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Fact The Day in Photos – October 13, 2015

A paddler races in a giant pumpkin during the annual regatta on Lake Pisiquid in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Sunday, October 11, 2015. (Photo by Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)

A paddler races in a giant pumpkin during the annual regatta on Lake Pisiquid in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Sunday, October 11, 2015. Participants hollow out the massive gourds and pilot them across the 500 meter course. (Photo by Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)

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14 Oct 2015 08:07:00,post received 0 comments

Fact The Week in Pictures: May 3 – May 9, 2014. Part 3/5

In this Thursday, May 8, 2014 photo, guests look down from the Tilt!, a new tourist attraction that provides guests a unique view of the downtown area from the 94th floor of the John Hancock Building, after it was unveiled in Chicago. People hold onto handrails as the glass and steel facade tilts forward 30 degrees. (Photo by Ashlee Rezin/AP Photo/Sun-Times Media)

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10 May 2014 14:30:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Berndnaut Smilde Creater Clouds

Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde is interested in the ephemeral -- impermanent states of being which he documents through photographs. For Nimbus II, he used a smoke machine, combined with moisture and dramatic lighting to create a hovering indoor cloud in the empty setting of a sixteenth-century chapel in Hoorn, a small town in Holland. “I imagined walking into a museum hall with just empty walls. The place even looked deserted. On the one hand I wanted to create an ominous situation. You could see the cloud as a sign of misfortune. You could also read it as an element out of the Dutch landscape paintings in a physical form in a classical museum hall.”

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25 Dec 2012 12:31:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Magnolia Pearl Airstream Dream Machine

The Texas-based fashion company Magnolia Pearl offers up a feast for the eyes. Company owners Robin Brown and John Gray are two souls I'd love to have in my circle of friends. When the two take to the open road to scout antiques, they do it their Magnolia Pearl converted Airstream trailer.

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07 Jan 2013 13:14:00,post received 0 comments

Touching A Little Bit J-Pop Clips: Ayumi Hamasaki, plus Bonus (Music Video)

Ayumi Hamasaki (滨崎步) – Startin'

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06 Apr 2013 12:07:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Bugs Up Close

Belgian Photographer Boris Godfroid, a former biology student who recently graduated from film school, started shooting macro photography in 2008. Photo: Bee. (Photo by Boris Godfroid)

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02 Aug 2013 07:25:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Drawing by Heather Hansen

Heather Hansen is a both a contemporary performance artist and dancer who stays in New Orleans. Heather has manage to discover an elegant and creative way of translating a her dancing motion on a paper using some charcoal.

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14 Apr 2014 12:20:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Panopticons: the Atom, Colourfields, Haslingden Halo and Singing Ringing Tree

“Panopticons is an arts and regeneration project of the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network managed by Mid Pennine Arts. It involved the construction of series of 21st-century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire, England, as symbols of the renaissance of the area”. – Wikipedia

Photo: “Singing Ringing Tree. The Singing Ringing Tree is a musical sculpture overlooking Burnley. It was designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu and constructed from pipes of galvanised steel”. (Photos by WandereringSoul/Mark Tighe)

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09 Apr 2012 12:18:00,post received 0 comments