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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 Week – 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

20.Milky Way over Mount Shasta and an abandoned house

21.unedited sunset in madison, wisconsin

22.The view from my room in the Netherlands last Sunday.

23.Tel Baruch Beach - Tel Aviv, Israel

24.Colorful rainbow picture

25.Deception Pass, Washington

26.Sunrise in Iowa

27.A rain squall heading, Sierra Mariola, Spain

28.Sunset Beach, NC

29.Storm passing over a wind farm outside Australia's capitol

30.Milky Way sky, New Zealand

30 Best Room Pictures of the Month – April 9th to May 8th, 2013

Monika — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:02:31 +0000

1.morning light in living room

2.Inside Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi's Home

3.Wall of Plants, Wall of Books, Floor of Fishes.

4.The Suite in Cinderella's Castle at Disney World

5.Goksu Rope Factory Lofts / Suyabatmaz Demirel Architects

6.Exquisitely restored tatami room in Japan

7.Midtown Phoenix Penthouse

8.A retro indoor garden/lounge

9.High ceiling kitchen with custom see-through cabinets, in a cottage on the Severn River in the Maryland countryside

10.State Library of Iowa (Des Moines Capitol)

11.A Breathtaking View

12.A wardrobe that opens to Narnia. More secret rooms inside.

13.Our new bathroom

14.Library Slide by Moon Hoon

15.Beautiful Dining Room filled by Natural Light

16.Kitchenette and loft of high-ceiling bungalow

17.Egg Treehouse, British Columbia

18.Classy penthouse in Sondrio, Italy

19.Guest Room, Hotel Ca' Pisani - Venice, Italy

20.Beautiful Staircase

21.Cinderella Castle Suite Bathtube

22.Cabin in the woods.One room loft over kitchen & bath.

23.Al Capone's Cell at Eastern State Penitentiary

24.Tucson Mountain Retreat

25.one sunlit tub to rule them all

26.a bathroom that roomporn likes?

30 Best Quotes in Pictures of the Month – April 8th to May 7th, 2013

Monika — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:11:57 +0000

1."Even people who claim everything is predetermined..." - Stephen Hawking

2."Mom, when I grow up..." -Anonymous

3."Every one of us..." Haruki Murakami

4."Ultimately we don't really want 10,000 people on Mars..." - Elon Musk

5."Every man has his secret sorrows..." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6."They never asked for your permission..." -Banksy

7.Pablo Picasso:"Only Put Off until tomorrow..."

8."Being honest may not ..." — John Lennon

9."God doesn't make the world this way..." - Rorschach, Watchmen

10."The price of being a sheep..." -Hugh Macleod

11."Every gun that is made, every warship launched," Dwight D. Eisenhower

12."No, you move." Captain America

13."Don't be afraid to be a fool..."-Stephen Colbert

14."If we can't laugh at ourselves..." - George Takei

15."Spartans excuse..." Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

16."What do We mean by the Revolution? ..." John Adams 1815

17."The best things in life.." - Unknown

18."The open road still softly calls…" - Carl Sagan

19."If you try and lose..." Enders Game - Orson Scott Card

20."Always keep your foes confused..." - Petyr Baelish

21."New shit..." The Big Lebowski - Joel and Ethan Coen

22."Our existance is but a brief crack of light..." -Vladimir Nabokov

23."Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep."

24.Don't study until you get it right...(unknown author)

25."The good outnumber you, and we always will." -Patton Oswalt

26."Unhappiness comes out of nowhere..." Chuck Palahniuk AMA

27."Nobody knows for sure my friend" - Anonymous

28."Forget not that the earth..."-Khalil Gibran

29.“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training..." - Socrates

30."Freedom is the right to tell people..." -George Orwell