October 14, 2008 – 12:44 pm
A unique, weird restaurant has opened in Riga, Latvia named “Hospitalis“.It is a must-see place if you like gore things. The restaurant looks like a medicine cabinet, while you are treated as a patient and taken good care by the long-legged waitresses in nurses uniforms.
The food is served in flasks and operating-room’s dishes and isn’t that cheap (7 and more lats per meal), but this is a bizarre experience that is worth breaking the bank. Besides, the place is owned by local doctors, but unfortunately, the president of Latvia, who is also a doctor, declined his appearance at the opening once he realized how weird this place actually is.
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October 5, 2008 – 11:45 am
Restored and remodeled by the Spanish modernist architect Antoni Gaudi in the years 1905–1907, Casa Batllo is now one the most overlooked buildings by the tourists who visit Barcelona.Although Casa Batllo is a museum now, Gaudi designed it for for a wealthy Barcelona Aristocrat.
The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality.
Close up of Casa Batllo chimney :: Photo Credit: WikiMedia
Casa Batllo’s roof has been compared to a reptilian creature, the backbone of a gigantic dinosaur, the dragon killed by St. George (Sant Jordi being the patron saint of Catalan). read more »
September 30, 2008 – 3:34 pm
Light Art Performance Photography (LAPP) is a one-shot long time bulb exposure photography technique, performed additionally with movement of light.Developed by two talented German artists ,Jan Leonardo Wollert and Jorg Miedza, LAPP is descended from Light Writing (also known as Light Graffiti or Light Drawing) but has been evolved into it’s own art form.
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September 24, 2008 – 6:30 pm
If American foreign policy had a gift shop, what would it sell? American photographer, Phillip Toledano, has gathered a series of souvenirs that reflect the US foreign diplomacy in the past eight years, from the Dick Cheney Shredding Documents Snow Globe to the Abu Ghraib Coffee Table.
Abu Ghraib coffee table
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