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Incredible Paper Architecture

Seema — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:20:57 +0000

Christina Lihan, US based artist makes use of her experience as an architect to make clear models of well-known buildings and urban spaces with paper.

Lihan earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in architecture and she decided to do Masters in the same subject, from Columbia University of New York. She completed her internships in Italy, France and England, but it was monotonous, she saw the same hundred of housing cities built by soviet in Czechoslovakia, which had a different effect on the way she looked at building exteriors. She decided to use the knowledge that she had acquired in the field of art, after completing her studies, she created some impressive models of architecture from paper.

At first Christina Lihan decided to set aside her life to art when she spent her life in Florida, she designed hospitals for some other architect. She got bored and understood that she needed some creative exposure so she started with cutting paper, playing around with it and trying to transform it into models of buildings. It kind of started from there and 300lb, watercolor paper. She draws, cuts and folds each piece with her hand until she arranges them into a proper composition. Lihan begins by taking picture of the site she wants to create a replica, then sketches with charcoal, and finally increases the size of the drawing. She normally keeps the detailed paper pieces over the drawing directly.

Beautiful Photos of Small World: Awarded Microscopic Photography

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:01:27 +0000

I was always claiming that I believe that the world which we can’t see without microscopes is as same big as the world which we have to watch with telescopes.

It is known that we cannot reach too much with our telescopes and that we have limits. Scientists have pointed a telescope in one single tiny dark spot which was believed to be empty and they observed it for a number of days with super strong telescope and guess what they found? Hundreds thousands of new galaxies! I believe that this is much pretty same when we point our magnifying devices into anything on the earth. You can see molecules, we know that there are atoms (despite the fact we never saw them) and we know that those atoms are made from smaller parts. But, it is not so clear where this ends, what’s the smallest particle?

Playing with microscope can be one nice way to avoid playing FarmVille on Facebook and the following photos should gain your interests for this kind of activity. These images are awarded by The Wellcome Trust for the top scientific images of the year 2010 and as you can see, we are talking about perfectly detailed microscopic images where you can see the beauty of the world which you probably didn’t know that exists.

The Beauty of Underwater World

TheWriteMeister — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:10:06 +0000

While the most of us is thinking that we have living in the age of the knowledge, which is conditionally correct, the fact is that we actually still do know a very little about the most of the things.

The nature which surrounds us is just an example of how we are actually incapable to get the knowledge about thousands of animal species and forms of life which are lying on unexplored parts of our planet.

When it comes to exploring underwater life, then we see that everything has its limits, as well as our ability to explore and to learn.

The marine life is pretty unexplored and it always brings some surprises for scientists. There you may find some of the most amazing and most beautiful animal and plant species. Here we have selected a few of interesting photos of such creatures photographed in the deeps of dark sea.

Flying Penguins Discovered by BBC and Terry Jones!

admin — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:00:26 +0000

I love BBC’s documentaries about the wildlife. There are plenty of awesome wildlife documentaries on Youtube made by BBC and Terry Jones but, the following one is really special.

We all knew that penguins cannot fly, they are to fat and they don’t have feathers and proper wings to do that. However BBC seems to have discovered a totally new specie of flying penguins. Yes, you read that correctly, flying penguins! According to the words spoken in this documentary, those flying penguins are traveling thousands of miles to the South American rain forests during the winters when it is too cold… We just have to mention one thing for the ending of the article, this video has been posted by BBC on April 1, 2011.

And here you can see how they made this:

Putin Shows off His Gentle Side by Hugging a Puppy

admin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:54:39 +0000

We all know that there is a little Rambo hiding in Putin. From what we’ve seen until now, Putin seems to be a macho guy who can do a lot of things which other politicians probably can’t.

However, everything has its weak spots and it seems that Russian prime minister’s weak spot are cute little puppies.

Yep, that cold-blood-killer-like looking guy revealed a gentle side of him when he hugged a little puppy which he has got from his colleague, Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov.

Kori no Suizokukan, the Frozen Aquarium in Japan

TheWriteMeister — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:48:23 +0000

Japan has always been a place where you could find unimaginably creepy things. I do not know is it because of their culture or what but from time to time we have oportunity to hear about really incredible things from this part of the world.

Today we are going to talk about one location which is awesome and creepy at the same time. The Kori no Suizokukan is frozen aquarium. It is a place where you can find about few hundreds of frozen animals from different seas.

Animals are frozen and placed in ice cubes. If you want to visit this place you’ll have to use a special suit which keeps you warm since the temperatures in this place are lower than -20 degrees Celsius.

After you are done with the visit you can warm up in Maguro Shashimi restaurant which is few steps away from this frozen aquarium.

Timmy, the Geeky Kitten

GeeksGlombert — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:35:03 +0000

Hi guys, this is my funny kitten Timmy. He is one of the laziest cats I have ever seen but I believe that this is because he has some geeky genes in his blood since he likes to spend the most of its time on the top of my CRT monitor. He just loves to sit there and, as you can see from those photos, from a time to time, he uses to get involved into what’s happening on the monitor right now. At this point he is doing some serious examination of the latest problem I couldn’t solve myself so Timmy has jumped in to give his contribution

London-Based Insects to Get Luxury Five Star Hotels

GeeksGlombert — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:06:09 +0000

The idea about making an hotel for insects sounds pretty freaky but someone decided to make such hotel, too. Arup Associates have created a few of five star hotel which is going to house different kind of insects.

Arup Associates designed five possible solution for creating a luxury residence for insects. Their designs are the part of architectural competition which has goal to design the best hotel for insects.

Once when the right design is chosen and the construction of the hotel is finished, it will host beetles, bees, butterflies, spiders etc. The few of such hotels will be placed at different places in London. The competition is run by British Land and the City of London Corporation. Here you can see a few of proposals for the winning design of five star hotel for insects.

Drunk Parrots are Falling From Sky in Australia’s Northern Territory

GeeksGlombert — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:48:43 +0000

The media in Australia are reporting about very unusual event which, believe it or not, includes drunken parrots.

A dozen of parrots are reported to be seen falling from sky and failing in their flight after they have consumed plants which caused them to loose their balance during the flight.

The plant which causes such behavior amongst parrot is not yet revealed but local residents are aware of this for a longer time. This unusual occasion happens every year in summer season in the Northern Territory in Australia where residents bring to animal doctors approximately eight of fallen birds every day.

12-Year Old Boy Saves His Sister from Moose Attack Using World of Warcraft Skills

TheWriteMeister — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:58:28 +0000

Playing games is certainly not a good way to waste your time, especially if you became addictive and play a few hours per day or more. However, if it is done the right way, playing games can be very useful.

Studies have already proven that playing some video games can increase concentration and improve some brain skills. But it would be hard to believe that gaming experience can save you life once you get in trouble in nature.

This little 12-year old boy from Norway has probably earned excuse to play World of Warcraft for the rest of his life. 12-year old Hans Jorgen Olsen and his sister were walking in the wood near his home when they stumbled upon an angry moose which obviously didn’t welcome the ‘intruders’ and headed towards his sister. He suddenly remembered some skills he learned while playing WOW so he decided to ‘taunt’ the animal.

After animal was provoked by him and headed in his direction he used another skill from WOW, feigning the death. Moose approached him and believed that he is dead and suddenly lost an interest for hurting him. After moose left, they managed to get back home safely.