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18
Sep

Real Life Transformers Made From Vehicles

Project Transformers is the latest art project by the French-Swiss award winner artist, Guillaume Reymond, who has won the Youtube Video Awards 2007 with his Game Over Project (Tetris).

Project Transformers utilizes different types of vehicles, gathering them in a precise choreography to create what looks from the sky like gigantic robots.

Project Transformes Logo

The project is conducted in three parts.The first part of project took place Tuesday, August 26 on the big square of Vevey, Switzerland, where a ballet of ambulances, fire trucks and vehicles on the roads was performed under the “eyes” of Photo Zeppelin.

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17
Sep

Portrayal of “Alice In Wonderland” by Annie Leibovitz

Alice in Wonderland” is a photo set taken by talented artist Annie Leibovitz, for Vogue Magazine featuring Russian model Natalia Vodianova as Alice.Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Masterpiece, Leibovitz  utilizes Surrealism expertly to reveal the fantastic world in which Alice lived.

Curiouser and Curiouser:

Beyond nonsense verse and coming-of-age fables, Lewis Carroll’s true passion was photographing moody young beauties. Olivier Theyskens, in the guise of Carroll, captures model Natalia Vodianova as Alice Liddell. Natalia wears a Rochas iridescent blue-flower ruffle dress specially designed by Theyskens.

Alice in Wonderland

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15
Sep

Exploring The Ancient Jordan’s City of Petra

The City of Petra was hidden in the mountains of Jordan for thousands of years when a young Swiss explorer Johan Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered it in 1812.Temples, tombs, monasteries and other buildings are all carved out of the sandstone cliffs, which also gives it the name the “rose red city.” UNESCO has described it as “one of the most precious cultural properties of man’s cultural heritage.”

petra jordan
stone houses in Petra by: Zé Eduardo

You reach the ancient city of Petra by going through a narrow corridor in a mountain of rocks.This corridor is about a mile long and just wide enough to fit a small truck – although most people go through on horseback or on foot. When you emerge, you enter a little hidden valley, which is mountain-locked.
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12
Sep

An Awesome LEGO Video Games Set

Among many LEGO Video Games sets you’ll find on Flickr, Probably This Set a masterpiece.Skinny Coder has recreated some classic video games with the colorful plastic building blocks including NES Castlevania, Mortal Kombat (Arcade), Shadow of the Colossus (PS2) and 8 more classic video games.

Lego Video Games

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08
Sep

Amazing Clifftop Monasteries of Meteora, Greece

Meaning ‘suspended in air’ the name Meteora includes the entire rock community of 24 monasteries. There were no steps and the main access to the monasteries was by means of a net that was hitched over a hook and hoisted up by rope and a hand cranked windlass to winch towers overhanging the chasm. Monks descended in the nets or on retractable wooden ladders up to 40m long to the fertile valleys below to grow grapes, corn and potatoes.

Meteora Greece
Photo by: SBA73

Studies suggest that the pinnacles are formed about 60 million years ago during the Tertiary Period . Weathering and earthquakes then shaped them into their present shape.
Although it is unknown when Metéora was established, as early as the 11th century AD hermit monks were believed to be living among the caves and cutouts in the rocks.
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29
Aug

Creative Photos Inspired by The Seven Deadly Sins

The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, have long been a source of inspiration for writers and artists, from morality tales of the Middle Ages to modern manga series and video games.

Seven deadly sins

Here are some creative photographs inspired by Gluttony, Lust, Wrath, Sloth, Pride, Greed and Envy plus a famous quote for each of those seven deadly sins.
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