Troll Train: Brazil’s Steamy Mundo a Vapor Museum
The front facade of the Mundo a Vapor train museum in Canela, Brazil recreates a spectacular Parisian train wreck from 1895 in steamingly accurate detail. No doubt the worst – or at ...
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Street Smokers: Cabin Sits & Steams Over NYC Manhole Covers
This mobile art installation turns the most congested New York City intersections into an unlikely context for a most rural-looking little cottage, the illusion completed thanks to steam rising ...
Full of Hot Air: Clever Urban Monuments Conceal Exhaust Shafts
Fenced off or set back from streets and sidewalks and often raised on platforms as well, civic monuments are oddly ideal candidates for concealing a peculiar secondary function: the ventilation ...
Window Sketches: Minimalist Landscapes of Steam & Glass
No smoke-and-mirrors or post-production here, just fleeting vignettes swiftly staged on steamed windows and set against natural outdoor backgrounds. Jim Osborne is a self-taught landscape ...
Maids of the Mist: 15 Steamy Humidifier Designs
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could mist it... and these 15 humidifier designs will ensure you do just that. Running the gamut from cute to clever, ...
Bronze Aged: Cornwall’s Scenic Abandoned Metal Mines
Nearly 4,000 years ago, Cornish miners singlehandedly jump-started the Bronze Age by digging, scratching and clawing copper and tin ores from mines hacked deep beneath Cornwall's fertile soil. ...
