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Those are some ugly cars!
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Personally i think that these cars are beautiful, esspecialy the older ones.
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Morgan have for a long time been one of my favourite car companies, they have one of the finest heritages around yet are very froward looking for a very small company. The Aero's do look a little cross-eyed but that's fine with me.
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Those new 'concepts' are terrible. World car design is dead, and models/manufacturers are recognizable by the logos only.
If they bring them to life, they will destroy company's image.
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Enjoy them while they last, they'll be victims of the economy soon enough.
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Stunning
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whom ever said "these cars are terrible" has no artistic talent no latent abilities and is destined to work the same dead end job for the rest of his life, not because the car is terrible but because you have no appreciation for the work that is put into these pieces of art. also you are not required to like them because there are those of us that still do and have for nearly 80 years.
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Whether you think these are beautiful or not is a matter of personal taste. However, facts dictate that, of almost any car, this is the one you buy if you don't want to lose much money. I have a 12 year old Plus 8, bought it new for £35k and I am reliably informed its worth between £25k and £28k now. I can't think of any other car that retains its value so well.
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Who ever said this company would not survive this fake manipulated 'recession' obviously does not understand the auto industry or money and stocks. If Morgan can servive the 'REAL' great depression they will certainly ride this speed bump out.
Especially when they are back ordered
long enough to ride it out. The est part is they don't have greedy money hungry stock holders insisting they have a certain percentage of growth and profits every year under the threat of selling out. They also have the fact that they are a small company that can change direction or do what ever they have to do with out having to put it through a committee for approval What it all oils down to is that they will survive AND prosper. PERIOD!
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These are some great cars. One has to enjoy the beauty of the workmanship that has gone into makeing these. Wish I had the money to buy some of them.
Vic
from Canada
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I suggest that all you guys that drool over Morgans need to live with one and see how you feel about the scuttle shake, the frontend shimmey at 50mph and the bum pounding ride.
But in a corner or a fast sweeping road there is nothing like that sort of wind in the hair motoring. My 1952 plus 4 was good for 15second quaters and on a good day with no wind 110mph
any time anywhere. Blood Marvelous!
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; indeed in this case the expression 'your eyes are mirrors', comes to mind. Long may Morgan, surely one of the few quintessentially English products left, survive, and go from strength to strength!
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I have had a Morgan plus 4 now for two years and it's marvellous. Can't get enough of driving it. The feel and quality are second to none and they do perform brilliantly. Never regretted the purchase. Long live the Morgan !!
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Good news.
The Three Wheeler is coming back.
http://www.morgan3wheeler.co.uk/home.html
There are a number of videos (including a test drive by Jay Leno) on Youtube.
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That video of the "new animal" discovered in Japan is a combination of horrifically fake CG with a clever pulsating rubber toy at the end. Good try tho!
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Two more that I have seen in person:
Restaurant Silbervogel in Hannover, Germany:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=52.347305,9.70935&t=h
http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=683583
and one in Petrovice, Czech Republic:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=50.807599,13.980821&t=h
http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=823669
There are hundreds more pictures to be found on planepictures.net but to save their system resources I won't hotlink the exact search.
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what a sad demise to an iconic aircraft..
McDonald's in Taupo, New Zealand, has utilised a DC3 for many years now..
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1429030.jpg
at least they look after the exterior
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Flannery's Restaurant in Penndel, Pennsylvania (a little north of Philadelphia) featured a Lockheed Super Constellation as its cocktail lounge. The place was a landmark for many years until the aircraft was donated to the Air Mobility Museum in Dover, Delaware. More information here:
http://www.hemmings.com/hmn/stories/2007/09/01/hmn_feature18.html
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You spelt 'Seoul' wrong on your article.
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You spelled "spelled" wrong.
"spelt", lol.
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You spell "spelt" "spelled"? What language do you speak, some bastard colonial version of the language of southern Great Britian?
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There is one in Saraburi, Thailand.
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Very cool stuff...
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There is also an old Soviet plane, transformed into a bar in Olomouc, Czech Republic - Latka Bar: http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Czech_Republic/Olomoucky_Kraj/Olomouc-401624/Nightlife-Olomouc-BR-1.html
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An even better use for old jumbo jets can be found on the website for the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia
http://www.artificialreef.bc.ca/OurReefs/AR-540/index.htm
Equally interesting, the Discovery Channel tells the story of efforts to deploy the 737-200 as an artificial reef which was, understandably, a logistics nightmare. You can catch it on their MegaBuilders series or read the synopsis here:
http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/
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And in Sweden - very close to Stockholm Airport - Arlanda (ARN/ESSA) there`s a retired 747 serving as a hotel !
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Hello! you still can add more conversions... in
Aviadores Virtuales Asociados we have found...
Plane Cafe in Russia
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1726
Disco (in Barcelona - Spain)
http://www.myaviation.net/search/photo_search.php?id=00038734&size=large
727-Suite
http://www.costaverde.com/727.html
There is another disco-plane in Madrid (Spain) but I did not find any photo
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Thank you guys, great tips
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In Holland the former plane of Erich Honecker (East Germany) is transfered into a luxury suite. See: http://www.hotelsuites.nl/suites.php?view=detail&hotel=1894
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That's incredible!! How the hell did they manage to drag a 747 to this spot? I guess it started out pretty cool and then turned into a bit of an eye sore! Did they close it for health and safety reasons? It looks pretty warn out!
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In Colorado Springs, CO USA, a former C-97 is now Solo's restaurant (and from what the ads in the Colorado Springs travel guides say, an aerospace museum as well).
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Question: how could that Pan Am 747 look so RUSTED? I thought that the exteriors were all aluminum.
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Just got torn down. Sad, really....
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-korea-plane-20101213,0,7814977.story
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Tom (and anyone else who wants to know),
I worked on this project. I came in a little late, but was one of the last two people on the job. Disassembly was run by Aviation Warehouse out of El Mirage California. The actual disassembly and cutting took part at the decommissioned Norton Air Force Base. The mountains in the back are the San
AW provided airplane sets and acts as a parts salvage yard. I remember the FAA guys coming by to look into the tanks and telling us this was the second 747 built.
Basically, the parts were stripped and the shell was cut into pieces that would fit into sea containers. We used 14" gas powered chop saws.
I came in after the tail section was cut. You can see the cut marks all over the plane. We all wondered if they would bondo them or do something to hide them, evidently they didn't.
They were loaded on by a Gehl reach lift.
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There's another plane-as-restaurant (similarly abandoned) somewhere along the road in the Puncak Pass, Java, Indonesia, or was when I went down that way in 2004.
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Lol "Naive"-tek
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The "owl-man" looks freakishly like actor Marty Feldman
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Oops, meant the "parrot-man"
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Last picture has caption in finnish, says "Misuse of alcohol? Prohibition officers ordered a steamroller to crush 22 000 full bottles of alcohol in the village of Koba, western India."
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The "battery powered battery charger (batteries not included)" is a joke from 'Worth1000.com'.
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i really enjoy this site - if i'm at home. unfortunately at work i'm behind a corporate firewall/proxy which blocks any traffic from flickr - which is where you host your images (i see your webpage, but not the images).
you're unfortunately losing a lot of potential traffic, unless you'd consider an alternative - its standard practice these days (and with good reason) for corporates to block access to facebook, flickr, youtube, etc..
kind regards
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Can you see Picasa-hosted images, like on this page?
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loved the soviet robot, totally looks like an old comunist version of wall-e
--- or could be backwards?
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"My God - it's full of stars"Isn't that from "Fadeout", by Patrick Tilley?
(Brilliant book...should have had a sequel.)
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It may be from "Fadeout" but if so was quoting "2001".
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The astronaut suits on the beach in Perth are from
Tintin.
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Astronaut baseball wins.
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they are from tintin they are from Explorers on the moon in volume 5 of the tintin series
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I believe that on closer inspection you will see that the astronaut "attacked by coat hangers" is actually made of coat hangers. The triangular part of the hanger is reshaped to hake the statue and the hook part is hanging out.
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"My God - it's full of stars" - Dave Bowman from 2001.
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Great roundup and pix, but here's one you missed: Morgantown, West Virginia's Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) at University of West Virginia. But it doesn't have a rail so technically doesn't qualify. But so cool! http://admissions.wvu.edu/undergraduate/discover/prt.asp
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Monorails! Fantastic, thanks. I'm still waiting, and won't believe that the future has arrived till I ride one.
The last image is almost identical to one of Chris Foss's concept drawings for Superman!
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This reminded me of Blaine the mono in Stephen King's Dark Tower epic.
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Here's some more you've missed:
http://peeron.com/inv/sets/6990-1?showpic=6467
http://peeron.com/inv/sets/6991-1?showpic=3077
http://peeron.com/inv/sets/6399-1?showpic=6487
And I have 6399.
ha ha, had to do it.
Give it a Splat!
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Bertin's Aerotrain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rotrain) was tested in the late 60s on a test track constructed near Orléans France. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VvsxaaFNAs
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Don't forget the early-1900's Brennan gyro-monorail (
linky)
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Don't forget about the Las Vegas monorail, designed and built by Bombardier, the world's largest rail company.
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great tips, all - the full story is not told yet, will go into part two.
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I used to know a bloke who'd ridden on the Bennie Railplane as a young man. Sadly, he died last year, and I wish I'd talked to him more about it. Although, frankly, I don't think there was much to tell: as you say, it was a test track, and didn't actually go anywhere. He did say that it sounded - as you would expect - exactly like a plane. And at 20-30 feet from the ground, that must have been quite a racket. Not to mention the wash from the propellers (one at the front, one at the rear).
By all accounts, Bennie wasn't much of a businessman, but I can't help thinking that the technical issues doomed it as much as the economics.
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There is a monorail very similar to the one at Disney located at the Miami Metrozoo in South Florida.
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You forgot the best one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_vs._the_Monorail
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The Senate subway wasn't (and still isn't) a monorail. Notice the motors on the trucks beneath the cars. The upper track is just the power source, like pangraph, but more durable.
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For the true monorailists out there, don't forget The Monorail Society at http://www.monorails.org
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We once had a monorail in berlin too:
http://www.berliner-verkehrsseiten.de/m-bahn/index.html
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"Soviet monorail car, 1967, via"
it look like the French Safege !!!
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Then there's this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_yLodI1CQ
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In 1911, Burbank, California launched "the first patented monorail in the USA," a fan-driven affair dubbed "Fawkes Folly."
http://wesclark.com/burbank/fawkes_folly.html
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Very interesting article and awesome pictures. Well done to all the photographers.
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Good article. An interesting fact for you, Komodo Dragons are capable of parthenogenisis, this is the ability to produce offspring without mating. There is a dragon exhibit at my local zoo and a few years back, a female who had no male contact ever, produced several baby dragons! So much for the "miracle of the virgin birth." Its worth looking into this fascinating process. I am a member of the zoo and visit often, I though the keeper was kidding when they told us about it.
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A sillily pedantic point: I'd always been told (as an NZer) that the Tuatara (a much slower, less bitey animal) was the closest thing to dinosaurs that were still living.
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No need to go to remote islands! there are loads in malasia , in KL (the capital) just head for the hills, near the park, i saw 20+ just walking around, i didnt realise they could kill a man so i tried to grab one of their tails! it snapped at me but didnt get me, i left them alone after that! i have photos of them if anyone is intrested
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Some amazing snaps in this informative article. The closest I got to one was at the zoo. Magnificent looking creatures.
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Two points of clarification: First, the initial claim that they are venomous is incorrect -- they have enough bacteria in their mouths to infect just about any bite to the point of fatality as is mentioned later in the article, but it's not the same as venomous. Second, only the little ones can climb trees, which they generally do to get away from their hungry and cannibalistic parents. For more and lighter on dragons, Douglas Adams recounts his trip to see the dragons in chapter 2 of "Last Chance to See".
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Surely the closest living thing to a dinosaur would be their descendants the birds? Lizards aren't even archosauromorphs (the clade that includes (non-avian) dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs and crocodiles).
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I don't leave you enough notes, but I always enjoy stopping by. Thanks for everything you do. You keep life lively.
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Anonymous: those you saw are monitor lizards. They look like Komodo dragons, but they're smaller. And yes, monitor lizards are quite common, even Singapore has them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Monitor
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Thank you Maggie, really appreciate :)
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And people are saying dinosaurs had feathers? Idiots.
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Great article and the pictures are amazing. Thanks so much for sharing!
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I recall two great shows about these creatures. One with Dave Attenborough, and the other was a Kratt bros “Be the Creature” episode.
Even though he had a big stick, Dave was definitely getting quite nervous when a bunch of them started getting a little too close.
The Kratts filmed them eating a large pig or a boar… apparently they have jaws that can dislodge like a snake …the last thing to eat was the animal’s head and one of them swallowed it whole –The head was easily twice the size of the dragons if not more.
The Kratts said the dragons don’t like poo and the young will roll in it as a deterrent to being eaten by their parents. So, if you’re ever stranded in Komodo and it’s getting dark… Another oddity is that they have a ‘third eye’ on the top of their head. Not really an eye but light sensitive nonetheless (not unique to komodo dragons btw).
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Fascinating facts! Thank you, anonymous
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need to update the part about "bacteria in the mouth is what kills prey" in the komodos. they actually have poison glands and inject venom that causes rapid loss of blood pressure so the victim can not run away. Other than that, excellent pics
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Breaking News: Komodos ARE venomous. It has recently been determined they have a well-developed venom gland that is ducted to between their large teeth. See this link to BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/
nature/8056040.stm
The long held notion that their mouths were so infested with bacteria that the condition acted as a venom is incorrect. This is the work of U of Cambridge herpetologist Clemente in a follow up study of U of Melbourne.
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FYI, Google's unofficial motto is "Don't be evil." Apple has no such policy and can and will be evil.
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Yeah, confused apple with google there. Apple does some pretty mean things.
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That second MGM lion photo looks very much like Bert Lahr in the Wizard of Oz. Hmmmm.
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The garishly-colored wagon in that last photo is most likely a Doppler radar truck... :-)
--TwoDragons
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I agree that the mystery object is a radar, but judging by the high-visibility markings it is most likely a mobile ground-controlled approach radar station for airports or military airfields. These were often used during the construction of the Distant Early Warning radar sites in northern Canada to assist cargo aircraft landing in bad weather.
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I would like to contact directly the rights owner of the "shooting the MGM logo in 1924". Do you know who was shooting this picture? I could not find it at Bettman/CORBIS like the "1929 version".
Thx in advance.
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Yves
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Brain food for those craves the images and not the words at the moment. :)
Thank you!
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Love that spider/helicopter one..
There are some more drawings, some with a sci-fi art twist here:
http://www.marty.com.au/sci-fi-gallery/drawings.html
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I find the harvest of philosophy to be rather heavy and wooden myself.
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that lighthouse in the sand was covered in an Link Latte here last year: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/12/link-latte-92.html
original:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/the-lighthouse-devoured-by-sand/5115
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Thank you Colan, good catch - updated
Lynn, so true about Rob Gonsalves: mirrors indeed, and not just one picture.
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This is great.
Check out this surreal video similar to the last picture.
IDIOT BOX
http://vimeo.com/2875674
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seriously some twisted stuff
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The Sergei Kharlamov image is reminiscent of paintings Picasso did in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Seated Bather (1930) is probably the most famous (and most extreme).
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This is really cool stuff. I seen some similar stuff like this on http://www.masterpieceonline.com
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Pretty cool surreal artwork! I especially like the painted pics.
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relly great, thanks Avi
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creepyweirdnwonderful!
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oh i'm so in love foe your work
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I got a fwd last week of food art. Food art is ... disturbing. Please make it stop. I am 57 years old.
Chris
i think they grow the watermelons in a container. like how the get the square ones. don't think its a photoshop.
Very cool, although I was a lil' grossed out by the burger/sneaker combo!
cool, but the pig cutting itself was really creepy and disgusting.
The face-shaped watermelon is real. I've seen them in markets in Asia, though their prices are exorbitant.
Great article. Thanks for the information.
Watermelon is very real, and very pricey.
My favourite is the suicidal pig and the night-time pancakes.
FYI the orange carrying itself is by Balla Tamas - ballatamas.com
The water melons that were carved out, were done by a chef i know! those aren't all the works his done by the way there are some better carvings that his done!
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