Just not the presidential one. This White House is just a scale-down replication by the presidential house. Them are located in suburban Atlanta. It is owner, an American-Iranian - Fred Milani, has lived in it for seven years but he accepts recently put it on sale as $9.88 million...
One year after the hosting of the exceptional Beijing Olympic Games, the 11th National Games, billed as China's mini-Olympics, opened amid a splendid ceremony here Friday evening.
Chinese President Hu Jintao officially opened the Games at the ceremony held in the newly built Olympic Sports Complex in this capital city of east China's Shandong province.
With 55 of all 63 Chinese Beijing Olympic champions expected to compete, the quadrennial national meet is set to stage another sports gala for the country which just celebrated its 60th birthday.
Among those present at the ceremony are President of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge, who was re-elected at the 121st IOC Session held in Copenhagen just one week ago, and a dozen of IOC members.
When addressing the full capacity of 60,000 at the ceremony...
Beautiful macro photography by Bonali Giuseppe, He is a master nature photographer. Here are the collection of a couple of amazing colors and very creative pics…
Fred Crzybowski, a 20-year-old from Los Angeles, is known as “the Tony Hawk of the pogo world” for the extreme pogo-stick jumps he can perform.
Fred, who started using a pogo-stick at the age of eight, is the current record holder for the most consecutive backflips, which stands at nine. He has appeared in motion pictures like Mister Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and hopes he will get new gigs in television and movies...
Turkish born Mehmet Ozgur is an engineer by education and profession, Mehmet is also a masterly photographer. His work spans a substantial range of subject matter and technique, from the landscapes panorama to digital compositions and his amazing smoke works (seen here). Mehmet has mastered a technique where he can photograph tendrils of smoke and then combine them into recognizable shapes and figures through digital manipulation. All are executed with fine precision using differing photographic manipulation techniques to achieve the desired outcomes. Looking through his smoke works collection you will notice an enticing glow of transparencies mixed with the suggestive texture of flame - most in monochrome. His series includes Genies and bottles, surreal clocks, feather-like waterfalls, swirling swords, and misty ocean scenery...
The swine flu, H1N1 flu or H1N1 influenza has caused some different responses around the world: panic, indifference, doubts, worries and sometimes simply nothing. But for some artists the swine flu became a theme, something new to explore and produce some cool pieces. You will see here lots of different styles of artworks surrounding the H1N1 flu (illustration, photography, graphic and so on), most of them are funny, others more serious, but they are all very cool...
Three decades Chzhenhuan Yu (Yu Zenhuan) - very hairy chinese. 96% of his body covered with hair, yo, he leaves no hope to fix all this and get rid of the hair. Laser he vyzhgut majority of hair follicles on the body, and let him bye to Guinness World Records book, but will find a normal form...
In this inspirational post, we present cute photos of : Babies and Kids with a Poem collection... Hopefully, these beauties will inspire you to create beautiful artwork, Web designs, graphics, wallpaper, illustrations, and some creative ideas etc...
Andree Wallin is a digital artist from Sweden. He is currently working as a concept artist / mattepainter at RealtimeUK. Andree is very talented in producing amazing piece of concept art, mattepainting and illustration...
Living in Three Centuries: The Face of Age is the working title for this black-and-white photographic portrait project by Mark Story. For nearly 20 plus years, in between productions, the successful commercial media creator, Story, has retreated into his creative mind and traveled in various locations around the world, looking for centenarians. After two decades, Story has accumulated more than 15,000 portraits. His mission? To photograph the manifestation of human aging. For the best part of this journey Story has been finding super-centenarians, which means that the elder has lived to be at least 110 years old.
Each of the seventy-two portraits featured in the exhibition was shot using a deep black background and lighting placed just right to bring attention to the the wrinkles - the portrait of the lady above depicts this very clearly, being very weathered and worn. Collectively though, each portrait is beautiful and poignant, deeply moving and in some cases, almost shocking. They do, however, have something in common; they are all very technically beautiful...