Urban landscape can be quite drab, and the artists of these exceptional wall paintings are doing a great job of spicing it up. Some murals can be considered realistic illusions, some have historical meaning, some can be labeled as "kitsch", but all of them are welcome splashes of color and creativity in day-to-day life.
One in Belfast, Ireland: (Photo by Nykakoj) Back side of the Gooderham Flat Iron Building in Toronto (sent in by Jim Sellen)
3D Murals of Eric Grohe
An artist, who really breaks the monotonous geometry of official buildings and shopping malls with his own marvelous perspective and 3D illusions - Eric Grohe has an impressive array of projects on his site.
Bucyrus Area Community Foundation, Ohio
Here is how he makes an endless wall of the shopping mall actually... attractive:
Gaudy but impressive colors of Ramenskoe apartments in Moscow
Here you can observe the utmost in urban psychedelics: the whole apartment complex painted in unbelievably bright colors. Looks interesting enough, but how would you like to live in the midst of this paint explosion?
This post will be the first installment in a series. Please send us the photos of cool murals you spotted around the world, and we'll make up the second part from your submissions (send it to "Suggest a link" email). Good hunting!
Hii, really nice blog my fren, Pictures are so cool that i don't have words to describe. Thanks for sharing.. BTW i cliked on 2 of your ads, hope you earned something..
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Great pictures, and it's cool to see the small town of Ramenskoe on the same page with Paris and Cannes. By the way, Ramenskoe is actually not a part of Moscow, it is situated about 45 kms to the SE of it.
Is this picture ( http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/464576026_2911d68187.jpg ) really located in Germany. It sure looks a lot like one we have here, in Quebec city, Canada. I'm not really sure though.
Hello, Thanks for your great site, the first top photos are located in Lyon, France, on of the finest world spot for wall painting, and they were made by la Cité de la Création (http://www.cite-creation.com/)
Nice blog. Couple of corrections on the Shinkansens. The trains are not names Nozomi and Hikari etc, but rather the services. Nozomi is the super rapid service between Osaka and Tokyo, and it can use the 500 and new N700 trains. Also the 800 is older than the 700. The numerical naming system is based on whether the trains run east or west of Tokyo. Even numbers run west, odd run east.
The 2nd last picture in the Shinkansen picture series(Blue train end) isn't a shinkansen train but a JR - E351 commuter train, just adding that. On a side note, yes the french have the speed, but their trains are like what, 4 cars long? The MAX E4 (double decker)shinkansen can carry 1,634 passengers in a 16 car configuration, and hits 300Kmh. which is pretty impressive.
I had taken some photos of the opulent interiors of the new (I believe) Tsumbame line services, both the relay and rapid services. Unfortunately, I LOST my bloody memory card..I am going back to the Japan at the end of the year, so if I have time I may go down south again, and retake the pics.
if you like nice design on trains, check out the German ICE-3 ;).
It runs on the new LGV-Est between France and Germany, on L2 in Belgium between Brussels, Cologne and Frankfurt and of course it acts as a fast intercity service between Germany's major cities(hence the name: intercity express).
This page might be of interest, good links to pages and videos about high speed rail (Maglev, electric) and bullet trains in Europe, India, Japan and China (incl Tibet Railway).
To be pedantic, Cthulhu is not a species, but a specific unique entity, one of the Great Old Ones - essentially an exceedingly malevolent and locally powerful immortal being.
(Comparable, say, to a minor God in the Greek pantheon, but without any regard for humanity and with pseudopods.)
Beautiful pictures. Although I believe that if that third picture down had been sent from one of the martian rovers, it would have been cited as evidence of extra-terrestrial life, does look like a face in profile, or is it just me ?
Beautiful photos. Is it just me, or does it seem like this valley would be an ideal place to practice a manned Mars mission? Very dry, desolate, isolated, and cold....
If there is frozen water in Antartica then doesn't that mean that the contenient used to not be covered in ice. This means that "global warming" could be a natural thing but just being onset sooner due to human intervention?
The existence of frozen water would also occur if the contenient used to be covered in ice - that is what ice is.
Even if Antarctica was once iceless (indeed this was almost certainly the case in Pangea and Gondwana Land) that says nothing of what would happen to our modern costal cities if this were to happen again. The same applies to animals now (but not formerly) trapped on islands or low-lying land, unique speciation events in costal forrests, world heritage coastal sites, etc.
Nor does this prove, or even suggest, that humankind is not causing these changes this time around, as many would argue this SUDDEN rate of change (rather than the possible millenia in previous ages) suggests.
Mammatus clouds do not form on the cloud base, rather the anvil of a thunderstorm. Also, while they accompany severe weather, they most certainly are not dependent or a byproduct of tornadic activity. They are pockets of descending air brought on by the fact there is a large amount of air being drawn aloft by the updraft of the thunderstorm.
Absolutely beautiful pictures!!! Isn't it amazing what nature gives us for free? Thank you for making these available for people like us who never see things such as these!
Hi. I was trying to describe the sky yesterday in a recent article I posted called "Magnificant Clouds". ChristianContent.org I thought I should find a picture and came across your gallery. WOW! I'll use one of my lines here. "Unrelenting Beauty" Thank you for posting these.
the one with those tires stacked in the back of that "mini-truck".. is actually pretty smart, because that's the best way to stack tires. You can barely move them with your hand.
Vladimir has released many, many pieces in the last year and is selling very quickly. The demand for his originals is outrageous!! They sell in like 2days and currently there none available on the market...truelly this artist has a gift and we are privelded to be around in his era. check out his work! vladimirkush.com is his website...
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Hii,
really nice blog my fren, Pictures are so cool that i don't have words to describe. Thanks for sharing.. BTW i cliked on 2 of your ads, hope you earned something..
Best Regards,
Eliena Andrews
http://visitformoney.blogspot.com
you´d also like to post some pictures of "Caminito" in Buenos Aires
Great pictures, and it's cool to see the small town of Ramenskoe on the same page with Paris and Cannes. By the way, Ramenskoe is actually not a part of Moscow, it is situated about 45 kms to the SE of it.
Is this picture ( http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/464576026_2911d68187.jpg ) really located in Germany. It sure looks a lot like one we have here, in Quebec city, Canada. I'm not really sure though.
AT least one of those uncredited paintings is the work of Trompe L'oeil artist John Pugh.
Check him out.
Kathy van Gogh
www.fakeit.ca
AT least one of those uncredited paintings is the work of Trompe L'oeil artist John Pugh.
Check him out.
Kathy van Gogh
www.fakeit.ca
Hello,
Thanks for your great site, the first top photos are located in Lyon, France, on of the finest world spot for wall painting, and they were made by la Cité de la Création (http://www.cite-creation.com/)
bye
Olivier
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