Cat Fashion Show

Cat Fashion Show at the famous Algonquin Hotel cat, celebrated her 15th birthday—and we were there for total coverage. The party was held in the hotel's lobby and centered around a good ol' fashioned Cat Fashion Show—because what better way to celebrate than by making your feline friends dress up in ridiculous outfits and parade in front of humans? John Fulton, the host of Animal Planet’s new upcoming show Must Love Cats was on hand as the host—the show has been filming around the city all week for a NYC episode! When asked what his favorite costume was, Fulton told us, "Diva, the 4 month old rag doll, brought the crowd to a frenzy."

Our photographer Katie Sokoler pretty much sums up the scene, saying, "I felt emotionally confused the whole time because I thought the show was hilarious but at the same time I felt bad! Some of the cats were so nervous when they came out because the audience was popping camera flashes in their faces and screaming to the cats in baby talk." She also noted that the dressing room was equipped with a CD called "Relaxation music for my cat and me," so hopefully that helped them out.

At least one cat looked relaxed—the Savannah cat dressed as Elvis. Interesting tidbit: did you know Savannahs more than five generations from the Serval are allowed to be owned in New York state, but not in the city of New York?





































































Source :- Laughing Squid Via Gothamist

Mehndi Designs for Eid | Indian Mehndi Patterns eid

Paper Made Dishes

Paper shows dishes made mainly by paper at a restaurant in Nantou, southeast China's Taiwan. As a paper factory manufactures a kind of edible paper by fibers of vegetables and fruits, many local restaurants develop new paper-made dishes to attract customers.

The Amazing Monasteries Of Bhutan

The Kingdom of Bhutan is sometimes overlooked, locked between Tibet and India, but the Land of the Dragon as the Bhutanese call it is home to some of the most exquisite Buddhist monasteries in the word. Here, we take a fleeting visit to some of the over forty monasteries in Bhutan – quite a number considering the population of the entire country is only around 700,000.

1:- Taktsang Dzong
2:- Punakha Dzong
3:- Tango Monastery
4:- Tongsa – The Door to Heaven
5:- Cheri Monastery
6:- Rinpung Dzong, Paro
7:- Lhuentse Dzong

Source :- Kuriositas Via The Presurfer

A Floating Pool In New York

We desperately need one of these Floating Pools outside our studio.

+ Pool is an initiative by a group of architects and designers to build a floating pool in the rivers of New York City… and they need your help. The project was launched with the ambition to improve the use of the city’s natural resources by providing a clean and safe way for the public to swim in New York’s waters. This site is the culmination of Concept Design for + Pool and they are looking to build a team of interested organizations and professionals to continue the development of the project into a buildable proposal.

Their next step is to partner with local cultural, developmental and environmental groups to raise public and private interest, identify civic potential and approach the municipality, while working with engineers, planners and specialists to refine the social and ecological performance of plus pool.











Source :- Plus Pool

Obsessions Make My Life Worse And My Work Better

Obsessions make my Life Worse and my Work better by Sagmeister Inc.

The day after the official opening of Event 2: Urban Play, Stefan Sagmeister's graphic piece of art turned out to be completely gone!

The work, called 'Obsessions make my life worse and my work better', was built from 300.000 cents and laid out by a hundred and fifty volunteers during eight days at the Waagdragerhof, Amsterdam. On Sunday night, local residents noticed two persons sweeping up the coins and so they warned the police. The police came on site and put all the coins in a big bag, just to be on the safe side, and gone was the work of art! It was all in the game that this project wouldn’t stay, but that the police…

The Dutch newspapers picked up the news pretty well, with headliners such as 'Police accidentally destroys piece of art' (Algemeen Dagblad) 'Police sweeps away coins art' (Parool).

Sunday morning the 21st of September, the police unintenionally cleared and secured a piece of art exisiting of 1 euro cents, after a report of copper theft. Police officers came across a large amount of coins spread all over the park. To them it was unclear who owned the money and why the coins were spread over the park. In collaboration with the calamity service of the municipality they have collected the approximately 260,000 pennies and stored them at a police office. Meanwhile it turned out that the police knew of this art project, but that the information had not been passed on to the police officers on duty. Meanwhile the police has returned the coins.'

Based in New York, United States Stefan Sagmeister is the founder of Sagmeister Inc. a purposely small graphic design company based in New York. He was trained in Vienna as a graphic designer and continued his studies at Pratt Institute in New York. After some adventures around the globe he established his own studio there and started designing mainly for the music industry. On his website, Sagmeister states: ‘We design all things printed, from posters, brochures, books and annual reports to identity systems, perfume packaging and CD covers.’

In the year 2001 he took a year off from his studio – a year without clients – and in this leap year went back to his old diaries and started to draw out some ‘things that I have learned in my life, so far’. When he returned back to work Sagmeister embarked on an ongoing project based on sentences from these diaries. For the typography he used a great variety of materials and sites, writing three-dimensionally on objects and surfaces. Most of the executed sentences can therefore be termed: staged typography.

‘Obsessions make my Life Worse and my Work Better’ is one of these sentences, an elaborate design that consists of 300.000 eurocent coins and will be laid out on a 20 x 42 meter square in Amsterdam. It is potentially a self-destructive piece. The coins represent a certain value, but the design is also of such beauty that it challenges the passer-by. Will they leave it intact because of it’s beauty? Will they start to make a design with the cents themselves









































Source :- Droog Via Sagmeister

World's largest barbecue - the ‘God-grilla’

World's largest BBQ 'God-grilla' that can cook 1,000 sausages at once An engineer has spent three months and £10,000 creating the world's largest barbecue which weighs two tonnes and measures a whopping 16ft across.

The gargantuan BBQ - understandably dubbed 'God-grilla' - is so big makers say it could be used to simultaneously cook 1,000 sausages, 500 burgers or (if you prefer) two whole cows.

It's the brainchild of 31-year-old Jack Henriques who runs the Bespoke BBQ Company and says he already has plans to make a bigger one.

However you might want to think about it before ordering one to outdo your neighbours… it takes 14 bags of coal to ignite and can heat up to 500 degrees centigrade.

Speaking of the big BBQ, Jack said: "The BBQ is fitted with hinged panels at the back to allow access to add more logs to the fire.

"It is fitted with seven separate coal trays and has the capacity to cook seven whole lambs at once."

While the God-grilla is the largest fixed barbecue in the world, there is truck in the US called the Big Taste Grill which has been converted into a touring BBQ.