Kitten Mittens

Incredible Lightning Strike

Video of a near-miss lightning strike in Norman, OK in July 2007, as the cloud-to-ground stroke nearly struck storm chaser Curtis M. This is one of the most incredible lightning videos I have ever seen!

Living Photographs by Mole and Thomas

Taken at the beginning of the 20th century, by English photographer Arthur S. Mole and his American colleague John D. Thomas, these living photographs show thousands of American soldiers posing as symbols of American history.

They traveled from one military camp to another taking photos of soldiers forming patriotic symbols as a part of planned promotional campaign to sell war bonds. Thousands soldiers would form gigantic patriotic symbols such as Statue of Liberty, president Woodrow Wilson, American Eagle or Liberty Bell which were photographed from above.

Mole and Thomas spent days preparing formations which were photographed from a 70 to 80 foot tower with an 11 by 14 inch camera. Photos by Mole and Thomas are now part of the Chicago Historical Society, the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress.

In the picture of the Statue of Liberty there are 18,000 men: 12,000 of them in the torch alone, but just 17 at the base. The men at the top of the picture are actually half a mile away from the men at the bottom.


The Living Uncle Sam: 19,000 officers and men at Camp Lee, Virginia, January 13, 1919.


The Human US Shield: 30,000 officers and men at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1918.


The living emblem of the United States Marines, formed by 100 officers and 9,000 enlisted men at the Marine Barracks, Paris Island, South Carolina.


A portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, formed of 21,000 officers and men at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, 1918.


The Human Liberty Bell, formed by 25,000 officers and men at Camp Dix, New Jersey, 1918.


The Human American Eagle: 12,500 officers, nurses and men at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1918.


Living insignia of the 27th Division, New York’s Own, breakers of the Hindenberg Line. Formed of 10,000 officers and enlisted men, March 18, 1919.


22,500 officers and men, 600 machine guns at Machine Gun Training Center, Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga, December 10, 1918.


209th Engineers, Camp Sheridan, 1919.


The Panther, formed by the faculty and students of the University of Pittsburgh, April 9, 1920.


Indoctrination Division, Air Training Command, Lackland Air Base, San Antonio, Texas, July 19, 1947.


Hawaiian Division, Schofield Barracks.


The official seal of the Eleventh Division, Lafayette.

Source: telegraph

Seven Deadly Wine Glasses

Kacper Hamilton has designed a series of seven wine glasses inspired by the seven deadly sins.

Wrath


Greed


Pride


Gluttony


Lust


Envy


Sloth

Source: kacperhamilton

Cell Phone for Mercedes Fans

To own this cell phone being a fan of Mercedes is not enough, you’ve also got to lack taste completely! I can’t imagine myself speaking in this thing.

Mattress Dominoes World Record

The Best Nerds Of All Ever

Cat Ladders

Swallow Flies Through Two-Inch Gap at 35 MPH

A swallow with a 14-inch wingspan managed to turn sideways mid flight to squeeze through a two-inch-wide gap in a locked barn door. It did this without touching sides.

The swallow is one of a pair rearing chicks inside the barn in Angus Glens, North Dundee.

Wildlife photographer Keith Ringland captured the moment from a nearby shed. He believes the parents have worked out an entry- and exit system to avoid colliding at high speeds: "The swallow used a different, much bigger hole in the roof to leave the building," he told the Daily Mail.








Source: dailymail.co.uk

The Money Wallet

Designed to look like a bunch of $100 bills in a rubber band, the Money Wallet looks awfully tempting to pickpockets, so it’s a good way to distract their attention and protect your savings.

Speed Charcoal Drawing - Megan Fox

Sand Crop Circles by Andres Amador

Andres Amador works with one of the biggest canvases available, with entire lengths of beaches swallowed up by his art. Sadly the sea is no discerning art critic, for once the San Francisco artist finishes his staggering artwork, the waves come in to wipe the slate clean.

Many of his stunning images, which start out as simple squiggles in the 39-year-old's notebook, span an incredible 500x300feet and are raked into the grains in a race against the tide.

Using a canvas crafted by the elements the patient American waits for a full or new moon to make sure low tides offer him plenty of space to muster the incredible patterns.

Giant Sausage Mortadella

In Bologna and the surrounding area, the boiled sausage known as Mortadella can be as heavy as 200 kilograms. Even weirder is the fact that it’s cut into the thinnest slices, so its taste and aroma can be fully appreciated.

Life Span - VHS Tapes Collection

What looks like the world’s biggest videotape collection, is actually an artistic display presented at this year’s Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Entitled Life Span and displayed in a small church on Garibaldi Street, this giant block full of VHS videotapes is the work of Australian artists Claire Healey and Sean Cordeiro. In numbers 195,774 tapes and features a total recording time of 66 years.

Life Span is a physical representation of what a human being can see from its birth, to the day it dies.

Air New Zealand Safety Procedures

Cool body painted Air NZ staff star in new Bare Essentials of Safety video, created for our Domestic 737 services.

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Fox

The Girls of Comic-Con 2009

The San Diego Comic Con, also known as SDCC to many fans around the world, is the biggest event in the geek diary by far. The mix of celebrity panels, exclusive movie footage, workshops, movie collectibles memorabilia and the overall atmosphere have become the stuff of modern pop culture legend. It is paradise for film and comic geeks, and many of the attendees that visit SDCC each year have flown there from all over the globe.

Year in, year out, the biggest films and TV shows in the industry are unveiled with exclusive footage and news from the directors, cast and crew themselves. This year is no different. If anything, the 2009 SDCC is the biggest yet, with some of the most highly anticipated films, comics and collectibles getting their first real exposure at the event.

Pet Airways - Airlines for Pets

A new airline for pets is taking off with weekly flights to five airports across the country. Beginning July 14, Pet Airways is flying pets to and from Baltimore/Washington International; Midway in Chicago; Rocky Mountain Airport in Broomfield, Colo., near Denver; Hawthorne Municipal Airport near Los Angeles; and Republic Airport on Long Island serving the New York City metro area.

The airline allows cats and dogs to travel in carriers in the main cabin of the plane, rather than the cargo hold. While some airlines allow small animals to fly in the cabin as long as their carriers fit under the seats, Pet Airways has no limit on size.

The carrier will not transport human passengers other than crew and attendants to care for the animals during flights. Pet owners will have to fly separately.

One-way fares start at $149. Many of the flights on the airline's limited initial itinerary are already booked full with a waiting list depending on the animal's size.

To prevent pets from getting sick, there won't be any beverage or snack service.


























Source: huffingtonpost

Having Fun On Flooded Streets

Floods are never pretty, they cause a lot of damage and sometimes even death. But, if you can, it’s good to see a positive side in everything.

Take these two guys from Belarus, for example. After the streets of Minsk were flooded, on July 24, they found a way to turn things from tragic to fun. Using a jet-ski they had a world of fun instead of worrying about the flood.

Toilet Humor

Toilet humor is a type of humor dealing with bodily toilet functions. Public reference to bodily functions is taboo in many cultures.

Tanya Angus - World’s Largest And Heaviest Woman

30-year-old Tanya Angus, who lives in Nevada, weighs 480 pounds (220 kilograms) and continues to grow. The reason - a very rare syndrome: acromegaly, it is often also associated with gigantism. More than $ 250,000 have already been spent for her treatment but without any result.

Rush Hour In Japan

In Japan during the rush hour, it is better not to use any public transport at all (especially the subway). It's really full, i wonder how they come out from the train.

Man Rides A Scooter With A Watermelon On His Head

Great sense of balance.

Simon's Cat 'Fly Guy'

A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to catch a housefly.

Video Game Console Costumes

We often see costumes about famous video game characters like Mario, Sonic etc but what about the video game consoles? People made some funnny ones for the events like Halloween so here is a compilation of those costumes where Nintendo takes a big place. There are video game consoles and also just the controllers.

Itasha - New Japanese Obsession

Japanese have many strange trends and Itasha is anything, but one more such a thing. Can you imagine what happened with a car, whose owner is obsessed with manga, anime and video games at the same time? If not, take a look.

Total Privacy at Clingstone Mansion in Rhode Island

This 103-years-old mansion in Rhode Island is built on a small, rocky island far away from any nosy neighbors. Just like this house, built close to Oslofjord Island, Norway, it offers total privacy.

Clingstone mansion was built in 1905, for a cost of roughly $36,000, by J.S. Lovering Wharton, a distant cousin of 79-year-old Henry Wood, the present owner of the house. He and his ex-wife bought it in 1961, for $3,600 and managed to bring it back to life after it had been abandoned for two decades.

Mr. Wood and his family found an ingenious way of preserving this 23-room architectural wonder: the Clingstone work weekend. Every year, around Memorial Day, the Wood family and up to 70 friends gather at Clingstone to clean the mansion and fix any of its problems. Practically, any volunteer workers are welcome.

In winter time the boats and floating dock are stored at the nearby Jamestown Boatyard, in exchange for a week’s stay at Clingstone, during the summer.


































Source: bookofjoe

Graphic Design by James Carmichael

James Carmichael is a Freelance Web & Graphic Designer based in Cambridge, Ontario. He currently works as a graphic designer in a creative agency in Waterloo, but is always looking for interesting projects to work on. You can visit his website at jamesc.ca to see more of his work or to contact him.

The Shweeb - A Human-Powered Monorail

The Schweeb is an experimental transit system in New Zealand that combines the bicycle and a monorail track. Users lie down individual pods and work the pedals to move forward:

Our proposal to get you safely and quickly from one point in the city to another would be to elevate you onto a network of interconnected monorails where you never have to stop at traffic lights. The ideal vehicle for such a system already exists. Fully faired recumbent cycles, because of their low aerodynamic resistance, are breaking all bicycle speed records and currently reaching speeds of 90 kph (56 mph) in sprints. Suspending these comfortable and highly efficient machines from monorail tracks has the added advantage of taking away the rolling resistance of pneumatic tyres. Trains of Shweebs can further reduce the aero drag – ten people travelling at 40 kph will each have a lot less work to do than a single rider at the same speed. A single rider requires only a fraction of the energy to achieve the same speed as a normal cyclist – thanks to the significant reductions in both aero drag and tire friction. The vehicle is completely weatherproof, you can’t derail or fall out while on the cellphone or blackberry!



Source: io9

Police Chase Ends In Shootout

Police dash cam:AZTEC, New Mexico.Federal prosecutors have reached a plea deal with a man accused of shooting at a San Juan County sheriff's deputy, so the sheriff's department on Wednesday released video of the extended 2007 incident.

According to a news release, Lionel Claw, 22, pleaded guilty to federal charges of assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm during a violent crime..

Makeup Fail

Some women out there just don’t know how to properly use the makeup! Let’s see how stupid they look.

Car Crash Test Compilation

Here is an interesting compilation of different car crash tests.

Invisible Man: Liu Bolin's Camouflage Art

35-year-old Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be.

Liu works on a single photo for up to 10 hours at a time, to make sure he gets it just right, but he achieves the right effect: sometimes passers-by don’t even realize he is there until he moves.

The talented Liu Bolin says his art is a protest against the actions of the Government, who shut down his art studio in 2005 and persecutes artists. It’s about not fitting into modern society. Despite problems with Chinese authorities, Liu’s works are appreciated at an international level.




































Source: telegraph

Coffee Drinks Illustrated

Here is a chart with different coffee drinks, if you didn’t know what is the difference of Caffe Latte and the Mocca, for example.Found at the twoeyes’ photostream.

The Beautiful Petermann Glacier

The Petermann glacier is the northernmost glacier in the world. It is situated in North-East Greenland. It is partially floating (at the end), and mainly located on land. In 2008, a 7 miles long crack was observed on the glacier by satellite. It has been progressing forward and is expected to break-off in the summer 2009.

Diablo Delenfer, The Devil Man

When you are 39 years old and work as a security guard, it seems like nothing else can happen in your life. So Gavin Paslow from England decided that it was not good enough for him and became a devil.

The Worst Harry Potter Fan Party Ever

Chicken Head Tracking - Pennywhistle Productions

Chickens have a great ability to keep their heads stable. Our bodies use a gyro-like mechanism in our ears which has 3 mutually orthogonal inertial measurement devices. Modern motion processors use something called an Inertial Measurment Unit (IMU). These devices provide movement data which can be used to compensate for the movement. Chickens apparently have the same type mechanism only with a higher update rate.

How to Make a Potato Launcher

You can get a spark generator at any hardware store!!! We used gum-out cleaner, or starting fluid.

3 Planes Fly Close To Another (Cockpit View)

13th Annual Summer Redneck Games

The Redneck Games are held in East Dublin, Georgia annually. The games were started by Mac Davis in response to a comment made by the media; that when the 1996 Olympic Games went to Atlanta, it would be held by a group of rednecks. Taking offense to this, Mac Davis and some locals set up the annual Redneck Games to reinforce the stereotype the media held. Some events that are held during the Redneck Games include: the cigarette flip, bobbing for pig’s trotters, toilet seat throwing, mud pit belly flop, wet T-shirt contest and others. For each of the events, a trophy is awarded; a half crushed, empty mounted beer can.

Perhaps the most eye-catching event of the games is the Mud-Pit Belly Flop, where fully-clothed contestants plunge belly-first into a natural pool of red clay mud. The bigger the belly, the better your chance, as the winning flopper tends to weigh in at over 250 pounds and key criteria for the judges are beauty of form and size of splash.

Lake Palace Hotel on Lake Pichola, Udaipur, India

India’s Lake Palace is a luxury hotel of 83 rooms and 17 suites featuring white marble walls. It is located on a natural foundation of 4 acres (16,000 m2) rock on the Jag Niwas island in Lake Pichola, Udaipur, India. It’s very famous and lots of celebrities visited it but now, the India’s Lake Palace lost its lake after an unprecedented drought.

And what was once one of the favourite hotels of the rich and famous and known as one of the most romantic retreats in the world is not so romantic anymore with its dried lands.

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Source: shunya

Resident Evil Zombie T-Shirt

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles is being revealed at the San Diego Comic Con, and an awesome Resident Evil T Shirt is being given away to some lucky RE fans.

This cool new Resident Evil T Shirt seems at first like any other promotional shirt we always seen with the game’s logo, tagline and fancy design on the front and back but it is different than we expected.

As you pull the shirt over your head, a scary Zombie face takes over your head, making a two in one t shirt for the die hard Zombie fans. You have now transformed into a walking Zombie and are halfway clothed, really getting into the act.

Russian Drunk Yoga

10 yoga poses that were practised by random drunks. They look like real yoga masters, although unintentionally! Hilarious selection!

Waldspirale - The Wooded Spiral of Darmstadt, Germany

Located in Darmstadt, Germany, the Waldspirale apartment-building was designed by Austrian artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and built during the 1990s.

There are other apartment buildings in Darmstadt, but the U-shaped Waldspirale is special. Its diagonal roof is covered with grass, shrubs and trees and the facade follows an irregular grid organization.

Waldspirale has over 1,000 windows, but no two are the same. The handles on the apartment doors and the windows are also unique.

Waldspirale was completed in 2000 and people actually live in it.

Sand Animation by Kseniya Simonova

Stunning works by Kseniya Simonova, participating in the final of Ukraine’s Got Talent.

The Musical Genius - Derek Paravicini

Derek Paravicini (born July 26, 1979) is a blind English autistic savant and a musical prodigy. He lives in Surrey, England.

Though autism is thought to be the source of Derek’s extraordinary musical ability, his blindness may contribute. Because Derek is blind, the part of his brain that would normally be used for sight and light detection could be used for extra auditory ability. Derek is able to, with a great deal of precision and accuracy, detect and recognise not just one but multiple notes played at once (so far he can distinguish over 20 notes).

Learn more about him here, and five parts of a documentary about him follow.

Madrid Ball Girls

Fashion models are replacing traditional ball boys and girls at the Tennis Masters Series in Madrid. Madrid organisers have done a good job of spicing up the men's Masters tournament in recent years.