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A Few Beers (NSFW)? 2007-07-24 10:29:00 A Few Beers (NSFW)?Can this be a classic example of what may happen after a few beers & if fireworks were around? Instead of a bottle this guy used the other guy's bottom to hold the rocket. So what do you think happens once it's lit? This can be a sheer example of stupidity. In this photo this guy has provided the perfect posture for making the rocket stand using his bottom.In this photo you can see the rocket is lit.Now comes the realization & this guy starts feeling the heat of what they have been upto.End result? Can't sit on bottom for quite some time.SourceOther Posts: Creative Ads: Life Is Too Short For Wrong JobsWeird Designer ShoesJeans With A Built In G-Stringca-pub-6006325771531878 ...

Cool Looking Cats 2007-07-24 10:17:00 Cool Looking CatsAll these cuties got a lion cut - that's where they shave the body but leave the ruff, arms, legs, and part of the tail fluffy. Though it's supposed to be more comfortable for Persian cats during the summer, & it does prevent some shedding around the house. You can also go for this look for your cat:"If your cat is prone to mats or refuses to be brushed at home, then your groomer is your best defense. Many cats think the brush is a toy, which can be a problem for long-haired breeds Therefore, your groomer may shave (yes - SHAVE) your cat into lion-cut. Actually, the groomer uses clippers, but it sure looks like a shaved cat when you get it back. As long as your groomer leaves a puff on the tip of the tail, your cat usually won't mind too much. The lion-cut leaves tufts on the feet, tip of the tail and stops just under the chin, which leaves a ruff similar to that of a lion's. The face is not touched. Clippers or trimmers are best for this job. Note that around the ...

Amazing Antarctica 2007-07-24 10:07:00 Amazing AntarcticaHere are some images of Antarctica, which are quite enticing. Though Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents there are no permanent human residents and Antarctica has never had an indigenous population, yet it never stops appealing with its lovely scenic beauty. And at times temperature reaches a minimum of between -80 °C and -90 °C (-112 °F and -130 °F) in the interior in winter and reach a maximum of between +5 °C and +15 °C (41 °F and 59 °F) near the coast in summer.Source: 1 & 2Other Posts: Coffee ArtRelated Posts:Panoramic PhotosAmazing Pictures Of Beautiful Earth Awesome Photographs Of DongjiangStunning Beauty Of Waterfallsca-pub-6006325771531878 ...

Cute Pictures Of Babies Swimming 2007-07-24 09:53:00 Cute Pictures Of Babies SwimmingHere are some very cute pictures of babies swimming. No doubt any parent will get a smile seeing them swim. And if you do wish to take your baby in water along with you, then do read the following carefully. Most Health Visitors recommend the following: "waiting until after your baby has had their first course of immunizations (8 weeks) although Government guidelines suggest swimming in public pools does not pose a risk to younger babies as the chlorine kills off any potential threat, most obviously from polio. As long as the pool is warm enough it's ok to take a baby of any age swimming. Do remember though, mums should not swim until after their 6 week check. Most pools will not take babies unless they have had their first 3 courses of immunizations (12 weeks old)."When is it safe to bring my child to a pool or lake?"You may want to wait to go to a pool or lake with your child until he can hold his head up on his own (usually by 4 or 5 months). If your ...

Fantastic Pencil Sculptures 2007-07-23 04:25:00 Fantastic Pencil SculpturesAuroraAsteridayHeat WaveLunaMaterializeOzmaSilkieTerspichoreTiamatAccording to Jennifer Maestre, her sculptures were originally inspired by the form and function of the sea urchin. The spines of the urchin, so dangerous yet beautiful, serve as an explicit warning against contact. The alluring texture of the spines draws the touch in spite of the possible consequences. The tension unveiled, we feel push and pull, desire and repulsion. The sections of pencils present aspects of sharp and smooth for two very different textural and aesthetic experiences. Paradox and surprise are integral in her choice of materials. Quantities of industrially manufactured objects are used to create flexible forms reminiscent of the organic shapes of animals and nature. Pencils are common objects; here these anonymous objects become the structure. There is truly a fragility to the sometimes brutal aspect of the sculptures, vulnerability that is belied by the fearsome texture.To ma ...

Edouard Martinet's Metal Sculptures 2007-07-23 04:10:00 Edouard Martinet's Metal SculpturesIt's work by Edouard Martinet: Steel Animals."The work represented on this site consists of metal sculptures created using found materials which are fixed without welding.Edouard carefully selects his raw materials found in brocantes and junk yards.The finished pieces achieving a life of thier own. Click on the pictures to see the various collectionsEdouard has been working Brittany France for the last 10 years. He has had various exhibitions in France and abroad."Source: 1 & 2Related Post: Liquid Sculpture By Martin Waugh Bruce Gray's Metal SculpturesUnderwater Sculpturesca-pub-6006325771531878 ...

Volkswagen Beetle By Vrbanus 2007-07-23 04:01:00 Volkswagen Beetle By VrbanusIt's a unique & original idea, took 2500 hours of handwork, details gilt with 24 kt gold & its ready to drive."Metal art workshop "Vrbanus" was founded in 1981 as a fancy-goods workshop for manufacturing items of common metals. From that time until now, the company was modernized several times and equipped with new machines, which have speeded up the process of production and increased the quality of final products.The basic orientation of our production consists of creating products of hammered metal. We process unique products based on the customers' requests. The majority of metal shaping is manual, which ensures the originality and fully personalized look of the final product."Source: VrbanusOther Posts:Christmas Island Red CrabRelated Post:Wooden Wheels CarReally Very Thin Carca-pub-6006325771531878 ...

Is This The World's Most Complex Origami? 2007-07-23 03:52:00 Is This The World's Most Complex Origami?Watch Is This The World's Most Complex Origami? Video on YoutubeThe red dragon, "made from a 1.2 x 1.2 meter sheet, took only 6 hours to fold. The yellow hornet was commissioned by luxury retailer Hermes and was put on display in their New York store. The white dragon is fashioned from a 2 x 2 meter sheet of paper. "As far as I know, it is the most complex origami in the world," says Kamiya in the video."Watch Is This The World's Most Complex Origami? Video on YoutubeSee more of his work on: folders.jpReally amazing work!Source: 1, 2, 3 & 4Other Posts:Amazing WomanDesign Interior: Optical Illusions In RealityRelated Post: Stone ArtCoffee Artca-pub-6006325771531878 ...

Which Type Is Your Girl? 2007-07-23 03:15:00 Which Type Is Your Girl?Hard disk girlsShe remembers everything, forever.Ram girlsShe forgets about you, the moment you turn her off.Window girlsEveryone knows that she can't do a thing right, but no one can live without her.Internet girlsShe is cool but difficult to access sometimes.Server girlsAlways busy when you need her.Multimedia girlsShe makes horrible things look beautiful.CD-Rom girlsShe is always faster and faster.Email girlsEvery ten things she says, eight are nonsense.Screensaver girls She is good for nothing but at least she is fun.suriV girlsAlso known as "wife'' when you are not expecting her, she comes, installs herself and uses all your resources. If you try to uninstall her you will lose something, if don't try to uninstall her you will lose everything. SourceOther Posts: So What Really Bra Cup Size Meant? Banana Art Cube Artca-pub-6006325771531878 ...

Snow In Desert 2007-07-20 12:16:00 Snow In DesertThe Taklamakan is a desert of Central Asia, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It is known as the largest sandy desert in the world. It covers an area of 270,000 km² of the Tarim Basin, extending between roughly 78° to 88° E longitude and 37° to 40° N latitude. It is crossed at its northern and at its southern edge by two branches of the Silk Road."The Taklimakan Desert is a vast region of sand desert sitting in a depression between two high, rugged mountain ranges. The Taklimakan's rolling sand dunes stretch out over about 125,000 square miles in the Xinjiang region of China. The desert is hemmed in to the north by the Tien Shan Mountain range and to the south by the rugged Kunlun Mountains. According to National Geographic, temperature is extremely variable on both a daily and a seasonal basis, changing by as much as 20 degrees Celsius (36 degrees Fahrenheit) from day to night and 30 degrees Celsius (54 deg ...

Christmas Island Red Crab 2007-07-20 11:16:00 Christmas Island Red Crab There are around 120 million crabs on the march.The crabs navigate the same pathways year after year.During the migration, the island's human inhabitants just have to adapt it.Crabs have a highly visible presence during migration.For the islanders, encounters with crabs during the migration are just part of island life.Most of the time the islanders just work around the crabs & take them for granted.Crabs turns up in the most unexpected places & hardly there will be a place that during this migration season you won't find them.A female crab expels eggs from her brood pouch.The eggs hatch immediately on contact with the water. After two weeks of marching, crabs reaches the ocean.Red crabs begin their march from the forest to the sea, where they will reproduce. Watch Christmas Island Red Crab Video on MetacafeThe Territory of Christmas Island is a small, non-self-governing territory of Australia located in the Indian Ocean, 2600 kilometres northwest of Perth ...

Mud Painting 2007-07-19 12:22:00 Mud PaintingThis is the amazing creation of artist Henry Neubig. He used mud as his medium for painting."This Baton Rouge artist takes the word "dirty" literally in his new art form.Neubig paints with Louisiana mud.'I was looking for something natural to use as a medium, and I wanted to stay with basic raw materials," he says.In developing his new art form, Neubig decided to stick with natural elements and refuses to use commercial products.A medium was necessary to bind the clay pigments into a permanent paint, and after abandoning false starts in acrylic and oil, he turned to egg yolks. "Louisiana eggs, naturally," he says.Neubig says his experiments have resulted in a new natural paint: clay, egg yolk and his secret ingredient-water."Source: MudpaintingRelated Post: Dirt Car ArtMicroscopic Art Fictional Surreal Art By Jacek YerkaStone Art Coffee Artca-pub-6006325771531878 ...

The Hulk Cow 2007-07-19 12:08:00 The Hulk CowEarlier we had Big Wendy, The Muscular Super Dog . This time meet 'The Hulk Cow: Belgian Blue Cattle' which are famous for their "double muscling" due to a gene that suppresses the production of Myostatin."These cattle originated in central and upper Belgium and they, at one time, accounted for nearly half of the cattle in the national herd. Results of studies conducted in Belgium show that the carcass characteristics of the Belgian Blue were expressed in the crossbreds whose commercial value was then substantially increased. The observation explains the growing interest for the Belgian Blue breed as a terminal sire, its carcass composition and it's growth potential."Myostatin (formerly known as Growth differentiation factor 8) is a growth factor that limits muscle tissue growth, i.e. higher concentrations of myostatin in the body may cause the individual to have less developed muscles.The myostatin protein is produced primarily in skeletal muscle cells, circulates in th ...

Strange Japanese Watermelons 2007-07-19 11:55:00 Strange Japanese WatermelonsHuman-faced watermelon. A friendly looking human-faced watermelon."It looks so lifelike, you might not be able to bear actually cutting into it. By the way, its price is somewhere between 50,000 and 80,000 yen."Pyramid watermelon."The price of the pyramid watermelon is around 80,000 yen. Pricey! We sure hope that it tastes good!" Cubic watermelonA cubic watermelon, and a more advanced version resembling playing dice. See the dots? How about enjoying a game of backgammon with watermelon dice on the beach this summer?Japanese watermelons are no longer round! These are funny looking Japanese melons shaped like faces, hearts, cubic & pyramids."Watermelons in interesting shapes all started with a cubic watermelon that a farmer in the Kagawa prefecture grew about 20 years ago. Originally, this was created on the idea that a watermelon in the shape of a cube would fit more readily in a compact refrigerator. (How efficient the Japanese are!) Unfortunately, though, t ...

Nik Ainley's Shiny Binary Art 2007-07-19 11:40:00 Nik Ainley's Shiny Binary ArtNik Ainley a UK based designer who had done a couple of high profile arts such as 100 games of 2007 for The Official Xbox 360 Magazine, 101 ideas for better images for Computer Arts, Current account produced for Publicis on behalf of Halifax, Grasscity designs for Grasscity & various others."Nik Ainley is a UK based designer who has a passion for producing personal art and illustrations. After teaching himself Photoshop in his spare time while gaining a degree in physics at Imperial College London, he has since moved full time into the design world. He is constantly trying to further his expertise in digital media, and won't stop until he has mastered all the tools he needs to fully realize his designs.As a designer, Nik has been receiving more and more exposure, his work featuring in many magazines as well as on books, album covers, posters and clothing. He was listed as one of the "Top 10 up-and-coming creative talents of 2006" by Computer Arts magazin ...