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Some samples of the amazing art of Wayne barlowe - these are taken from his "Inferno" project ... http://www.waynebarlowe.com
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If there’s one thing that all of these restaurants have in common with incredible theme hotels it is the belief that dining doesn’t have to be mundane. From the comical to the sincerely disturbing, strangely themed restaurants have popped up all over the globe, but are most commonly found in Tokyo, Japan. Here are 15 of the weirdest and wackiest themed restaurants in the world, highlighting such gastronomic delights as edible ‘dead bodies’, ‘Spicy Condom Salad’ and feces-shaped ice cream served in miniature toilet bowls.
(Check out our complete collection of 70+ Amazing Theme, Castle, Jail and Art Hotels.)
Buns and Guns - Beirut, Lebanon
Image via LA Times
At Buns & Guns in Beirut, Lebanon, everything is military themed – from the décor and names of the menu items to the helicopter sounds that play constantly in the background. Manager Yussef Ibrahim says that the theme reflects the mood of the city during Lebanon’s 2006 war with Israel, and that while some patrons may find it disturbing, most are amused. You can order yourself an M16 Carbine meat sandwich, a Mortar burger or a Terrorist meal (which happens to be vegetarian). Displayed at the entrance is the restaurant’s slogan, “Sandwiches Can Kill You”.
Cannabalistic Sushi – Tokyo, Japan
Image via Weird Asia News
‘Nyotaimori’ in Japanese literally means ‘female body plate’, and this restaurant named after the tradition of eating sushi and sashimi off a nude woman’s body takes the concept to a whole new level. An edible body, with dough ‘skin’ and sauce ‘blood’ is wheeled into the room on a hospital gurney and placed upon a table. The hostess begins the meal by cutting into the body with a scalpel and then patrons dig in, operating on the body to reveal edible ‘organs’.
Cabbages and Condoms - Bangkok, Thailand
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The amazing Airbus Beluga A300 600ST
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Licht flickr page here.
Colors
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The Flag
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Swiss Refraction
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Indian yellow
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Drops hanging on the edge of a mini- daffodil petal, refracting the primroses in the background and the daffodil petal itself.
Primroses
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8 8 8 8
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Aquamarin
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Gerbera
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Forget Me Not
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Würzburg at Night: Refraction in Waterdrops
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~ Colors ~
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Metal Gear (NES)
Duck Hunt (NES)
Mortal Kombat (Arcade)
Castlevania (NES)
Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
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Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics.Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
~chris jordan, Seattle, 2008;
website: chrisjordan.com
Toothpicks, 2008
Depicts one hundred million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees cut in the U.S. yearly to make the paper for junk mail.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Oil Barrels, 2008
Depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river).
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
Barbie Dolls, 2008
Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.
Prison Uniforms, 2007
Depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005. The U.S. has the largest
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“A professional street painter or madonnara, Tracy Lee Stum is a fine artist committed to creating spectacular modern masterpieces that transform, captivate and inspire.”
She is best known for her 3D street paintings, also called anamorphic or pavement chalk art.
“3D Anamorphic Street Paintings are illusionary 2-dimensional images that appear to become 3-dimensional when viewed from a fixed point through a camera lens.”
“Tracy has been creating these types of chalk art images since she first started street painting and continues to challenge herself through this manner of visual expression.”
– excerpts from her website.
She has traveled the world to be a featured artist in many festivals and events, and she currently holds the Guinness World Record for the largest street painting by an individual, which she completed in 2006.
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Something happened on 26 April 1986…
The Chernobyl accident .... told in pictures taken 20 years on ....
Fans of Silent Hill will find these pictures strangely familiar ...
(Image credits:Pedro Moura Pinheiro)
“The sign on the road to Pripyat, the town where the workers of the nuclear plant lived.”
The bridge of death
(Image credits:Vivo (Ben) )
“After the explosion at Reactor 4 the people of Pripyat flocked on the railway bridge just outside the city to get a good view of the reactor and see what had happened.
Initially, everyone was told that radiation level was minimal and that they were safe. Little did they know that much of the radiation had been blown onto this bridge in a huge spike.”
They saw a beautiful rainbow coloured flames of the burning graphite nuclear core, whose flames were higher than the smoke stack itself. All of them are dead now - they were exposed to levels of over 500 roentgens, which is a fatal dose.
Schools
(Image credits:misterbisson )
“Deserted secondary school near Chernobyl, Illinsty, Ukraine. Dec 1995 0.96.07.01.19”
(Image credits:left: Vivo (Ben) and right: Anosmia )
Left: “One of the five schools of Pripyat, each teaching about 1000 children. The schools have remained relatively intact considering the problems with looters eight years ago. I guess books don’t hold much value to the poor. “
Right:”At a 20th anniversary Chernobyl exhibit on Capitol Hill.”
(Image credits:zbruch )
“Children will never run here again.”
(Image credits:oinkylicious )
(Image credits:Vivo (Ben))
“Gym class”
Kindergarten
(Image credits:Pedro Moura Pinheiro )
On the left: “Stairs on the creche/kindergarten near the center of Pripyat.”; on the right: “Broken doll on top of a corner cupboard in one of the rooms in the creche/kindergarten in the center of Pripyat.”
(Image credits:hanszinsli )
“Nursery in the creche/kindergarten”.
(Image credits:Pedro Moura Pinheiro )
”Child’s big toy car in one of the rooms of the creche/kindergarten”.
(Image credits:Pedro Moura Pinheiro)
The note says “Rabbit”.
(Image credits:Pedro Moura Pinheiro
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I think that Pixar and Disney should make this into a movie!
If you’d like to see more photos by Nicholas, his Flickr gallery can be found here.
Minor Paddle
Wings On The Swings
Merry Christmas Flickr!
Changing Roles
Midnight Cruzer
The Buzzes
Rock Your Socks Off!
Minor Air
Nocturnal Raindance
Mr. Fly, A Portrait
Mr. Fly Caught Some Wind
Tour De Mouches
A Break From It All
Minor Keys
Poopville
Take Your Parachute And Jump…
Please Help A Brother Out
Minor Chords
Wheeeeeee Bring On The Booze!!
Someone Help This Poor Fella Out!
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Fly’s Eyes
(Image credits: ~jjjohn~)
Another Fly
(Image credits: kevincollins123)
And Another….
(Image credits: Pedro Moura Pinheiro)
Electron Micrograph of Fly’s Eyes
(Image credits: Shirin Pocha)
A scanning electron micrograph of a close-up of a Drosophila fly’s eye. The structure of the eye, similar to many other insects, is termed a compound eye and is one of the most precise and ordered patterns in Biology.
Dragonfly (Common Darter)
(Image credits: macropoulos)
Dragonfly (Common Darter)
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Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator) male
(Image credits: macropoulos)
Dragonfly (Crying?)
(Image credits: timitalia)
Face of a Southern Yellowjacket Queen (Vespula squamosa)
(Image credits: Opo Terser)
Blue Banded Bee
(Image credits: aussiegall)
A Solitary Bee’s Eye
(Image credits: kevincollins123)
Hoverfly
(Image credits:dincordero)
Jumping Spiders Close-ups
(Image credits: Opo Terser)
(Image credits: Opo Terser)
(Image credits: Opo Terser)
(Image credits: teejaybee)
Human Eyes
(Image credits: ►Voj►)
(Image credits: C. Young Photography)
(Image credits: OntCopper)
(Image credits: Jessie Whittle)
Frog’s Eye
(Image credits: ToniVC)
Cat’s Eye
(Image credits: Marcos Teixeira de Freitas)
House Ant
(Image credits: Pedro Moura Pinheiro)
Ant Lion
(Image credits: Budsife “busy”)
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Honest Products
Link to full gallery: Honest Products Series
Literalisms
Hit the nail (right) on the head
Don’t look a Gift Horse in the mouth
Many hands make light work
Chain Smoking
Rule of Thumb
You are what you eat
Link to full gallery: Literalisms Series
If Women Ruled…
Link to full gallery: If Women Ruled Series
Alternate Sports
Coke jockey
Shark Riding
Apool
Subaquatic fencing
The Last Dumpling
Link to full gallery: Alternate Sports Series
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The Night Lights of Europe
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
A few years ago, NASA and NOAA joined forces to present the first world map of the nighttime Earth using 9 months of data collected by satellite from an altitude of 830 kilometers (515 miles) above Earth.
The Night Lights of the United States
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
Looking east from a location southwest of Ireland
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
London from Space
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
NASA claim that it’s a digital camera photo of London at night, taken from the International Space Station in February 2003. North is to the top, and slightly to the left, so rotate the image clockwise slightly to get the familiar orientation.
Japan and South Korea
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
Tokyo, Japan
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
Like many Japanese cities, the night lights of Tokyo, Japan, have a blue-green glow that comes from mercury vapor lighting.
North California
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
Los Angeles, California, USA
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
Long Beach, California, USA
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
Orange sodium vapor lights illuminate the port facilities of Long Beach, California, supporting the round-the-clock operations of one of the world’s busiest commercial cargo ports.
Texas
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
Montreal , Canada
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
Chicago, IL, USA
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
Chicago, Illinois, is home to roughly three million people, but the wider metropolitan area includes nearly 10 million.
Denver, Colorado
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
The streets of Denver, Colorado, are aligned with the cardinal directions.
Jiddah and Mecca, Saudi Arabia
(Image Credit: NASA/GSFC)
The cities of Jiddah and Mecca, Saudi Arabia, are connected by a well-lit pilgrim road.
Sources: 1 | 2
Astronaut photographs are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment, and the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
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Watermelon USB
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Strawberry USB
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Shushi USB
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Shrimp USB
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BBQ USB
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Fast Food USB
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Biscuit USB
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Donut USB
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Our Suggestions for Chinese Flash Drive Manufacturers
Ground Pork USB
Cabbage USB
Sausage USB (thanks for the photo Linex)
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”This is a new series of small figures I began recently with the theme of mummies. I’ve always been fascinated with mummies – they are like time capsules of ancient cultures and the lives of individual people. They are like books waiting for an audience.
From an artistic standpoint they are a great vehicle for playing with unusual expressive possibilities and narratively, for weaving a spell of time, mystery and secrets.” - Shain Erin about his Mummy dolls.
Mixed media including fabric and Paperclay were used to make these little creepy and scary dolls.
Sculpture #21
Sculpture #19
Sculpture #18
Sculpture #17
Sculpture #10
Sculpture #16
Sculpture #14
Sculpture #11
Sculpture #4
Other Shain Erin’s Dolls
Alien
Zombie
ZOMBIE #2
Skeleton
artist’s webpage: www.shainerin.com
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1. Snort (London, UK)
(image credits: What What)
2. Do not cross (Copenhagen, Denmark)
(image credits: akav)
3. Maid (London, UK)
(image credits: What What)
4. What Are You Looking At? (London, UK)
(image credits: bhikku)
5. The Thief(London, UK)
(image credits: Bright Tal)
6. Rude Boy Rat(Brighton, UK)
(image credits: What What)
7. iNeed (London, UK)
(image credits: What What)
8. Dead Pedestrian (somewhere in Europe)
(image credits: x10art)
9. Banana Therapy (London, UK)
(image credits:imagesniper)
10. I Am Your Father (Melbourne, Australia)
(image credits: sensesmaybenumbed)
11. E=mc^2 (London, UK)
(image credits:wokka)
12. Cut here! (somewhere in the planet Earth)
13. Taking Shower is for Dirty People (Washington, DC, USA)
(image credits: MatthewBradley)
14. Girl Jumping (Brooklyn, NYC, USA)
(image credits: Qaanaaq)
15. Don’t F*ck up (Berlin, Germany)
(image credits: dr. motte)
16. I have The A.s.s Too! (Only God knows where..)
(image credits: Maxx)
17. Ribcage (Paris, France)
(image credits: What What)
18. Killing People is Rude (Chicago, IL, USA)
(image credits: ElDave)
19. Strange Zebra (Dublin, Ireland)
(image credits:jaqian)
20. Leopard Escapes (London, UK)
(image credits: Judo10)
21. Just Back from McDonalds? (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
(image credits: Lord Jim)
22. Just Do It! (Lisbon, Portugal)
(image credits: cudmore)
23. Girl Slide (London, UK)
(image credits: unusualimage)
24. Take That Society (London, UK)
(image credits: unusualimage)
25. The truth about Paris (Barcelona, Spain)
(image credits: Dr Case)
Sometimes simple truths can look cool.
26. Kid and a Boat (London, UK)
(image credits: Zohar Manor-Abel)
27. Art Removed! (Asheville, N Carolina, USA)
(image credits: zen)
28. Weapon of Mass Humiliation (Wellington, New Zeland)
(image credits: maxw)
29. B*ch and The Beast (Madrid, Spain)
(image credits: Brocco Lee)
30. The Truth about Capitalism (San Francisco, CA, USA)
(image credits: Jeff Tabaco)
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Toilet Paper Roll Tree
(Image credits: jessicareeder)
Paper-bag Trees
(Image Credits: Hatters!)
(Image Credits: puttytat)
(Image Credits: j-No)
(Image Credits: j-No)
(Image Credits: j-No)
(Image Credits: j-No)
Book Trees
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