Amazing Pics

Zebra Show Jumping

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Owls

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Color picker pen by jinsu park

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color picker by jinsu park

korean designer jinsu park designed a concept pen that adopts the eyedropper tool of photoshop for real life. the color picker pen enables colors in the environment to be scanned and instantly
used for drawing. the sensor detects the color and matches it to the color display. then the RGB cartridge located within the pen mixes the inks together to create the color that has been scanned.

color picker pen

the sensor of the pen detects the color of the leaf

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Silhouettes

"In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit"

Where I write: fantasy & science fiction authors in their creative spaces

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Greenland

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After almost 300 years under Danish rule, the island of Greenland has just taken a big step toward sovereignty. Greenland passed a referendum last year requesting more powers from Copenhagen, and it was granted, taking effect on June 21st, 2009. Denmark still retains control of finances, foreign affairs, and defense, but will phase out an annual subsidy, and give over control of most of the islands natural resources. Additionally, Greenlandic is now the sole official language, and Greenlanders are now treated as a separate people under international law. Although the island is massive - with an area of over 2 million square kilometers (825,000 sq mi), its population is small, with just over 57,000 residents, 88% of Inuit descent and and 12% of European descent.

Scientists Jason Box of Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center and polar expedition expert Eric Philips, both members of the Greenpeace Arctic Impacts tour, assisted by experts in ice logistics, set up one of a series of time-lapse cameras surveying the 16km wide Petermann Glacier, in northwest Greenland on July 29, 2009. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has arrived in the area, to carry out several weeks scientific research into the impacts of climate change, and to bear witness to the glacier's disintegration. (NICK COBBING/AFP/Getty Images)

Aerial view of the village of Qaarsut, Greenland, in Qaasuitsup municipality on July 20, 2007. (Oiving, original)

Picture taken on July 3, 2009 of the Greenlandic village of Sarfannquag perched up on a hillside. The 120 inhabitants of the village are waiting to be equipped with wind turbines to reduce their dependence on petroleum-based fuel and free them from their isolation. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images)

Icebergs float in the calm waters of a fjord, south of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland August 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

Greenlanders promote a "Yes" vote for the proposal to give the semi-autonomous Danish territory self-rule, in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, on November 25, 2008. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images)

Denmark's Queen Margrethe and her husband, Prince Henrik, attend the ceremonies to celebrate the new era of self rule of Greenland, in Nuuk on June 21, 2009. (KELD NAVNTOFT/AFP/Getty Images)

Denmark's Queen Margrethe presents the official law of self-rule to the Chairman of Greenland's council Josef Motzfeldt in Nuuk, Greenland on Sunday, June 21, 2009. Greenland is celebrating the introduction of self-rule on its national day. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Jorgen Chemnitz, Sermitsiak)

People attend ceremonies in Nuuk, Greenland, on Sunday June 21, 2009, to celebrate their national day, and to mark gaining greater powers of self rule from Denmark, in a move that many residents see as a step toward independence from Denmark. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Jorgen Chemnitz, Sermitsiak)

Wildflowers bloom on a hill overlooking the Narsarsuaq glacier in southern Greenland on July 25, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

A polar bear walks along the edge of an ice bridge in the Robeson channel, between Greenland and Canada on June 29, 2009. Greenpeace and leading climate scientists are in Greenland for a 3 month expedition using their icebreaking ship the Arctic Sunrise to gather climate change data for the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. (REUTERS/Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace)

The Arctic Sunrise reaches the ice bridge in the Robeson channel, between Greenland and Canada June 29, 2009. (REUTERS/Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace)

A statue of Viking explorer Leif Erikson overlooks the village of Qassiarsuk on July 30, 2009 where Erikson's father Erik the Red founded his first settlement in southern Greenland around 985 AD. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

An iceberg floats near a harbour in the town of Kulusuk, east Greenland August 1, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

Houses are illuminated by the early morning sun in the town of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland August 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

Icebergs are reflected in the waters of Eriks Fjord near the town of Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland on July 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

A dirt road leads to the local cemetary outside the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland August 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

Picture taken on July 2, 2009 of fisherman Bo Lings and his daughter Julia in the village of Assaqutuaq, western Greenland. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images)

Large moulin on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Two recent studies of ice sheet motion and melting suggest that surface melting can produce dramatic drainage and seismic shifting on the Greenland Ice Sheet. But, surface melt that eventually lubricates the bottom of the ice sheet and accelerates its slide over bedrock may not be enough, by itself, to cause catastrophic loss of ice sheet mass. This research appeared in the 17 April 2008 issue of Science Express. (Image courtesy of Science)

A large meltwater stream rushes across the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet filling a supraglacial lake. (Image courtesy of Sarah Das, WHOI)

Danish glacier expert Andreas Peter Ahlstroem stands in front of the Ilulissat glacier on July 3. 2009. Greenland's Ilulissat glacier, which has become a symbol of climate change, lost 94 square kilometres (60 square miles) of surface area between 2001 and 2005 due to global warming, according to a US study published last year. In 2004 Ilulissat Icefjord was admitted onto UNESCO's World Heritage List. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images)

Detail from a panorama of the town of Upernavik in Greenland from cliffs next to the football field. Taken in evening sun at 11:30 pm on August 5th, 2007. Original here. (Kim Hansen / CC BY-SA)

Picture taken on July 2, 2009 of a Greenlandic fisherman sorting out his nights catch in Sarfannquak, western Greenland. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images)

A fisherman motors by on the Ice Fjord of Ilulissat, Greenland which remains filled with icebergs on July 3, 2009. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images)

Icebergs are shrouded in an early morning fog near the south Greenland town of Narsaq July 28, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

View shows the port of Nuuk on July 6, 2009. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images)

Icebergs float in a fjord near the south Greenland town of Narsaq on July 28, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

Detail from a panorama of the settlement Aappilattoq, east of Upernavik in Greenland on August 9th, 2007. Original here. (Kim Hansen / CC BY-SA)

Wildflowers bloom on a hill overlooking a fjord filled with icebergs near the south Greenland town of Narsaq on July 27, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

View from the from top of Somandsfjeldet, a mountain above the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland - the town is visible along the shoreline at center right. (Uwe Pieper / CC BY-SA)

An ice-filled fjord near Ilulissat in Greenland is seen on July 3, 2009. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images)

Aerial photograph of Upernavik, Greenland, taken from a helicopter on July 11th, 2007. (Kim Hansen / CC BY-SA)

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visitor takes pictures of the Twin Glacier near the south Greenland town of Narsaq on July 28, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)

Aerial view of Ilulissat glacier, near Ilulissat, Greenland on July 3. 2009. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images)

The sun and the icebergs around Cape York, Greenland in September of 2005. (Mila Zinkova / CC BY-SA)

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African Kings

2009-08-15T09:48:00.002+05:30

JOSEPH LANGANFIN
Benin

Representing the Abomey dynasty, Joseph Langanfin is the president of CAFRA, the council of Abomey’s royal families. With this title, he is considered as the official representative of the kings of Abomey. He presided at the centenary ceremonies for the death of King Glele, who was his great granfather.

ONI of IFE
Nigeria

In 1980, Sijuwade became the fiftieth Oni (King) of Ife, one of the most ancient African Dynasties. Formerly, during his coronation, an Oni had to embrace the sword of justice, and enter into his palace on a cloth stiffened by the dry blood of sacrificed men and women. Today the Oni are rich businessman, with several vast properties in Nigeria and England.

NGIE KAMGA JOSEPH
Fon of Bandjun
Cameroun

The Fon (King) is the brother of courageous and powerful animals. At night, he has the power to transform himself into a panther, where he haunts the forest, runs through the savana and drinks from torrents. When a panther is killed by a hunter, the Fon from Bamileke region are afraid. Will one of them not perish from the death of his double.

Formerly a chief administator and cabinet chief for the finance Minister of Cameroun in 1964, Kamga Joseph is the thirteenth Fon of Bandjun. On the day of his predecessor’s funeral, he was stopped in the Bandjun market by two Bamileke chiefs, “the hangmen”, in the midst of nobles and princes who wept for the deceased King. Wearing a head dress made of sisal as a sign of humility, he was taken to the noblemen, the “tafo meru”, where he learned during nine weeks how to be a King.

HALIDOU SALI
Lamido of Bibemi
Cameroun

Halidou Sali, the twelfth Lamido (king) of Bibemi, received his kingdom in 1958. He is a descendant of Aido Samba, one of the 42 Kings of Adamawa, who during the eighteenth century carried the flag for the Jihad (holy war) of Ousman Dan Fodio.

OSEADEEYO ADDO DANKWA III
King of Akropong-Akuapem
Ghana

A graduate from the University of London and an economic advisor for the Ghanaian administration, The King of Akropong holds for the last sixteen years the “sacred seat” of the Akuapem-Asona, one of the seven major Akan clans. To his right, his “spokesman” carries the royal emblem, the elephant, a remembrance that his kingdom was founded by force.

ABUBAKAR SIDIQ
Sultan of Sokoto
Nigeria

This photo was taken fifteen days before the death of the Sultan of Sokoto. He had reigned for more than fifty years. At the time of his successor’s coronation, who was chosen by a council of “king makers”, a conflict erupted. Two royal families disputed the choice; the consequence: one hundred deaths.

According to “news watch”, a large daily Nigerian newspaper, the power of the Sultan of Sokoto is such, that most of the Nigerians questioned would rather be Sultan than President of Nigeria.

Abubakar Sidiq was not as rich as other sovereigns of this country. He earned annually about 1 million naira ($200 000). But with this income, the Sultan had to support his suite of eighty-six people, and feed one hundred and fifty grand children.

HAPI IV
King of Bana
Cameroun

The kingdom of Bana finds its origins in a tragedy.

In the middle of the twelfth century, several Bamileke groups, settled in small villages around what is actually Bana. Legend says that one of the village chiefs, Mfenge was accused of sorcery by the others. In order to exonerate himself, he cut off his mother’s head and had the cadaver examined by specialists. The belief in sorcery, that it is transmitted through the “maternal womb”, was not proven. Mfenge then demanded that mothers in others families be beheaded. His four sons went from house to house, sending wives and mothers to the palace, in order to be examined. The recalcitrants were decapited on the spot. Taken by panic, chiefs and nobles fled, and Mfenge became King of Bana.

NYIMI KOK MABIINTSH III
King of Kuba
D.R. Congo

The Nyimi Mabiintsh III is fifty years old. He acquired the throne at the age of twenty. As a descendant of god the creator, the king is attributed with supernatural powers.

Due to his top position he is restricted by several contraints: he does not have the right to sit on the ground, and he cannot cross a cultivated field. Apart from his cook, no one has seen him eat. Moreover he never travels without him, and his personal cooking ustensils.

It took the photographer three weeks to photograph the Nyimi (king) of the Kuba in his royal apparel, the “bwantshy”. The outfit made out of material stitched with beads and “cauris” (small shells used as money in Africa), weighs 160 lb. It takes more than two hours to dress the King, and two days of spiritual preparation to be sufficiently purified in order to wear the outfit.

The weight and the heat of the bwantshy is such, that it is impossible to wear it more than one hour. The preceeding King had only worn it three time during his entire life.

IGWE KENNETH NNAJI ONYEMAEKE ORIZU III
Obi of Nnewi
Nigeria

When Kenneth Nnaji became King of Nnewi in 1963, he was a farmer, and his ten wives had already blessed him with thirty children.

Located to the east of the Niger river, in Ibo country, Nnewi is a rich town with several millionaires. This kingdom, founded in the fourteenth century, is composed of four large villages.

When the Portugueses arrived in the region in the fifteenth century, a multitude of city-states appeared.

As with Nnewi, these cities were built on the basis of a thriving slave trade. Born with the trade, they lived only for trade, and did not look favorably upon the creation of a state uniting under the same Nigerian flag, the Ibo, the Yoruba and the Hausa. Ethnic and religious clashs erupted, starting the Biafra War.

ISIENWENRO JAMES IYOHA INNEH
Ekegbian of Bénin
Nigeria

James Inneh, seventy nine years old, was formerly a business man.

In 1962, he was named commander of the royal guards, “isienwenro”, by the king Akenzua. “Asako no s’oghionba” (ants sting the King’s enemies), was how the royal guards responsible for the King’s security, were called.

During some rituals, they glide around the sovereign, completely enveloping him like an army of ants.

EL HADJ SEIDOU NJIMOLUH NJOYA
Sultan of Fumban and Mfon of the Bamun
Cameroun

Eighty years old, the sultan Njoya has been on the throne for more than fifty years.

At the age of twenty nine, he inherited the famous Bamun throne , founded in the sixteenth century. He was chosen, by the kingdom’s council of wisemen, among one hundred and seventy seven of his father’s children , the famous Sultan Njoya.

His father, an enlightened soverain, spent twelve years to invent his own alphabet, made of eighty symbols. He wanted to be able to write in the Bamun language the kingdom’s history. At this time, the oral tradition dominated.

In 1913, while Cameroun was still a German colony, Sultan Njoya equiped himself with his own printing house.

AGBOLI-AGBO DEDJLANI
King of Abomey
Benin

Dedjlani, a former policeman, waited six years to retire, and then proceeded with his secret coronation ceremonies.

“Officially”, there is no longer a king in Benin. But on september 30, 1989, Dedjlani put on his royal shoes, and at the age of fifty four became King of Abomey.

Being monogamous, he was obliged to marry two more wives to take care of his royal household. When he goes out, tradition requires that he be sheltered under an umbrella with his emblem. One of wives must always be next to him, carrying the royal spitting bowl. The King also has to wear his scepter in permanence. Holding it in his hand or hanging on his shoulder, more than a symbol, the scepter is the King.

The silver dust protector worn on the nose, dates from the nineteenth century, and was inherited from the King Gbehanzin. It protected the King’s nose from the dust, during the royal processions in Abomey.

GOODWILL ZWELETHINI
King of Zulu
South Africa

King Goodwill Zwelethini is a descendant of the famous Shaka, founder of the Zulu kingdom.

At the beginning of the ninetheenth century, Shaka was the chief of a small insignificant clan among the Bantu people. Thinking that the survival of the Zulus depended inevitably on the subservience of the other clans, Shaka submitted the natal region to blood and fire. Between 1815 and 1828, he annihilated all tribes that were opposed to him. This troubled period referred to as Mfecan (terror), was accompanied by famine and exodus of a large part of the Bantu population. Shaka’s cruelty became legendary.

EL HADJ MAMADOU KABIR USMAN
Emir of Katsina
Nigeria

The Emir of Katsina is a passionate follower of polo, and his family has contributed many champions to Nigeria.

In the twelfth century, Katsina was a Hausa village, governed by the Durbawa, which was a royal dynasty that had emigrated from a region whose name tradition has lost. One of the Durbawa kings, Janzawa, married a Daura princess from another Hausa state. The Queen Katsina, gave her name to the village which became the terminal of the commercial transsaharien route from Tripoli (Lybia).

SALOMON IGBINOGHODUA
Oba Erediauwa of Bénin
Nigeria

On march 23, 1979, prince Salomon, a graduate of Cambridge University, was crowned Oba (king) of Benin. He suceeded his father Akenzua II, and became the thirty-eigth king of a dynasty dating back to the thirteenth century.

“The large chalk stick is broken”, was the metaphor used to officially announce the death of Akenzua. Immediately afterwards, the Edo of Nigeria, England and America, shaved their heads. The new growth of the hair signified the rebirth of the kingdom, and the re-establishment of the harmony between man and the elements, that had been broken for an instant by the death.

BOUBA ABDOULAYE
Sultan of Rey-Bouba
Cameroun

The Baba (sultan) of Rey-Bouba rules over fifty five thousand subjects, and his territory is as large as Belgium and Luxemburg reunited (35 000Km2).

It is wrong to call him Lamido, because he was never a vassal to Sokoto.

A former parliamentarien in the Camerounian Assembly, Bouba Abdoulaye had to leave everything and renounce modern life in order to suceed his father. His great-grand father, Bouba Ndjidda came from Mali in 1799, with his Fulani warriors, and decided to settle on the borders of Adamawa, at the edge of the Mayo-Rey river. He placed a white flag, a silver drum, a sword and a basket containing the royal secrets, and built a palace with a surrounding wall that was 800 meters long and seven meters high.

Today these walls shelter one of the most traditional sovereigns of Africa. He exercises an invisible and permanent power. He is only allowed to go out three times during the year. The Baba is the center of the world and the kingdom. He knows everything, and has to know everything. Hundreds of agents keep him informed of all the movements and acts in his kingdom.

ALIYU MUSTAPHA
Lamido of Adamawa
Nigeria

One day, Adama who was also called Modibo, heard that a great Marabout (moslem leader) by the name of Ousman Dan Fodio, had proclaimed the Jihad (holy war) in Gobir and the Hausa country.

At Adama’s death, his immense territory became Adamawa, which actually covers a part of south-west Nigeria and all of northern Cameroun.

Today the Lamido has sixty children, and is the chancellor of Amadou Bello University at Zaria, one of the most prestigious universities in Africa.

OBA JOSEPH ADEKOLA OGUNOYE
Olowo of Owo
Nigeria

Six hundred years ago, Olowo, the King, fell in love with Orensen, a very beautiful woman. Unfortunately for the King, she was a goddess who could not live with a human. She was forbidden to see women pounding spices, draw water, or throw a bundle of wood to the ground.

Because of his love for the goddess, and in order to marry her, the King promised her that his other wives, in front of her would follow these same restrictions. After several years, the King’s wives became jealous and revolted. They did everything they were not supposed to do in front of the goddess, who then cast a spell upon the entire kingdom. The goddess promised that people of Owo, would die of famine or sickness if the King and his chiefs did not celebrate every year a ceremony in her honor. The drums should beg her pardon and sing her praises. One also had to offer her a sacrifice of a man and a woman.

This ceremony, Igogo, still exists, but the human beings have been replaced by a sheep and a goat.

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Stop Thief

2009-08-11T10:48:00.002+05:30

Greek islands by Marcel Germain

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DUST ART

2009-08-04T01:54:00.006+05:30

When the dust gets thick on the back window of his Mini Cooper, Scott Wade uses it as a canvas to create temporary works of art. Among his creations was a copy of C.M. Coolidge's 'A Friend in Need,' better known as dogs playing poker.

Wade used his finger and other implements to etch this homage to Vincent Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Wade lives off the unpaved Roadrunner Road north of San Marcos, which dusts the back windows of his car and gives him the canvases to create his own works of art

A portrait of Kinky Friedman on the back of the Mazda driven by Wade's wife, Robin Wood, was featured on the gubernatorial candidate's Web site.

A collage of wildlife decorates the Mini Cooper's window.

Wade's creations attract admirers wherever he goes

Who needs a frost-covered window when you've got road dust to create a Christmas scene?

A gimme-capped John Kelso was the subject of one window portrait.

Besides his finger, Wade uses traditional art tools, such as paintbrushes, and unconventional ones, like a chewed Popsicle stick, to make his drawings.

Wade takes pride in his creations, but he knows that with one good shower, his work will just wash away.

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Beautiful images from Indonesia

2009-08-02T13:42:00.002+05:30

Real life Spiderman

2009-08-01T09:29:00.001+05:30

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Rare pictures of Charlie Chaplin from the archives of Life

2009-07-30T11:19:00.003+05:30

I found these rare pictures of Charlie Chaplin from the archives of Life.

United Artists

Charlie Chaplin -- Hollywood legend, Knight of the British Empire, friend and colleague to geniuses and celebrities throughout the 20th century -- is seen here with actress Mary Pickford, actor Douglas Fairbanks, and film director D.W. Griffith on the day they formed United Artists in 1919. UA, the first studio run by filmmakers, rather than businessmen, would go on to produce some of the greatest American movies ever made, from "The African Queen" and "Marty" to "The Graduate" and "In the Heat of the Night."

Dancing Lessons

Charlie Chaplin with the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.

Astor, Chaplin, Johnson, and Shaw

Nancy Astor (Lady Astor), the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons; Charlie Chaplin; Britain's greatest airwoman, Amy Johnson; and playwright George Bernard Shaw at Lady Astor's home, 1931.

Chaplin and the Churchills

Winston Churchill with his family and Chaplin at the Churchill home in Kent, 1931.

Chaplin and Wells

Novelist, short story writer, and historian H.G. Wells (right) with Chaplin (seated) and friends.

Genius, Squared: Einstein and Chaplin

Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin at the premiere of Chaplin's masterpiece, "City Lights." Of the crowds that followed them, separately and when they attended events together, Chaplin told Einstein, "People cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because nobody understands you."

Chaplin and Gandhi

Charlie Chaplin meets Mahatma Gandhi in London in 1931.

Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard was a child model who transitioned smoothly into movie stardom. Whether she and Chaplin were secretly married during their eight-year romance, as some have claimed, has never been proven -- nor disproven -- and neither of them ever went on record and cleared up the matter.

Charlie Chaplin marries Oona O'Neill

From left to right: Chaplin; newspaper columnist Harry Crocker; songwriter Adolf Green (with longtime partner Betty Comden he wrote the words and music for "On the Town," "Singin' in the Rain," and other classics); and Chaplin's new bride, Oona O'Neill, the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, at Charlie and Oona's wedding reception in 1943. The marriage lasted 35 years, and produced eight children.

Charlie and the Jazz Singer

Charlie Chaplin meets the legendary Al Jolson at the El Morocco nightclub in New York, 1947.

Chaplins in Cherbourg

Chaplin and family arrive at Cherbourg aboard the Queen Elizabeth liner in 1952.

Chaplins in Ireland

Charlie Chaplin with his wife Oona and two of his daughters, Geraldine (on horse) and Jane, near a lake in Ireland, 1965

Charlie Chaplin and His Daughter

Charlie Chaplin and his daughter Josephine during filming of the movie "A Countess From Hong Kong" (1967), which he also acted in and scripted.

Sophia Loren and Charles Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin directs Sophia Loren in a scene from "A Countess From Hong Kong."

Marlon Brando and Charlie Chaplin

Marlon Brando shares a laugh with Charlie Chaplin during a break in the filming of "A Countess From Hong Kong."

Champagne Charlie

Charlie Chaplin with Sophia Loren at his birthday party in 1966.

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Titan Missile Museum

2009-07-29T10:31:00.000+05:30

The Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Ariz., about 20 miles south of Tucson, is a former Titan missile launching site. There, crews of four worked 24-hour shifts during which two people always had to be together to ensure safety and security. It is the only missile museum of its kind that is open to the public today.Here is a very interesting and detailed photo tour of the museum.

A collection of great images of 2009 from National Geographic

2009-07-28T02:53:00.002+05:30

Zambia—A lone bull elephant breakfasts at first light near the precipice of Victoria Falls. With the Zambezi River near its seasonal ebb, once submerged walkways—and fresh foraging possibilities—present themselves.

China—Workers apply a rust-resistant primer to a coal-fired power plant in Huaibei, a major industrial center. Soon they'll paint it black, adding a second, waterproof coat to this 470-foot-tall cooling tower.

Bulgaria—Epiphany Day at an icy Sofia lake finds young men in hot pursuit. Belief holds that the first to reach the wooden cross, thrown by an Eastern Orthodox priest, will enjoy a year of good health.

Indonesia—On the first day of Ramadan, in a mosque filled with white-robed women, one child stands up and stands out. During the month-long holiday, Muslims seeking spiritual purification fast from dawn till dusk.

United States—Limned by Hurricane Ike, an abstract expressionist expanse of oil-sheened floodwater surrounds a pump jack—a mechanical device used to extract oil—near High Island, Texas.

England—Like a porcelain figurine carved into repose, the fetus of a foal floats in a jar. The 85-day-old, 5.5-inch-long colt was removed postmortem and preserved in formaldehyde after its mother, a Thoroughbred, died.

Madagascar—Sunrise reveals light traffic—a lone oxcart—along the Avenue of the Baobabs. The 80-foot-tall "upside-down trees" in the Menabe region could become the island country's first national monument.

Djibouti—A break in training exercises lets Marine Cpl. Brett Herman try out his break-dancing moves during a "freestyle" contest at Camp Lemonier. The former French barracks is the sole U.S. base on the Horn of Africa.

Thailand—In a race to emerge at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo, one eight-inch Siamese crocodile wins by a head. Few such crocs exist in the wild, yet 20,000 are born each year during the zoo's May-to-August hatching festival.

United Arab Emirates—Peninsulas of prosperity, the "fronds" of the $14-billion Palm Jumeirah—the first of three planned resort islands in Dubai—jut into the Persian Gulf. Building began in 2001; it may end in 2013.

Indonesia—See dusk in the Dampier Strait through a half-submerged lens and glimpse two distinct worlds. Under a cloud-slung sky, fishermen work on wooden boats. Beneath a mirror-calm surface, waters flash with baitfish.

China—All is alabaster at a sculpture factory in Dangcheng, where marble and chalk dust suffuse the air and workers churn out relatively inexpensive copies of iconic Western works for foreign and domestic clients.

South Georgia Island—A snowy morning offers a peaceful study in contrasts as southern elephant seals and king penguins share a rookery. Antarctic spring brings some 400,000 of each species to this remote British territory.

Belarus—Naked on an 18°F day, Valentsin Tolkachev clears an icy canal for swimming. The 69-year-old started the Optimalists—a Minsk-based club with 200-some members—in 1989 to promote hale activities in rural settings.

United States—The shuttle Endeavour—deft in orbit but incapable of terrestrial flight—catches a post-mission piggyback on a 747, soaring over California's Mojave Desert en route to Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

United States—A brown tornado towers perhaps 4,000 feet above the parched plains of Kansas. In 2007 the state set a U.S. record, tallying 141 twisters. The mark was short-lived, though: 187 tore through in 2008.

India—In Jammu, a flower of flame blooms from a man's kerosene-filled mouth. Devotees of Sikhism, the world's fifth largest organized religion, were marking the 342nd birthday of Guru Gobind Singh, a founder of the faith.

Tonga—Plumes of ash, smoke, and steam billow thousands of feet into the air as an undersea volcano erupts on the uninhabited island of Hunga Ha'apai. The fallout, rock detritus known as scoria, has since enlarged the landmass.

Mexico—Thirteen feet and a thousand-plus pounds of great white shark bump a diver's cage and roil the waters off Guadalupe Island. The region, rich in seal and sea lion rookeries, is a hot spot for the powerful predators.

Greenland—Eight hundred miles south of the North Pole, a cavern of stalactite-like stratus clouds—churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds—and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.

England—Lost in a wending laurel maze at Cornwall's Glendurgan—a series of verdant subtropical gardens planted privately in the 1820s and bequeathed to the National Trust in 1962—two visitors huddle in a hut.

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The face before the splash

2009-07-27T11:45:00.000+05:30

The longest solar eclipse of 21 century

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This eclipse was visible mainly in Asia - especially China and India.
The first photo is of a Pakistani woman sitting next to her paralyzed son, buried in the sand, because of the belief that, if he sees the eclipse in this position, he will be able to walk again.

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Safari park baboons ransack cars after learning to break into luggage boxes

2009-07-24T02:48:00.003+05:30

A group of tearaway baboons are wreaking havoc on a safari park after learning to crack open rooftop luggage boxes and escaping with visitors' goods.Keepers at Knowsley Safari Park have been forced to issue warnings after the opportunistic primates developed a taste for human possessions.
The cheeky monkeys - who are known for tearing off the odd wiper or wing mirror - have been targeting cars carrying the roof boxes before pouncing on the unsuspecting visitors, who are forced to watch helplessly as their things disappear.

Now bosses at the Merseyside park have slapped the artful animals with what they call 'Anti Social Baboon Orders' and have warned visitors not to travel through the infamous monkey jungle with luggage on their roof.
Safari Park general manager, David Ross, said when the first luggage box was broken into, staff didn't really take much notice as they thought it was a one-off incident.But they soon realised they had a problem on their hands when visitors reported the pesky primates kept stealing their things.

The baboons have discovered a knack for opening the luggage boxes, forcing staff to warn visitors against entering the enclosure with the roof-top devices

See no evil: Trying on a new hat for size
'Their technique involves the largest baboons jumping up and down on the box, flexing it until the lock bursts open, then the rest of the baboons pile in to see what they can find,' Mr Ross said. 'Obviously, we're well used to them helping themselves to the odd wing mirror or wiper blade, but this has taken things to a whole new level.
'Let's face it, nobody wants to see a baboon running up a tree with their underwear.'
But Mr Ross said some visitors continued to ignore the warnings and paid a high price.
There are currently more than 140 baboons at Knowsley Safari Park and visitor surveys consistently show them to be the attraction's most popular exhibit.

The primates all scramble to get their paws on visitor's possessions

Monkey see, monkey steal: The baboons swarm the car and ransack the roof box

Nothing is safe from the cheeky monkeys who will take just about anything, including underwear

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Capturing the Stars

2009-07-22T01:24:00.004+05:30

A new book featuring stunning images of heavenly bodies has been published

The True Color of the Solar Corona
This extraordinary image displays the range of true coronal colors. The blue sky has been artificially removed close to the sun’s surface, revealing the green hues dominant in the innermost corona (1.8 million degrees Kelvin), caused by the presence of the element Fe XIV, known as coronium. The corona becomes progressively redder farther from the sun’s surface as dust particles scatter the shorter wavelengths of light

Picture: Miloslav Druckmüller

IC 1396
IC 1396 is a large nebula in the constellation Cepheus spanning 3 full degrees of winter sky, the same angular distance of six full moons. This image highlights the conspicuous globule IC 1396A - a striking structure sculpted by the radiation of nearby stars

Picture: Johannes Schedler

The Bubble Nebula
A cosmic bubble of titanic proportions called the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), six light years wide, was formed by violent winds blown out by the hot central supergiant star, several hundred thousand times more luminous than our sun

Picture: Russell Croman

Solar Crescent and Baily’s Beads
Lasting only a few seconds during the early and late stages of eclipse totality, the rugged lunar topography allows “beads” of sunlight to peek through. The effect is named in honour of English astronomer Francis Baily, who observed the phenomenon in 1836. Planet-sized flares are visible on the solar surface

Picture: Fred Espenak

Solar Prominences
Hot gaseous matter ejected from the sun is returned to its surface by powerful magnetic fields, forming immense arc-like prominences

Picture: Thierry Legault

Aurora Borealis on November 8, 2004, Langhus, Norway
Glowing modulations of light form a variety of rays, arcs, and curtains. Each ray lines up along the direction of Earth’s magnetic field as excited molecules in Earth’s upper atmosphere collide and release their energy in the form of visible light. Green and red hues are produced by excited oxygen, while blue auroras are produced by nitrogen in the earth’s atmosphere

Picture: Arne Danielsen

Nebulosity Surrounding Antares
Glowing with the luminosity of 40,000 suns, the red supergiant star Antares is an imposing sight. Matter ejected by the aging star scatters its starlight, forming the vast yellow cloud that appears to engulf the star

Picture: David Malin

Comet Hyakutake
Discovered by amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake in January 1996, Comet Hyakutake made a close approach to earth in March 1996. Highly visible even in daylight, the comet put on an amazing visual and photographic spectacle. The comet’s remarkable tail is 360 million miles long, the longest known for any comet

Picture: Bill and Sally Fletcher

Cygnus and Lyra
This rich wide-field image showcases not only the bright stars of the constellations Cygnus and Lyra but also the summer Milky Way and several notable summer nebulae such as the North American, Gamma Cygni, and Veil nebula complexes

Picture: Bill and Sally Fletcher

The squirrel from the archives of LIFE

2009-07-20T11:29:00.001+05:30

These pictures have been taken from the archives of LIFE.The photos were taken by photographer Nina Leen during the early 1940s.The squirrel in the pictures was adopted by an American lady after she found it orphaned in a tree.He soon became a part of the family and accompanied her everywhere.She also, it turned out, enjoyed dressing him up in specially made outfits.

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Superb photos by Jose A Gallego

2009-07-19T04:24:00.001+05:30

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Spooky

2009-07-16T13:17:00.002+05:30

When you were a little child didn't such scenes often come to your mind, specially when it was dark and you were alone?

Waiting

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Waiting for the tide

Waiting in the wings

Waiting for the postman

Waiting for dinner

Waiting for inspiration

Waiting for the bus

Waiting for the fishes to appear in the screensaver

Waiting for the first rays of the sun

Waiting for his master

Waiting alone

Waiting for lovers

Waiting for summer

Waiting for the miracle

Haircut in Bangkok station while waiting for the train

Waiting for love

Waiting for the sun

Washington, 1921 or 1922. Union Station waiting room

Waiting for me

Waiting for the catch

Waiting for the first drop

Waiting for the signal

Waiting for the perfect wave

Waiting in tranquil waters

Waiting for the scouts to return

Nice Pics From Australia

2009-07-09T11:35:00.001+05:30

Aerial of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Queensland, Australia

Beauchamp Falls, Victoria, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Bungle Bungle Massif, Kimberly Plains, Purnululu National Park, Australia

Coral Reef, Torres Strait Islands, Australia

Dove Lake at Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, Australia

Eroded Granite, Cheynes Beach, Australia

Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Hopetoun Falls, Aire River, Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia

Hopetoun Falls, Otway Ranges, Victoria, Australia

Kangaroo Conversation, Australia

Loch Ard Gorge, Port Campbell National Park, Australia

Lord Howe Island, Australia

McArthur River, Northern Territory, Australia

McArthur River, Northern Territory, Australia

Murphy's Haystacks, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Old Spinifex Rings, Little Sandy Desert, Australia

Penny Royal Gunpowder Mill, Tasmania, Australia

Pinnacles Desert, Nambung National Park, Australia

Port Davey, Stephens Bay, Hannant Inlet and Mount Rugby,

Rainbow Valley, Northern Territory, Australia

Red Kangaroo, Australia

Remarkable Rocks, Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, Australia

Rugged Coastline at Boozy Gully, Canunda National Park, Australia

Russell Falls, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, Australia

Sandstone Tower, Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve, Northern Territory, Australia

Scarlet Night, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

Sun-Kissed Sydney, Australia

Sunrise on Mount Feathertop, Alpine National Park, Victoria

Sunset Over Melbourne, Australia

Sydney Harbor at Dusk, Australia

Sydney Opera House, Australia

Sydney Reflections, Australia

Taking Joey Home, Australia

Tamborine National Park, Queensland, Australia

Tea Tree Beach, Noosa National Park, Queensland, Australia

The Kangaroo Hop, Australia

The Lights of Sydney, Australia

Tropical Rainforest, Lacey Creek, Queensland, Australia

Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria,

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia

Victoria Square Fountain, Adelaide, Australia

Victoria's Shipwreck Coast, Australia

View from Kings Park, Perth, Australia

Walls of Jerusalem National Park, Tasmania, Australia

Yarra River, Melbourne, Australia

Repainted dolls by Noel Cruz

2009-07-07T13:49:00.005+05:30

Noel Cruz started doing portraits at a very young age. Self-taught for several years, he studied the works of numerous artists in his native country, the Philippines. Gradually overtime, his natural talent grew and developed. He began taking commissions at 16, and has done countless portraits since. Repainting dolls happened by accident when he was looking for a Gene doll to add to his wife's collection.He discovered that painting a doll's face is very much like painting on canvas or paper, but with the extra challenge of working on a three-dimensional surface as well as a different surface texture. Here are some of his repainted dolls.

ANNE HATHAWAY

Young Elvis Presley

Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow

ROBERT PATTINSON

EDWARD CULLEN in "TWILIGHT"

BELLA SWAN in "TWILIGHT"

ELIZABETH TAYLOR AS CLEOPATRA

Vivien Leigh

Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce

Repainted Madonna as Breathless Mahoney in "Dick Tracy"

Orlando Bloom as Will Turner

Vivien Leigh as "Scarlett"

Fever

Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft

Annie Lennox

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann

DANIEL CRAIG

CHRISTOPHER REEVE as SUPERMAN

ANGELINA JOLIE

Repainting Mary Poppins, 2008

Keira Knightley as abandoned bride Elizabeth Swann

Orlando Bloom as Will Turner

Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker in Spiderman

Kirsten Dunst as MJ in "Spiderman"

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara

Mrs. Coulter doll as Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman (Commission doll)

Capt. Jack Sparrow doll as Johnny Depp

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann

Jeff Gordon

Celine Dion

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Stunning pictures of the volcano that blew a hole in the sky

2009-07-05T11:15:00.002+05:30

Stunning pictures of the volcano that blew a hole in the sky as astronauts witness eruption from International Space Station

Framed by a circle of clouds, this is a stunning illustration of Nature's powerful force. A plume of smoke, ash and steam soars five miles into the sky from an erupting volcano. The extraordinary image was captured by the crew of the International Space Station 220 miles above a remote Russian island in the North Pacific last month.(June 2009)

Bird's eye view: Safe from harm, NASA scientists look down on the Sarychev Peak volcano as the dramatic eruption takes place.

The force of the blast sends clouds scattering
The round hole in the clouds is thought to have been caused by the shockwave of the initial explosion. At the centre lies the billowing mushroom tower of grey and brown ash.
For volcano experts, the most exciting part of the image is the layer of smooth white cloud that caps the plume - a little like a layer of snow on a mushroom. This cap of condensed air is created from the rapid rising and then cooling of the air directly above the ash column. When moist, warm air rises quickly it creates a cloud.

As the ISS continues its perfectly-timed flyby, the eruption continues unabated.

The perfect 'plume' at the top of the volcano implies there is no shearing wind, which would have disrupted the pattern

Stretching behind the volcano lies the vast shadow caused by the eruption, as the blast continues to grow

This cap, which meteorologists call a pileus cloud, is already beginning to break up in these images - and would have vanished soon afterwards. Far below, a thunderous line of light grey cloud can be seen falling down the sloping sides of the volcano.

This is a deadly pyroclastic flow - a mixture of hot gas and ash that destroys everything in its path.
Reaching temperatures of 600C (1,112F) and moving at 130mph, a pyroclastic flow is the most dangerous part of a volcanic eruption.

Where in the world? Sarychev Peak is to the north of Japan and east of Russia

Thankfully, Matua Island is uninhabited. The International Space Station has continued to track the ash cloud over the last few days. The plume is a few hundred miles from one of the world's busiest air corridors. Hundreds of flights across the Pacific have been diverted to avoid any chance of it knocking out plane engines.Sarychev Peak is one of the most active volcanoes in Russia's Kuril archipelago. Eruptions have been recorded as far back as the 1700s, with the last known one in 1989.

These images show the plume drifting through the atmosphere in the hours and days after the eruption

Between the two overpasses on June 14, the ash spread north and west from the volcano

By June 15, the ash had spread out to the east and west

You've seen the hole in the clouds - now see the hole in the universe:

A hole in the clouds is one thing, but a hole in the fabric of the universe is quite another.
With interstellar matter evenly distributed across the skies, this black anomaly is a bit of a head-scratcher - is it a black hole? A worm-hole? A stairway to Heaven? Or just the start of the collapse of the universe, which doomsayers assure us will start in 2012?
No, it's none of these things. Instead, its a dark molecular cloud - a mass of of dust and gases which combine to blank out all the visible light from the background stars.
Many of these 'dark absorption nebulae' have been discovered across the galaxy, with this one called Barnard 68 in the Ophiuchus constellation.

NASA's picture of the 'hole in the sky' - now known to be a dark molecular cloud absorbing all the visible light from stars behind it

Measurements place this at a relatively close 500 light years away - much further away and the odds are there would be stars visible in front of Barnard 68.
It is calculated to be about half-a-light year across (a light-year being the distance light can travel through a vacuum in the course of a year).
How they are formed is unknown, but clouds such as this are thought to be a birthing place for new stars.

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The poppies are red

2009-07-03T11:18:00.000+05:30

Ajanta and Ellora

2009-07-02T08:49:00.001+05:30

Ajanta, a UNESCO world heritage site, is famous for its Buddhist rock-cut cave temples and monasteries with their extraordinary wall paintings. The temples are hollowed out of granite cliffs on the inner side of a 20-meter ravine in the Wagurna River valley, 105 km northeast of Aurangabad,in India. About 30 caves were excavated between the 1st century BCE and the 7th century CE.The fresco-type paintings that are the chief interest of Ajanta. These paintings depict colorful Buddhist legends and divinities with an exuberance and vitality that is unsurpassed in Indian art.

The cave temples of Ellora, also a UNESCO world heritage site , are unique examples of rock cut architecture. Over five centuries, from 600 -1000 CE generations of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain monks carved chapels, monasteries, and temples from a 2 km long escarpment and decorated them with a profusion of sculptures of remarkable imagination and detail.
The masterpiece of Ellora is the Kailasa Temple, one of the most audacious feats of architecture ever conceived. Dedicated to Shiva, it is the world's largest monolithic sculpture, hewn from the rock by 7000 laborers over a 150 year period. It was created from a single piece of stone by first cutting three huge trenches into the rock of the Ellora cliff face and then 'releasing' the shape of the temple using hammers and chisels. Of overwhelming scale, it covers twice the area of the Parthenon in Athens, is 1-1/2 times as high, and entailed removing 200,000 tons of rock.

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2009-06-30T08:25:00.000+05:30

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Indian village where children as young as two are taught to be snake charmers

2009-06-28T02:17:00.003+05:30

It’s the one classroom where everyone’s paying attention at the back.

Being a few feet away from a poisonous snake has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind.

Six-year-old Rekha Bae – like all children in the 600-strong nomadic Vadi tribe in western India – will have first been introduced to cobras at the age of two.

All Vadi children complete a ten-year initiation ritual that culminates in the boys becoming fully-fledged performing snake charmers.

Charmed, I'm sure: Rekha Bae faces a cobra

Snake school: Vadi children play with a cobra as part of their training to become fully-fledged charmers

Divided between the sexes, the act of snake charming with traditional flute is the role of the men, while the Vadi women care for the snakes and handle them when their husbands or brothers are not around.

'The training begins at two, the children then are then taught the ancient ways of snake charming until they are ready to take up their roles in our community,' said chief snake charmer Babanath Mithunath Madari, 60.

'At twelve the children will know everything that they can know about snakes.

'They are then ready to continue the traditions of the Vadi tribe which can be stretched back over one thousands years to India's great Raja's (kings).'

Fearless: Girls like Meru Nath Madari, four, are taught to care for the snakes. Boys, meanwhile, learn to charm them with the traditional flute

Boys, meanwhile, learn to charm them with the traditional flute
The nomadic Vadi tribe, which lives in the south of the Indian state of Gujarat take great pride in their association with the areas deadly snakes.

Never staying in one place for more than six months, the Vadi have an almost mythical attachment to snakes and especially cobras.
'At night, as we sit around our huts in the open desert and explain to the pact that our descendants made with Naga, the snake god,' Madari said.

Master charmer: Babanath Mithunat Madari shows off the tricks of his trade

'We explain to the children how we only take a snake away from its natural habitat for a maximum of seven months.

'Any more is disrespectful to the snake and especially after the charmer and snake have worked together so closely and so intimately.

'Both are trusting their lives to the other one.'
The cobras are fed a herbal mixture which Madari says renders the snake's deadly poison useless.

'We do not cut the fangs off the snakes as that would be cruel,' the tribal chief said.
'We do not harm the them because they are like children to us.
'In all my years with snakes, from my childhood to now, I have only heard of one man to have been bitten.
'This was because he kept the snake longer than seven months.'
Since snake charming was made illegal in 1991, the Vadi have come under huge pressure from the state and national governments of India.

'The police routinely search us strip us of our snakes whenever we cross their paths,' Madari said.

'We live 25km away from the town of Rajkot at the moment, and every time we try to enter the village for food or even bottle of water, the villagers chase us away.

'This upsets me greatly because this village is the birthplace of the father of our nation Gandhi.

'Would he stop us from continuing our traditions? The rich of India have no time for the poor.'

The Vadi community's settlement on the outskirts of Rajkot: Though snake-charming is banned, the tribe keep up the tradition

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In the deep (2nd set)

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In the deep (1st set)

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Faces with clothes

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Skulls

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Cute

2009-06-18T11:37:00.001+05:30

Log boats in China

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Dancing Water

2009-06-16T07:48:00.000+05:30

Stunning photography by Frans Lanting

2009-06-13T08:56:00.001+05:30

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Animal laughs

2009-06-10T11:38:00.000+05:30

Photo and retouch by Erik Johansson

2009-06-07T21:54:00.000+05:30

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Cat on a leash

2009-06-07T00:39:00.000+05:30

Mom love

2009-06-05T02:03:00.000+05:30

The Rainbow

2009-06-03T03:03:00.001+05:30

Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West,
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!
In hues of ancient promise there imprest,
Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.

Tulips

2009-06-02T09:15:00.000+05:30

The Sea Dragons

2009-05-31T09:01:00.002+05:30

Sea dragons are among the most colourful creatures of the sea.They are also masters of camouflage.
There are two types of sea dragons, which are related to the seahorse: leafy and weedy. These creatures are found around southern and western Australia. Leafies are generally brown to yellow in body color with spectacular olive-tinted appendages. Weedies have less flamboyant projections and are usually reddish in color with yellow spots.

The stream

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The stream water
gently flows by me.
The noise of the water traveling downstream
creates a peaceful relaxed feeling inside me.

Heavy seas

2009-05-29T00:40:00.001+05:30

Amazing typewriter art by Paul Smith

2009-05-25T09:13:00.002+05:30

Can you believe that this art was created using a typewriter?

Paul Smith, the man with extraordinary talent was born in Philadelphia on September 21, 1921 with severe cerebral palsy.
Not only had Paul beaten the odds of a life with spastic cerebral palsy, a disability that impeded his speech & mobility but also taught himself to become a master artist as well as a terrific chess player even after being devoid of a formal education as a child.
"When typing, Paul used his left hand to steady his right one. Since he couldn't press two keys at the same time, he almost always locked the shift key down and made his pictures using the symbols at the top of the number keys. In other words, his pictures were based on these characters ... @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ .
Across seven decades, Paul created hundreds of pictures. He often gave the originals away. Sometimes, but not always, he kept or received a copy for his own records.
As his mastery of the typewriter grew, he developed techniques to create shadings, colors, and textures that made his work resemble pencil or charcoal drawings."
This great man passed away on June 25, 2007, but left behind a collection of his amazing artwork that will be an inspiration for many.

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The beautiful art of Paul Caparatta

2009-05-24T09:31:00.001+05:30

All these displays were made in Africa, entirely from dead butterfly wings collected from the ground. Extremely delicate and strangely beautiful, they represent small parts of the African world: from animals and birds to people, they are all images of African culture, tradition and beliefs.

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Zoom

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Knotted

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