Category Archives: Misc

German weekly magazine, Spiegel presented their own selection of the best photos of the year. I guess you will find some really great photos inside! So let’s look!

A dragonfly fashioned from a machine gun barrel is just one of the works Iraqi artists are making from weapons of war.

Holy lamp … a Sydney man says a “miracle” made an image of the Virgin Mary cradling baby Jesus appear in his lava lamp.He has since set up a shrine to the lamp.

The man who identified himself only as John Smith of Sydney has set up a shrine to the lava lamp in his home and also the holymarylamp.com website.

This portrait of Nicole Kidman proves that some pictures really are worth a thousand words. A close-up [inset right] reveals that it was “drawn” on a typewriter.

The Jonas Brothers are an AMA-winning, Grammy-nominated American boy band. The band gained their popularity from the children’s television network, Disney Channel. Hailing from Wyckoff, New Jersey, the band consists of three brothers: Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas. In the summer of 2008 they starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Camp Rock.

Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have counter shaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers.

Look at the beautiful pictures of London taken by night. Enjoy.

This is an unique preview of American history, the history of U.S. labor and working class. It is very interesting to look at this pictures if you have on your mind the role that the blue collar workers played in building the America not only in the economic sphere, but also in the sphere of democracy and the human rights which is something like a trademark of America. With their wave of strikes, connection to the abolitionism they popularized and made this movement massive.

Text author: Sanela Todjeras

“This year I set myself a challenge: Take a brand new photo each day. Beginning with 14mm, each day I zoom the lens by 1 millimeter and force myself to use that focal length to shoot and post a photo before going to sleep that night. This will continue every day until I reach the end of the 1mm lens adjustments at 400mm.” – Chris Hornbecker

For most people the beach is a place to relax, especially when visited as part or a holiday. It’s a place to forget the worries of every day life, look out to a hopefully calm sea and sprawl out on a strip of warm sand. So it seems surprising that on some beaches around the world, artists have been chosen to display some of the creepiest structures known to man that are sure to traumatise the most hardened of tourists, especially at a time when the defenses are down.

1. Hand Of Harmony, Homigot, Korea

If I were to wake up from dozing on a beach to see a giant’s hand reaching out from the shallow waters in front of me, I’d be extremely susceptible to a spot of panic. The Hand Of Harmony has been worrying tourists in Korea since 1999. No word on the cause of death.

Those prints look like “Snow Angels” but I am sure that you cannot just punch your face in the snow and get masterpieces like this. Let say that there is some sculpturing included. Anyone knows easy way to make something like this?