The 2010 Menton Lemon Festival in France

Menton-Lemon-Festival-in-FranceMenton is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic located on the Franco-Italian border, within the confines of the Cote d’Azur and the Ligurian Alps. It is well known for its warm micro-climate favorable to lemon, tangerine, and orange groves.
It was pretty popular for its Menton’s February Festival which initially started at the end of the 19th century. People still find it very exciting and fun. The festival is enjoyed for three whole weeks along with a daily Citrus Exposition, parades on Sundays,Corsos Nocturnes with fireworks on Thursday nights, and Jardins de lumieres on Fridays...

Breakfast Machine Project

Breakfast Machine ProjectYou woudn’t have to bother you mum to serve your breakfast each day, because designer Yuri Suzuki and artist Masa Kimura have completed their breakfast machine project. The project that began early this month at platform21, Amsterdam, is not complete and serves a full-course meal consisting of omelet, coffee and toast with jam...

Tattoos Made With a Special Ink – Ultra Violet Tattoos

Ultra-Violet-TattoosUV tattoos or blacklight tattoos are tattoos made with a special ink that is only visible under a blacklight. They are particularly popular in the raver subculture. The tattoos can be completely invisible in normal light, although scarring from the tattoo machine in the application process may remain, and therefore still show. A UV tattoo becomes visible under blacklight, when it glows in colors ranging from white to purple, depending on the ink chosen. Colored ink is also available, where the ink is visible in normal light (as with a regular tattoo) but the ink will glow vividly under UV light. However, some UV inks are not as bright under normal light as normal tattoo ink and are considered not as vibrant...

Spitball World Championship in England

Spitball-World-ChampionshipWell, those naughty boys (and girls) have now grown up and take part in the Spitball World Championship ... and to them it seems to be a very serious sport ...
If you didn’t get chance to take part in the championship why not visit the Witcham website, where you’ll see that the village of Witcham near Ely pay hosts to this annual event.
And if you’re thinking of taking up this sport ... perhaps ready for the London Olympics in 2012 ... than forget using the novice equipment of a straw or empty biro ... and get hold of some serious pea shooting equipment...

Wire Art by Terry Border

Wire-Art-by-Terry-BorderEver wonder what the items in your refrigerator do when you go to sleep at night? Terry Border certainly has. And he recently has published a book with photographs of some of his best work. Using everyday items such as peanuts, Oreos and kiwis, Border utilizes wire hands and feet to make the inanimate objects come to life. With some hysterical poses, he evokes a kind of childish grin to our faces. Our favorite, however, has to be the picture shown below of the Oreo cookie...

The Scroll With the Largest Number of Tigers

The-Scroll-With-the-Largest-Number-of-TigersThe scroll was made by Chinese artist Xiao Yanqing, who is known as the number one tiger drawer in China, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, also known as the Year of the Tiger. He has presented the scroll to the Shanghai Expo and tried to challenge the Guinness World Records with the craftwork to create a record of the scroll with most tigers.
A scroll featuring drawings of 2010 tigers was presented during the Shanghai Expo and is a serious candidate for the Guinness record for the scroll with the largest number of tigers...

Bionic Potato Chip Grabber

Bionic-Potato-Chip-GrabberAt the Tokyo toy fair, Tomy showcased the Potechi hand a mechanical arm which mimics a thumb and forefinger. It has a switch which slides back and forth toggling the fingers. What is it used for? For eating potato chips without getting your hands messy. Available in the land of rising sun for 630 Yen ($ 7)...

Beautiful Photography By Rune Guneriussen

Rune-GuneriussenThe main idea of the work of Norwegian photographer Rune Guneriussen -- imitation of life of wild animals in nature through the inanimate subjects. This is certainly not the first attempt to animate an inanimate, but not the worst, and quite large in comparison with previously known.
Here chairs and two males fighting for leadership on the shore of the silent sea, and a flock of table lamps lonely massed in the twilight savanna, and a string of phones under the leadership of the leader makes regular migration...

Boto – Pink Amazonian River Dolphin

Pink-Amazonian-River-DolphinThe Amazon River Dolphin, alternately Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina, or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater river dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.
The largest of the river dolphins, this species is not to be confused with the Tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis), whose range overlaps that of theAmazon River Dolphin but is not a true river dolphin. The neck vertebrae of the Amazon River Dolphin are not fused together, and therefore the Boto is able to bend its neck in a 90 degree angle to its body, and skillfully hunt fish in the flooded forest...

Weird Artwork Inspired by Michael Jackson

Weird Artwork Inspired by Michael JacksonIf you don’t know who Michael Jackson is..you must be living under a rock. His tragic death has given us the opportunity to reflect on his life as a performer, pop star and American icon.  Many may believe many things about Michael Jackson, but what is undeniable is that he change the world and influenced it like no other. Today I bring to you just a few pieces of art that was inspired by the “King of Pop”...