Sandy beach, palm trees and clear, blue water. But if you think that these vacationeers are lounging on a warm tropical island, you’d be wrong. They’re inside a giant hangar in snowy Germany: The ‘resort’ is actually located on the site of a former Soviet military air base in Krausnick, Germany. Tropical Islands is inside [...]
The all-natural look did not win any prizes this year at the nine-day World Irish Dancing Championships in Belfast. The young girls among the dancers — who came from as far away as China, South Africa, Australia and Canada — applied spray-tanner and wore purple eyeshadow and pink lipstick and sparkly dresses and wigs with [...]
Bruce Campbell doesn’t just love planes, he lives inside of one. After purchasing a a Boeing 727-200 for $100,000, he placed it in his backyard, otherwise known as the middle of the woods in Oregon. Campbell’s startup costs were actually quite considerable. He paid $17,000 to move the plane from an airport to a staging [...]
World press photographer and enthusiast of the curiously mundane Christopher Herwig struck gold when he came across the bus stops in parts of the world previously designated as part of the Soviet Union. That term conjures images of terrifying car park-like blocks and grey, intimidating statues of fists – constructions that don’t really bear any [...]
This 1955 newsreel clip from British Pathé shows a demonstration flight of the Hiller Flying Platform, an experimental manned hover craft then in development by the US Army and Navy. The military ultimately ruled the platform impractical and it never entered service. Click the pic to watch the vid.
It was only a matter of time before someone from t’internet came up with this infographic highlighting some of the more unusual aspects of the internet’s favourite pet. Did you know 10 per cent of a cat’s skeleton is in its tail? No? Well, you need to be clicking the pic to take a look [...]
“Skywalking” is the newest photography trend in Russia and it is dangerous, beautiful, and dizzying. These kids love getting high. The premise is simple, climb to the top of the highest building you can find and take pictures of yourself, or whoever you’re with laughing in the face of death. Check out the amazing work [...]
”The Michael Jacksons” is a haunting series of portraits of Michael Jackson impersonators, tribute artists and photographers around LA and New York, conceived of as “an index of the refraction of Michael Jackson’s public persona within the culture by exploring issues of fantasy, reality and representation as influenced by and filtered through cultural experience.” There’s [...]
Transparent specimens are far from what you might imagine most specimens in labs to be. Although being organisms, they appear as if they were beautifully sculpted from minerals. Originally, the method of making transparent specimens enzymatically turning the protein transparent, dyeing the bones magenta and dyeing the cartilages blue. It was established for scientific purposes [...]
A couple of hundred miles to the south of Tokyo in the Philippine Sea lies the island of Aogashima. Administered by Tokyo and part of the Izu Archipelago, the island’s 205 inhabitants (2009) enjoy a type of solitude that many will never experience. This island is known for having a volcanic caldera within a larger [...]
