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another amazing post. is there anyone else out there who would just love to drop everything and devote oneself to the rehabilitation of these beautiful castles/mansions? not just here, but in other post as well, all that architecture and beauty seems to just be tossed to the way side. i've got to get citizenship in some other countries :)
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Sure reminds me of Bannermans Island.
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Interesting article, but I have to say that nearly all of these look like vanilla mansions with some turrets stuck in -- not what I would call breathtaking works of originality.
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There's also a very popular abandoned castle in Belgium, Chateau Noissy
http://quantum-x.ice.org/episodes/belgium-chateau-noissy/
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It's Boris Jeltzin, not Eltzin.
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2 more castles from germany come to my mind
the "Wartburg" and "Königstein Fortress"
but i dont know, where u can find apropriate pictures for this great website
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That Georgian jazz group is strangely compelling. I have no idea whatever what the lyrics are about, but I like their sound.
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Hi Avi! I'm avalonne83 from The Black Cat (http://avalonne83.blogspot.com/). I nominated you for the Brillante Weblog Award 2008! See my blog post here:http://avalonne83.blogspot.com/2008/07/nomination.html
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Thank you Avalonne
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IA! IA! Yamthulu!!
That is not candied which can eternal fry, and with strange eons even sweet potato pie.
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so funny!
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Don't forget another recent incarnation of creepy children in gas masks:
Are you my mummy?
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A friend of mine just pointed this out to me...cool article!
Thanks for including me.
samuelstimpert.com
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WOW that was great!!!! :)
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Great as always, though that last photograph of Rita Hayworth I'm sure is from WWII, people would give up any metal possible for the war effort. I don't think it's from the 50's!
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I am almost certain I've incurred bad karma by laughing at the Hitler-Chinese food ad.
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The Banksy art wasn't a marketing campaign, it's street art. I'd read it as a comment on commercialization and capitalism. Tesco is the biggest retailer in the UK.
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Really enjoyed all the pics!
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i find it amazing that, still to this day, even with all of our knowledge and technology, that we can not translate lol. that is to show how diverse 'language' is; another awesome post Avi (:
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love that!
Very cool stuff
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Another fine selection of images. Love the Dexter ad.
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Wow, what an amazing collection! Just had to write about your website on my blog. Unbelievable pictures, especially in the travel section (Worst roads etc.)!
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Thank you KahunaBlogger! Appreciate it :)
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The book chair has a disclaimer: No vintage sci-fi was damaged in the production of this object, only pseudo books otherwise known as cheap thrillers and harlequin novels. I'll sit on those.
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I had no idea a mantis shrimp could be so vicious!
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the 'Juicer' is from the comedy show 'the Red Green Show' - thats Red driving..!
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I really think these disgusting/grotesque animals and angry man in the office/bar/hotel is getting extremely boring... seriously, you"ve done better than that in the past...
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I'm pretty sure sea cucumbers are edible, too, and not bad tasting if I do remember correctly!
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The piglet squid looks like a baby Zoidberg.
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The eal really freaked me out. Looks like an alien.
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haha, it does look like zoidberg :D
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This post is great, thanks for that :) Just that stomach in the mouth might be a bit too much for sbdy ;)
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Chan, you have outdone yourself. The pictures and commentary are excellent.
Thanks and take care.
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Really cool post, but that last picture you have of the Leafy Sea Dragons is actually a Weedy Sea Dragon! They're a close relative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weedy_sea_dragon
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I've seen some of these when scuba and snorkeling. Pretty amazing God had such a sense of humor.
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awesome listing! it reminded me of the Vampire Squid...i was trying to find a good video of it in action but came up lacking (short from BBC Plantet Earth) its an amazing creature, using 'lights' when it is threatened
http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=179
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Cool pictures. You need to find some of the spider crab. Very cool looking. Also the Tiger's Paw. Another interesting animal, it lives in cracks of coral reefs and all you see is just a little bit sticking out, they are about 60 feet long.
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Well done.
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Wow! Thank you for sharing. It's nice to see some mysteries that lay under the ocean
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I really enjoyed these articles! There is so much we have yet to discover in our oceans....I wonder what we'll find in the future??
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Wow! that's neat :-)
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waw awesome article ye never knew they exist lol great work =]
~TheMyth
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Thanks for all dearest readers who have read this article!
Best regards,
CHAN LEE PENG
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Loved the article and for the most part gorgeous pictures :)
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I once did a research paper on Viperfish and found out that it can eat fish twice the size of itself.
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I wait for my bus every day staring at the Casa Batlló, I guess I am privileged.
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I envy you Mr Blonde! Unfortunately I am on the other side of the world, but at the end of the year I hope to head over to Spain, with the sole intention of seeing Gaudi's buildings. I have been obsessed with his work since I was about 12, borrowing whatever books on his work I could find. I particularly like his drawings, they are awe inspiring, and if anyone has any resource on his drawings, I would love to hear about it!
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rowan,
when standing on the corner in front of the Casa Milà, be sure to take the LEFT entrance to enter it. The right one lead me and my friends just through the first floor, where we saw drawings from Gaudi and others of his time. The other one lead through all the other floors.
I remember this so clearly, because this earned us much head shaking and some scorn from our local host, who's a proud catalan. He specifically told us to visit this building in the morning, but we took the wrong entrance! He couldn't understand it...
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A great post in a wonderful blog.
Thanks you very much, and best wishes from a catalan.
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A fine post, well written, well shot.
This makes me interested in going to Barcelona- some place which wasn't on my high list, until now.
I think Gaudi's Cathedral was in art the inspiration fro Thailand's top artist to build the Buddhist Temple shown
here.
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Gaudi changed my mind about architecture. Barcelona is an amazingly vibrant city with its design and the Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell are amazing feats.
Great post Avi.
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Great post. If you like Gaudi, why not check Lluís Muncunill, another great architect (and Gaudi's collaborator) who's not as known but has some impressive work? Just type "Lluís Muncunill" in google images...
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The picture of the angular, sorrowful figure is part of the Passion Facade of the Sagrada Familia. This group of sculptures was designed after Gaudi's death by Josep Subirachs, and differs radically in style from everything else there. It's absolutely stunning in person! Here are some pictures from the artists
site.
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An excellent post, good one. You rendered exceptionally well Catalan names (and you have not used Spanish equivalents).
Greetings from a Catalan :-D
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Beautiful and unusual architecture. It's unfortunate that such organic shapes cannot be built as economically as rectangular buildings. That's why you see so few of the former and so many of the latter. That probably also accounts for the fact that construction of the cathedral has taken so long. But the result is undeniably impressive.
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Something about that cathedral makes me unfomfortable; it has a vaguely Lovecraftian look to it. As an aside, the first time I did LSD I saw a grocery store melt; it swelled up like a burning marshmallow, then collapsed into a liquid state.
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long time browser, first time comment - great post, love the site, so full of useful knowledge and interesting facts - i would almost say that Gaudi himself may have participated in some form of lysergic acid diethylamide; fore the images of his cathedral and earlier works screams of a psychotic nature. beautiful work, IMHO.
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Thanks for the comment Mango - glad you like DRB :)
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Wow, great architectural pieces!
Feel free to read mine at
http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Architecture/The-Most-Striking-Must-See-Churches-in-the-World-1.152139
and
http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Architecture/The-Must-see-Most-Striking-Churches-in-the-World-2.152153
Thanks.
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Great post and hard to believe that it's even more magical in person. Thanks for always taking us to amazing places!
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Great post. I really enjoyed readng it.
Greetings from another proud Gaudí's fan... from Barelona:)
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Fell onto this page and loved your views, I was in Barcelona 3 Christmas's ago and made a beeline for the Catherdral.It is truely a work of Genius, the basement has a Museum and explains well Gaudi's design theories.He used a tree as the form for spreading weight downwards to 1 slender column.I bought the biggest book on Gaudi and read it before I returned to London,My son has been inspired by Gaudi to study to become An Architect!
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Paul Smyth - thank you - really inspiring architecture is like music sculpted in stone.
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The sepia picture associated with Parc Güell is not there but in the small coastal town of Garraf, 20 miles from Barcelona, right
here.
It's worth mentioning that "La Pedrera", the informal name of the Casa Milla, means "The Quarry".
I would add to the comment by Anonymous that the work by Subirachs on the Sagrada Familia should not even be part of it and that it would be better to exclude images of his disgraceful insult to Gaudi's work.
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