Her Majesty - Planet Earth

Unique Cafés

2009-05-26T10:25:00.004+05:30

Lufthansa café

café at Microsoft Office

café: Yahoo! Bangalore

Yahoo! café

Pixar Animation Studios: café

Google café

Google café (outside)

café at Harvard College

Another view of the café at Harvard

Yellow! (unknown)

Designs inspired by trees!

2009-05-20T10:00:00.004+05:30

Fastest Limo

2009-05-12T12:27:00.005+05:30

This is apparently the fastest limousine in the world. It is basically a converted Ferrari. Not much of a Limo if you ask me. Doesn't have all the cool things that limo's usually have.

Not the most comfortable limo seats!!

Logic Behind Numbers

2009-05-07T10:48:00.004+05:30

Ever wondered why 1 is 'One' and 2 is 'Two'...?

The reason is in the number of angles the numerical image has. See the pic below. Each angle on the diagramatic image of the number is marked with 'o' to show the angles. Of course zero has zero angles.

Creative Indian Advertisements

2009-05-07T10:07:00.009+05:30

An ad from SimplyMarry.com

JK Tyres - solid grip

Borderless printing by Xerox

Ad to save girl child - falling girl vs boy ratio

Plant more trees!

Quick dry paint

An ad for drilling machine - drills through anything!

Hazards of smoking

Most children get into dad's shoes too early...

Education loan by IDBI

Liked this one - save trees!

Adopt - you get more than you give :)

Anti dandruff shampoo ad

Don't drink n drive

Unicef ad - child needs family

Japanese Sewers

2009-05-04T10:03:00.004+05:30

Japanese are masters at building sewer systems. Their ingenuity goes back to 200BC where they had built underwater drainage systems throught villages. No wonder today Japan leads the world in building state of the art sewage systems. 'Stunning' is an undersatement!

Weird Buildings

2009-05-02T18:50:00.004+05:30

These are real existing houses / buildings. Not photo tricks. You have to admire the architect and appreciate the owner who was willing to invest in something new!

The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)

Forest Spiral (Hundertwasser Building), Germany

Torre Galatea Figueres (Spain)

Ferding and Cheval Palace, France

The Basket Building, Ohio, US

Kansas City Public Library, USA

Habitat 67, Montreal, Canada

Cubic Houses, Rotterdam, Netherlands

The UFO House, Taiwan

Nakagin Capsulte Tower, Japan

Erwin Wurm: House Attack, Austria

Wooden Gagster House, Russia

Ripley's Building, Canada

Food + Landscape = Foodscape!!

2009-05-01T19:22:00.006+05:30

The British photographer Carl Warner created a series of photos using only food to make the scenery. “Foodscapes” (union of the words food and landscape) show underwater caves, forests, beaches at sunset, and even waterfalls, using fruits, vegetables, cheese, cold meat, pasta, and other grains.

Click on the pics to see the bigger image - it's worth it!

In this forest, trees are made of broccoli, with peas hanging as fruits and the highways are paved with cumin. The grass is made of herbs and the mountains, of bread. Clouds made of cauliflower, decorate the sky

The edible ingredients in this rural scene of Italian inspiration include a small wagon made of lasagna slices, fields of pasta, and clouds of mozzarela. Trees of pepper, parsley and basil complete the scene, in the distance, a small village made of cheese.

This cavern is made of marine crustaceans. The rocks are made of bread, but, at the deep of the sea, they are made of cauliflower. To make the tri-dimensional sensation in the pictures, each scene is composed on a 1,2 x 2,4 m square table.

Rice, coconut, many grains and a sky made of purple cabbage compose this bucolic “landscape”.

Trees made of cabbage leaves, rocks of sweet potato, the narrow canyon made of bread and the sky made of purple cabbage.

The red sea of this beach, at sunset, is made of salmon slices. The rocks are made of potato and bread. A small boat made of beans completes the scene.

Shitake mushrooms, sesame and other grains

The rainbow design on the ceramic plate, was perfect behind the forest of vegetables and potato

Cheese houses, awnings and baskets of macarroni, grains and vegetables form this small village set.

Italian culinary delight with many vegetables and pasta. Houses (through the window) are made of cheese.

At first view, it is difficult to notice that the mountains are made of bread...

Creativity is impressive, balloons made of fruits and vegetables, trees made of broccolis, rocks of potatoes, Farm fields of corn and cuccumber, city of cheese, with a carrot tower, and so on...

In this alpine scene, Grissini biscuits and Parma ham turn into a wheelbarrow that will be pulled by the way of salami with trees of bacon around it.

In this sight, the main ingredients are: Ham: sky, mountains, waterfall and river; Bread: rocks Grissini biscuits: house and trapiche; Salami: brickworks

In this alpine scene, the stars are the cold meat. Grissini biscuits and Parma ham turn into the sleigh pulled by the mountains of snow made of other cold meats, as smoked turkey and Bologna. The Parma ham is also located on the “pines”.

Someone's Watching You!!!

2009-04-29T21:54:00.006+05:30

Spy cameras - and you thought James Bond was cool?!

In the tie...

Cigarette / juice carton...

Inside a pen - USB camera...

Cigarette lighter...

Watch...

Electric socket...

Shaving foam...

Shades...

Car key chain...

Pendant...

Belt buckle...

ID Badge...

Whatever this is... :D

Baseball cap... (yes there's camera there..)

Shoe...

Shirt button...

Pen / key chain...

Phone handsfree...

Wrigleys chewing gum...

Computer speakers...

Ballot Box / Voting Machines

2009-04-29T08:32:00.005+05:30

India is voting for a new government and I thought it would be a good time for me to capture how the ballot boxes / voting machines from around the world look like.

US - early 1800's

Probably first voting box that kept count of votes instantly? US - late 1800's

Again US - glass ballot box

US - carton box

US - early 1900's

Tribal ballot box called 'Noken' - Papua, Indonesia

Slovenia

Haiti

Since 1988, France made it compulsory to use clear ballot boxes

Late 1800's - New York

First 'electric' voting machine. Used the punchcard concept

Electronic - swipe your national id card

Similar, slot your ID card and vote

Dual votes - maybe for state and national?

The famous 'pull the lever' machine. Used in New York in 2008.

Turn the dial - and vote!

And our very own - India

Appealing Chairs

2009-04-27T17:51:00.006+05:30

Storage Chair

Sound Chair - imagine sitting on such a speaker with full volume :D

Interesting... not just the chair but also laptop stand

This is neat. You can fold it into a chair and when not in use it can be hung on the wall as a painting

Scary! How does one get into that chair in the first place?

Trust Japanese to come up with such things. The shoe acts as a pump to blow air into her skirt, which then becomes a chair! She certainly needs a chair if she is going to walk around in those shoes!

Cutlery chair! ouch!

Tesla Coils

2009-04-27T11:55:00.005+05:30

Well how electrifying can you get? A lot - if you wind yourself up with Tesla coils. Check out the cool pictures of experiments done with these coils.

Extreme Golf - South Africa (19th hole)

2009-04-27T11:50:00.004+05:30

I don't play golf but this is something I would love to try!

Car Parking - At It's Best

2009-04-25T13:48:00.006+05:30

Actually this is not car parking, but would be so nice if some of our larger cities adopt this concept. This is Volkswagen's Autostadt - the automated vehicle dispensing area for people who come to pick up their new vehicles. They punch in their order number and the car is automatically searched and brought down to the delivery bay.

Nat Geo Photos

2009-04-24T10:04:00.004+05:30

Amazing pics by National Geographic.

Click on them to see the larger size

Rich People's Rooves

2009-04-24T10:01:00.004+05:30

Sidewalk Art

2009-04-23T06:56:00.004+05:30

Julian Beever has an amazing talent and uses chalk to draw up interesting perspective art on the sidewalks, subways and other public places.

Busy at work...

Here is the completed painting

And here is how it looks when viewed from an appropriate angle - the point where people are clicking photos above :)

Rocks Imitating Animals

2009-04-22T20:00:00.004+05:30

Turtle

Seal

Elephant Trunk

Elephant

Elephant (top part) + Human Foot

Dog

Camel

Camouflaged Animals

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Photos with a difference!

2009-04-21T21:55:00.002+05:30

Right place, right time, right camera!

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I wonder if they are real photos or Photoshopped!

Real angels :-)

2009-04-20T22:50:00.004+05:30

Wildlife Photography

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Russian Presidential Plane!!

2009-04-19T21:33:00.005+05:30

You thought Air Force One was something?

See how Russian's splurge :)

How to make a green keyboard :)

2009-04-18T21:55:00.004+05:30