Odd Amusement: January 2014

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Britain's Most Tranquil Places

A collection of some beautiful places around Britain. Definitely worth checking out!

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Monday, January 6, 2014

Enjoy the Weather!

Friday, January 3, 2014

Russian Amphibious Equipment at Work - Numerous Photos

More than 300 militarymen and 50 units of combat equipment were used in training of the marines at the polygon “Klerk”, the Khasansky district.

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CAT LOVERS - Classy Portraits of Cats Portrayed As Royalty

Tashkent-based artist Eldar Zakirov presents a series of digitally painted cats, proudly posing in different royal attires for the Hermitage Magazine. The cats look so at home in their outfits and each piece is so realistic that one might even be tricked into thinking these are actual oil paintings! Every singly detail, starting with the fabrics of the outfits and ending with the background of the paintings is very carefully chosen to represent the era appropriately.

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This is What WiFi Signals Would Look Like if You Could See Them

According to Dr. Vogel, an astrobiologist and former employee at NASA Ames, "Wi-Fi is an energy field that is transmitted as waves. The waves have a certain height, distance between them and travel at a certain speed. The distance between Wi-Fi waves is shorter than that of radio waves and longer than that of microwaves, giving Wi-Fi a unique transmission band that can't be interrupted by other signals. Wi-Fi waves are about 3 to 5 inches from crest to crest." Continue reading for more.

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WOW - The Eternal Storm - Venezuela - Photos

The Catatumbo Lightning (Spanish Relámpago del Catatumbo) is an atmospheric phenomenon in Venezuela. It occurs only over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo. The frequent, powerful flashes of lightning over this relatively small area are considered to be the world's largest single generator of tropospheric ozone, that is, ozone that does not replenish the stratospheric ozone layer. It originates from a mass of storm clouds at a height of more than 5 km during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour. It occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo, typically over the bog area formed where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake.

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Creative Homemade Chairs on the Streets of China

Born in Germany and raised in the United States, Europe, and Canada; Michael Wolf began his career as a photojournalist, spending eight years working in Hong Kong for the German magazine Stern. After many years in the industry, Wolf quit photojournalism in the early 2000's, focusing strictly on fine-art photography and personal projects.

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Summer in China – Kids Wearing Watermelons

Some parents in China are taking the word ‘recycling’ to a whole new level…eat some watermelon then fashion some clothing for your child out of the shell.

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6 Pictures That Prove Hogwarts Is Real - WOW

Tumblr user R U Thunderstorms posted dichotomous photographs of stills from the film on top of their location at The Cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral.

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Thursday, January 2, 2014

A Rich Woman Abandoned This Apartment In 1942. What They Just Found Inside Is Incredible.

Madame de Florian was a French socialite and actress who fled to the south of France during World War II. She kept her apartment in Paris on the Right Bank near the Opéra Garnier, though, in case she wanted to return. However, she never went back to it after the war. Since 1942, the apartment has been sitting untouched, until recently when an auctioneer entered her apartment. What he found was a time capsule, full of treasures.

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Sci-Fi Enthusiasts - Wearable Tech of the Future!

We’re probably a century or two away from working mechanized exoskeletons modeled on the movements of crickets, but the great thing about digital concept art is there are no limits other than those of the creators’ imaginations.

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Step Inside ‘Truth,’ a Steampunk Coffee Shop in Cape Town, South Africa

Truth Coffee Shop in Cape Town, South Africa. This radically designed steampunk-themed coffee shop was created by Heldane Martin who considered the form factor of espresso machines and coffee roasters to be somewhat similar to the Victorian futuristic fantasy style found in the aesthetic of steampunk.

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This Deadly Lake turns Animals into Stone!

Call it the lake straight out of hell, cause unless you’re an extremophile fish adapted to the harsh conditions… it turns any animal it touches to stone. The temperatures in Lake Natron in Tanzania, can reach 60 °C, and its alkalinity is between pH 9 and pH 10.5… an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity.

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Beautifully Detailed Street Art by Traveling Chinese Artist - Phenominal

Chinese-born street artist DALeast, whose work is recognizable for its unique style anywhere he paints, has left a trail of stunning 3D graffiti spanning several continents. Based in South Africa with his wife, the 29-year-old artist spends around half a year traveling around the world and painting his graffiti artworks in different cities. Each piece of his street art looks as it’s made out of thousands of metal shards, which all come together beautifully to shape different animals, birds or humans in action.

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Buy Your Own AT-ST for under $20,000!

The AT-ST is basically a two-legged walker introduced in The Empire Strikes Back and featured extensively in Return of the Jedi. Due to their design and movement, they are often dubbed "chicken walkers". A movie prop studio in the UK is now offering a real-life replica that stands 16-feet-tall for $15,700. Continue reading for more pictures and information.

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Underwater Photos of Spectacular Colors - Sea Creature Usually Thought of as Ugly

These stunning images capture the amazing skin of the bobtail squid, who use thousands of cells to change colour. The cephalopods have translucent skin with pigments called chromatophores, which appear as small patches or dots. They use the cells to transform so they can attract a mate or blend into their surroundings.
Underwater photographer Todd Bretl took the incredible pictures during one of his many expeditions into the sea.

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10 Best Action Shots of Military Tech

Here are some best images of the military tech in action. Through these stunning shots, highlighting the technology that the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines deal with every day. Have a look at 10 best action shots – military technology in action.

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Abandoned "Land of Oz" Theme Park - Only Opened for 2 Days

At the top of a mountain, a crumbling Yellow Brick Road winds around forests filled with creepy anthropomorphic trees, Dorothy’s dilapidated house and an Emerald Castle made of stone. The Land of Oz has been abandoned for thirty-three years, and it hasn’t seen much restoration during that time, but it opens to the public October 5th for an annual event called ‘Autumn at Oz,’ enabling visitors to see it in all its sad, derelict glory.

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Portable Campers & Compartments for Backwood Living

Easily the largest category of small campers in the collection is hitch trailers and tent style compartments, which come in every size, shape and style. Some of them are designed to tackle the rigors of off-roading, but most are simple asphalt nomads.

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Vintage RVs Reclaimed as Hostel Rooms

At Bonn’s Basecamp Young Hostel, travelers enjoy the quirky accommodations of cheerfully decorated vintage RVs, with views of the sea and an unchanging blue sky just beyond their windows. That sky will never go cloudy, nor will it rain, because this particular campground is actually located in a 600-square-meter industrial warehouse.

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9 Spectacular Hidden Treasures Found in Recent Decades

In June 2011, a most spectacular treasure consisting of billions in gold and jewels was found in six underground chambers of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, located in Kerala province in southern India.

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7 Wonders of Underwater Architecture

Enjoy a luxurious lunch, spend the night gazing at deep sea creatures, take in museum exhibits or even catch a glimpse at an underwater stripper pole in these seven wonders of submerged architecture. Located from 20 to 50 feet below the surface, these real-life submarine structures (including a couple concepts currently under construction) would make for a swinging town for mermaids and mermen if they were all located in the same place.

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Smoking Weed in a Reclusive North Korea - Photos/Video

A trip to a local market in Rason, North Korea offered a rare perspective on day-to-day life in the DPRK... as well as a surprising - and controversial - discovery.

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20 Happiest Countries in the World, According to the World Happiness Report

According to the "World Happiness Report", these are the 20 happiest countries for 2013. There are various measures that contribute to the average overall happiness of any given country, including GDP per capita, life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, and even overall generosity and social support.

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Stunning Lazareth Wazuma V8FMatte Edition!

The Lazareth Wazuma V8FMatte Edition is a fully custom-built vehicle that is actually a mixture of car, quad, and motorcycle. This stunner has an absolute amazing finish and incredible look boasts with 3.0 liter V8 Ferrari motor and a BMW M3 gearbox. Its engine is also modified as it includes Yamaha R1 ramps and it is customizable as well using Sybelle.

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Awesome Lego Lord of the Rings Display - Photos

The Battle of Helm’s Deep may already have its own official Lego version, but the licensed set has nothing on this mind blowing set built by Lord of the Rings fanatics Rich-K and Big J. 1,368 pieces, this custom job utilizes over 150,000 Lego building blocks to recreate the classic scene from J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic film. In addition to the staggering number of bricks used for the installation.

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Bad Ass Bachelor Pads

A collection of some awesome pads - not only for bachelors - but for anyone.

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21 Real-Life Places that look like Game of Thrones

Many fans of the show already know that it's basically an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled A Game of Thrones. The series, set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos at the end of a decade-long summer, interweaves several plot lines. Continue reading for more real-life places that look to be straight from the television series.According to David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, the two came up with the idea of adapting George R. R. Martin's novels to the screen in 2006, after Benioff began reading the first novel, A Game of Thrones.

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Monster attacks on the Moon!

Totes My Goats...

Vintage "Rocketships" that Rolled Down the Highway and Sparked our Imagination - Photos

As the Space Age rocked, rolled and rocketed into pop culture, fantastic one-off wheeled wonders embarked upon a more prosaic mission: launching new products.

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Abandoned Star Wars (And Other) Movie Sets

Situated in the southern part of Tunisia, you'll find something truly unique, isolated, and intriguing. The images above aren't digital recreations or a sound stage, but was made by LucasFilms for a Star Wars movie. That's right, according to Crnchy, "when George Lucas finished filming, they abandoned the sets in the Tunisian countryside where they have been aging for over 25 years. Incredibly the structures still look great due to the dry warm Tunisian climate."

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Amazing Vibrant "Abandoned America Road Trip at Night" Photo Collection

Photographer Noel Kerns’ photographs make you feel like you’re on the most surreal and most haunted road trip across America ever.

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12 Amazingly Beautiful World Heritage Sites

There are many historical sites and places in the world that give us insight and evidence of the past civilizations. These sites help us learn about our ancestors, their living and culture. These sites can be called common or universal heritage of humankind and our World Heritage.

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The Incredible Wooden Buildings of Kizhi Island, Russia

Travelling along Russia’s historic waterways from glitzy Moscow to imperial St Petersburg is the ideal way to discover the real Russia. I traveled aboard the MS Lavrinenkov where my highlight was the incredible island of Kizhi, home to one of Russia’s largest open-air museums which boasts almost ninety historic wooden buildings.

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Australia's Spectacular Underwater World - Beautiful

This is most most bizarre underwater world in Austria’s (western Europe).It complicity different with other Nature gifts.yes the winter time almost half of the year,the lake is almost completely dry and people used as a park. However, during the spring, when the temperature rises and the snow melts from surrounding mountains, the basin of land below the mountains fills with water.each and every year 12m of water rising temperatures. The water is crystal clear and has a temperature of seven degrees Celsius.I would like to share few more Austria’s spectacular underwater world photos below.

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Hobbit Dollhouse - Very Detailed and Ornate - Photos

Creative dollhouse made by Maddie Brindley looks like the Baggin's house from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies. Miniature version of luxurious hole in the ground where Bilbo Baggins lived created by a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novels and Peter Jackson’s films.

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Celebrating 100 Likes! Here's a t-shirt we felt matched the occasion!

Logout is the hardest button to click!

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Europe's Most Active Volcano Spews Lava from the Earth's Core - Photos

Europe’s most active volcano Mount Etna has erupted – spewing molten lava thousand of feet above the Sicilian countryside. The eruption, which was captured on camera from Acireale, near Cantania, sent thick plumes of smoke and ash over the Italian island last night. The breathtaking footage shows the volatile volcano emitting streams of hot lava from the earth’s core.

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Auto Accidents in the Olden Days - Photo Gallery

Some rare pictures of accidents that happened in the old days. Some of these beg the question of how bad of a driver do you have to be to wreck like that?

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WOW - Artist Spent 4 Years Carving the World’s Longest Wooden Sculpture

Chinese artist Zheng Chunhui recently unveiled this exceptionally large wooden sculpture that measures some 40 feet (12.286) meters long. Four years in the making, the tree carving is based on a famous painting called “Along the River During the Qingming Festival,” which is a historical holiday reserved to celebrate past ancestors that falls on the 104th day after the winter solstice.

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Surreal Artwork: Transforming Reality - Photography Gallery

The first impression you get when you see surreal photography is “what the…” and then, of course, you observe the brilliant idea that’s behind it, the wonderful way of transforming into reality a person’s imagination. Knowing that these photographers have an incredible imagination, you can probably presume the result of their work. Brilliant at least. Enjoy!

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Truck Home: Ingenious Israeli Turns Truck Into Exquisite & Ergonomic House On Wheels

When people talk about ‘life on the road’ it is most often about an adventurous trip or two that took them to a few exotic places before they found their way back home. But when 50 year old Joseph Tayyar tells you about the same, he literally means every single word. This resourceful and creative animator by profession has turned a truck into a mobile house that is as stylish and convenient as any modern home.