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Month: October 2008

Comfy to Crazy: 20 Creative Chairs and Chair Designs

We spend much of our working lives occupying chairs, but since we never really see them we sometimes take them for granted. Luckily there are clever and talented designers willing to renegotiate ...

Fast Photos: 12 Motion-Blur & Time-Lapse Photographers

Unlike freeze-frame photography that captures a tiny cross-section of a moment, time-lapse, long exposure and motion blur photography shows a series of moments.  They can be a few consecutive ...

Sweet Slices of Pi: 20 Awesome & Artistic Geek Cakes

Even geeks have got to eat, and when pizza's just not enough, there's cake. Not just any cake either - the surest route to geek satisfaction is a slice of pi. Pie, that is. The first twenty ...

Down & Out: Abandoned Airfields, Airports & Airplanes

Air travel has become a major part of our society, with industries and individuals depending on air transport for their livelihood. But have you ever wondered what happens to the artifacts of our ...

10 Historical Secret Rooms & Mysterious Hidden Passages

For all of humankind's history, we've been fascinated with hidden places. Before they were a fun architectural addition to new homes, hidden rooms and secret passages served a purpose. Most ...

24 Revealing Photos & Stories of Deserted Buildings

What is it about the cracking paint, the crumbling brick and the ominous silent of abandoned buildings that attracts urban explorers from around the world to crawl carefully through and silently ...

Moving Art: Unbelievable Kinetic Sculptures of Theo Jansen

In 1990, a new species was born.  It was not formed from the cross-breeding of existing creatures.  It didn't evolve from a simple to a complex organism.  It sprung from the hands of a Dutch ...

Fast Photography: 7 Skilled High-Speed Photographers

High-speed photography is a fascinating way to capture the images that we don't often get to see. So many amazing things happen in the blink of an eye - moving too quickly for us to see more than ...

Sustainable Speed: 15 Innovative Green Vehicle Designs

With gas prices are spiraling out of control, Americans are going wild over green cars like never before, but there are far more to the eco- (and wallet) friendly world of alternative fuels than ...

Shipwrecked: 12 Historic Abandoned Boats, Ships & Docks

(images via: divenorway, hyperfish, vigidal and sanjuan) Like trains, ships once played a much larger part in the worldwide economy than they do now.  Their reach has been significantly reduced ...

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