World’s Most Brightly Colored Buildings | Beautiful Colorium edifices

Some buildings are famous for their unique architectural designs but some are well-known for their bright and vibrant colors. Colorful buildings are truly attractive edifices. Here are some of the world’s most colorful buildings.
First World Hotel – Malaysia
The colorful and beautiful First World Hotel in Malaysia is the third largest hotel in the world by rooms. The hotel has 3 towers of 28 floors each and has a total of 6,118 rooms. This 5 star hotel is located in Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia.
Yellow Mansion – Austria
This brightly colored building is a Mansion located in Klagenfurt, Carinthia in Austria.
Klagenfurt, the capital of Carinthia, has a population of over 90,000 and is the sixth-largest city of Austria.
Golden Resources Shopping Mall – China
This colorful shopping mall called Golden Resources Shopping Mall is located in Beijing, the capital of China. It is also called Jin Yuan and nicknamed ‘Great Mall of China because of its over-all of 6 million square feet or 557,419 square meters. It was the world’s largest mall from 2004 to 2005 but lost the distinction when South China Mall was completed in 2006. It is now the world’s second-largest mall.
Red Building
This brightly-colored but lonesome building in the middle of nowhere stands proud and beautiful for its vibrant red color.
Beelden Geluid – The Netherlands
The attractively and uniquely painted Beeld en Geluid is a building at the Media Park in Hilversum, The Netherlands. Hilversum is the largest municipality in the region called "t Gooi".
GSW – Germany
The GSW Building in Berlin, the capital of Germany, is not so brightly colored compared to other colorful buildings on the list but it is certainly unique for it’s multicolor.
Student Houseboat – The Netherlands
This multicolored building is a houseboat for student in Zwolle, Netherlands. The finest and costliest houseboats can be found along the canals of Amsterdam, the country’s capital.
St Basil’s Cathedral – Russia
This colorful religious edifice is popularly known as Saint Basil’s Cathedral. This Russian Orthodox cathedral is officially called Cathedral of Intercession of Theotokos on the Moat. It is located on the Red Square, Moscow, the capital of Russia. The church is remarkable for its multiple and uniquely designed and colored onion domes.
Bravia Glasgow – United Kingdom
Bravia Glasgow is a uniquely colored building located in Glasgow, the capital of Scotland, United Kingdom. About 70,000 liters of paint were used in painting this building. Glasgow is the 3rd most populous city of UK.
Colorium – Germany
The beautiful Colorium is a brightly-colored building erected in Medienhafen, Dusseldorf in Germany. This office building’s wall and windows are characterized by multiple colors and designs.
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World’s Most Expensive Monopoly Set

The world’s most expensive incarnation of the Monopoly board game is headed to Wall Street.

An 18-karat gold version of the famous Parker Brothers board game will be on display beginning Friday at the Museum of American Finance. The gold and jewel-encrusted Monopoly is estimated to be worth roughly $2 million.

The set of dice alone is valued at $10,000, with 42 full-cut diamonds for the number dots. All of the properties that make up the game board are also set in gems, with some 165 gemstones in total. The “Chance” and “Community Chest” cards are photo-etched.

The notion of creating a blinged-out version of the board game came about in 1988, when San Francisco jeweler Sidney Mobell heard about a Monopoly tournament taking place in London. He called Parker Brothers (now part of Hasbro Inc.) for permission and then set to work creating the golden game, working every day for a year straight.

An ounce of gold cost between $360 and $460 when Mobell started working on the game set. Now the price of gold has topped $1,300 an ounce.

When Mobell brought the finished board to London, he was closely followed by guards, he says. “I felt like the king of England.” That was the only time the prized set was played on: a showdown between him and Britain’s former Prime Minster Edward Heath, he says.

Mobell, 84, has staked out a career as an unconventional crafter of decadence. He’s made diamond-encrusted yo-yos and mousetraps, as well as solid gold sardine cans, cellphones and eyeballs. Not to mention a gold toilet seat and garbage cans, long before John Thain’s $35,000 commode made headlines. And Monopoly is not his only contribution to the rarefied world of lavish board games: Mobell has also made bejeweled backgammon, dominos and chess sets.

The Monopoly board will be on display at the Museum of American Finance for two years, on loan from the Smithsonian. It is one of 19 works donated by Mobell in January 2003 in honor of his late wife .

Monopoly’s rich history continues to draw avid followers, competitors and discussion, even a century after it was introduced. A tournament for younger players will take place at the museum this Friday as well.

Mobell relishes the notion that such a decadent symbol of capitalism as a game is heading to the heart of the financial crisis. “The timing is fantastic,” he says. But if any financiers are thinking of blowing their bonuses on the Monopoly board, they should be warned: “The set is not for sale.”

Source : WSJ Blogs

Happy Pills

Happy Pills Store in Barcelona, Spain Review

Best happy camper pills Ah those crazy Spaniards and their drug legislation. These pictures where – unbelievably – you can buy your (so called) happy pills by simply walking in off the Avinguda del Portal de l'Angel and helping yourself.

Of course you’ll need to travel to Barcelona, Spain in order to get one but I hear they work every time.

This has to be one of the most ingenious ideas I have ever heard, we all know sweets make everyone feel better so why not use them as actual anti-depressives? That’s exactly what the Happy Pills shop in Barcelona is doing, it raps all kinds of tasty, gummy sweets in plastic bottles, labeled with pink crosses and prescriptions like: “against Mondays” or “against the intolerable lightness of being”. The shop is like a long hallway and you can get a bottle and a spoon and serve yourself from the various medicines.

I have to remember this place for when i visit Barcelona…hope depression Pills Will Be Come soon!

Siesta

A siesta is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal. Such a period of sleep is a common tradition in some countries, particularly those where the weather is warm. The word siesta is Spanish, from the Latin hora sexta – "the sixth hour" (counting from dawn, therefore noon, hence "midday rest").

A doctor checks as people sleep a siesta during the first Siesta Championship in Madrid. The participants of the siesta contest win points for the first person to fall asleep, the loudest snorer, best original sleeping position and best dressed sleeper

The competitors started off by lying down. On blue sofas. Some in pajamas. Most fast asleep and a few on the verge of snoring.

What is billed as Spain's first national siesta championship is underway in Madrid.

It's something of a wake-up call for a country that's become so fast-paced that many say the traditional siesta is at risk.

"The modern life is a danger that we feel is against the siesta. When you sleep la siesta everyone has the image that your life is calm, you have a good life. And then, the modern life is a direct attack," said Daniel Blanco, president of the National Association of Friends of the Siesta.

His group, which includes about 50 of his friends across Spain, persuaded a shopping center, Islazul, to host and pay prize money for the siesta competition.

Nursing assistant Sara Ruz, 22, was one who stepped up to defend the siesta.

She gobbled down a quick lunch of fried chicken from a shopping center stand, not mentioning that it's just that kind of rushing which is blamed for hurting the siesta.

Ruz then went to the competition area. A doctor attached a pulse meter to her chest so the judge, sitting in a lifeguard-type chair overlooking the five sofas, could tell whether she's really asleep.

In this competition, the siesta is limited to 20 minutes, a duration which the organizers and some doctors say is optimal; a quick nap after lunch to get refreshed, without entering a deep sleep cycle.

But the traditional siesta in Spain often lasts an hour or more.

Hundreds of contestants are expected in the siesta championship which began October 14 and continues through October 23.

The intricate rules award points to contestants depending on how long they sleep during the 20-minute competition time, any unusual positions they sleep in, eye-catching pajamas they might be wearing, and yes, a lot of extra points for snoring.

The bustling shopping center where the siesta championship is being held is a prime example of the changing times in Spain. The stores don't close at lunchtime -- which is what used to happen with Spanish shops -- so instead of sleeping the siesta, people are working or shopping.

Siesta lovers complain that Spain's frenetic push to compete in the global economy means longer, more pressure-package workdays, even if some Spanish workers still get a two-hour lunch break.

But Ashraf Laidi, chief market strategist for CMC Markets of London, said on a visit to Madrid, "The Spanish are basically trying to have their cake and eat it too. They're trying to be very Europeanized and at least in part keep some of the traditions."

"This is 2010," Laidi continued. "We're talking about the potential of a collapsing euro. We're talking about surging debt, and people are still wanting to preserve the tradition of sleeping while the rest of the world is working?"

Spain's 20 percent unemployed might reluctantly have more time for siesta right now.

But not Fermin Lominchar, a construction masonry worker who rarely takes a siesta, although he won the first round in the siesta competition.

"The Spanish siesta is in danger. Because you have to work a lot to earn money here."

Back at the couches, the doctor woke up Sara Ruz from her siesta. She said she did finally fall asleep, despite the shopping center noise and onlookers, because she's accustomed to siesta time.

A grand siesta champ will be chosen by October 23 by the public, including internet voting.

The first cash prize is €1,000, about $1,400, in credit to purchase goods at the shopping center. Spanish media have given a lot of attention to the championship.

But will it be enough to save the Spanish tradition of the siesta ?



Source And Video : CNN

10 Incredible Optical Illusion Designs on Floor

We have murals on our walls and ceilings, so why not have floor murals? We’ve been blown away by optical illusion 3D chalk drawings in the past, but these intricately painted floor murals bring that trippy feel into your home.

This gallery includes creative floor murals from around the world, such as the gold fish pond floor by Michael V Las Casas, the swimming pool ad mural, the mosaic globe at the Denver Airport, floors with men climbing out of a grave, Grizzly Bear And Cub With Paw Prints floor by Samuel McPeek, Gears of War floor mural, random floor paintings, and a vintage photo of a man working a floor mural circa 1940.

Chocolate Train

A Chocolate Train made of chocolate bars and teatime biscuits hurtling along tracks of Kit Kats.

This is the Chocolate Express, a 1.8m (6ft) sculpture being unveiled today at St Pancras International by artist Carl Warner to launch his book, Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes (Abrams, £15.99).

The 47-year-old, based in London, took ten days to build the train, which also involved chocolate rolls, Crunchies, Dime Bars and Wagon Wheels.

Finest Art of Pole Dancing Photography

Some people may automatically think stripper, but pole dancing really is an art.