Nacho Diaz has created an odd, slightly frightening humanish Bert from Sesame Street.
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Sonimagfoto & Multimedia Photolovers
Sonimagfoto & Multimedia Photolovers
Sonimagfoto & Multimedia, a photography exhibition held in Barcelona in April, ran a print and online advertising campaign using the unifying concept of “Photolovers”. Couples are shown embracing, representing the connection between thumb and camera in professional, amateur and expert photography categories.
The strangest inventions of history
Wooden swimming costumes, a photograph gun and a mill to send water uphill: The strangest inventions of history that show human ingenuity is boundless
- The unusual collection dating as far back as the 1500s reveals the incredible ingenuity of inventors down the ages
- Devices include a ‘bed piano’, a pram that doubles as a gas mask and bike tyres instead of arm bands for swimming
- While none of the inventions caught on, many of the prototypes were put to good use
They may not have caught on, but history’s strangest inventions capture the incredible scope of human imagination.
A new collection showcases the wooden swimming costumes, photograph guns that shoot a victim whilst taking an image, and a piano you can play in bed that were dreamed up by amateurs.
The bizarre devices – which also include a mill that sends water uphill and bicycle tyres used as arm bands for swimming lessons – date as far back as the 1500s.
And while they never entered commercial production – or gave the Wright Brothers a run for their money – the prototypes developed an enthusiastic following.
The show must go on: The bed piano especially designed for people who are confined to bed rest but still want to make music. It was created in the UK, in 1935
Quick dip anyone? A group of young swimmers tied a bike tyre around the body as a swimming aid in Germany 1925
A real photo-shoot: A Colt 38 carrying a small camera. Designed in New York in 1938, the Revolver Gun takes a picture when you pull the trigger and a portable radio in a straw hat, made by an American inventor, in 1931
Stiff upper lip: A gas resistant pram, pictured in England, Hextable, 1938
One 1938 gun which has been converted in a camera. Designed in New York in 1938, the Revolver Gun takes a picture when you pull the trigger.
Another bizarre concept designed in the Netherlands in 1915 shows an inflatable boat with boots attached to the bottom, so passengers can use their legs as paddles.
A further strange invention created by L. Deth in 1926 was labeled the ‘folding bridge for emergencies’, created so people could cross rivers and streams in case of disaster.
These weird and wonderful inventions didn’t quite make it into the shops for long enough for them to stick around and make it into the 21st century.
Perhaps one of the odder creations is the 1924 French car designed with a shovel attached to the front in order to catch stray pedestrians and reduce casualties within the bustling streets of Paris.
A wheelie good idea: A wheel motorcycle invented by Italian M. Goventosa de Udine, in 1931
Anyone fancy a weighty dip? Wooden bathing suits… to make swimming much ‘easier’ in Waquian, Washington, USA and left, plastic face protection or use in a snowstorm , in Canada, Montreal, 1939
Who needs the internet? The Wireless Newspaper invented in 1938, picture shows children reading the pages of a Missouri paper
Another image shows swimsuits made out of wood, apparently for the purpose of making it easier to swim.
If you’ve ever wondered what you did before the invention of the IPod, and how you ever managed to go about your boring day-to-day activities without the luxury of listening to music, look no further than the 1931 straw radio hat.
The hat was created by an American inventor for the purpose of allowing people to listen to music on the go, but at the time was discarded as a crazy idea, and quickly forgotten about.
Also among the collection of wacky inventions are a piano for the bedridden and a one wheel motor-cycle – with the maximum speed of a staggering 93mph
The gas war resistant pram is one of the only English inventions out of them all, which shows a lady testing a stroller that can withstand possible gas attacks.
Size is not object: An extensible caravan, built by a French engineer in France in 1934
A pedestrian catcher: A shovel was fixed onto the front of a car was used to reduce the number of casualties among drunk pedestrians in Paris, 1924
The amphibious bike: The ‘Cyclomer’ was capable of using on both land and water. It was created in Paris in 1932
Mirrored Bed Glasses The Hamblin glasses, a pair of glasses especially designed for reading in bed. England, 1936 and an electrically heated police vest, developed for the traffic police in the United States, 1932
Bridge over troubled water: A further strange invention created by L. Deth in 1926 was labeled the ‘folding bridge for emergencies’, created so people could cross rivers and streams in case of disaster
A man powered dredging machine: Workers use their arms and legs to move the bucket dredge, Holland, 1761
Let there be light: A blind man, left, tests a device to be able to hear light, in 1912 and right , a pram radio, including antenna and loudspeaker, designed to keep the baby quiet America in 1921
City style: A clip-on ice skate for the business man’s winter commute made in 1936
Going round in circles: The Loetafoon, a turntable that is linked to a film projector. The device comes with single, dual and triple turntable and was built in Prinsen, Sweden in 1929. Right, a strange sideways mill, a lightweight version built for Peatland Holland in 1589
One that was not so strange, but the testing method leaves a lot to be desired. Bulletproof glass, demonstrated by the New York police, 1931
Designs: A boat designed to transport goods over frozen rivers and lakes in case of an ice age, left in Holland in 1600 and a quirky looking steam powered car from 1845
Double power: Invented by A. G. Eckhardt, a paddle-wheel meant to paddle twice as much water as an ordinary one in 1770
Lets off road: A ten wheel all-terrain car able to descend slopes up to 65 degrees invented in England, in 1936
Irresistible animal photos
Relaxing at the Walter Zoo in eastern Switzerland, Brigitte the chimp begins to monkey around when she sees passers-by and sticks out his tongue in an almost human expression
Three week old tiger cub Yarisha is fed with special milk from a baby bottle in his motor home in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. Three days after its birth, the cub was rejected by its mother. Yarisha means the pugnacious one
Two Herens cows lock horns during the qualification round of the annual ‘Battle of the Queens’ cow fight finals in Aproz, in the western Alpine canton of Valais, Switzerland. Each year when taken to the alpine pastures, the cows test their strength and fight for the herd’s leadership. The competition continues until a new queen has forced all the other cows to retreat
A baby monkey, a lion cub and tigers cubs play at the Guaipo Manchurian Tiger Park in Shenyang, China
Tortoise-lover Katie Bradley has been crocheting wooly designs for her seven pet tortoises. But after posting pictures of the cosy critters on her tortoise blog, she was soon inundated with requests to make them for tortoises around the globe. And now, dozens of tortoises around the world are being decked out dressed as dinosaurs (above), sharks, pumpkins – or just in pretty patterns.
Panda sleeps in a tree at the Panda Valley Park in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, China
This scaredy-cat was forced to run for cover when a herd of brave buffalo decided to strike back. The lion found itself outnumbered by its plucky prey and is pictured sprinting away from the African buffalo in the Kruger National Park. The tables turned on the predator when an attempt to pounce on some unsuspecting buffalo failed miserably and left the not so cunning cat with its tail between its legs
Orangutans find shelter from the sun at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Park in Jersey, Channel Islands.
Photographer Sergey Gorshkov watched theis grizzly bear tire herself out fishing for salmon in a river before taking a well-deserved break in the Kronotskiy Reserve, Kamchatka, Russia
Superhero Squirrel: This fearless red squirrel was caught soaring through the air in an impressive display of aerial acrobatics, flying from tree-to-tree by photographer Andrey Chernyh in Russia
Reptile keeper Damian Goodall releases one of the three baby turtles into the exhibit tank at Melbourne Zoo. Reptile keepers have achieved a significant Australian first, the breeding of the critically endangered Chinese three-striped box turtle, generally known as golden coin turtles. These turtles are native to creeks in rainforests throughout South-east Asia and southern China.
A cheetah chases a false chicken on a wire in Livingstone, Zambia
An elephant showers a leopard with water to protect the herd. The leopard had been stalking the herd of around 15 elephants when one decided to frighten it off. The picture was taken by Mark Muller in Etosha National Park of Namibia at the Kalkeuwel waterhole.
An adult owl marches about the countryside looking for food to feed its brood of hungry owlets on a farm in Lancashire.
Tiny one-year-old Kayla and her brother, three-year-old Malan, have formed an extraordinary bond with the two creatures after growing up cheetahs, Wakuu and Skyla, in their home in South Africa
These aren’t your usual statues
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You can find many statues and exhibits around the world, most in public places, sometimes celebrating an event or a person, sometimes just for artistic effect or a political statement. While most of these keep to a time honored tradition of what they should look like, some take a different approach:
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| Hanging Rhino, Germany |
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| Man Hanging Out, Prague Czech Republic |
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| Crocodile eating Capitalist, Brooklyn, New York |
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| Charles La Trobe, Melbourne, Australia |
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| Cow Popsicle, Budapest, Hungary |
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| The Giant Hand, Chile |
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| Headless Musician, Amsterdam, Holland |
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| A man in the Guadalquivir River, Spain |
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| Man sawing branch, Holland |
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| Violinist erupting from the floor, Holland |
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| Huge woman lying in photo booth, London, England |
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| Great Depression Bread Line Statue, New Jersey, US |
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| A saint riding a dead horse, Prague |
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| A man in water, Stockholm, Sweden |
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| The Knotted Gun, New York, US |
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| River of children, Singapore |
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| The man in the wall, Paris, France |
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| Bukcheon bench outside museum, Seoul, South Korea |
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| Die Badende, Germany |
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| De Vaartkapoen (the stumbling police officer, Brussels, Belgium |
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| Space Cow, Sweden |
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| The Awakening, Washington, US |
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| Paparazzi, Slovakia |
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| Le Pounce (the thumb), Paris, France |
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| A man at work, Slovakia |
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| Urinating statues, Prague |
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| Hashire, Japan |
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| Walking to the sky, Pennsylvania |
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| Metalmorphosis, Charlotte, North Carolina |
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| Sala Keoku, Thailand |
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| Cloud Gate, Chicago |
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| Searching for utopia, Holland |
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| The swimming man, London, England |
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| The Headington Shark, Oxford, England |
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| Giant Tap, Switzerland |
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| Franz Kafka, Prague |
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| Corporate Head, Los Angeles |
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| God father on the arch of heaven ( Godfather on the arch of heaven, Sweden |
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| Giant Fork, Springfield, Missouri |
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Turkey. It’s on the bucket list.
Region: Transcontinental country,
located mostly on Anatolia in Western Asia
and on East Thrace in Southeastern Europe.
Area Total: 783,562 km2
Coast Line: Black Sea, The Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Coast Line: Black Sea, The Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Capital: ANKARA
Alaüddevle Mosque, Gaziantep
Kavaklik Pavilion
It was built in 1897-1899 and serves as a picnic area today..
Dülük nature park
A small pigeon house in the courtyard of a historic building in Gaziantep.
Fresh pistachios on the tree just before harvest time, Gaziantep.
Pistachios
Baklava filled with chopped pistachios
Baklava (also baklawa) is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey.
It is characteristic of the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire, and those of Central and Southwest Asia.
Kebap with vegetables
Kebap with vegetables
Meat balls
Spices and apricots, sultana raisin, almonds and more..
Herbals
Photos that caught my eye.
Beggars Banquet
This is in my top five of all time. From British Invasion ’64 – ’69:
Beggars Banquet is the seventh British and ninth American studio album by the English rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released in December 1968 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. It marked a return to the band’s R&B roots, generally viewed as more primal than the conspicuous psychedelia of Their Satanic Majesties Request. It also started off a string of four LPs that is usually regarded as the band’s finest work. ENJOY!!
22 Unbelievable places on earth
From Boredpanda.com
Magic of cucumbers
~Magic of cucumbers~
1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need
every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin
B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin
B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron,
Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and
Zinc.
2. Feeling tired in the afternoon,
put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a
cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B
Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that
quick pick-me-up that can last for
hours.
3. Tired of your bathroom mirror
fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a
cucumber slice along the mirror, it will
eliminate the fog and provide a soothing,
spa-like fragrance.
4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few
slices in a small pie tin and your garden will
be free of pests all season long. The chemicals
in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give
off a scent undetectable to humans but drive
garden pests crazy and make them flee the
area.
5 Looking for a
fast and easy way to remove cellulite before
going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or
two of cucumbers along your problem area for a
few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber
cause the collagen in your skin to tighten,
firming up the outer layer and reducing the
visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles
too!!!
6. Want to avoid a hangover or
terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices
before going to bed and wake up refreshed and
headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B
vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential
nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in
equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and
headache!!
7 Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge?
Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by
European trappers, traders and explorers for
quick meals to thwart off starvation.
8. Have an important meeting or job interview and
you realize that you don’t have enough time to
polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber
over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a
quick and durable shine that not only looks
great but also repels
water.
9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a
cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic
hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!
10. Stressed out and don’t have time for massage,
facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire
cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water,
the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber
will react with the boiling water and be
released in the steam, creating a soothing,
relaxing aroma that has been shown to reduce
stress in new mothers and college students
during final exams.
11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don’t have gum or
mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to
the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30
seconds to eliminate bad breath, the
phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your
mouth responsible for causing bad
breath.
12. Looking for a’green’way to
clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel?
Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the
surface you want to clean, not only will it
remove years of tarnish and bring back the
shine, but is won’t leave streaks and won’t harm
you fingers or fingernails while you
clean.
13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the
cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen
writing, also works great on crayons and markers
that the kids have used to decorate the
walls!!
Pass this along to everybody you
know who is looking for better and safer ways to
solve life’s everyday problems…
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