Mantises, Mantes, Mantids or whatever term you prefer to use for their plural form, are among the most fascinating and at the same time scariest insects in the world.The 2,300 species of praying mantises comprise an order of insects called Mantodea.The word ‘mantis’ is Greek, and means prophet or fortune teller. Praying prophet? Very appropriate. Mantids so often look like they know something we don’t.
Photo by: Lawraa
Continue reading ‘Exploring the Wonderful World of Mantises’
Israeli artist, Sigalit Landau, has a sumptuous wall-spanning projection, on view at museum of modern art (MoMA) in New York through July 28,in which she emerges from a coil of watermelons, buoyant in the Dead Sea.
This is how Landau explains her artwork:
A cord of two hundred and fifty meters penetrates five hundred water melons forming a six meter spiral raft in the saturated salt waters of the Dead Sea. The spiral turns as a whirlpool reversed from its normal direction. I am floating locked inside the spiral layers between the center and the periphery of the sweet raft.
I am reaching out against the direction of the turning raft towards a small area in the spiral where the fruit is wounded, red and exposed like myself to the sting of the salt. The salt solution of the dead sea enables everything to float on its illusive surface. The spiral gradually becomes a thin green line abandoning the viewer.
Source:MoMA.org
Doesn’t the shot below look familiar to you? This is a screen shot from the famous Google image search engine, isn’t it?
But It’s actually an illusion and a model that helps you produce your own Google image search!The example below shows a sample image search for Stockholm.
This is the framework you need for your custom Google image search engine:
Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park, Chicago. The sculpture is shaped like an ellipse, and its legume-like appearance has caused it to be nicknamed “The Bean”. It is made of 168 highly polished stainless steel plates, and stands at 33 feet high, 66 feet long, and 42 feet wide, weighing 110 tons.
From a distance it could be mistaken for a huge drop of mercury, while up close its highly reflective surface captures and transforms the skyline, the downtown cityscape and even the passers-by into a wonderfully warped new vista. The artist, Anish Kapoor, has referred to the sculpture as “a gate to Chicago, a poetic idea about the city it reflects.” The 12-foot underbelly is called the “omphalos” or navel and multiplies reflections in a vortex. Continue reading ‘Cloud Gate: Chicago on Amazing Bean’
The Chin Heads is a Flickr fun group where people try to make hilarious characters out of their chins.Though some of them are photoshopped and some are done lamely, these funny chin heads at least worth a look!
