Archive for February 2008
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Absolute ABSOLUT Machines
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The ABSOLUT Machines — a pioneering technology project from ABSOLUT — explores what happens when cutting-edge technology meets the creativity of art, music and design. Online interactive installations enable you to be the composer to create music with intelligent machines.
ABSOLUT turned to some of the greatest technology visionary teams of our time and [...]
Stunning Estonia Waterfall Ice World
It may look like a setting from a fantasy or gateway to another world, but this phenomenal scene is actually the Valaste Waterfall — the highest waterfall in Estonia at 85 feet (26 meters) — artificially created by directing the water from a drainage trench to the Gulf of Finland at Valaste, near the Ontika [...]
Legendary Great Blue Hole of Belize
The Great Blue Hole — the world’s largest blue hole — is a massive underwater sinkhole off of the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of the Belize mainland. The hole is near perfectly circular in shape, more than 1,000 feet (305 [...]
James Top Graffiti Artist Afrology Debut
James Top, a controversial and legendary Graffiti Artist from New York City, hosted his first solo show of the New Year, “Afrology” — a special collection of new graffiti works — at the new Essex Street Gallery on Friday February 22nd, 2008. Afrology debuts as 17 artistic variations of the 1970’s hairstyle, the “Afro,” and [...]
Extreme Body Art – Erl Van Aken
In the realm of body art, tattoos, and body piercings, you won’t find many more in the extreme than ‘modification pioneer’ Erl Van Aken, who bears several of the first known piercings such as his namesake the Erl — a bridge piercing passing horizontally through the fleshy part between the eyes above or at nose [...]
Giant Sea Creatures Size of Dinner Plates Discovered
Gigantic sea creatures and sea spiders the size of dinner plates, and jellyfish with 20 foot (6 meter) long tentacles have been discovered in the deep waters around Antarctica by Australian scientists trawling on an expedition which arrived back in Hobart this week.
Brightly colored coraline, bryozoans and sponges sit on the ocean floor [...]
