Featured

Browsing | Featured RSS feed for this section

7. November 2009

Sao Paulo’s Incredible Storm Drain Graffiti

Where there is concrete, let there be colour; where there is asphalt, let there be kickass graffiti. The world’s metropolises are grey enough places without a hard line stance against good graffiti. Take Sao Paulo, whose sprawling mass is home to almost 20 million people. When street art duo 6EMEIA started painting storm drains in the Barra Funda neighbourhood of Brazil’s largest city, their plan was to transform everyday life in the way only a smile can.

6. November 2009

0 Comments

The Cutest Flying Animals on Earth

The sugar glider is a marsupial native to the forests and rainforests of eastern and northern Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. It was introduced to Tasmania and about 15 years ago to the United States. Sugar gliders are tree dwellers that live in colonies of 15 to 30 animals. During the day, these nocturnal animals rest in hollow trees, in nests lined with leaves.

5. November 2009

1 Comment

7 Most Massive Single Meteorites on Earth

Like fugitives on the run from distant solar systems, meteors hurtle through the earth’s atmosphere, lighting up the eyes of observers on the ground. Often these fireballs of metal and rock burn up in a blaze of glory, and many do not survive their impact with the Earth’s surface. Those that do start a more settled life here on Earth as meteorites. Some might even claim to be the new sheriffs in town – they’re that big and resistant to weathering.

5. November 2009

0 Comments

Sound As You’ve Never Seen it Before

People become trains, trains become movement and sound, and time blurs into past, present and future simultaneously. Meet Semiconductor, a Brighton-based artist duo obsessed with our environment, landscape, architecture, chaos theory and other subjects. In creative and original fashion, they have been creating cutting-edge digital artworks – their sound films – since 1999.

5. November 2009

2 Comments

Mortal Combat: El Salvador’s Fireball Street Fight

It looks like a warzone or at least a riot in full swing. Fireballs tear through the streets painting the night air orange as young men, their faces emblazoned with fearsome patterns, prowl the streets waging in pitched battles against one another. The incendiary missiles explode on impact – sometimes in the faces of their targets. Pyromaniacs take note. If you love fire, you’ll be blown away by the Bolas de Fuego festival in El Salvador.

4. November 2009

1 Comment

Rubik’s Cubism [PICS]

Rubik’s Cubes can be frustrating for those who take hours to solve them. And even those good at them are not immune to the empty feeling of “what next?” after they’re done with one. Well, there’s a remedy! Toronto-based graphic designer Josh Chalom has turned his passion into a business: He and his team recreate famous artworks like Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or Andy Warhol’s pop adaptation of Marilyn Monroe in Rubik’s style cubes.

4. November 2009

8 Comments

17 Biggest Buddhas on Earth

Bigger, better, heavier – that seems to be the motto of Asia’s amazing Buddha statues. Our list features actual statues as well as destroyed and planned ones but all have to be taller than 165 ft (50 m). Where does that leave the most famous and sadly destroyed Buddhas of Bamyan? At 55 m, they are some of the shortest! Read on to discover which one tops the list – a hint: it’s a good 500 ft!

3. November 2009

1 Comment

Tiny People Invade Your Home

In ‘Plastic Life’, French photographer Vincent Bousserez creates Lilliputian-scaled contemporary art using plastic figures and household objects. Keen provoker of the double-take and the nervous laugh, he offers us a looking glass through which to see ourselves afresh, as the moulded, not-so-model human beings we are. By juxtaposing his protagonists with everyday domestic items, Bousserez brings their stories disconcertingly back home.

3. November 2009

2 Comments

Hummingbirds Hovering Inches in Front of Your Face

What looks like a welding helmet and has pretty flowers on the outside and windows to the bird world on the inside? No idea? We don’t blame you. What we’re talking about is the latest hummingbird feeder helmet, also known as “eye 2 eye” because you’ll be viewing hummingbirds from that close. Here’s the story together with some amazing pics and videos. Enjoy.

3. November 2009

6 Comments

Bald Eagle’s Aerial Attack on Unsuspecting Swan

This serene, unsuspecting trumpeter swan was captured flying over Lakelse Lake in British Columbia, when suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, a bald eagle launched a fierce and audacious attack on it in mid-flight. The bird of prey landed on its victim, seizing hold of it while trying to pierce its vital areas with its dagger-like hind claws. What follows is an incredible sequence of photos of avian aerial combat at its most tense and gripping.