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A tourist crosses flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy on November 11, 2012. Flooding is common this time of year and Sunday's level that reached a peak of 58.66 inches was below the 63 inches recorded four years ago in the worst flooding in decades. (Photo by Luigi Costantini/Associated Press)

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14 Nov 2012 10:29:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Pictures of Recent Events [May 19, 2012]

The Baby Nager dragon, from DreamWorks’ new “How to Train Your Dragon” Live Spectacular touring musical, shows off it’s colors outside of the New York Public Library. (Photo by Mark Von Holden)

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Pictures of Recent Events

19 May 2012 13:05:00,post received 0 comments

Fact New Year Plunge, Part 2

A participant runs towards the waters of the North Sea during the annual New Year's plunge event in Ostend, Belgium, January 2, 2016. (Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

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04 Jan 2016 08:06:00,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 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