Chinese artist Sang Dong created this installation called "Eating the City" depicting an Asian city, complete with church and stadium, from biscuits!
An estimated 72,000 biscuits, including digestives, chocolate digestives, rich tea, hobnobs, caramels and fruit shortcake, will be used during the week-long project.
Banksy, a grafitti artist from Bristol, UK, smuggled this dead rat in a glass box into the Natural History of Museum in April 2004, where it was "exhibited" for several hours as staff didn't notice that anything amiss.
The piece called "Banksus Militus Ratus" was displayed with a text that said the common sewer rat had some remarkable new characteristics.
"Attributed to an increase in junk food waste, ambient radiation and hardcore urban rap music these creatures have evolved at an unprecedented rate."
It quotes a bogus university professor as saying: "You can laugh now ... but one day they may be in charge."
Banksy's manager, Steve Lazarides, said museum visitors liked the rat exhibit and claimed one staff member had thought it was genuine: "I saw a member of staff walk up to it, check it was attached properly, read the text and walk away.
Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a "For Sale" sign refering to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 that they retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules (PAM) failed to fire. Astronaut Joseph P. Allen IV, who also participated in the two EVAs, is reflected in Gardner's helmet visor. A portion of each of two recovered satellites is in the lower right corner, with Westar 6 nearer Discovery's aft.
That's a neat photo of an Airstream trailer, right? Wrong - that's a photorealistic watercolor oil on canvas painting of the famous artist Ralph Goings. Link
Louis Wain drew cats, even after he was committed to an insane asylum due to schizophrenia. Take a look at the changes in Wain's art as his mental illness worsen. Link
Stevie Starr, who calls himself a professional regurgitator, has a unique performance:
... he swallows live goldfish, pool balls, numbered coins, even dry sugar, and manages to bring them back up in order, on command (and in the case of the sugar, completely dry!)
Dr. Leland Clark, inventor of the platinum "Clark electrodes" used to detect oxygen in liquid (and allows measurement of blood oxygen levels) also did this famous experiment in "liquid breathing":
Dr. Leland Clark of Cincinnati invented a blood substitute allowing this living mouse to breathe in the liquid, while goldfish inhabit the water floating on top.
After bubbling oxygen through the fluorocarbon, the oxygenated fluid was pumped into the animals' lungs, and recirculated (about 6 cycles of inhalation and exhalation per minute). Most of the animals who were kept in the fluid for up to an hour survived for several weeks after their removal, before eventually succumbing to pulmonary damage.
Steven Cummer of Duke University and collaborators from FMA Research in Fort Collins, Colorado, managed to take amazing video of atmospheric flashes of light called sprites:
Mysterious flashes of light called “sprites", that occur above thunderclouds during powerful storms, have been captured on film in unprecedented detail by researchers using an ultra-high-speed camera.
The best images yet of the flashes – which resemble a giant undulating jellyfish with its tentacles falling from a halo of light – have allowed the team to pick apart their structure and mechanics.
Forget everything you think you know about China and take a couple minutes to ponder these images. Few people in the Western world know about the hidden beauty of China. Well..... of course it helps to have an ace photographer who can capture this land of enchantment as no other has. But these are some truly inspiring photos.
Oscar took this photo of 300+ real low income houses in Ixtapaluca while working as a helicopter pilot over Mexico City. http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PhotoAlbum31.html
