February 27, 2013 at 11:06 am
Located in the city of Kitakyushu, Japan, Kawachi Fuji Garden is home to an incredible 150 Wisteria flowering plants spanning 20 different species. The garden’s main attraction is the Wisteria tunnel that allows visitors to walk down an enchanting tunnel exploding with colour. Located about 6 hours (according to Google Maps) from Tokyo, the…
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February 26, 2013 at 5:20 pm
DUCT TAPE LANDSCAPE Artwork by Takahiro Iwasaki | Photograph by Owen Houhoulis Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki carved this amazing miniature landscape into a roll of duct tape. Born in 1975, Iwasaki works and lives in Hiroshima, Japan. He makes miniature sculptures from everyday items like tape, thread and wire. You can find…
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February 26, 2013 at 11:26 am
Nara Dreamland, Japan | Photograph by Chris Luckhardt. Prints available at http://www.chrisluckhardt.com Wikipedia defines Urban Exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) as: The exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment. Photography and historical interest/documentation are heavily featured in the hobby. In the latest…
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February 25, 2013 at 5:19 pm
LET SLEEPING LIONS LIE Photograph by Ben Matthew Wong | twistedsifter.com I took this photo in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area located just outside of Serengeti National Park. It was mid-afternoon and these five lionesses were resting under a tree, shading themselves from the hot sun above. This was only the second group…
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February 25, 2013 at 4:18 pm
For those that live in colder climates where snow is an annual occurrence (Toronto, Canada myself), frost shadows are a fairly common sighting. But for our readers in warmer temperatures who perhaps never get to experience the joy (and pain) of a snowy winter, you may have never witnessed this phenomena. Recent posts on…
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February 25, 2013 at 11:23 am
James McNabb is a Philadelphia-based artist specializing in woodwork. Together with his wife Stephanie and dog Buster, they are McNabb & Co., a design studio dedicated to developing heirloom quality products. In McNabb’s latest project, entitled City Series, the sculptures depict the outsider’s perspective of the urban landscape. Made entirely of scrap wood, this…
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February 24, 2013 at 7:34 pm
UNDER THE BRIDGE Photograph by Tea Kolo on Flickr In this perfectly timed and beautifully framed photograph by Tea Kolo, we see a sailboat passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. A hole in the fence perfectly encircles the sailboat, making for a creatively framed shot. The photo was first…
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February 24, 2013 at 5:30 pm
Ken To is an artist from the United States with a deep fascination for Bonsai trees. In this amazing series of miniature wire sculptures, Ken creates wire trees from continuous strands that flow from the tip of the roots to the end of the leaves and branches. The ceramic pots used to hold each…
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February 23, 2013 at 7:16 pm
THE SOMBRERO GALAXY Photograph by NASA/ESA & the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the Universe’s most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104 (M104). The galaxy’s hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising…
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February 23, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Bodhi (named after Patrick Swayze’s character in Point Break) is a 3-year-old Shiba Inu breed living in New York City with his owners David Fung, 28, a graphic designer; and his fashion-designer girlfriend, Yena Kim, 26. One lazy day they decided to dress up Bodhi in one of Fung’s outfits. The photo was posted…
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