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Top 10 of 2013 Weird Google Street View Pictures

2013-12-30T00:40:00.003-08:00

Google Street View is close to filming just about every major road in the world and, by now, people recognize the vehicle as it makes its pass.

Naturally, that means that there is more "staging" going on.

"Hey! The Google Street View Mobile is in town! Let's do something crazy!" is the new mantra.

Hence, the photo above which is a phony setup. Why else would two guys dressed in full scuba gear be running down the block?

But, occasionally, GSV still catches some bizarre, totally weird and unintentional images that just happen to be going on as the GSV mobile goes by.

So, here's a collection of the Top 10 Weird Google Street View Images of 2013 which seem to qualify as totally spontaneous.

Here Kitty!

Check out those boots!

Maybe Mommy has enough leather bags?

Apparently, street walking is thirsty work...

If the van is a-rockin', don't come a-knockin!

Where's my bear bat?

It's either a prison breakout or he's heading home after a tough day at the meth lab...

Now, where did I put that tire iron?

Did Leslie say yes?

Women Eye Makeup Art

2013-12-18T09:31:00.001-08:00

We can't believe we can make a art with makeup.This women eye makeup art made by Tal Peleg.Professional Israeli makeup artist Tal Peleg, however has elevated ritual into an art form.Her eye makeup designs go far beyond a simple touch up each is a miniature work of art in its own right.Some look like they might be a bit uncomfortable to wear, but others might go well with certain fancy outfits.Peleg who went to school for makeup,uses her own creative vision as well as the model's own eye lashes and brows to create her creative and cute paintings.

Awesome Skeletan Art

2013-12-18T09:25:00.002-08:00

The Awesome skeletan art series of photography taken by Luxembourg g-born photographer Patrick Gries successfully blurs the boundaries between art and scinece, offering an atypical to viewing the evolution of animal.This art is made like a evolution of humans and animal awesome art make it's look like real skeletan but it is not real it is an art made in black screen.Evolution is not only about photography! with the texts written by scientist and documentarian Dr.Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu, this book belong both to the realm of art as well as science.

Modular Smartphones

2013-11-04T00:45:00.003-08:00

Innovative phone designed by Dave Hakkens is made out of detachable and easily replaceable blocks.

Modular smartphones can be customized and upgraded with latest parts.

Users will be able to add new camera, faster processor, and more storage space without the need to replace the actual phone.

Dave Hakkens teamed up with Motorola for development of Phonebloks.

Scotch Tape Pictures

2013-11-04T00:40:00.002-08:00

Creative photo series by talented photographer Wes Naman features people with scotch taped faces.

SNOW HOTELS

2012-06-03T11:50:00.000-07:00

Check into the Hotel de Glace and put all your worries on ice for the night. In fact, you’ll be on ice for the night; the beds, furniture, and just about everything else are made of ice at this unique hotel just 10 minutes from downtown Quebec. There are many different room styles available to suit guest’s individual tastes. The original Hôtel de Glace rooms are small, but cozy, while the Premium Deluxe theme suites are equipped with a fireplace, private spa, ice sculptures, and artistic lighting. If your room doesn’t come with a spa, don’t worry: there are plenty for you to thaw out in over at the outdoor Nordic relaxation area.

Hotel Kakslauttanen offers igloo accommodations just like the above resorts, but not only in snow form. Besides the classic ice-block igloo, this hotel in Finnish Lapland also features glass igloos that allow you to star-gaze throughout the night. Even though the igloos are located 155 miles north of the Arctic Circle, you don’t have to worry about shivering the whole night through.

The owners of SnowHotel Kirkenes want to teach their guests that snow can be our friend. Like the other snow hotels on the list, the icy accommodations here reveal the amazing insulating powers of snow. The owners also want to show their guests the artistic potential of ice. Each of the 20 snow suites feature different themed sculptures and decorations created by artists from Harbin, China, which is world-famous for its ice artisans.

This is the ice hotel which started it all over twenty years ago. Icehotel of Jukkasjärvi, Sweden has garnered much international attention over the years for its breakthrough in ice construction, such as the very first Absolut IceBar and the Tron-themed room created for the 2010-2011 winter season. Today, it is the world’s largest ice and snow resort with 5,500 square meters of frozen lodgings guaranteed to provide a good night’s rest at -5ºC.

The V8 Car Hotels

2012-06-03T11:43:00.000-07:00

The V8 Hotel, just in case you were wondering, has nothing to do with the vegetable juice: we’re talking about beefy, eight-cylinder engines. This is a hotel designed for all the car fanatics in Germany, as well as the world at large. If you fall into this category, perhaps you’ve had a car you love so much that you’ve been tempted to sleep in it. Well, here at the V8 Hotel in Stuttgart, Germany, you get to do just that, but with much more comfort than you’ll find in most performance vehicles.

Altogether, the hotel has 34 car-themed rooms; but some of them are more elaborately decorated than others. The basic rooms are nothing to complain about though. In fact, if you prefer the Bauhaus aesthetic, they’re perfect for you. These spacious white rooms are simply, but tastefully furnished, which highlights a historic car-related photo that covers an entire wall.

If you want more than just a photo of cars, then you should reserve one of the ten fully decked-out rooms. As we hinted at earlier, the beds in some of these rooms are made out of real cars. Each of these rooms is thoroughly decorated according to an automotive theme, such as the drive-in cinema, route 66, the car wash, and the race track. The drive-in room (pictured at top), for example, features a long red Cadillac bed and a mural that depicts other cars lined up for the film, as well as a night sky overhead. Over at the Route 66 room, the bed is set under a canopy tent, while the walls and ceiling portray a desert scene. And of course all the mechanics out there will want to check into the auto shop room where they’ll sleep comfortably among many tools and car parts.

THE LIFE OF A HAMSTER AT THIS FRENCH HOTEL

2012-06-03T11:36:00.000-07:00

Here’s one of the more unusual projects we’ve come across in a while – and trust us, we come across some pretty far-out ideas on a regular basis. What we have for you today is La Villa Hamster in Nantes, France. Even though this might sound like a pampered retreat for your pet hamster, we assure you it is quite the opposite: the guests at this themed hotel are all human. What makes this hotel experience so unusual is that the rooms are designed like hamster cages, complete with running wheel and water spout.

There seems to be more than just an interest in seeing a strange place drawing visitors to this customized 18th century villa in Nantes. The appeal of this hotel experience appears to be the transformation from one’s ordinary self into something entirely different. At the same time, there is a sense of familiarity for those who have raised hamsters as pets. How many times have we looked at our dog, cat, or hamster and wondered what it would be like to live life in their shoes (or paws)? Or wished that we could trade in our complicated lives for the simple life of our pet after a particularly stressful day. La Villa Hamster gives us the opportunity to finally answer questions such as these and herein lies the appeal of the hotel.

Most guests are familiar with the habits of hamsters and know exactly how to behave once they check into their rooms. Apparently, some guests even take to all fours during their stay at La Villa Hamster. If you prefer to walk upright, but still want to feel more like a hamster, you can throw on one of the cute hamster hoods provided by the hotel. Inside the rooms, guests will find all the standard fixtures of a hamster cage. A human-sized running wheel is affixed to one wall and doubles as the dinning area when a table is inserted between the crossbars. As far as dinner goes, your meal of organic grains is served inside a plastic feed bowl. You then wash your grains down with water from a spout activated by a foot petal. And when it’s time to turn in for the night, you’ll climb up to the loft where your bed of hay awaits.

As funny as this all sounds, Falquerho and Tabary are on to something. The hotel has received nothing but positive responses since it opened in 2009. Having met with such success in their hamster-themed venture, the duo is now looking into opening other animal-themed hotel experiences, starting with cats and dogs.

UNDERWATER HOTEL IN DUBAI

2012-06-03T11:32:00.000-07:00

While this underwater hotel in Dubai is still a long ways off from taking reservations, the concept art alone has been enough to create quite a buzz throughout the blogosphere. This is not too surprising as underwater projects never fail to fascinate the public; there’s something about the idea of living under the sea that is endlessly enchanting. We’ve already put together a list of amazing underwater restaurants, but we’ve yet to see an underwater hotel. Although we’ve heard about many extravagant projects planned for Dubai that never come through, we’d love to see something like this come to fruition some day.

The Water Discus Hotel, named after the shape of both its underwater and above-water structures, was designed by Poland’s Deep Ocean Technology, who also specialize in underwater vehicles and deep-sea exploration equipment. Construction of the hotel will be completed by Dubai-based Drydocks World, while financing will come from Switzerland’s BIG InvestConsult. The Water Discus Hotel isn’t the only underwater hotel in the works, but it might be the first to actually be built. Another underwater hotel called Hydropolis was planned for Dubai back in 2006, yet the $300 million project never broke ground. Over in Fiji, the Poseidon Underwater Resort is under construction, but it keeps running into delays and the completion date is unknown. Hopefully everyone behind the Water Discus Hotel has learned from the problems encountered by these previous projects and apply those lessons to this latest attempt at an underwater hotel.

As you can see in the concept drawings, the hotel looks like something out of the Jetsons. Above the water, a disc shaped structure will be home to a swimming pool, spa, and garden. However, all 21 rooms will be in another disc 10 meters below the surface. As you would imagine, the rooms will feature incredible views of the ocean through an entire wall of windows. While architect Pawel Podwojewski tried as hard as possible to keep construction costs down, potential guests will be glad to know that he didn’t skimp on the acrylic windows, which are the most expensive element in the project. He was able to keep costs relatively low by adhering to a simple design and not affixing the disc to the ocean floor.

The underwater disc will actually be able to move up and down a central pillar, which will come in handy for a couple of reasons. The first is safety. In the case of an emergency, the disc can be brought up to the surface in 15 minutes where it will be much easier to evacuate guests. The speed at which the disc moves up-and-down is adjustable, so if it needs to be brought up for repairs, it will move at a much more leisurely rate, taking as long as 12 hours to breach the surface.

Well, those are the few details we have so far. Whether or not this is just another Dubai pipe dream, we can’t say for sure. However, we get the feeling that it won’t be too long before we start to see the hotel industry head beneath sea.

Dangerous Thunderstorms Lightning

2012-06-03T11:25:00.000-07:00

Thunderstorms are an elusive phenomenon that rarely cooperate with a photographer. Not only that, but most storms won't come to you - you'll have to go to them.Here are some photos catching the beauty of lightning.

Dangerous Snake

2012-06-03T11:17:00.000-07:00

Housing a snake that is quick, intelligent, and deadly, as well as over 12 feet long, can be challenging. When kept, they usually are given their own enclosures, one pair per enclosure. Commonly enclosures are at least 5 feet wide by 10 feet long and tall enough for a person to stand and maneuver during maintenance. At least one lockable hide box or switchbox is essential, but this species often refuses to be goaded into entering a box. Ventilation is a must, as is a large tub of water for humidity and bathing. Keep the temperature in the range of 85 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, dropping a few degrees at night. Some specimens spray liquid feces over all surfaces daily, so keeping the enclosure clean is difficult and dangerous.

Many king cobras refuse to eat in captivity, but those that do will take several large rats or rabbits a week and also any dead snakes that can be found. A large male is recorded eating over 5 pounds of rats and snakes in a single week.

King cobras are much too dangerous to be kept by individuals without proper training. They are notorious escape artists, and their bite can kill an adult human in 15 minutes under rare circumstances.

Burning London Fireplace Screens

2012-06-03T09:42:00.000-07:00

Unusual firescreens, made of laser cut metal, look like iconic silhouettes of famous cities: London and Rome.

Clever fire shields were inspired by the Great Fires of 1666 and 64 AD.

Largest Deserts in the World

2012-06-03T08:01:00.000-07:00

There are largest deserts in the world. A desert is a landscape

or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Deserts can also be described as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration

than falls as precipitation.

Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico

The Chihuahuan Desert is a largest deserts that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border in the central and northern portions of the Mexican Plateau, bordered on the west by the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range, and overlaying northern portions of the east range, the Sierra Madre Oriental. This largest deserts has an area of about 140,000 square miles. It is the third largest desert of the Western Hemisphere and is second largest in North America, after the Great Basin Desert.

Great Basin Desert, USA

The basin extends into Mexico and covers most of Nevada and over half of Utah, as well as parts of California, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming. The majority of the watershed is in the North American Desert ecoregion, but includes areas of the Forested Mountain and Mediterranean California ecoregions. The Great Basin includes several metropolitan areas and Shoshone Great Basin tribes.

Great Victoria Desert, Australia

The Great Victoria Desert is a barren, arid, and sparsely populated desert ecoregion in southern Australia. It falls inside the states of South Australia and Western Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grasslands and salt lakes. It is over 700 kilometres (430 mi) wide (from west to east) and covers an area of 424,400 square kilometres (163,900 sq mi).

Patagonia Desert, Argentina

The Patagonian Desert, also known as the Patagonia Desert or the Patagonian Steppe, is the largest desert in America and is the 7th largest desert in the world by area, occupying 260,000 square miles (673,000 km). It is located primarily in Argentina with small parts in Chile and is bounded by the Andes, to its west, and the Atlantic Ocean to its east, in the region of Patagonia, southern Argentina.

Kalahari Desert, Southern Africa

The Kalahari Desert is a large arid to semi-arid sandy area in Southern Africa extending 900,000 square kilometers (350,000 sq), covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa, as semi-desert, with huge tracts of excellent grazing after good rains. The Kalahari Desert is the southern part of Africa, and the geography is a portion of desert and a plateau. The Kalahari supports some animals and plants because most of it is not a true desert.

Gobi Desert, Mongolia / N.E China

This largest deserts covers parts of northern and northwestern China, and of southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Hexi Corridor and Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast. he Gobi is most notable in history as part of the great Mongol Empire, and as the location of several important cities along the Silk Road.

Arabian Desert, peninsula

Arabian Desert or Eastern Desert, c.86,000 sq mi (222,740 sq km), E Egypt, bordered by the Nile valley in the west and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez in the east. It extends along most of Egypt’s eastern border and merges into the Nubian Desert in the south. The Arabian Desert is sparsely populated; most of its inhabitants are based around wells and springs.

Sahara Desert, North Africa

The Sahara is the world’s largest deserts. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe. The desert stretches from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel: a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna that comprises the northern region of central and western Sub-Saharan Africa.

Largest Deserts The Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada,Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treelesspermafrost. The area can be defined as north of the Arctic Circle (66° 33′N), the approximate limit of the midnight sun and the polar night.

Largest Deserts Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in theAntarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.0 million km2 (5.4 million sq mi), it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages at least 1 mile (1.6 km) in thickness. Antarctica is the largest deserts in the world.

The Largest Deer in the World

2012-06-03T07:45:00.000-07:00

Moose are the largest deer of all the deer species. Males are immediately recognizable by their huge antlers, which can spread 6 feet (1.8 meters) from end to end. Moose have long faces and muzzles that dangle over their chins. A flap of skin known as a bell sways beneath each moose’s throat.

Moose are distinguished by the palmateantlers

of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a dendritic (“twig-like”) configuration. Moose typically inhabit boreal and mixed deciduous forests of the Northern Hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climates. This largest deer used to have a much wider range but hunting and other human activities greatly reduced it over the years.

Moose as the largest deer have been re-introduced to some of their former habitats. Their diet consists of both terrestrial and aquatic vegetation. The most common moose predators are wolves, bears, and humans. Unlike most other deer species, this largest deer are solitary animals and do not form herds. Although generally slow-moving and sedentary, moose can become aggressive and move surprisingly fast if angered or startled. Their mating season in the autumn can lead to spectacular fights between males competing for the right to mate with a particular female.

Moose are so tall that they prefer to browse higher grasses and shrubs because lowering their heads to ground level can be difficult. In winter the largest deer eat shrubs and pinecones, but they also scrape snow with their large hooves to clear areas for browsing on mosses and lichens. These hooves also act as snowshoes to support the heavy animals in soft snow and in muddy or marshy ground.

Moose are similarly nimble on land. They can run up to 35 miles (56 kilometers) an hour over short distances, and trot steadily at 20 miles (32 kilometers) an hour. Females give birth to one or two calves in the spring, each weighing some 30 pounds (14 kilograms). These calves grow quickly and can outrun a person by the time they are just five days old. Young of the largest deer or moose stay with their mothers until the following mating season.

New Smart Phone

2012-06-03T07:38:00.000-07:00

Best smartphones have become incredibly advanced, with multicore processors and cameras that almost make us want to abandon our point-and-shoot cameras for good. Here gathered together the best of the best, with any carrier. Let’s see the top 10 best smartphones of 2012.

Smallest Animals in the World

2012-06-03T07:31:00.000-07:00

Small Animals make excellent pets and companions for people of all ages. They entertain us for hours, surprise us with their intelligence and connect us with nature.Below is list of 10 smallest animals in the world.

Cat: 15.5 cm (6.1-inch) high and 49 cm (19.2-inch) long

Meet Mr. Peebles. He lives in central Illinois, is two years old, weighs about three pounds and is the world’s smallest cat! The cat’s small stature was verified by the Guinness Book of World Records on 2004.

10. Cattle: 81 cm (31-inch) height

The world’s smallest cattle is a rare breed of an Indian zebu called the Vechur cow. The average height of this breed of cattle is 31 to 35 inches (81 to 91 cm). The photo above shows a 16 year old Vechur cattle as compared to a 6 year old HF cross-breed cow.

Horse: 43.18 cm (17-inch) tall

The little horse was born to Paul and Kay Goessling, who specialize in breeding miniature horses, but even for the breed Thumbelina is particularly small: she is thought to be a dwarf-version of the breed. At just 60 lb and 17-inch tall, the five-year-old Thumbelina is the world’s smallest horse.

Lizard: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long

So small it can curl up on a dime or stretch out on a quarter, a typical adult of the species, whose scientific name is Sphaerodactylus ariasae is only about 16 millimeters long, or about three quarters of an inch, from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail. It shares the title of “smallest” with another lizard species named Sphaerodactylus parthenopion, discovered in 1965 in the British Virgin Islands.

Seahorse: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long

The creature, known as Hippocampus denise, is typically just 16 millimetres long – smaller than most fingernails. Some were found to be just 13 mm long. H. denise lives in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, between 13 and 90 metres beneath the surface.

Chameleon: 1.2 cm (0.5-inch) long

The Brookesia Minima is the world’s smallest species of chameleon. This one is just half an inch. Found on the rainforest floor of Nosy Be Island off the north-west coast of Madagascar, females tend to be larger than males.

Fish: 7.9 mm (0.3-inch) long

On January 2006, the world’s smallest animal, fish was discovered on the Indonesian island of Sumatra: a member of the carp family of fish, the Paedocypris progenetica. It is the world’s smallest vertebrate or backboned animal; only 7.9 mm (0.3 inches) long.

Snake: 10.1 cm (4-inch) long

Leptotyphlops carlae is the world’s smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length. Found on the Caribbean island of Barbados, the species –which is as thin as a spaghetti noodle and small enough to rest comfortably on a U.S. quarter– was discovered by Blair Hedges.

Snake Bite

2012-06-03T07:09:00.000-07:00

Reptile tamer Peter Morningstar has some trouble with a ten foot carpet snake. Peter was called to remove the 15 lb monster from a roof in Brisbane, Australia. The snake turned nasty and sunk its fangs in his face. That's one way to remove a snake. I know Australians can be tough, but I might have tried some other tools first. Luckily the python is nonvenomous and usually kills by squeezing its prey to death.

Snakes generally bite humans on the hands or feet because, well, that is what is available. Most snake bites are from non-poisonous snakes. Among poisonous snakes, there are four major types of venom depending on the snake family.

What should you look out for? It all depends on what country or region you live or wherever you have decided to go for a hike, etc. For example, twenty-five species of poisonous snake live in the United States, and at least one type can be found in every state except Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii. Pit vipers, which include rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths, cause 99 percent of poisonous bites in the United States. Coral snakes cause the other 1 percent. In Panama pit vipers are the cause of a good majority of bites. Worldwide, about 15 percent of all snake species are poisonous to humans.

Especially scary are venoms that are neurotoxins that can cause damage to the spinal cord, brain and even cause people to stop breathing.

See here for more about snake venom and snake bite first aid.

Any snake bite should receive emergency medical care because many people do not know what species of snake bit them, and even non-poisonous snakes can cause infection or an allergic reaction. Each year, between 4,000 and 7,000 people are treated for snake bites in emergency rooms in the United States, with the most bites being reported in North Carolina. Men are bitten about nine times more often than women. Between 1988 and 2008, only 97 deaths in the United States were caused by snake bites.

Globally, some people estimate claim there are more than 100,000 deaths from snake bites each year. A good deal of these occur in tropical regions where a healthy snake population borders agricultural land and human and snake too frequently encounter each other when they would rather not.

Dubai Tallest Buildings

2012-06-03T02:29:00.000-07:00

Simple Mehndi Designs

2012-06-03T02:23:00.000-07:00

Tattoo Tribal

2012-06-03T02:15:00.001-07:00

Underwater House In Dubai

2012-06-03T02:08:00.000-07:00

17 Creative Hot Air Balloons

2012-06-02T10:10:00.000-07:00

Paper Art

2012-06-02T09:32:00.000-07:00

Danish artist Peter Callesen transforms flat sheets of white paper into unique three-dimensional artworks and sculptures.

The Biggest Whale In The World

2012-06-02T02:13:00.000-07:00

By considerable measure, the largest known animal on Earth is the blue whale. Mature blue whales can measure anywhere from 75 feet (23 m) to 100 feet (30.5 m) from head to tail, and can weigh as much as 150 tons (136 metric tons). That's as long as an 8- to 10-story building and as heavy as about 112 adult male giraffes! These days, most adult blue whales are only 75 to 80 feet long; whalers hunted down most of the super giants. Female blue whales generally weigh more than the males. The largest blue whale to date is a female that weighed 389,760 pounds (176,792 kg).

The Biggest Dog In The World

2012-06-02T01:30:00.000-07:00