This is about as strange as it gets. In a quaint public park in Lintz, Austria, three drain pipes have been transformed into mini hotel rooms. Christened the Das Park Hotel, each room comes with a double bed, a bed light, linens and a side table .The guests can pay what they feel a stay […]
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Museum of Modern Art
Posted in Art, Design, Images, Photography, Society, Travel, World on May 7th, 2008
The Museum of Modern Art is a world class museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York, USA. It has single-handedly spurred the development of modernist art and is widely considered be one of the most influential museums of modern art since its inception in 1929. MoMA was the first ever museum to admit […]
World’s Tallest Buildings
Posted in Art, Design, Images, News, Photography, Society, Travel, World on May 1st, 2008
Which are the world’s tallest buildings? It depends on what you are measuring. The debate continues as to what parts of buildings are deserving of recognition when measuring a buildings height. Should flagpoles, spires, and antennas be included in the total height measurement? Technically speaking, communications towers, observation decks and towers, […]
Futurism Art
Posted in Art, Design, Images, News, Photography, Society on Apr 25th, 2008
A new international movement in the art world “Futurism” was started in 1909 in Italy.
Compared to the emotional aspects of Romanticism, Futurism is a nice contrast. Based around the finer points of natural noise that occurs in cities, from machines, and daily life, and thriving on speed and pace, Futurism was a new direction. […]
Bizarre car designs
Posted in Art, Design, Images, Science, Society, World, technology on Apr 23rd, 2008
There amazing and interesting designs coming out of the auto industry yearly. Some are strange, some are innovative, some push the limits of design and technology. Many of the more interesting designs start as concept cars, that don’t always make it to the production line. Not all innovative designs are strange of […]