Tiny Figures & Food Landscapes

Artists create miniature landscapes using tiny figures and food

• Amazing works are by Italians Antonio Magliocchetti and Stefano Adorinni
• They have made more than 130 photos from bread, pineapples and coffee
• Antonio: 'We usually create them in our living rooms during our free time'
• Their secret is £1 figurines on eBay, a good camera and very steady hands

By DAN BLOOM

Art may be food for the soul, but these works really are good enough to eat.

Two amateur photographers have made more than 100 miniature scenes in their living rooms - with food from their kitchen cupboards.

The 'food art' includes a moon landing in parmesan cheese, a ski slope on an iced cake, an office built from wafer biscuits and a crib containing the baby Jesus inside a muffin.

One small step for parmesan: Italian 'food artists' Antonio Magliocchetti and Stefano Adorinni have created more than 130 photos of a miniature world using everyday objects - often from their kitchens

Off-piste: In one creation these cross-country skiers appear to have got lost on the icing on a cake

Dancing on iced martini: Figure skaters take to the surface of a frozen cocktail in another shot by the artists

Beautiful Images...

Beautiful Images...

Fireman Rescues Dog Fom Death

Heartwarming moment a 13-year-old husky was freed after falling through the ice on her morning walk

• Dog plunged into water in Pleasure Bay off Castle Island in South Boston
• Firefighter Sean Coyle ventured onto the treacherous ice
• Animal survived 30 minutes in the water, according to rescuers
• Pet was plucked to safety following the rescue at 9am today

By TOM GARDNER

The dramatic moment an exhausted pet dog was plucked from a frozen lake after falling through the ice has been caught on camera.

Firefighter Sean Coyle risked his own safety to venture out on to frozen Pleasure Bay off Castle Island in South Boston during the rescue.

Sylvie, a 13-year-old husky, had plunged into the frigid water during her morning walk on Thursday.

Help is on its way: Firefighter Sean Coyle uses a basket to slide out to Sylvie, a 13 year old Husky

She had spent more than 30 minutes treading water before help arrived.

Her frantic owner looked on, powerless to help, as the member of Ladder 19 put on a survival suit and headed onto the treacherous bay.

Inching out across the cracking ice, fireman Coyle carefully closed in on the struggling animal with a Stokes basket, a specialized stretcher, ready to carry the animal back if need be.

Struggle: Exhausted Sylvie had been in the frigid water for more than 30 minutes by the time rescue arrived

Hold on: The husky clings to the ice as firefighter Sean Coyle inches out to the hole

World's Last Pure Ocean

The world's last pure ocean: Beautiful images of the only body of water that has still not been spoiled by mankind

• The Ross Sea in Antarctica is considered the last body of water not altered or damaged by humans
• The sea is home to many species including Emperor and Adelie penguins, silverfish, seals, orcas and minke whales
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By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

These are the stunning images of one photographer's mission to shoot the world's last remaining pure ocean.

The Ross Sea in Antarctica has been considered by many to be the world's only body of water not altered or damaged by humans.

The breath-taking pictures were captured by photographer John Weller, from Boulder in Colorado, USA.

All adrift: A lone penguin stands on a piece of ice floating on the Ross Sea in Antarctica, the world's last remaining pure ocean

A Minke whale surfaces in the Ross sea sending a plume of spray into the sky as it blasts spent air from its blowhole

Shot from below, a seal pup swims up to the surface through a hole in the Antarctic ice. The sea is considered by many to be the world's only body of water not altered or damaged by humans

Forgotten Pyramids Of Tucume In Peru.

We all know how pyramids are mysterious and wonderful buildings. We yet don't know how exactly they were built and what was their main purpose and they still remain one of the most interesting things from human's past.

There is already a large number of well known pyramids, but there are some of them which still remain unseen and less popular. Here you'll see some interesting photos of forgotten Tucume pyramids which are located in Lambayeque Valley at the North Coast of Peru.

There are about 26 major pyramids and platforms at the Lambayeque Valley and the largest of them is Huaca Larga which measures 700 meters in length, 280 meters in width and 30 meters in height. It is believed that those pyramids were built around 1000-1500 AD.

 

 

 

Panda Dogs and Tiger Dogs

This trend is not new but it became very popular lately.
Dog owners dye their pets to look like pandas, tigers, etc.

 

 

A Cheat Sheet For the Next 100 Quintillion Years

A Cheat Sheet For the Next 100 QuintillionYears

SEXPAND

Did you know the Hale-Bopp comet will return 2,372 years from now, while in 50,000 years, Niagara Falls will disappear? And a mere 5 million years from now, men will be extinct, thanks to the Y chromosome's instability. These are just some of the gems in the BBC'sTimeline of the Far Future, a major events forecast for the next 100 quintillion years.

It's fascinating to learn how long certain materials will take to break down — the titanium in your MacBook will only start corroding after 100,000 years, while it will take 1 million years for humanity's glass products to disintegrate. To be honest, a lot of these predictions seem a bit speculative: In 20 billion years, will the universe be torn apart? In a trillion years, will stars really cease to form? Doesn't really matter — according to this thing, we'll already be long extinct at that point. [BBC via Digg]

Waterwork Art

Waterwork of art: American photographer creates amazing images which capture the split-second dyed liquids burst into colour - and are so exquisite they 'look like glass sculptures'

• Jack Long, a 55-year-old photographer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, developed a technique for capturing the images
• He build special devices to fire a precise mixture of water and dyes in order to capture - which work underwater
• Mr Long made a set of images set in an art gallery and placed on pedestals after admirers said his pictures reminded them of fine glasswork

By KIERAN CORCORAN

They look like exquisite vases made of finely-blown glass, placed carefully on a pedestal to receive the admiration of gallery visitors.

But in fact these colourful images are not precious artefacts preserved for the ages, but show a split-second in which specially-manipulated liquids are captured in fantastic formation.

They are the work of American photographer Jack Long, 55, from Milwaukee, who developed a special formula for the liquids himself.

Split-second: The images could be mistaken for intricate glasswork, but are actually split-second snapshots of liquid in motion

Lifelike Origami Art

12 origami animals showcase what FoldedWilderness can do. Even without the facial details, the creator can depend solely on the color of the paper and the mere shape of his or her origami skills to create some pretty awesome paper-folding masterpieces.

A Donkey's Journey. 

Folded from a single sheet of paper, this donkey is ready to take the first step in its journey – well, it would if it could move.

Autumn Blue Jay. The secret to producing all the gorgeous colors on these origami animals is that the artist painted them with acrylics beforehand.

Flower Child Fox. Foxes are usually way larger but come on, look at that? What can you complain about?

Jack Russel Terrier. A dramatic result of precise origami combined with professional photography skills.

The First World Hotel In Genting, Malaysia

The First World Hotel In Genting, Malaysia

Hotel First World - Las Vegas is Asia. First World Hotel is a three-star hotel with more than 6,118-rooms, making it the fourth-largest hotel in the world by number of rooms, in two colorful towers. It was the largest hotel in the world until The Palazzo, an expansion of The Venetian in Las Vegas. First World Hotel located in Genting Highlands in the Mountains Titivangsa, near lush tropical rain forest far from the city. Sign resettled as a courtyard in the Spanish style, the total area is 15,240 square meters, including shopping malls, casinos, cafes, bars and a lobby on the jungle. Thus, the luxury resort has much to offer to entertain you during your vacation and rest from work.

Gold Diggers In Congo.

Gold .. symbol of power, wealth and fame .. We all think it's easy to get to the gold and that it is easy to dig. We are right because the excavation of one gram of gold to be tons and tons of earth and stone. Long process to the final great product, has the kinds of processes and process .. But there is one other system of removing the gold less known to us and to work for a long time in low economically developed countries, but rich in gold, like Congo.Process getting gold in the Congo, is something difficult that can be experienced in life.Not only difficult but also incredibly dirty and very poorly paid wage job.Montly sallery of gold digger in Congo is measured in a few dollars is not enough even for basic needs.But in hard life there is not many choices,especially in Congo.

Magnifique Mosaiculture 2013 at Montreal's Gardens, Quebec, Canada.

Festival  Mosaiculture 2013

Dù  bạn không phải là người làm vườn, những tác phẩm  tạo hình nghệ thuật từ cây lá hoa sẽ khiến bạn trầm trồ khi bạn đến với Triển lãm Mosaiculture. Mosaiculture là nghệ thuật làm vườn bậc cao, trồng, và tạo tác những tác phẩm mỹ thuật bằng cây cảnh, hoa lá đủ màu sắc, phong phú và đa dạng.  Cuộc thi Mosaiculture quốc tế được lập lại từ năm 2000 đến nay.

Triển lãm Mosaiculture 2013 vừa khai mạc tuần qua tại vườn bách thảo Montreal, Quebec, Canada với những hình ảnh sau đây sẽ cho bạn những cảm giác  thích thú đến kinh ngạc. Được biết Triển lãm này  đã dùng hơn 3 triệu bông hoa tươi tắn, rực rỡ sắc màu trồng trong các nhà kính trên khắp vùng đất Quebec đưa về  vườn bách thảo vào tháng 5 -2013. Ròng rã 3 tháng, hơn 200 nghệ nhân bậc thầy về  làm vườn đến từ 20 nước tập trung uốn hoa và tỉa cành với các khung thép để biến chúng thành các tác phẩm nghệ thuật tài tình, sống động trên chiều dài 2, 2 km triển lãm.

Barn  Owl: Cú Lợn 

Cây Chim:  Tác phẩm điêu khắc khổng lồ này cao 40 bộ ( hơn 12 mét) và có thiết kế những cầu  đặc biệt cho người xem chụp ảnh dễ dàng. Mỗi cành tạo thành một con chim khác nhau. Cánh của kền kền ít nhất phải 8 feet ( hơn 2, 4 m)

Bird   Tree.  This huge sculpture is 40 feet high and they built  special high bridge at this end so people could take photographs more easily.  Every branch becomes a different bird. The wing span of the condor must be at least 8 feet.

Man who thinks he's Jesus (one of the many deterrants of Christ, in line with signs of the times)

Man who thinks he's Jesus... along with hundreds of young women who follow him across the world.

(one of the many deterrants of Christ, in line with the signs of the times)

By Sara Malm

• Inri Cristo, 66, from Brasilia, Brazil, believes he is a reincarnation of the son of God
• Cristo claims to have hundreds of followers, some who live at his 'church' compound
• In 35 years, he has travelled to 27 countries, been arrested 40 times and expelled from Britain and the US

A 66-year-old Brazilian man has spent 35 years preaching the word of God - because he believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus.

Inri Cristo has 'hundreds of followers' from around the world, including the UK, Britain and France, some of whom live with him at his 'church' compound outside Brasilia.

Since 1979 he has travelled for 27 countries to spread his word, however his controversial views has seen him expelled from the US, Britain and Venezuela.

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I am Jesus: Inri Cristo speaks to his disciples from one of his mobile pulpits at his church compound outside the capital of Brasilia They see me rollin', they hatin': When not giving sermons and tending to his flock at his Soust church, Inri Cristo likes to get around the grounds of his compound aboard his motor scooter Son of god: Inri - which is a Latin acronym that in English means 'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews', believes that the location of his 'church' is the 'New Jerusalem'

Jungle Girl

The REAL Mowgli: Incredible images of the little girl who spent the first ten years of her life growing up in the African bush

• Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degre was brought up with wild animals in Africa, is now 23 and lives in France 
• Made friends with an elephant, who she calls her brother, and a leopard
• Tippi was born in Namibia but travelled extensively with her photographer parents

By JILL REILLY

Heart-warming pictures of the real life Mowgli, a girl who spent the first ten years of her life growing up in the African bush, have been released for the first time.

The magical images chronicle the life of Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degre, who was brought up with wild animals, just like Rudyard Kipling's hero did in The Jungle Book.

The images in 'Tippi: My Book of Africa' - now being published worldwide for the first time - show the young girl making friends with an elephant, who she calls her brother, and a leopard, her best friend.

Real life Mowgli: Photos of Tippi, a girl who spent the first ten years of her life growing up in the African bush, have been released for the first time

Bond: Tippi aged 6 sitting on the back of Linda, a tamed ostrich in South Africa, left, and cradling two meerkats 

World's Ugliest Woman

How the 'World's Ugliest Woman' beat her bullies

Nadine Kalinauskas courtesy of Yahoo!Shine lifestylechannels

She is one of only three people born with an unusual genetic ailment that prevents her from gaining any weight, but now, Lizzie Velasquez is sharing her inspirational life story to inspire others Trends

When Lizzie Velasquez, 24, was in high school, she discovered an eight-second video online that featured a photo of her face. It called her the "world's ugliest woman" and had been viewed more than four million times.

What would have destroyed many only made Velasquez, who suffers from a very rare syndrome that prevents her from putting on weight and cost her the vision in one eye, stronger.

"Am I gonna let the people who called me a monster define me?...No. I'm gonna let my goals and my success and my accomplishments be the things that define me," she said.

She vowed to become a motivational speaker, an author and a college graduate.

Only a few years later, she is proudly all of the above.

At a recent TED Talk in Austin,TX, Velasquez shared her life story before asking the crowd, "What defines you?"

Despite her detractors, Lizzie has become a inspirational speaker, college graduate and author Photo: Getty

"For so long, I thought what defined me was my outer appearance," she told them, admitting that when she was younger, she woke up every day wanting to look different.

But thanks to her "amazing" support system, Velasquez found the strength to rise above the bullying and negative thoughts:

"My life is in my hands. I could either choose to make this really good or choose to make this really bad."

"The best way that I could get back at all those people who made fun of me…was to make myself better," she said, sharing how she chose to turn around the negative things and use them as a ladder to reach her goals.

Her message struck a chord. This morning, Velasquez wrote about the overwhelming response to her talk:

"Before I went to bed last night I thanked God for the INCREDIBLE messages of support and love I've been flooded with. I also prayed for the people who are hurting in their own lives and in turn take it out on me," she wrote on Facebook. "This morning when I woke up, my phone, email, twitter, YouTube, and Facebook were about to explode with love!! I've said it before and I'll say it again, THANK YOU! Thank you for believing in my message and thank you for helping me share my story."

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Earth's Toughest Spots

Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) ride out high surf on blue-ice icebergs near Candlemas Island in the South Sandwich Islands

 

For trees that grow on mountaintops near Cape Town, South Africa, wind can be a magnificent sculptor. Trees that can handle the wind's effects best will alter their shape to deal with the load of the wind.

Silhouetted by the sun, the Hand of Fatima rock formations near Hombori village stretch toward the sky in Mali. The tallest tower rises 2,000 feet (610 meters) from the desert floor. Lore has it that the formations' name stems from the five towers' resemblance to a hand from the sky.

Erosion's force becomes clear in these limestone cliffs in Port Campbell National Park, Australia. About five million years ago the area was a limestone plateau, but as sea levels rose the effects of surf and rain began to carve out these magnificent cliffs, along with stacks and arches

Bad Weather Background Wedding Photos

Through sickness, health, thunderstorms and blizzards: Couples turn bad weather into striking backdrops in romantic wedding photos

By MARGOT PEPPERS

Many couples would be disappointed if their wedding day coincided with bad weather, but some have used the dramatic scenery as a stunning backdrop for photos.

In a series of images compiled by the Huffington Post, rain, snow, thunderstorms and clouds provide the background for newlyweds' striking wedding images.

Whether they're ducking under umbrellas or fully embracing the elements, the bad weather doesn't stop these couples from showing how happy they are to embark on the rest of their lives together.

Through rain or shine: Many couples would be disappointed if their wedding day coincided with bad weather, but some have decided to use the dramatic scenery as stunning backdrops for photos

Snow big deal: Newlyweds Claire and Chris endure a blizzard in their enchanting wedding photo

In one of the photos, which was taken by Astoria, Oregon-based photographer Justin Grafton, a groom and his bride stand kissing in the rain under a green and white umbrella.

Rather than ruining the photo, the rain dropping around them merely heightens the romanticism of it, adding a shiny gleam to their surroundings.

Another newly married couple endure a blizzard in their loved-up wedding photo.

The image of Claire and Chris - photographed by Crystal Heis from Lexington, Kentucky - shows them huddled up together while snow blows all around them, making for a rather enchanting shot.

Bright horizon: A brewing thunderstorm provides the stunning background for one of the photos