Tag Archive | "water"
Terrifying Underwater Encounters With The Bengali White Tiger
Although many big cats are none too fond of soggy fur and wet whiskers, tigers positively thrive in the water, and are often found enjoying a bath in rivers and ponds. Far from shunning water, the biggest of the big cats actively seek it out, the cooling temperatures a perfect tonic to the extreme heat of the day. Tigers are also powerful swimmers, capable of travelling up to 4 miles in the water and commonly seen carrying their kills across lakes.
Continue reading...Exploding Water Balloons Crystallized in Time
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Snapshots of water-filled balloons bursting are amazingly frozen moments in time. Granted, they also bring back memories of when you were a young scamp, mischievously dropping water bombs on hapless cyclists from overpasses, or soaking whole streets in drive-by drench-athons – but those days of innocence are gone now. So, it just leaves us to sit back and wonder at the beautiful physics of the things – plus the devilish uses to which they can be put.
Continue reading...Walking on Water: The Jesus Lizard
Monday, July 13, 2009
When you talk about walking on water, you're in the territory of myth, magic and religious miracles, right? Wrong. What's more, it's not just little critters like pond skaters that can perform this amazing exploit; an animal as large as two feet long also has the dancing feet to pull off the incredible feat too. Dim the lights please as we introduce the basilisk lizard – aka the Jesus Lizard. Real rock n' roll.
Continue reading...Shots from the Edge: Fire, Earth, Water & Air
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Photographer Tumanc takes photographs at the limits – at points where opposing forces meet, complementing or conflicting with each another. Humans encounter the elements in spectacular style, and unless they play nature’s game are rendered insignificant by a greater might. The different elements meet one another too, earth, water, fire and air clashing and creating magical effects.
Continue reading...Capillary Carafes For Your Wine? [pics]
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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This amazing set of wine decanters resembling human capillaries was first discovered by our friends over at Neatorama. They're very cool, but isn't the point of a decanter to open the wine up to the air? Well traditionally yes, but who cares when you've just paid between €2000 and €5000 for a beautiful piece of sculpted borosilicate.
Continue reading...Subaquatic Fashion
Monday, July 14, 2008
As magazines and fashion houses strive to capture ever more striking images, traditional photography settings are being pushed to the limit - underwater fashion shoots have become increasingly popular in recent years and some of the results are simply breathtaking, as this collection shows...Shot earlier this year for Japanese fashionista bible, Numero Tokyo, the swirling curves and dramatic poses of Marcelina Sowa are perfectly captured by photographer, Alix Malka, as she floats underwater.
Continue reading...6 Damn Stupid Places to Bathe
Thursday, June 12, 2008
image by km6xo A healthy mistrust of all bodies of water, no matter how innocuous, is probably in your best interest as an air-breathing mammal. In this article we have gathered a list of some damn stupid places to don that new speedo. The list is [...]
Continue reading...What Is The Real Cost Of Bottled Water?
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Image from tskdesign As John McCain and Hillary Clinton tell Americans tales of a gas tax holiday to relieve us of a whole 20 cents per gallon this summer (we’re paying more than four dollars anyway) it’s probably worth discussing one of the other reasons that gas is [...]
Continue reading...Introducing Inflatable Solar Panels!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
An English company, IDC, has announced plans to mass-produce an inflatable solar panel and make it commercially available for less than 100 pounds ($200) , a great leap forward in making green energy available to the masses. Image courtesy of IDC
Continue reading...5 Incredible Eco-Powered Ships
Monday, April 14, 2008
It may be putting the cart in front of the horse to figure out how to turn commercial shipping into a green industry when it’s so thoroughly dedicated to moving goods that harm the environment. Image from jgrantmac on Flickr Cars, oil and tennis shoes – these are but [...]
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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