Sunday, December 6, 2009

Top 10 Strange and Ugliest Men

10 - Carrot Top = steroids + cosmetic surgery + red hair.
9 - Your stereotypical geek/nerd/dweeb from high school.
8 - Amazing talent from China huh? His caucasian cousin is below.
7 - This guy is just really ugly enough said.
6 - Sam Cassell AKA Mr. UFO.
5 - Verne Troyer AKA Mini-Me.
4 - This guy needs to visit the dentist soon!
3 - Beetlejuice from the Howard Stern Radio Show.
2 - Yu Zhenhuan AKA “King Kong” from China. He is single ladies!
1 - Michael Jackson do I need to say more?
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Awesome and unusual Living room decorated inside a PC





Today you can get computers with different designs but what about having a living room decorated in your PC? A Russian artist made a model of a living room that has a sofa, armchairs, coffee table and a working lamp, in his computer. The living room is even containing a gumball machine, bottle of coke

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Google Earth globe Photography


Mt. St. Helens


Alcatraz


Stonehenge. ('Tis a magic place, where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face.)


Eiffel Tower


Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe


Taj Mahal, India (home of Dell customer service)


The Great Pyramids


A segment of the Panama Canal


The Teton Range


Sydney Harbour, with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge


Hollywood Sign


The Parthenon, Greece


Ellis Island


Temple Mount, Jerusalem


Niagara Falls


Machu Picchu, Peru ("The Lost City Of The Incas")


Half Dome, Yosemite National Park


Arc De Triomphe, Paris


Venice, Italy


Colosseum, Rome


Diamondhead Crater, Hawaii

Google Earth gives you the option to have the program superimpose 3-D illustrations of buildings over its satellite photos, which comes in handy when the angle of objects in the photo does not match your viewing angle, as seen in this shot of the Statue Of Liberty without 3-D.



The same shot (almost) with the 3-D enabled. I'm not sure which is the lesser of two evils: one is weird and one is fake. But it's a small complaint.



Another example...


The fountain pool at the Bellagio in Las Vegas without 3-D enabled.


And a wider shot of the Vegas Strip in 3-D.


London, with Big Ben in 3-D


Devil's Tower, Wyoming (from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind) in 3-D


St. Louis Arch (3-D)



10 Awesome Masterpices Of Frost

When thinking of snowflakes and frost, your memory tends to give you subtle hints: it’s translucent, abstract, beautiful and short-lived. Nothing however, can prepare you for what abstract masterpieces icy nights may bring. Flourishes of Jack Frost
’s brushstrokes envelop windscreens in fractal crystal and transform into icy autumn leaves, crystal ferns and mathematical shapes. Jack Frost is an abstract artist.

Perhaps the beauty of frost lies precisely in the fact that it is ephemeral, melting into oblivion only several hours after it is created. Frost deposits form when water vapor turns directly into ice, which happens when the air temperature is at or below freezing. When the first frost crystals form a layer, new crystals will align themselves with those already there, which gives us the amazing natural patterns we see.

This amazing shot could easily be mistaken for a close-up of a crystal vase. The detail and clarity are unbelieveable. It’s actually the windscreen of a car taken from the inside. Windscreens are more prone to frosting over because they cool much quicker than the other windows in the car. Being vertical, the side windows loose heat
at a slower rate the windscreen, which is a larger surface area and points directly into the cool night air, making it a perfect canvas for Jack Frost.

Like little Christmas trees fallen from the sky, this shot looks cool in iced blue. Trees and plants cool off by a process called radiative cooling, which means they give off energy in the form of infrared radiation
. This means they retain more heat so they don’t frost over in the same way windows do.

Wonderful natural looking landscapes are created without any direction. The patterns in this photograph look like petals of a tropical flower, and are just as fragile.

The lighting on this image gives an awesome 3D quality to the frost, but one touch and it would be gone. Still, whether touched or not, the first rays of the morning sun will melt nature’s hard word in minutes. Shame.

Taken in macro, this image shows the intricacy of frost formations, and like many others looks 3D. It also is not unlike some of the great impressionist masterpieces from the 19th century.

“We had a day of hard rain and then a sudden windy hard freeze. Made for some interesting frost patterns on the windows,” says Muffet the photographer. The wind seems to have frozen the rain in upward strokes resulting in this fantastic image. Although, it also looks like the old flock wallpaper from the 70s – not so cool.

It’s uncanny how the long arms of this frost formation are repeated in equally spaced-out chunks, like a shaft of wheat. The shape of frost crystals are influenced by the type of glass they’ve formed on, and any imperfections or scratches in the surface will play a part in the final look.

Like frosted sunflowers these frost formations look as if they’ve erupted from rain drops, their icy petals growing slowly in the cold air.

This mish-mash of crystals looks like a little like a tall ship caught in a storm
. The waves to the bottom right of the image and the masts keeling sideways. Other people will probably see something different, but then that’s the beauty of art – it’s in the eye of the beholder, as they say.