Fixing lunch

Who da thunk it?

Ice sculpture

The result of wave action on an iceberg.

Wooden sculpture

 30 year old Yuri Hvtisishvili of St. Petersburg, Russia, built this replica of the Soviet made IZH-49

Sirens of the Lambs

Banksy showed up at Glastonbury Festival with his "Sirens of the Lambs" piece.

Crazy legs

Bartosz Huzarski is a 33 year old Polish born competitive bicycle racer.  This is what his legs looked like at the end of stage 18 of this year's Tour de France.

Good for a laugh

Rescue me

Seven firefighters in China's Zhejiang province managed to rescue this 660 pound pig from a well it had fallen into.

Carrot clarinet

Ben Butler

Ben Butler builds large sculptures by assembling hundreds of pieces of wood together with no exact plan for what will evolve.  See additional examples of his work here.

Mu Cang Chai District, Vietnam

Road trip

Lean on me

Architects of Uhlik Architekti designed this structure for a client who wanted a retreat neat Prague. It is only 200 square feet and some of the materials were found on the property.  Local craftsmen were involved in the construction.  It is described as a simple space where the owner can enjoy a quiet escape from city living.

Read more and see images of the building here.

A different kind of canvas

Jesse over at justacarguy.blogspot.com/ posted this today and I followed his link to the site where you can see more interesting examples.

End of the road

Pej Behdarvand did a series of photographs documenting some of the cars ending up at Aadlen Brothers Auto Wrecking in Sun Valley California.  He called the series "Deathbed".  View more images in the collection here.

Runs with scissors

Living small

Referred to as "spite houses" The Atlantic has a piece about dwellings that were built mostly as a result of people having unresolved differences.  See several more such structures and read about it here.

Bastille Day 2014

Off the grid opportunity

This 24 foot diameter yurt is fully furnished and has an outhouse.  It is located in a gated community in Marblemount, Washington.  The community shares a flush toilet and a picnic area. The location provides opportunities for hiking, climbing, rafting and fishing.  Listed at $24,500.

View the listing with additional photos on Zillow.

Taiwan scooter jam

Early Tour

What, exactly, is going on here?

1948 Cadillac Sedanette

Praying for rain

The Parjanya Varun Yagam is a special prayer for rain.  These Hindu priests are sitting in tubs of water in front of a fire performing the ceremony.  India's monsoon rainfall was 43% below the June average, the weakest first month of the season in five years.

Crater Lake, Oregon

Photographer Forrest Stanley

Mood blanket?

British Airways has conducted some testing with a blanket that monitors neuron activity in the brain.  A headband transmits information to the blanket and when a person is stressed it glows red. A calm and relaxed person's blanket will glow blue.

These tests were conducted in the first class cabin.  I would guess that the if they ran the same tests in economy they would get very different results.

A quick look at Barcelona

Krubar Cave

At 7000 feet Kruber Cave is the world's deepest.  It is located in the Ghagra mountain range in Abkhazia, Georgia.  Click here for additional images and information.

Batman Wannabe

Max Rive

Max Rive likes to hike and take pictures.  This image is of Reine, Norway.  View more of his work here.

1948 Buick Streamliner

Norman E. Timbs was a mechanical engineer who worked mostly in the design of Indy 500 cars.  He spent two years and $10,000 to build this car.  $8000 of that budget was needed to fabricate the aluminum body.  Additional images and information is available here.

Be Happy

Parga, Greece

Take it to the roof

A rooftop track on a Fiat factory

The art of being

Painted Desert

Located at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in East Central Oregon, USA.