities who were Cheerleaders after the break...
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Mexican Artist Turns Guns into Musical Instruments
An Orchestra of Musical Instruments made from Weapons by Pedro Reyes � What�s the best way to put an end to hatred and violence around the globe? Turn deadly weapons into musical instruments that play the sweet chin music. Yes, that is exactly what artist Pedro Reyes from Mexico did to address the crime rates by transforming weapons into object for social engagements like creating symphonies. He created around 50 musical instruments fabricated from weapons like revolvers, shot-guns; machine guns etc. giving him around 6700 separate pieces to work with over the duration of two weeks. With able help from six musicians the weaponry was transformed into a thumping orchestra having flute, violin, guitar, xylophone, cymbals, string instruments, bows, and drum kits. Have a look at the pictures below and you�ll be amazed by the amazing feat of this peace making artist. 15 more images after the break...
10 Things a Girl Probably Doesn�t Know About a Guy
01. Guys are more emotional then they think, if they loved them truly.
02. Guys may be flirting around all day but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about.
03. Guys go crazy over a girl�s smile.
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Burning Matchstick Art by Stanislav Aristov
A matchstick is something so ordinary and simple that one could hardly imagine it could become an object of art. A Russian artist Stanislav Aristov however, unveils the artistic potential of matches in his his series. This 30-year-old photographer literally plays with fire by bending the matches into the desired shapes as they burn, then uses a macro lens and a studio flash to shoot the fire and the smoke around it. The artist then moves to Photoshop to finish the image.
Stanislav says that the idea came to him completely by accident:
�I was playing with a pack of matches while I was deciding what to photograph for a competition. It was while I was watching the match that I began to think of how it represents life. There is the burnt part representing the past, the smoke of memories left and the untouched part of the match the future. 29 more images after the break...
Multidimensional Self-Portraits Veri Apriyatno
Artist Veri Apriyatno born in the town of Kuningan, West Java profinsi, Indonesia, April 12, 1973. In 1998 received his degree at Bandung Institute of Technology, Department of Fine Art, Painting studio. From 1993 until now, has been a lot of participation in solo and group exhibitions. some achievements and awards I have achieved, including: Winsor & Newton Worldwide painting competition in 2000, the Jakarta Art Award International Art Competition in 2010 and Bandung Contemporary Art Award 2010. In addition, from 2004 until now, he had produced seven books about the work of 'How to Draw'. Currently he is focusing on working with technical drawings on a large canvas, with a base of contemporary art. 05 more images after the break...
Chair Sculpture For Abu Dhabi
It took the artist around five days to build 'Chairs For Abu Dhabi' sculpture. Visitors are invited to walk through the dome and take a seat inside of the structure. Unlike the previous versions of the artwork installed in France, the Abu Dhabi chair sculpture features "a mixture of all kinds of wooden, metal, colorful chairs - everything," the artist says in a statement, according to Junk-culture. The piece has become one of the most eye-catching artworks at the art fair, where people come and take a rest throughout the festival. 06 more images after the break...
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Mummified Remains of 2000 Year Old Egyptian Cat
The Mystery of a mummified Egyptian cat left languishing in a Roseland attic has been partly solved.
Robert Gray, from Portscatho, inherited the remarkable object from his father, renowned Egyptologist Peter Gray, who died in 1984. Mr Gray never knew what the arcane package might contain, as many mummified cats were sold by disreputable traders in the ancient world with nothing but rags inside. However, X-rays carried out at a Truro veterinary surgery have clearly shown the figure of a cat that has been preserved for more than 2,000 years. 02 more images after the break...
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro the final Stretch
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The globe�s biggest Carnival bash opened Friday, when Rio de Janeiro�s mayor handed the key to the city to rotund King Momo, the mythical jester figure who reigns over Carnival. About 850,000 tourists are expected in Rio during the raucous, five-day free-for-all. Millions of people across the country will take to the streets and sambadromes to dance and party, effectively putting Brazil on a week-long hiatus. 33 more images after the break...
Friday, 15 February 2013
The Wall of �I Love You�s in Paris
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The �I love you� wall stands at the center of the Abbesses garden at Montmartre, Paris, and covers a surface area of 40 square meters with a total of 612 tiles of enameled lava. The phrase �I love you� is written more than a thousand times in over 300 different languages.
The wall was created by two artists - Frederic Baron and Claire Kito - as a rendezvous location for lovers and a lasting monument to eternal adoration. The phrases were collected by Frederic Baron in notebooks by knocking on the doors of embassies and asking their neighbors until he had collected more than 300 languages all expressing the powerful sentiment of love. Frederic Baron then asked Claire Kito, an artist who practices oriental calligraphy, to assemble the script.
Says Frederic Baron: �The bursts of color on the fresco represent the pieces of a broken heart, the heart of a humanity so often torn apart and which the wall tries to gather together.� 04 more images after the break...
Kawazu-Nanadaru Loop Bridge � Japan
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How do you build a bridge on a mountainside when the grade is so steep that a linear ramp isn�t possible? Build a loop, and if one is not enough, build two. This is what engineers did when the built the Kawazu-Nanadaru Loop Bridge, also known as the Japanese Double loop spiral, in Kawazu, Japan. This double spiral brings cars up and down a full 45 meters while being seemingly suspended in a valley between two mountainsides. The spirals measure 80m in diameter and the whole ramp section is 1.1km long.
The bridge on Highway 414 between Tokyo and the Izu peninsular was finished in 1982 and has become a well known landmark since. 04 more images after the break...
Hilary Duff � Shopping in Beverly Hills
Making some additions to her wardrobe as she loses the baby weight, Hilary Duff shopped in Beverly Hills on Tuesday (February 12). The "Lizzie McGuire" star looked cute in a sparkling gold jacket, white top, and dark skinnies as she smiled at awaiting shutterbugs. 13 more images after the break...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Bridges for Aircraft � Leipzig/Halle Airport
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The Leipzig/Halle Airport, sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport, is located in Schkeuditz, Germany and serves both Leipzig and Halle � two of the largest cities in the country. Lack of space required the modern airport terminal structure to spill over the adjacent motorway and railway that intersects the runway at right angles. To make room for the runway without affecting vehicular traffic on motorway A14 and rail traffic, three bridges were constructed over the motorway and the tracks, that allowed the parallel runways to extend to their full length of 3.6 km. These bridges are called Taxiways. Aircrafts would taxi on these taxiways at the time of takeoff and landing, while vehicles ply on the motorway below. Taxiway E7 and E8 on the east are used as one way taxis and connect the terminal with the northern runway, while the third taxiway W1 in the west is used in both direction. 06 more images after the break...
United States Map Made from Wood Matches � Claire Fontaine
U.S.A. (burnt/unburnt) is a 2011 installation by Paris-based artist Claire Fontaine. Art of �Evidence of Bricks� at the 2011 Time-Based Art Festival. 08 more images after the break...
Ritemail Picdump � 56 Pics
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Alluring Wood Paintings of Beautiful Women at Sea
New York-based artist Zofia Bogusz explores the realm of feminine beauty and strength through her painted and illustrated portraits on wood. Working primarily with oil paints, graphite, and colored pencils, the artist depicts realistic renditions of vibrant women against the abstract woodgrains of her chosen medium. The juxtaposition offers an interesting aesthetic to each portrait. Additionally, Bogusz often incorporates other natural elements like water.
In her series titled Sea Salt, the multi-faceted painter draws inspiration from her love of nature's waves. It is her artistic ode to the sea. As a surfer herself, Bogusz is able to express her fondness for the sea through her alluring subjects, who are each composite creations of various beautiful women that grace the covers of fashion magazines. In a way, it's as though her created models are calling the viewer into the deep seas with them. 04 more images after the break...
26 Absolutely Breathtaking Photos of Central Park
After seeing just one magical photo of Central Park in the winter (see above composite by Stephen Wilkes), we felt compelled to put together this list of 20 of the most breathtaking photos of the world's most famous park. Though it officially opened in 1857, it was a year later that landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and architect Calvert Vaux beat out 32 entries to win a landscape design contest that would transform the park. They called their project the Greensward Plan. 25 more images after the break...
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