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Check Out This Insane Circus Wheel-House for Acrobats!
A bit like a hamster wheel, the Wheel House is powered by repetitive kinetic motion: A male and a female performer, both dressed as hobos, repeatedly climb over one another to slowly roll the dwelling, setting off a series of small bells and creaking noises. Read more!
World’s Most Beautiful Abandoned Places
Italian product manager and web designer Francesco Mugnai recently added a collection of images to his blog touting some of the most beautiful images of abandoned spots and modern ruins that he’d ever seen. The images Mugnai has captured come from empty castles, shuttered power plants, and dilapidated churches around the world. From a sunken yacht in Antarctica to a forever-closed amusement park in Japan, these images all make up a sort of anti-phoenix; rather than rising as new from the ashes, these husks remain preserved in decomposition, forcing viewers to confront the strange beauty of ruination.
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Inside the Salle des Illusions of the Palace of Electricity at the Exposition Universelle in 1900, Paris
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In times like these, we’re all that we’ve got…
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Tiny Paintings by Hasan Kale
It would appear no object is too small for artist Hasan Kale to utilize as a canvas for his miniature paintings. The Turkish artist makes use of everything from fruit seeds to the wings of taxidermied insects as a backdrop for depictions of his native Istanbul.
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TbT: The first architectural rendering of Bergdorf Goodman was drawn on the back of a menu at the Plaza Hotel.
