32 year old money lender, Datta Phuge from Pimpri-Chinchwad has a little bit of an obsession with gold. He commissioned a team a 15 goldsmiths to create a solid gold shirt, in the hopes of attracting a female. The goldsmiths spent 16 hours a day for two weeks creating and weaving the gold threads. Maybe he just needs to shave?
When it comes to plugging your music device into your dad's old speaker set, you don't look as cool as you did in the 90s. These days there are all kinds of seriously groovy speakers out there that will impress everyone from Tough Tommy to Sexy Sarah from next door.
When it's time to get your accessorizing on, what better way than with the details that no woman can miss. Cufflinks are something many men put off out of pure laziness. But a pair like these will catch the eye of any woman worth your 10 minute smoking break.
Only a few miles away from where Thomas Frye first developed the composition for bone china in 1748, a new tribute to the porcelain material is on display at Hackney's Wilton Way Cafe. The East London coffee shop & gallery is currently displaying a collection of bone china "diamond" rings, crafted by local designer Moko Sellars. The designer began creating jewelry only last year as a excercise in considered design. Would you wear these or just use as home decor?
Isn't it maddening when you watch a movie and then you are left thinking about it days, even weeks later? Drives me insane! What about Inception!? Is it real? Did Cobb return to his family? Did he die? UGH! We'll never know. Here are a couple movies that left you pissed off at the end because you don't know what happens next, but also brilliantly stunned.
Us humans savor our shower time. And though our pets seem to hate it, out in nature it's a holy time for creatures to get the sun off their scorching bodies & let a little relaxation take place.
After just 4 years in office, but many more in politics, Barack Obama has been displaying all the classic signs of stress: his hair has become grayer than ever, the wrinkles above his brow are prominent, the plumpness of his cheeks has melted and become more like a set of flaps than a smile bump. It's tough tobe Barack, especially with a country as divided as ours about certin key issues regarding foreign policy (as we know not his strongest suit).
People underestimate the potential of their fuzzy compadres. Though not your typical portrait study models, these lovely creatures can make that photograph say a thousand words. If you're into photography, try using a dog or cat as your model for your next project. You never know what you can get.
This 1963 fashion series by Melvin Sokolsky for Harper's Bazaar magazine is one for the books. To create the iconic "Bubble" images, model Simone d'Aillencourt had to climb into a plexiglass ball that was actually suspended in the air by a cable and crane.
“The bubble in the series is made of Plastivew and is composed of two hemispheres with a 1/8-inch crack to allow for breathing room. Then the bubble was hung from a very thin, but strong cable. (It could have also held up a Cadillac!) This was probably one of the easiest shoots I’ve ever done in my life because there were no hair or makeup interruptions. No one could touch her in the bubble—so it was just her and I creating the images.” — Melvin Sokolosky
If you are jealous of the way your pets always seem to be healthy while you suffer in bed with the flu, the cold, or some other annoying virus, then you're in luck! Read up on how to stay healthy the way your pooch always is when he wakes you up with that lick on your face in the morning. This is also great for not catchng that flu that's been making its way through the heart of America.
With no real help to turn to besides your local shrink, this generation is sure going to be a lonely one.
The famous advice columnist behind the much adored "Dead Abby" stories has passed away at age 94.
After 50 years of giving advice to women in distress, we've all gotten used to the idea of leaning on someone. Now that both of the advice twins are up in heaven, what are the rest of us supposed to do? Those other columnists never seem to have anything witty to say or any real usable advice! Looks like we're at a loss now, at east until she get reincarnated (hopefully into something/someone useful).
Skater kid's little bros and sisters are in luck if their parent's get to see this post! Big Timmy has probably been through several board that just aren't "cool enough" anymore, and now you can take those babies out of storage to make awesome swings for the little guys! The boards are made to endure all kinds of pressure, so 70 lbs of child swinging probably won't be doing much damage to the wood anyway.
Perfect for Spring, better hurry up now before your neighbors figure it out and look cooler than you :)
DIY projects are really getting creative (and useful!) these days. Using something as easily accessible as ashipping pallet can be the key to creating a really awesome masterpiece for your home, big or small.
Even though you may believe everything Google tells you, these images are not real. Yes, Google glitches sometimes. Funny thing is, many people still do believe that these glitches are actual photographs taken of actual places. Just imagine! The communists most love showing these to their civilians with captions, "See? Our roads aren't nearly as bad as theirs!"
Screw democracy, right? ;)
Berlin-based designer Sarah Illenberger has started an awesme new project called Strange Fruits (sort of like the song from the 30s). She turns ordinary fruits into fun works of art that can be bought as large prints online.
These would make wonderful kitchen art!
In a bay on the northern shores of the Black Sea, the Soviet army maintained an elaborate submarine base throughout much of the Cold War. Now a museum, this abandoned submarine base in the town of Balaklava, Ukraine is often explored by locals and tourists alike. During the war, Soviet submarines were constructed elsewhere, transported to this base by rail, then deployed into the Black Sea and beyond for covert underwater operations. The tunnels of the submarine base reached far and deep into the mountain above, providing enough room for many submarines and their crew up through the end of the Cold War.
A rocket attack in Aleppo, fighting at a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus and two car bomb explosions south of the capital. Big deal, right? Well it turns out that these events have marked the conclusion to one of the bloodiest weeks in the Syrian civil war. When will these wars end? Was our survival of the 2012 Apocalypse even real? Can it be leading to something even worse? Seems like if any of these questions answer yes, the insanity in Syria is a warning or the rest of us.
As debates over education reform make their way to the headlines, teachers are pointing fingers at poor classroom design and poor classroom funding. Apparently they've done their homework, because new studies are proving, left and right, that the classroom design itself is in fact a deciding factor in the amount of information a child is able to take in by 25%, according to the journal Building and the Environment. In a full year span, that amounts to a full year's academic progress!
The study was conducted over the 2011-2012 academic year on 751 students in 34 classrooms spread across 7 primary schools in Blackpool, Eangland.
After collecting data on the students performance levels going into the school year, the researchers, comprising faculty from the University of Salford School of the Built Environment in Manchester, England, as well as collaborators from the architecture firm Nightingale Associates, ranked each classroom on a 1 to 5 scale for 10 different design parameters: light, sound, temperature, air quality, choice, flexibility, connection, complexity, color, and texture. Each of these parameters were broken down into a few considerations. Light, for example, included the amount of natural light entering the classroom, as well as the teacher’s ability to manually control the level of lighting; flexibility took into consideration how well a given classroom could accommodate pupils without crowding them, in addition to how easily its furniture could be rearranged for a variety of activities and teaching approaches.
If you didn't know that the Season 4 premier of Archer is about to hit TV then, you need to run to the nearest television unit and watch all three seasons in one weekend. I thought I'd put together a little educative post of sorts, outlining the running gags and themes that everyone should know. And not "everyone should know" in the sense that they're really funny and happen often, but in the sense that you should judge and possibly de-friend anyone in your life who isn't keenly aware and excited about them. They're that much a part of the TV humor zeitgeist at this point.
I've worked in retail for many years and have run into the creepiest men! So much that nothing really surprises me anymore. Ladies run the other way if you see one of these dudes!
