There are few things more beautiful than a quiet city at night right after a fresh rain.  Photographer Vince Cianci recognizes this, and has captured the great city of Rome in such a setting.  These photographs provide a vibrant visual tour of Rome’s architectural masterpieces from the Roman Coliseum to the great Pantheon.  What better way to see them than in the soft light of night after a gentle rain...

Nobody would have seen such amazing artwork. She is Cal Lane and this what she says about herself 'I have always been interested in embracing the very thing that repels me in order to understand it: I prefer to make sense of things or in order to suspend (or pass) judgment'.
Check out her amazing creativity. More 18 pics after the jump...

On occasion of Milan Design Week Italian company Santambrogiomilano showcased the evolution of the Simplicity project, which in 2009 set itself an ambitious goal: architecture. Glass, the absolute protagonist, shapes the load bearing beams, floors, roofs and the colorless walls, the material principle justifies the conception of the whole habitat. The glass reflects the flash of the flame, the green of the vegetable garden, the pink of the seafood, the red of the cuts of meat. A meeting of transparencies that heightens the senses!
Transparent House - the original project designer Carlo Santambrogio and Ennio Arosio...

Flocke is the new celebrity polar bear cub who was born by polar bear Vera at the Nuremberg Zoo in Germany. Since Knut has grown up and not cute anymore, Flocke has stolen all the limelight from photographers. Even Flocke stuffed animal toys are released by manufacturer Steiff GmbH which produced the well known Knut teddy bears...

These photographs of ’spirits’ are taken from an album of photographs unearthed in a Lancashire second-hand and antiquarian bookshop by one of the Museum’s curators. They were taken by a controversial medium called William Hope (1863-1933). Born in 1863 in Crewe, Hope started his working life as a carpenter. In about 1905 he became interested in spirit photography after capturing the supposed image of a ghost while photographing a friend. He went on to found the Crewe Circle – a group of six spirit photographers led by Hope. When Archbishop Thomas Colley joined the group they began to publicise their work. Following World War I support for the Crewe Circle grew as the grieving relatives of those lost to the war sought a means of contacting their loved ones...