The Fab WebThe Fab Web

30 Car Photos of the Month – April 21st to May 20th, 2013

Monika — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:59 +0000

1.Lady in red - Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale

2.Aston Martin Vanquish

3.Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda

4.Lamborghini Sesto Elemento

5.1976 Shelby Mustang GT500

6.Design Vision GTI: R8+Golf

7.Black on Black SLR McLaren 722

8.McLaren F1

9.Ferrari 599XX Evoluzione

10.R32, R33, R34, and R35

11.Maserati GranTurismo S

12.Wet Black Aventador

13.2014 Porsche Cayman

14.Audi R8 shooting flames

15.Gorgeous Scuderia F430

16.Datsun 240z

17.2013 Subaru WRX Concept

18.Von Ryan McLaren MP4-12C

19.Pagani Huayra. Carporn at it's best.

20.Ferrari Pininfarina P4/5

21.The Beautiful Infiniti Essence Concept

22.Bare Naked Ultima GTR

23.Lotus Evora Enduro GT3. Sexy as hell.

24.A old 911 Turbo

25.Peugeot 208 pikes peak

26.BMW M1 sliding a hairpin

27.Chrome Blue Ferrari F40 LM

28.Toyota Supra

29.Maserati MC12

30.1969 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500

26 Best Book Pictures of the Month – April 20th to May 19th, 2013

Monika — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:21:32 +0000

1.Pages From a Gaelic Manuscript ca. 1931

2.Principia Mathematica - 1st Edition

3.One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world. Selexyz Dominicanen, Maastricht - The Netherlands

4.Discovered in a peat bog, and now conserved, and on display, The Faddan More Psalter, a 9th century book of psalms (as it was discovered)

5.German Bible - 1889

6.First page of the oldest known manuscript of Beowulf, dating to the tenth or early 11th c, now in the British Library. It was nearly lost in the Ashburnham House fire in 1731, when it was still the only existing copy

7.Complete Walt Whitman 1902 Vol. 1-4

8.Annotated Horace's works, printed in 1570 by Aldus Manutius's son. Found in a flea market...

9.Edward S. Curtis' The North American Indian, which sold at auction for $902,500.

10.1885 Edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare

11.Modest as it is, my bookshelf is one of my most prized possessions. I hope you approve!

12.Picked these up at a thrift shop today, old books from the 1800's - Album in comments

13."The Medici", in Extra-Gilt, On-laid Fine Morocco Bindings. More Pics with Descriptions in Comments

14.Masonic Handbook from 1911

15.Qurans in Rustem Pasha Camii, Istanbul, Turkey

16.Personal library

17.Lorsch Gospels

18.Milton's "Poetical Works", 1843: Over-the-Top Gold Tooled American (NY) Bindings, with Fore Edge Paintings and over 200 Onlays, executed ca. 1919. w/More Pics in Comments

19.Best Book

20.Psychology manual from 1895

21.The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone [1874]

22.Here's Another Binding: "Romantic California", 1910; More Photos in the Comments, with a Detail Showing how a Binding Design is made up of Numerous Tools

23.A Matched Pair of Heavily-Tooled Book Bindings, in the Derome Style, from my Collection of N.Y. Book Bindings ca. 1890

24.Dickens' Great expectations. Phenomenal find from the late 20th century.

25. United States Geological and Geographical Survey [1878] [PBA Galleries]

26.The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with dedication written in 1893 [1859]

30 Best Art Pictures of the Month – April 19th to May 18th, 2013

Monika — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:24:19 +0000

1.Bruce Pennington – Beyond This Horizon

2.Giuseppe Arcimboldo - The Librarian

3."The Burning Giraffe" by Salvador Dali, 1937

4.Richard Serra - 7 (2011) at the Museum of Islamic Art Park, Doha, Qatar

5.Edvard Munch - At the Roulette Table in Monte Carlo

6."Nøkken", Theodor Kittelsen (1904)

7.Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X - Francis Bacon (1953)

8."The Drowned" - Vasily Perov, 1867

9.Phallic symbol depicted on a house in Bhutan

10.Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95 Photo by Wolfgang Volz

11."Old Burgtheater in Vienna" - Gustav Klimt

12."A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)" - Jeff Wall, 1993

13."The Temptation of Saint Hilarion" - Octave Tassaert, 1857

14."Melancholy" - Edgar Degas, 1874

15."Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361" by by the Swedish romantic painter Carl Gustaf Hellqvist, 1882.

16."Big Self-Portrait" - Chuck Close, acrylic on canvas, 1968

17.Sea Serpents, Gustav Klimt, 1907

18."Thor's battle with the giants" painting by Mårten Eskil Winge (1872)

19.Lucian Freud, Reflection (Self Portrait) 1985

20."The Bookworm" by Carl Spitzweg

21.Davide Balliano, Untitled, ink on book paper

22.Apex Predator- Fantich Young

23."Young Woman with Unicorn" by Raphael, 1506

24."Stańczyk" - Jan Matejko, 1862

25.Mexican artist Rogelio Evangelista's sand sculpture

26."Portrait of Andries Stilte II" - Kehinde Wiley, 2006

27.zdzislaw beksinski 1984 - untitled

28.Franz Marc - The Fate of the Animals 1913

29."After Troy 10" - Pieter Schoolwerth, 2012

30.Favela Painting, Rio de Janeiro

30 Best Animal Pictures of the Month – April 18th to May 17th, 2013

Monika — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:29 +0000

1.Patience paid off for the Heron

2.First Cicada on The East Coast

3.A German Squirrel

4.A driftwood of diligence

5.Great Egret, Florida

6.A cold sheep

7.Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus)

8.Eastern Screech Owl

9.Cicada Up Close and Awfully Personal

10.Painted Turtle

11.Oriental Pied Hornbills (Anthracoceros albirostris)

12.My grandmother's cautious cats

13.White-tail stopping for a drink

14.European Starling

15.Flawless Bush Viper

16.Zebra (Equus quagga)

17.Slender Mongoose (Galerella sanguinea) in Prague Zoo, Czech Republic

18.Sulcata Giant Tortoise with 45 Hatchlings

19.Had a visitor on my balcony. Accipiter cooperii

20.Magpie (Pica pica)

21.Noordelijke Witwangdwergooruil, Nothern White-Faced Owl

22.A Norwegian Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos

23.Indian Bull Frog

24.Tortoise

25.White-tail in Acadia National Park

26.A juvenile Bald Eagle takes flight

27.A marmot cooling off on a hot summer day at Mount Rainier National Park

28.Panthera leo

29.African Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)

30.Sharing the forest

17 Best Agriculture Pictures of the Month – April 17th to May 16th, 2013

Monika — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:25:52 +0000

1.Farmland in the Altai Mountains, in East-Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together photo by Alex Kachurin

2. Flowering fruit trees in Switzerland

3. Harvesting salt in the Little Rann of Kutch in western Gujarat, India

4.A farmer walks through rows of tobacco crops at a farm in Batac town, Ilocos norte province, Philippines

5.During the Soviet era, hedges were planted into the Kazakh steppe in an attempt to convert it into farmland

6.A farmer harvests wheat at the fields in Bhaktapur, Nepal

7. Ulagansky District in the Altai Republic, Russia photo by Nikolay Lyapin

8. Near Gaston, OR -- Yamhill-Carlton Sub-Appellation

9. Barley, Carrots, Potatoes, Chico bushes and Pivots.

10.A Pakistani farmer takes a nap on harvested wheat in a field in the suburbs of northwest Pakistan's Peshawar.

11.A farmer works in his field at Khokana, Lalitpur, Nepal.

12.Rural Victoria (Australia)

13.The fields of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, 2009

14.Building a hoop house in Arlee, Montana

15.Newly-dug field in Mali, West Africa

16.Old Man's Tractor Collection, France

17.A farmer harvests wheat on a field in Kathmandu

30 Best Aerial Pictures of the Month – April 15th to May 14th, 2013

Monika — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:01:53 +0000

1.Fort Bourtange in Groningen, Netherlands

2.Barrios in Ciudad de Mexico

3.The Great Lakes, Ontario, Canada.

4.Open-pit marble mine in Portugal

5.A Google-funded solar farm

6.Honolulu: Diamond Head Crater

7.Hawaii

8.Mt. Kilimanjaro

9.The Andes.

10.Port of Singapore, the World's Busiest Transhipment Port

11.Salt

12.Aerial of the fertilizer plant at West, Texas, was completely leveled after a devastating explosion that was felt by resident 50 miles away

13.Amazing aerial view from the Verizon building, by Christian Stoll

14.Toronto

15.Mu cang chai district, Vietnam HD

16.Section of a neighborhood in New Delhi, India

17.Haitians

18.The Ancient Chinese City of Pingyao Complete with Walls and Gates

19.Niagara Falls, Canada

20.Aerial view of Graz, Austria

21.New York City intersection

22.City of Rome, ancient meets modern

23.A tract of Amazon jungle cleared by loggers and farmers, near Altamira in Para State, Brazil

24.Aerial view of Belgrade, Serbia

25.Na Pali Coast

26.French Border-Town of Neuf-Brisach

27.Rice Plots in the Bac Son Valley, Vietnam

28.Ni'ihau Island, Hawai'i

29.Aerial view of Thatcher funeral inside St. Paul's cathedral

30.Keana Point, Oahu

30 Best Architecture Pictures of the Month April 14th to May 13th, 2013

Monika — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:25:46 +0000

1.The Hallgrímskirkja Church in Reykjavík, Iceland

2.Sugamo Shinkin Bank. Tokyo, Japan. By Emmanuelle Moureaux

3.Holmenkollbakken (Oslo Ski Jump). Oslo, Norway

4.Petra, Jordan

5.Shell House. Karuizawa, Japan. By ARTechnic Architects

6.Bowles Hall Dormitory (Berkeley, CA )

7.Barcelonian Balconies

8.Treehouse, Redmond, USA, by Steve Rondel

9.Apartment No.1 in Mahallat designed by AbCT

10.The Dolomitenblick (residential home). Sesto, Italy. By Plasma Studio

11.Tree House Point in Issaquah, WA: built by Nelson Treehouse and Supply

12.Aerial view of the surreal world of the desert city of Dubai.

13.Rest Stops (highway rest/bus station). Gori, Georgia. By J. Mayer Architects

14.Research laboratory by KINO Architects - Tokyo, Japan

15.Sunrise over the Circuit of the Americas

16.Lyric Theatre interior, Belfast (O'Donnel + Tuomey Architects)

17.Spring 2012 in Rome.

18.Tietgen Dormitory by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter

19.IBM France Research Center, La Gaude, France, 1958-62, by Marcel Breuer & Associates.

20.Kuggen by Wingårdh - Gothenburg, Sweden

21.An old gasometer converted to apartments - Dublin, Ireland

22.(The top of) Dubiner Apartment House, Israel

23.Natural History Museum, London - At Sunrise

24.St Leon 10 by SAOTA and Antoni Associates

25.National Historical Museum by Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

26.london city hall

27.Cathedral of St. Sophia, currently located in the historic center of Istanbul photo by Evgeniy Sh.

28.legal/illegal by Manuel Herz - Cologne, Germany

29.House in Japan, photo by Matthew Bednarik

30.Dolby Theatre during the 2013 Oscars.

22 Best Village Pictures of the Month – April 13th to May 12th, 2013

Monika — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:00:58 +0000

1.Alsace, France

2.Hida Folk Village, Japan

3.Quedlinburg is a town located north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany [938x800] photo by Igor Dubrovsky

4.Neuf-Brisach in France, Alsace Region

5.Wells, UK

6.Cinque Terra, Italy

7.Passed this village while boating on Lake Como, Italy

8.Zajamniki, Slovenia

9.Neringa, Lithuania

10.Rastoke, Croatia

11.Rastoke, Croatia

12.Built into rock - Setenil De Las Bodegas, Spain

13.Motovun, Croatia

14.Ronda, Spain.

15.Vitznau, Switzerland

16.Pačeriaukštė, Lithuania

17.Xàtiva, Spain

18.Rimašiai, Lithuania

19.Petrovaradin, Serbia

20.Vilkaviškis district, Marijampolė, Lithuania

21.Salt fields of Palibelo village, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia.

22.Central Bhutan (Village Name Unknown)

11 Best Space Pictures of the Month – April 11th to May 10th, 2013

Monika — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:44:37 +0000

1.Milky Way over one of Florida's Last Remaining Dark-Sky Beaches by JesselSummers

2.Night at the Boneyard by Jessel summers

3.Photographer Justin Ng captured this amazing image of an Eta Aquarid meteor over Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia on May 5th 2013 4."The Rose" on Saturn is a massive hurricane inside the hexagon cloud formation at the north pole. Its eye is 1250 miles wide (20x larger than Earth hurricanes) and wind speeds reach 330 mph

5.Magnificent CME Erupts on the Sun August 31, 2012

6.Russian Pictures of Venus from 1970

7.Timelapse partial lunar eclipse over Lake Balaton Hungary last week

8.The Stars Come Out

9.Impressive nebula picture by Astrophotographer Reinhold Wittich

10.Star gazing t hing... look like a pretty fun

11.The Whirlpool Galaxy

30 Best Sky Pictures of the Month – April 10th to May 9th, 2013

Monika — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:32:43 +0000

1.In 2008, Chile's long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 30 kilometers into the Andean sky

2.Woke up to this.

3.A man herds horses in the Inner Mongolia region of China.

4.Ash plume rising from Mount Redoubt after an eruption on April 21, 1990

5.A supercell west of Glasgow Montana in July 2012

6.Crater Lake, Oregon

7.Lightning flashes around volcano in Chile

8.From last year: a full(ish) Moon next to a billowing cloud at sunset.

9.Out for a morning run in Hobart, Tasmania - times like these iPhones are invaluable!

10.Golden Sunset, Santorini, Greece

11.A helicopter makes a drop as a wind whipped brush fire burns in Camarillo Springs, Ca.

12.Morning sky over an ancient lake bed in the Mojave Desert.

13.Lenticular cloud over Tolbachic, Kamchatka photo by Denis Bud'ko

14.Lightning in Athens, Ga.

15.A friend of mine posted this picture to Facebook of her amazing view from the plane on her way to Hawaii.

16.Sunset in New Zealand.

17.Sunset in Maryland

18.The Milky Way above a secluded cove in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in California

19.The Milky Way and Stone Tree as seen from the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife