Archive for November 2008
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Playing with Food – Vegetables Transformed into Art Masterpieces
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Chinese artist Ju Duoqi puts a whole new meaning to ‘playing with your food,’ transforming ordinary vegetables into veggie replicas of legendary works of art by masters such as Vincent [...]
Ancient Art of Firewalking Secrets Revealed
Firewalking barefoot over a bed of red-hot coals has been a human rite of passage in many cultures as a test or proof of faith for more than 3,000 years, and still practiced today throughout the world, from tribal rituals for rites of healing, initiation, and faith, to New Age motivational seminars and so-called alternative [...]
Sustainable Village Provides Innovative Shelter and Safe Haven
With simple evolution of one of man’s basic methods used centuries ago united with a little modern technology to construct shelter and housing, an innovative architect has created a small eco-sustainable village to accommodate 80 children, 10 staff, and a small school near Kathmandu, Nepal, in the Himalaya Mountains — the first of its kind [...]
When Tattoos and Art Go to the Hogs – Pig Tattooing
Widely criticized for some of his vastly controversial methods of artwork on what some deem as highly intelligent pets, conceptual artist Wim Delvoye has found a rather provocative means to express art by tattooing pigs with Disney designs, legendary stories, cartoons, and the Louis Vuitton logo on ‘live skins,’ and raking in exorbitant sums of [...]
Worlds Most Bizarre and Intriguing Hot Air Balloons
As the oldest successful form of human-carrying flight technology, the ingenious application of basic scientific principles for hot air balloons have transcended from the centuries-old creations to use for recreation and sport today. Festivals and competitions have spawned a wide array of contraptions from inventive forms of advertising to some of the most bizarre and [...]
Bug-Eyed Pygmy Tarsier Primate Rediscovered in Indonesia
One of the world’s smallest and rarest primates — the pygmy tarsier — has been spotted by scientists 80 years after they were thought to have become extinct, in a mountaintop cloud forest on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
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Pygmy tarsiers are small primates with dense gray to dark brown silky fur to [...]
