Ordinary Objects in an Extraordinary Way

But first, a few vintage Objects example of mind-bending balance, done for the camera:
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Now, on with the balancing objects:

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The following videos illustrate the most classic examples of equilibrium:

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People in Sri Lanka are masters of this special “Balancing Act”:

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Balancing rocks could be a topic for a separate post, bearing in mind how popular it is among various artists - expertly balancing whatever shapes nature gives them.

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Top 10 Sexiest Billionaire Daughters

Top 10 Sexiest Billionaire and millionaire daughters have a bad rap as high-maintenance trust fund babies and socialite ladies of pleasure. Also, let's not forget that wealth is not always synonymous with good genes. Not every tycoon and captain of industry in the exclusive billionaires' club has drop-dead gorgeous offspring. In order to help you navigate the tiny sea of billionaire darlings, we've compiled a 10-item guide to the hottest billionaire daughters in the world. What would it take to date one of these girls? Besides being a professional athlete or a Hollywood A-lister, the obvious answer is a parent or family member with a similar position on the Forbes list

Top 10 Charlotte Casiraghi

Age: 23

Billionaire Family: Grimaldi Family of Monaco

Family Fortune: US$1 billion

A granddaughter to the late Grace Kelly and an eligible heir to the throne of Monaco, Charlotte Casiraghi is a 23-year-old editor-at-large for Above fashion magazine. Her inheritance isn't limited to her grandfather's royal fortune and her grandmother's good looks. At the age of 17, this elegant fashionsita was gifted a private island off the coast of Sardinia.

Top 9 Holly Branson

Age: 28
Billionaire Father: Richard Branson

Family Fortune: US$2.5 billion

Rather than milking her father's fortune from the Virgin empire, Richard Branson's bombshell daughter briefly decided to pursue a pediatric medical degree at University College in London. After smelling the roses that her father is one of the coolest billionaires in the world, Holly left her medical ambitions to intern at Virgin and being the climb up the company ladder. Although she's still single, there's been tabloid speculation that she might be a suitor to Prince William.

Top 8 Ariana Rockefeller

Age: 27/28

Billionaire Grandfather: David Rockefeller, Jr.

Family Fortune: US$3 billion

Position on 2010 Forbes Billionaire List: #47 Ariana's last name is Rockefeller -- as in John Rockerfeller -- which tells us she's a future heiress of a family that built it's fortune on Texas gold. Her father, David Rockerfeller Jr., manages the an estimated three billion in assets through Rockefeller Financial Services, which holds court in the family's namesake midtown Manhattan plaza.

Top 7 Tamara Ecclestone

Age: 25

Billionaire Father: Bernard Ecclestone

Family Fortune: $4 billion

Position on 2010 Forbes Billionaire List: #212

Tamara Ecclestone's father, Bernard, has managed to capitalize on the explosion of interest in F-1 racing around the world, tying him with Richard Branson at the #212 spot on the 2010 Forbes list. Tamara works as a racing television host in Britain and her Croatian mother is a former Armani model.

Top 6 Dylan Lauren

Age: 36

Billionaire Father: Ralph Lauren

Family Fortune: $4.6 billion

Position on 2010 Forbes Billionaire List: #173

Ralph Lauren's Polo empire began in a working-class neighborhood in the Bronx and blossomed into the most iconic American fashion success story. Ralph's oldest daughter Dylan is the brainchild behind Dylan's Candy Bar, a boutique candy store with locations in New York, Houston, and Orlando. At 36 years old, she's definitely moving into cougar territory, but still brings fiery good looks. It's an obvious sign she's not overindulging on the sweets.

Top 5 Amanda Hearst

Age: 26

Billionaire Family: The Hearst family

Family Fortune: US$5 billion

Amanda Randolph Hearst (born January 5, 1984) is an American socialite, fashion model, and heiress to William Randolph Hearst's media empire, which reports $5 billion a year in annual revenue USD.

boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut. She graduated in 2002, enrolled at Boston College, and later transferred to Fordham University where she studies Art History

Top 4 Kathrine and Cecilie Fredriksen

Age: 25

Billionaire Father: John Fredriksen

Family Fortune: $7.7 billion

Position on 2010 Forbes Billionaire List: #88

Norwegian-born shipping magnate John Fredriksen has been called "a modern day Onassis." The shipping tycoon has amassed an impressive fortune by building oil tankers and drilling equipment for maritime oil exploration. His 25-year old twin daughters are Scandinavian smoke shows who work in companies controlled by their billionaire dad.

Top 3 Samantha Perelman

Age: 19 or 20? (born in 1990)

Billionaire Father: Ron Pearlman

Family Fortune: $11 billion

Position on 2010 Forbes Billionaire List: #52

The daughter of billionaire Cigar Aficionado investor and leveraged-buyout king Ron Pearlman attended the University of Pennsylvania, where the Pearlman family name adorns a campus quad. While billionaire heiresses don't tend to share their thoughts online, she's one of the few on this list besides Paris Hilton that you can follow on Twitter.

Top 2 Georgina Bloomberg

Age: 27

Billionaire Father: Michael Bloomberg

Family Fortune: $18 billion

Position on 2010 Forbes Billionaire List: #23

Georgina Bloomberg, the daughter to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is both an accomplished equestrian and New York Knicks fan, where she's frequently spotted with her billionaire father. In November, Georgina dished to Page Six magazine about choosing an equestrian career over college and her father's meteoric rise on the billionaire list. Most recently Georgina landed a sports modeling deal.

Top 1 Marta Ortega Pérez

Age: 26

Billionaire Father: Amancio Ortega Gaona

Family Fortune: $25 billion

Position on 2010 Forbes Billionaire List: #9

Three years ago Amancio Ortega Gaona's youngest daughter, Marta Perez, began her quest to inherit her father's Inditex fashion retail empire with a no-frills job stocking shelves and dealing with customers service at a Bershka fashion store. Inditex now boasts some 4,500 stores in 73 countries, including chichi designer brands such as Bershka, Stradivarius, Massimo Dutti, and the massive Zara chain. The daughter of Spain's richest man is reported to be an avid equestrian and still single, so a little horse whispering might be the quickest way to winning the heart of this billionaire heiresses.

Wall of Gum in Seattle

The Gum Wall is a local landmark in downtown Seattle, in Post Alley under Pike Place Market. Similar to Bubblegum Alley in California, the Gum Wall is a brick wall now covered in used chewing gum. The wall is covered several inches thick, 15 feet high for 50 feet.

The wall is by the waiting line for the Market Theater, and the tradition began around 1993 when patrons of Unexpected Productions' Seattle Theatresports stuck gum to the wall. Theater workers scraped the gum away twice, but eventually gave up after market officials deemed the gum wall a tourist attraction in around 1999. People initially stuck coins to the wall using the gum, and some people create small works of art out of gum.

It was named one of the top 5 germiest tourist attractions in 2009, second to the Blarney Stone. It is the location of the start of a ghost tour, and it is a popular site with wedding photographers.

A scene for the 2009 Jennifer Aniston film Love Happens was shot at the wall in 2008

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Orangutans kickboxing

Cruel ape fight club exposed Dressed in garish shorts and boxing gloves, orangutans trade punches and spin-kick each other in a boxing ring.

Horrifying footage shows cheering tourists drawn to the barbaric sport at a theme park called Safari World on the outskirts of Bangkok in Thailand.

The same company was banned from doing exactly the same thing just six years ago.

While an orangutan pretends to be knocked out of the boxing ring, others, dressed in bikinis are trained as round card girls and bell ringers.

The apes kickbox each other as a spectacle for tourists in a show lasting more than 30 minutes, before being returned to their dark cages. It is not known how many orangutans have been captured and trained by Safari World.

Animal campaigners say the apes - weighing up to 250lbs - could do themselves serious damage in the boxing ring.

They warn it is hastening the end of the orangutan, which experts claim could be extinct in the wild in several years.

Dr Grainne McEntee, head of operations at Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS), said: 'It is heartbreaking that such practices still go on.

'Increasing awareness of the impact of deforestation in the Western world is crucial to helping bring this trade to an end.'

He said the continued devastation of the Bornean rainforest fuels this illegal trade in orangutans, both as pets and for use in entertainment.

In 2004, the Thai government banned Safari World from conducting these controversial shows after the centre was found to be using illegally smuggled orangutans from Indonesia.

The issue was exposed by Monkey World in Dorset and after Safari World was closed 48 orangutans were rescued and taken to a refuge in Nyaru Menteng, Indonesian Borneo.

BOS, which cares for 1,000 orangutans at the refuge, was instrumental in the successful repatriation.

'When they arrived in Nyaru Menteng they always protected their face and head whenever people tried to get closer to them, said Hardi, the assistant project manager. 'Maybe, because their trainers often beat them.

'But no longer do they cover their faces and head as they have started trusting us.'

According to the staff at the project, the orangutans are healthy and disease-free

Dr Grainne said: 'These orangutans now enjoy a semi-wild life on one of the islands close to the project.

'We will soon release some of these rehabilitated orangutans back to safe protected rainforest - a future we strive towards for all the orangutans.'

Wild orangutans are now only found in the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia.

The Sumatran species is critically endangered while the Bornean species is endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list.

Source:- thesun.co.uk