Crazy Planet Called Earth

An optical illusion of Cat & Mouse

2010-06-04T04:09:00.000-07:00

An optical illusion of cat and mouse by Rene Milot.

IT IS ALL ABOUT FOOD AND STOP-MOTION

2010-06-03T03:40:00.000-07:00

Food about you - Annecy festival 2010 from Alexandre DUBOSC on Vimeo.

A stop-motion video promoting the 50th anniversary of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market. It was directed and developed by Alexandre Dubosc. It is simple and fun to watch!

A JOURNEY ACROSS URBAN SPACE

2010-06-03T03:37:00.000-07:00

Urban Abstract from Musuta on Vimeo.

Urban Abstract is a journey across urban space that unfolds in forty, 5 second parts. The journey, in one, two and three dimensions, is a bit like abstract surfing in which the original destination is only reached after a number of seemingly random yet linked detours occur. Points , lines, planes and other abstract elements create a journey through an Urban Abstract.

The space between things is as important as intended space, perhaps creating a fourth dimension. Meaningful shapes and purposes occur in this dimension’s reality as well. The concept of negative space has meaning here.

Nature plays a part as well. To be able to understand and differentiate what is urban one has understand what is nature.

The style of the shorts is fluid and, though seemingly random, stream into a cohesive whole. Perhaps watching them in a different order would be more like seeing the same journey from another point of view. The sound world is also very important — movement in space is sensed even if watching the shorts with eyes closed. Sounds overlap, fade, come and go.

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Sand, Earth and Ice Art - Simply Amazing

2010-03-28T10:02:00.000-07:00

Jim Denevan makes temporary drawings on sand earth and ice. These creations don't last long though, sadly they are eventually erased by waves and weather.

Super Chameleon

2010-02-19T03:46:00.000-08:00

The super chameleon shows his super camouflaging powers.

Amazing photo of camouflage art!

2010-02-14T06:11:00.000-08:00

An artist Liu Bolin, born in Shandon province, China uses paints and camera to create these amazing camouflage art. No photoshop or photography tricks are used in this illusion of Invisible man.

Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary

Three cheetahs spare tiny antelope's life... and play with him instead

2010-02-14T05:47:00.000-08:00

Hello little antelope, would you like to play with us?

Coming from three deadly cheetahs, it's the kind of invitation that's best refused - but amazingly, this impala escaped unscathed from its encounter.

Luckily for the youngster, it seems these three male cheetahs simply weren't hungry.

And that seems to be the secret to the antelope's survival, as it's likely it fell into the cheetahs' clutches when they were already full - and tired out - from an earlier hunt.

Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw.

'These three brothers have been living together since they left their mother at about 18 months old,' he said. 'On the morning we saw them, they seemed not to be hungry, walking quickly but stopping sometimes to play together.

'At one point, they met a group of impala who ran away. But one youngster was not quick enough and the brothers caught it easily.'

These extraordinary scenes followed, as the cheetahs played with the young impala the way a domestic cat might play with a ball of string.

'They knocked it down, but then they lost interest,' said Michel. 'For more than 15 minutes, they remained with the young antelope without doing anything other than licking it or putting their paws on the impala's head.'

Even more extraordinarily, this story has a happy ending - after one tense moment when it looked as though one cheetah would bite the impala on the neck, the youngster ran away.

Let's hope it didn't tell all its friends how nice those big, scarylooking cheetahs really are when you get to know them.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246886/Pictured-Three-cheetahs-spare-tiny-antelopes-life--play-instead.html#ixzz0fW9YsAhZ

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Hercules, the 900lb liger (Cross between Lion and Tiger)

2010-02-13T02:23:00.000-08:00

'Hercules is a prime example of hybrid vigour, which he gets from his lion father and his tigress mother,' said Dr Bhagavan 'Doc' Antle, the founder of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in South Carolina, who has brought up eight-year old Hercules since birth.

'The social side of his personality of course is inherited from his father and the pensive, observant nature is inherited from his mother. 'As a mixture of the world's largest two big cats, Hercules is an impressive specimen and a pretty well balanced and relaxed guy too.'

'Most people are aware in their everyday lives of the size of a double decker bus and they know how large that is.

'Now they can see that Hercules is larger than the black cab and can easily stretch his way to the top of a London bus.'

The Miniature Origami of Mui-Ling Teh

2010-02-11T10:23:00.000-08:00

Using only paper, scissors and tweezers, 23-year-old Mui-Ling Teh creates origami art that can only be appreciated when looked-at through a magnifying-glass.

The young architecture student started experimenting with the art of origami, when she was just nine years old. She would fold sweet wrappers into various shapes like birds, flowers of airplanes, and she practiced until they got smaller and smaller.

Now Mui-Ling Teh is able to create paper works-of-art that are only visible in magnified photographs. Her smallest work is just 2 mm long. Depending on how much experience she has with folding a specific model, Mui-Ling takes between 20 minutes and an hour to complete an origami piece.

The young Canadian dreams of turning her passion into a profession, but because her artworks are so tiny, there’s no way they can be exhibited in art galleries. For now, she has an online photo-gallery set up and she sells calendars of her petite origami, at herZazzle store.

Photos by Mui-Ling Teh/CATERS

via Telegraph.co.uk

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The Mysterious Sailing Stones of Death Valley

2010-02-11T03:00:00.000-08:00

Biggest mystery that a stone that weighs more or less like a man can move on its own. This is one of the famous puzzles for the past decade. The mysterious sailing stones of Death Valley have been discovered to slide over valleys that people do not live in. These valleys are filled with dry cracking muddy ground during summer and ice during winter. Many geologists have gone to all the places in Racetrack Playa and its surrounding to solve this mystery but still have failed to come up with a accurate answers.

The mysterious sailing stones of Death Valley slide on very smooth ground and leave a trail behind. Some geologists came up with the conclusion that the mysterious sailing stones of death valley move through the smooth ground when the mud is wet and the stones have little ice droplets on them with the help of the wind. However this is not entirely true because the stones move during the summer when the temperature is too high and even dries the stones themselves.The mysterious sailing stones of Death Valley not only slide on smooth ground but dig and leave shallow track in their wake.

The mysterious sailing stones of Death Valley are a magnificent phenomenon in the sense that they can take different turns around each other. This is mind challenging because the mysterious sailing stones of Death Valley start moving in a parallel direction.

As the years proceed, each stone takes its own different path. Some stones make linear turns others make oval turns while others create a wavy shape on their tracks. No one has ever seen them move and nobody knows the speed they move with. The mysterious sailing stones of Death Valley turn while they are sliding through the flat leveled valley and this leaves different tracks behind them. Some stones move further than others over two to five years.

Photo Realistic Painting - Imagine That! Painting of Tica by Dru Blair

2010-02-10T00:28:00.000-08:00

This painting started as an exercise for a portrait workshop Dru Blair taught in 2005. He took a digital photograph in my studio of a local model (Tica) with my Nikon Coolpix 8700, the goal was to work from reference that provided great lighting, good detail, and accurate skin tones.

There after he created this painting from Scratch, with amazing and accurate details.

Cat that can predict death

2010-02-09T23:59:00.000-08:00

SIXTH SENSE?

When Oscar was about six months old the staff noticed that he would curl up to sleep with patients who were about to die.

So far he has accurately predicted about 50 deaths.

Dosa recounts one instance when staff were convinced of the imminent death of one patient but Oscar refused to sit with that person, choosing instead to be on the bed of another patient down the hallway. Oscar proved to be right. The person he sat with died first, taking staff on the ward by surprise.

Dosa said there is no scientific evidence to explain Oscar's abilities, but he thinks the cat might be responding to a pheromone or smell that humans simply don't recognize.

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Beautiful Butterfly - True Art of Mother Nature!

2010-02-09T23:19:00.000-08:00

Transparent Winged Butterfly
Glasswing Butterfly (Greta Oto) is brush-footed butterfly with amazing transparent wings. True wonders of our "Crazy Planet Called Earth"

Adults range from Mexico through Panama. Greta Oto visits common flowers like lantana, but prefers to lay its eggs on plants of the tropical nightshade genus Cestrum. The red and purple striped caterpillars feed on these toxic plants and store the alkaloids in their tissues, making them distasteful to predators such as birds. They retain their toxicity in adulthood. The same alkaloids that make them poisonous also are converted into pheromones by the males, which use them to attract females.

Adults also exhibit a number of interesting behaviors, such as long migrations and lekking among males.

The Emerald Swallowtail (Papilio palinurus) is a butterfly found primarily in South East Asia and is one of the very few green butterflies around. It is also referred to as Emerald Peacock or Green-banded Peacock Swallowtail

source: http://en.wikipedia.org

Cool Tea Bags - Hanger Style!

2010-02-09T22:55:00.000-08:00

Well, these would certainly impress your guest and also get some laughs. Perhaps an Ice Breaker too.. right!

Yedi Houseware Classic Coffee and Tea Floral Espresso Cups and Saucers, Gold, Set of 6

Coconut Crab - Scariest crab in the world

2010-02-09T07:00:00.000-08:00

The world’s largest land-living Crab at up to 6ft and 30 lb, there’s no way one could ignore this remarkable crab. Their life of a typical coconut crab revolves around just that – nuts! (THANK GOD! Lol…) When young, they use the shells as temporary protection, later the coconut husk as bedding. And they love to crack the coconuts with their strong pincers to get to the delicacy inside.

Coconut crabs can reach a weight of 14 kg (30 lbs) – roughly the weight of a four-year-old child – they represent the upper extent of how big terrestrial animals with exoskeletons can become in today’s atmosphere. And given that they can also reach lengths of up to 1.8 m (6 ft), Now that is really very scary big!

Strangely coconut crabs cannot swim and therefore have no need to go underwater. Their antennae, made to trace smells over long distances, look more like the smelling organs of insects. Their excellent sense of smell works overtime whenever they detect any of their favourites – rotting meat (this part scares me though), bananas or coconuts.

First Miss India

2010-02-08T06:33:00.000-08:00

The year 1949, Pramila (Esther Abraham) is now 90 Years old. How Time Changes everyone... nothing remains the same!!!

Majestic Wonders of Earth

2010-02-08T06:31:00.000-08:00

Most Expensive iPhone Costing $3.2 Million (Rs. 14,40,00,000)

2010-02-08T05:27:00.001-08:00

This exclusive iPhone 3GS Supreme features nearly 200 diamonds and the casing is made using 271 grams of 22 carat solid gold. The front bezel houses 136 flawless diamonds a massive 68 carats. The apple logo on the back uses futher 53 gems!!!!

Here is the BEST PART: The front navigation button is made using A SINGLE DIAMOND OF MORE THEN SEVEN CARATS!!!!