Swimming through the grass
Not a monument like I originally thought, but cool nontheless Commissioned and unveiled last year by the Discovery Channel to promote one of its reality shows, London Ink, this giant swimmer swims his way through the grass on the South Bank of the river Thames, near Tower Bridge. first time I saw this work of […]
Fooling gravity
That’s what I’d say this man is doing through his performances. Johan Lorbeer is a German performing artist that became famous in his home country through his Still Life street shows. Through a very ingenious optical illusion, Lorbeer makes it seem like he is defying gravity just by leaning off buildings. Try to guess how […]
Uno – The Segway Motorcycle
It’s Segway meets motorcycle and it’s beautiful. Believe it or not, this little beauty was built by 18 year-old Ben J.Poss Gulak who used Google StretchUp to draw up the plans, since he couldn’t afford professional software. Even though he had some help from motorcycle modders and robotics experts, he deserves to be congratulated. Unveiled […]
Whale massacre in Europe
Don’t look at the photos and video if you’re a big animal lover, it’s “a little” hard to take in… This “bay of blood” set somewhere in the Faroe Islands is where hundreds, sometimes thousands of pilot whales are literally butchered alive by hungry locals. The hunt known as Grindadrap is centuries old and it […]
Pizza-tossing championship
That’s right folks there’s such a thing as a World Pizza Championship. It’s hosted in Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy and it gathers tens of professional pizza makers from allover the world. The most impressive challenge of the entire contest is the pizza tossing, an acrobatic event involving the pizza dough. As you can see from the […]
Biggest Mentos fountain ever
You know what happens if you drop a sweet mint into a bottle of coke right? What if 1500 people did it at the same time? That’s what 1500 students from a University in Belgium tried to find out and also set a new world record for the world’s biggest Mentos fountain. It wasn’t the […]
The Hitler action-figure
Apparently there are those who think the Fuhrer was a hero. Some of these people live in the Ukraine, where an Adolf Hitler action-figure has gone on sale. The $200 doll is compared to Barbie by sales-women in Kiev and, just like the famous blond, it comes complete with accessories and several changes of clothes. […]
Easter Eggs-building models
An unusual building-models exhibition took place in Kiev recently, with famous national landmarks being built out of Easter eggs. It took almost 17.000 eggs to recreate Saint Sophia Cathedral and a city of castles Kamenets-Podolsky. The roof of the cathedral has been painted gold. The eggs of this Ukrainian egg-map will be given as souvenirs […]
Dambe – Traditional Nigerian Boxing
I never knew traditional Nigerian Boxing is one of the deadliest sports in the world. Practiced by traveling young African men, Dambe is one of the few ways they can become famous in a country like Nigeria. The winner of a Dambe tournament gets around $100, a TV-set and the honor of being a champion, […]
Naked in Barcelona
Well this guy has a pair of undershorts tattooed on his body so technically he isn’t naked. If you’re ever in Barcelona, you might get “lucky” and run into “the old naked guy“. No one knows his name but everybody knows him, he’s kind of a local mascot, walking around in the nude with his […]
Dinner in the sky
And I don’t mean in heaven, just 50 meters above the ground. If you really want to surprise your friends or business partners and want to throw a dinner that they’ll never forget, you might consider a Dinner in the Sky. All you have to do is contact the guys at Diner in the Sky.com,tell […]
Shooting fish in a barrel
That’s one big barrel but the saying applies perfectly. And I don’t mean it in a figurative sense, that dumb-ass is literally shooting tuna-fish with a kind of shotgun. Now I’m not in the fishing business, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the standard way of putting fish to sleep. And by the looks of […]
Largest cigarette butt in the world
No one actually smoked this cigarette, it was created as a statement. A 9-meter cigarette butt was dropped in the middle of Trafalgar Square, London, at the beginning of this month as a protest against the city’s burning littering problem. Ever since smoking in indoor public places was banned, Londoners have been smoking outdoors and […]
BASE jumping – incredible photos
Building Antena Span Earth That’s what the acronym B.A.S.E stands for. This incredible sport is derived out of sky-diving and it looks a lot harder too. BASE jumpers have to make use of their wingsuits and be very careful at their body-attitude so they don’t start tumbling. The parachute is only opened at the last […]
Hello Kitty Assault Rifle
It might look cute and cuddly but it’s as deadly as any other weapon. As a form of protest against assault weapons bans in the US, a dude from California decided to “alleviate the fears of (his) fellow citizens and gun-banning legislators” and created a legal AR-15 rifle for his wife. He painted all the […]