Ribbon Origami

Ribbonesia is the brainchild of Japanese artist and illustrator Baku Maeda, an art project of beautiful three-dimensional animals created using ribbons and other fabric. Maeda’s adorable ribbon origami sculptures can be used to decorate gift boxes or just about anything.

Jim Denevan’s Giant Artwork on Frozen Lake Baikal

These incredibly huge concentric forms were created by American artist Jim Denevan by carving out ice from the frozen lake of Baikal in Siberia. The artist, who created similar massive art on sand in the Nevada desert last year, headed out to Siberia this year to draw these beautiful patterns on ice with a team of helpers and a broom. Denevan is known for creating expansive, meditative works with repetitive patterns and endless scale. The Baikal artwork spans an area of nine square miles!

Paint and Water (10 Photos)

Here are beautiful pictures created by an English photographer, dripping paint in the water.

The Shortest Living Man in the World (23 pics)

The Shortest Living Man in the World

According to the new edition of the Guinness World Record Book 2011, Edward Nino Hernandez is recognized as the shortest living man in the world. Nino is 24 years old. He lives in Bogota, Colombia. His height is only 27 inches or approximately 27in (70 cm). His weight is only  22 pounds (10 kg). Nino loves to dance and dreams about meeting Jackie Chan, traveling around the world and owing Mercedes. Still his fame won’t last too long. As soon as Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal turns 18, he will take over Nino’s record as Khagendra’s height is 22 inches or 56 centimeters and he is currently recognized by Guinness as the world’s shortest teenager.

Top 10 Coolest USB Flash Drives

1. USB Flash Drive + Bottle Opener

The TrekStor SB-Stick with Bottle Opener ($43.71) will not only quench your storage thirst with its 25MB/s read speed and 12 MB/s write speed, but is also sure to have you sipping suds at your desk thanks to the bottle opener that�s built into the device�s brushed aluminium housing.

sQuba : World's First Real Diving Car

Amazing Toilets Worth Seeing

Drawings by Laurie Lipton

Top 10 Mercedes-Benz Models Of All Time

Perhaps the single most identifiable symbol of luxury and style in the automotive world is the Mercedes-Benz three-pointed star. Mercedes has been leading the field in the delicate balance between style and technology since 1881, which makes it the oldest car manufacture in existence today. While it is often said that you can tell what cars will look like in 20 years by looking at a Mercedes-Benz today, this list is a look back at 10 of the Stuttgart powerhouse’s best designs.  After all, there must have been some reason Janis wanted one so badly.
Here are the Top 10 Mercedes-Benz Models of All Time.

No.10 - 1979 Gelandewagen (G-Class)

Sarah Burge – “The Real Life Barbie”

Sarah Burge has been crowned the most plastic lady by “Guinness Book of World Records”. At 49 years old, Sarah has had over 100 cosmetic surgeries, which is apparently the most anyone has cared to admit to, and has spent $850,000 in her quest to turn back time. Formerly, Cindy Jackson was Guinness’s pick for the most plastic surgeries performed on a person.

Sarah Burge claims to be the “Real Life Barbie”, but I just don’t see it. To me, she just looks like another Orange County soccer mom trying to hold on to what’s left of her looks.

Top 10 Tallest Lighthouses in the World

This article contains the Top 10 tallest lighthouses in the World.

1.) Jeddah Light *World’s Tallest Lighthouse

The tallest lighthouse ever constructed in the world is the concrete and steel Jeddah Light in Saudi Arabia. This mega structure is 133 meters tall. This spectacular lighthouse is located at the end of the outer pier on the north side of the entrance to Jeddah Seaport.

Bizarre facts-Frog juice

They call it 'The Peruvian Viagra' and they say it's great for you if you have a low sex drive. It's the best aphrodisiac. 'Extracto de rana' (Frog juice) is in very high demand at local markets of Lima, Peru.

It's also heals stuff like asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness, but who cares about those. As long as it gives you a good boner. The main aphrodisiac effect probably comes from one of it's ingredients called Maca, which is a South-American plant known for it's erotic powers.

Interesting facts-The Japanese Phallic festival

This year the unusual festival took place in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo and it gathered more than 30,000 worshipers who praised the sexuality gods and asked for protection from sexually transmitted diseases. The Phallic Festival dates back over 300 years, when Japanese geishas asked for protection from an epidemic of syphilis and its core ceremonies still remain very mystical and can be traced back to a time when Buddhism hadn’t yet reached Japan.

Apart from the natives there were many foreigners present, nearly half the crowd actually and they were very impressed by how things turned out, saying the people there are not at all shy and that you’d never see anyone riding a huge phallus in countries like France or the UK.

Phallic worship is apparently very common in Japan and you can see numerous shine throughout the country, especially in Spring.

Fastest Piece of Furniture World Record set by Inventor Perry Watkins

The 47-year-old piloted the Queen Anne table, set for a silver service dinner, twice down a 500m track at Santa Pod, Nottinghamshire, last weekend.

The table, named "Fast Food", reached a top speed of 130mph and averaged 113.8mph, comfortably eclipsing the 92mph set by a sofa in 2007.

Mr Watkins expects to become the official world record holder for the fastest piece of furniture when his time is accepted by Guinness.

World's Most Expensive Book fetched $8.8 million in Auction

An edition of John James Audubon's Birds of America, which fetched a world record $8.8 million (£5.7m) a decade ago, is to go up for auction alongside Shakespeare's First Folio and private letters written by Queen Elizabeth I.

The rare and valuable lots are among a collection of books, manuscripts and letters to be sold from the collection of Lord Hesketh, a collector who died 55 years ago, Sotheby's will announce today.

A well-preserved copy of Audubon's book, which is bound in a huge folio accommodating life-size paintings of American bird life, is valued at between £4 million and £6 million.

World’s Largest Zumba Dance Class World Records set by Dal students

Students at Dalhousie University attempted a Guinness world record Wednesday, for holding the world’s largest Zumba dance class.

Zumba is a cross between aerobics and Latin dance, and has become the most popular class at the Dalplex when the fitness centre began offering classes last year.

Dalhousie decided, as part of orientation week, to offer a class at Wickwire Field as a way for new students to meet.

The university was also attempting to set a world record for a 30 minute Zumba class.

The registered Guinness record is 250 participants, however that record was broken last month.

Dalhousie had 575 students on the field participating in the dance class, and they will wait and see if that number was enough.

World's Oldest Preserved Beer set World Record

Divers have salvaged what is believed to be the world's oldest preserved beer from a 200-year-old shipwreck, the government of the semi-autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden said on Friday.

At least three, four beer bottles were salvaged, permanent secretary Rainer Juslin of the local government of Aland told.

The beer was discovered on Wednesday when a bottle broke during the final salvage operation, revealing what till than had been the bottle's unknown contents.

A team of divers earlier this summer discovered dozens of champagne bottles on the wreck in the archipelago of the Swedish-speaking islands that are part of Finland.

Belgian maker set Non Stop Chip Making World Record

A Belgian maker of French fries, the country's proud national dish, has set a new world record for non-stop chip-making after frying mountains of potato strips for 83 consecutive hours.

 

The record by 53-year-old Chris Verschueren, owner of a French fries business, beat by 11 hours a previous record of 72 hours set in 1987 by a Briton chip chef.

"My fingers are burnt, my feet are sore and my wrist is painful," he told Belga national news agency. "But it doesn't matter, I'm going to party now."

World’s Most Expensive Cheese Sandwich World Record 2010

A Michelin-starred chef has unveiled the world's most expensive cheese sandwich - which carries a whopping price tag of £110.

The delicacy was created by celebrity chef Martin Blunos, who hand-crafted the luxury snack using cheddar blended with expensive white truffles.

It is dressed with 100-year-old balsamic vinegar and the sourdough bread - which costs £5 alone - is sprinkled with powdered E175. That's gold dust to you and me.

The gourmet dish is the main attraction at the Frome Cheese Show in Somerset where the Food Poker star is judging a sandwich-making competition.

World Biggest Chocolate Bar Guinness Record set by Armenian Company

The Armenian Company Grand Candy broke the Guinness World Record for the biggest chocolate bar by making a bar weighing 4,410 kg. On September 11, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the company held a presentation ceremony. The bar, 5600x2750x250 millimeters, was made in four days using cocoa beans imported from Africa, Grand Candy President Karen Vardanyan said at the ceremony. The legal representative of the Guinness Book of World Records Elizabeth Smith arrived in Armenia to issue a certificate to the company.

Largest Harmonica Song Ensemble World Record

Largest Harmonica Song Ensemble World Record set by Pocket Full of Soul: The Harmonica

The Houston Astros and the independent film, "Pocket Full of Soul: The Harmonica Documentary," have announced they will attempt to break the World Record for largest harmonica ensemble after the Astros game Friday, September 10th at Minute Maid Ballpark.

During and after the Houston Astros vs. Los Angeles Dodgers game, several celebrated harmonica players will teach the audience to play a song on the harmonica to break the Guinness Book of World Records record. The current record for largest harmonica ensemble is currently held by organizers in Hong Kong.

Wise Men Consultants are sponsoring the event with special recognition to Hohner Harmonicas.

Year 1606 World's Oldest Share of Dutch East India Company Found

A Dutch history student has unearthed the world's oldest share, dating back to 1606 and issued by the sea trading firm Dutch East India Company.

Locked away in forgotten city archives, the share was made out to Pieter Harmensz, a male resident of the Dutch city Enkhuizen who served as an assistant to the city's mayors.

After his death in 1638, Harmensz left the share to his widow and their daughter Ada and the document eventually ended up in Enkhuizen archives, kept in the northwestern city Hoorn.

Subodh Gupta Builds Sculptures From Household Utensils

Subodh Gupta is an artist based in New Delhi, India. His work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance and video. Gupta chooses signature objects of the Indian sub-continent such as stainless steel cooking utensils and tiffin-boxes, and relocates them as art objects in monumental installations.
The following installation named Spill is an overbearing work of great scale that has at its centre a larger than life stainless steel water vessel, with many smaller steel utensils spilling over the edge like water pouring out.

Four Years Old Girl Writing Alphabet in 13 Language in India set World Record

M Shalini, a LKG student at Rotary school in Mysore has a innate ability to write with both  hands at a time. Through her left hand she does a mirror writing, even as she is able to present the alphabet in a common way using her right hand simultaneously. She is able to write Kannada, English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Gujarati, Assamese, Punjabi, Oriya, Tulu (recently created by a scholar), Urdu and Bengali alphabets.

She is the daughter of Latha and Manjunath, who runs a small provision store in Sunnadakeri in city. According to Manjunath, the girl developed a passion for writing when she was two years old. Her mother Latha taught her the nuances of the alphabets of various languages. “Shalini was able to write the Urdu alphabets with just  seven hours of practice,” he told Deccan Herald.

Strange happenings-Tomato fight in China

Tomato fight in China

Inspired by La Tomatina Festival in Bunol, Spain, about 10,000 people of Dongguan, southern Guangdong province, China, organized their own tomato fight on October 19, 2009. Over 15 tons of tomatoes were used in this over-sized food fight and this led to a huge controversy both online and in the national media. People were baffled when they saw so much good food go to waste for a few hours of entertainment, in a country where some people are still starving.

Largest Collection of Currencies World Record India set by Richard Lobo

Everyone likes to have a lot of money to enjoy life. But Richard Lobo loves money for a different reason. Hailing from Karkala, he has a hobby of collecting currency from all over the world and has 1,100 currencies from 220 countries.

His love towards currency started when his sister’s son got him a plastic currency from Hong Kong. Now he has 20 plastic currencies.

Entering the flat in Mangalore, where he will be shifting soon, we could see two rooms with currency displays all over the floor and still more filed away in albums which tell stories of the past and present of different nations.

Traffic Jams Around The World

Last month, a 100 Km (60 miles) long traffic jam was created on the Beijing-Tibet expressway. The jam had entered its10th day when reports first broke out on international media on April 23, 2010. The congestion which started on April 13 along the outskirts of Beijing was stretching toward the border of Inner Mongolia ever since roadwork on the Beijing-Tibet Highway started.

Local authorities had to dispatch essential supplies, such as food or flammables, around the main bottleneck as vehicles crawled along little more than a third of a mile a day. Fortunately, the jam seemed to have been cleared by August 25, according to a Yahoo report.

Lonely Planet’s Mosaic Competition

Phatpuppy Artwork

Jessamyn Patterson Artwork

Photography by David Zaitz

Furniture from Michel Haillard

Salvador Dali Paintings

Harold Edgerton Work

Paintings by Vasily Yarmin

Witness Describes Robbery Attempt

Sea Lion “Rocky” Training

Soviet Aircraft BBA-14

Beware of the Dog

Don’t Flush

Great Moments in MTV Video Music Award History (HolyTaco)

Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ Trailer Features Matt Damon and Tsunamis (ScreenJunkies)

Street Fighter Vs The Wu-Tang Clan (Heavy)

The Donuts Escalator

Secret Nuclear Bunker

Africa Is Bigger Than You Think

Sad Emo Dolls

Emo is a style of rock music typically characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace. As the style was echoed by contemporary American punk rock bands, its sound and meaning shifted and changed, blending with pop punk and indie rock and encapsulated in the early 1990s by groups such as Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate. By the mid 1990s numerous emo acts emerged from the Midwestern and Central United States, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the style.

Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the platinum-selling success of Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional and the emergence of the subgenre "screamo". In recent years the term "emo" has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of artists, including multiplatinum acts and groups with disparate styles and sounds.

In addition to music, "emo" is often used more generally to signify a particular relationship between fans and artists, and to describe related aspects of fashion, culture, and behavior.

She Almost Succeeded

Encouraged by her friend, she almost became the top watermelons scorer  ... exactly in the head, but .. the wrong head.

Knights Fighting In The Heart Of Riga

September 4 Riga islet Zaķusala back at the past few centuries ago. In the heart of the capital were the most real knights fighting in the clearings were artisans , and nothing reminded that the XXI century in the yard . Festival " Baltic Sun "has been held since 1997 .

Some Interesting facts

1. Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?

A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called 'pygg'. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.

2. Q: Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have notches, while pennies and nickels do not?

A: The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and silver to discourage holders from shaving off small quantities of the precious metals. Dimes, quarters and half dollars are notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies and nickels aren't notched because the metals they contain are not valuable enough to shave..