The Fab WebThe Fab Web

30 Best Earth Pictures of the Month – April 24th to May 23rd, 2013

Monika — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:49:42 +0000

1.Meanwhile, Autumn is in full swing in the Dandenong Ranges, Australia.

2.Jupiter and the Moon above a rock formation; Kitaibaraki City, Japan

3.The Majesty of Ukraine photo by Scorpio

4.Porticcio, Corsica

5.The tranquility and beauty of Tibet

6.Victoria Falls

7.Joshua Tree National Park, California

8.Emerald Lake, Yoho National Park, British Columbia

9.Rock Islands of Palau by Ian Shive

10.Lake in the Alps

11.Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand

12.Second Beach, Olympic Peninsula in Washington

13.Eibsee lake in Bavaria, Germany photo by Dmitry D.Orange

14.Mount Fansipan mountain ranges, Vietnam

15.From the TAZARA railway, southern Tanzania

16.Gros Piton, St. Lucia

17.Gros Piton, St. Lucia

18.Half Dome, Yosemite

19.Rock tree, formed by the wind - Uyuni, Bolivia

20.Cairns of the Scottish Highlands.

21.The largest valley glacier in the Alps: The Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland

22.The edge of Australia

23.The Matterhorn, Switzerland.

24.Monte Fitz Roy, Patagonia

25.Acadia Coast, Maine

26.Bic Parc, Québec

27.Secret tide pools in Hawaii

28.Mount Errigal, Ireland

29.Makena State Park, Maui

30.Dry Falls, WA

21 Best Design Pictures of the Month – April 23rd to May 22nd, 2013

Monika — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:33:17 +0000

1.Aqua Tower, Chicago

2.The Tallest Bridge in the World. Le Viaduct De Millau - Millau, France. Designed by Michel Virlogeaux and Norman Foster

3.Ammonite lamp posts, Lyme Regis, UK

4.Dental clinic in Oporto - Portugal

5.Farnsworth House [by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Plano, Illinois]

6.HG One Coffee Grinder

7.Hublot LaFerrari

8.Monome 256, an adaptable musical interface with a minimalist design. Created by Brian Crabtree.

9.Mechanical dragonfly with jointed wings, circa 1897, by René Lalique

10.ZeroEnergy One: A tiny, energy efficient modular home with high-tech smartphone-ready features. Designed by FITS (Romania)

11.Reflecting Pool outside a restaurant on the Burlington, ON downtown waterfront

12.Västra Hamnen, Malmö, Turning Torso by Santiago Calatrava in the background

13.Harry Seidler designed house - 1948,Australia

14.The Hälssen & Lyon Tea Calendar, tear-off a unique tea for each day

15.Iznik tiles in Rustem Pasha Camii, Istanbul, Turkey

16.Froeyland Orstad church in Norway [Design by Link Arkitektur]

17.Aëdle VK-1 Headphones

18.Like some kind of modernist monastery, the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA, by Louis Kahn (photo: Alfred Essa)

19.John Lewis had an idea similar to the Dutch limestone factory but with the sky instead. There's also a green one next door to match the fields!

20.Cookies packaging

21.Beautiful archway.

26 Best City Pictures of the Month – April 22nd to May 21st, 2013

Monika — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:18:29 +0000

1.City of London

2.Hong Kong - Vertical Horizon, by Romain Jacquet-Lagreze

3.Golden Gate Park, San Francisco,

4.Dubai Night Skyline

5.Manhattan from above.

6.Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at night

7.St. Petersburg, Russia photo by EGRA

8.Manhattan at dusk from the top of the Empire State Building

9.Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia

10.WTC

11.30km of Dubai right after sunset, from creek to marina

12.The affluent Gangnam district and, beyond, the rest of Seoul just before sunset, seen from the peak of Mt. Guryongsan

13.San Francisco, California.

14.In the Bowery, looking uptown - Manhattan,

15.The new Warsaw

16.London, England

17.Shanghai - Blue Hour

18.Florence

19.Looking South on Centre Street,

20.Rio, Brasil

21.Dusk in Los Angeles

22.Street in Mexico City and a very colonial face.

23.Singapore Marina Bay

24.Identical street in Edinburgh, Scotland.

25.Albstadt, Germany at night

26.Shanghai Tower

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.