Ice & Snow Sculptures

These ice & snow sculptures were created for International Ice & Snow festival held in Harbin.

The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1963. Officially, the festival starts from January 5th and lasts one month. However often the exhibitions open earlier and last longer, weather permitting. Ice sculpture decoration ranges from the modern technology of lasers to traditional ice lanterns. There are ice lantern park touring activities held in many parks in the city. The Harbin festival is one of the world's four largest ice and snow festivals, along with Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada's Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway's Ski Festival.













































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How To Make Cardboard Furniture!

Inexpensive yet durable is this cardboard furniture & above all its eco-friendly too. It can be made to support the weight of a person. So what's that stopping you from making it from cardboard boxes? Lets get started & make something useful & stylish.

Table

In a few simple steps Carol Duvall makes this table, which is four feet high, with a circular top four feet wide.

Materials needed:
"heavy corrugated cardboard cut to the following dimensions:
4' X 4' for tabletop
two 4' X 3 1/2' for legs
tack
string
pencil".
Here are the steps how to make it: Link.

Chair

This chair can withstand an adult's weight quite easily even without using lamination. "The corrugated cardboard construction has a warmth and softness not obtained from wood".
Here is a brief guide & photographs that describes how to make a chair, & a diagram of how to cut out the parts.
Link.

Kids Furniture

How about kids making some cardboard furniture? Here is this site, which will be of help: foldschool, it has downloadable patterns to get you started. But do remember to help the kids with the cutting of some cardboard & all.
Foldschool: Link.

Coffee table

There is this coffee table "Chubb" coffee table. "The top is four sheets cross-glued, with the bottom two sheets cut out for the legs. It's stable enough for me to sit on! I designed it to go with the low sofa/futon we bought, but once put together, it reminds me of those traditional chabu-dai (low, portable dining tables for small meals) I used to see on television dramas in Japan".
More details: Link.

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Bubbles In Bubbles

She made bubbles in bubbles! Right? What kind of gum is that & how many pieces of gum is she chewing?
Many questions but no answers.
But few things are for certain:
For sure its coolest thing we have seen in for about sometime.
That must be a lots of gum.
On the second thought, do you think its real?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40E_DM_bWg">Watch Girl Making A Bubble Video on Youtube</a>

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Metro Stations.

Who says metro stations or subways had to be uninteresting? If you thought so, have a look at these stations!

Petersburg

Petersburg Metro.

Balti Journal-Petersburg metro station.



Avtovo.

Kirovskiy Zavod.

Narvskaya.

Pushkinskaya.

Vladimirskaya.

Petersburg Metro, "it all started with eight stations : from "Square uprising" to "Avtovo", which to this day is one of the most beautiful stations. Today CAF subway consists of 59 working stations connected four lines. In addition to these 59 stations has one built but unused station ( "Admiralty"), and a number of stations (fifth line), the construction of which started, but now hardly any".

Paris

Entrance of station "Cite" (Art Nouveau from H. Guimard).

RATP Paris Cité.

Metro station Chatelet (line 14, fully automated).

Gare de Lyon & metro number 14.

Metro station "Cité".

Metro station Chaussée d'Antin - Lafayette.



Montparnasse station.

Lazare subway station.

Michel Station.

Gare de Lyon station.

The Paris Metro system, which has become one of the symbols of Paris, is notable for the density of its network in central Paris, and for its homogeneous architectural style, influenced by Art Nouveau.

Moscow



Ground lobby located on Arbatskaya Square.

Landing station platform(Paveletskaya1950).

Central hall (Paveletskaya 1990).

Central hall (Paveletskaya 2000)

Kiev Station.

Komsomolskaya station.

Station Square.

Kievskaya station.

Ceiling Komsomolskaya station. Komsomolskaya is a station on the Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro, the most opulent in a system known for its palatial stations.

Moscow metro "impress everybody, who appears there first time. It is a unique monument of architecture of "Stalin's empire style" and Soviet history".

Update: Thanks to Sanjuro for helping us with some corrections in Paris Metro System.

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Car Art On Roadsides.

We can't think of a single day without the use of automobiles, as it's an integral part of our lives. These cars have even become an indicator of our status symbol.
Many a times we have seen them adorned with artwork, but this is something which we are going to love where the cars itself are used to create this unique form of art on roadsides.

Carhenge & Car Art Reserve.

Carhenge. Near Alliance, Nebraska (on highway 87, not 385 as the billboards suggested).

The Four Seasons.

The Ranch, Conway.

Looking east from the Cadillac Ranch.

18 wheeler truck on its nose.

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Magnificent Horses

These photos are just beautiful & what is to be said about the horses? They are just magnificent in their looks, elegant in their walk, and graceful in their stride. It's really a hard task to decide which is better, the photos or the horses or is it the combination of these two, which is making all the difference.
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Author of this work is Wojtek Kwiatkowski & his official site is kawalkada.zin.pl.

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Hole Punch Art.

Take a look at this unique form of art created by Steven Nicholson studying Graphic communications with typography at Plymouth University in the United Kingdom.

How about if you laser cut the holes instead of printing them?
He states, "using a laser cutter won't have the same effect and a uniform sequence of holes will look too mechanical".

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Beautiful Photographs

These interesting photos are taken by Andreï Arshinov. Though much is not known about this photographer but it can be seen, his photographs are really excellent. This guy looks really talented & maybe in short future we may come across his latest work, which we are sure will be more interesting.













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Food Sculpture

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Butter sculpture.


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Butter & chocolate Cow.


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Butter sculpture of Milk, Moms, Mornings.

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The BraBall.

The BraBall, by Emily Duffy.













This remarkable, collaborative sculpture can be seen at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. It's on display in the James Rouse Visionary Center at AVAM.
Some facts:
As of November 9, 2003 (finishing day):
Total Bras on BraBall = 18,085
Height = 60 Inches (5 feet)
Estimated Weight = Over 1,800 Pounds.

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Swastika In A Pine Forest

This photo of 60 x 60 meter swastika that consisted of Larch trees in a Pine forest near the village of Zernikow (110 km Northeast of Berlin) was taken on November 14, 2000.

"It was only visible from the air a few weeks in the Spring and a few weeks in the Fall when Larch trees stood out in contract to the surrounding Pine trees.

These trees were planted in the 1930's by a local resident during Nazi times. They were largely forgotten until after the German reunification in 1992 when planes once again flew over the area.

Local forestry officials cut down 25 of the Larch trees after this photo appeared in several German tabloids".

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