Showing posts with label amazing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amazing. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Casa Batllo in Barcelona

Casa Batllo is a building in Barcelona, Spain, that the famous architect Antonio Gaudi was commissioned to refurbish by the owner, Josep Batllo.
It seems that the goal of Ballto was to avoid straight lines completely. It is also said that the home is meant to represent Saint George battling a dragon.  Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Crazy Basketball Dunk

The Bucks Mascot, Bango, climbs a 15ft ladder, does a back flip off of it and dunks it.



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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Sand Sculptures of Prince Edward Island

These have been floating around the net for awhile. Here are some sand sculptures built in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Camouflaging Buildings During WWII

These photos have been circulating the web for some time now, but they are pretty neat. They are supposedly of the Lockheed plant in California, where they used to manufacture planes. In any case, during WWII the USA was afraid of Japan bombing military and industrial targets on the West Coast. So one measure they took was to camouflage entire buildings too look like other typed of buildings or

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Ibex (Sheep) Climbing a Dam

Not exactly sure where this is, but from what I gathered, it might be in Italy.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Fire Waterfall of El Capitan

In Yosemite National Park, during the last two weeks of February, orange sunsets are reflected in the falls of El Capitain each evening, making the cascading water look like it’s on fire. How cool is that?
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

A Melanistic (Black) Fawn

So every once in a while you will see an albino deer. It's rare, but they do exist. But even more rare than that, I mean extremely rare, is the melanistic, or black deer. Their hair is black because they produce too much of the skin pigment melatonin. Check out these pictures below. Also, you can hit this link to find out more information on this rare animal.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Montreal Topiary Gardens

I got these in an e-mail, and couldn't track down the original source. Anywho, here are some great pictures of the Montreal Topiary Gardens:

Monday, June 28, 2010

55 Story High Infinity Pool


55 storeys up, this infinity pool could glide you straight over the edge of Singapore, if not the world. It's part of the $6 billion Marina Bay Sands Skypark hotel, which just opened this week.Ok, so if you were really to propel yourself over the edge, you'd fall into a catchment-area which sends the excess water straight back into the pool. But where's the fun in that? The pool itself is three

Tow Boat Sucked Under a Bridge - Survives

These are real pictures of an incident that took place at Rooseter Bridge on the Tombigbee River in southwest Alabama in 1979. The photos were taken by a photographer for the Linden Democrat-Reporter.
Scenario plays out like this. The captain was dropping 2 of his 4 barges through the east span of the Rooster Bridge, with the intent of running around through the lift span, and then catching the

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The Pushpin Artwork of Eric Daigh

Artist Eric Daigh makes mosaics with pushpins. It's no big deal really, I've already mastered the smiley face (the tricky part is the eyes).
“With the push pins, I don’t have every color in the rainbow to use. It’s a limited color palette,” he explains. “Push pins only come in a few colors.”

Daigh gets his multi-colored packs of 500 pins through local retailers. He and his wife, Meghan,