5/20/2011

10 Really Cool And Unique Lamps

Sneaker Lamp 

Creative lamp designed by Clara Sjodin that looks like a sneaker. The cloth shoe laces are not only accurately scaled, they are the actual power cords for the bulbs found in each sneaker, which helps keep the lamp's design very clean. Would you put a pair up in your house?(Link)

 Mary Had a Little Lamp
Lonely in bed at night while you read? Mary Had a Little Lamp is there to help you and keep your bed warm.

 Penguins Lamps
Collection of lamps "Save The Penguins" by Alex Kozynets.

Fire Lamp
Fire inspired lamp designed by Santiago Sevillano. The body is made of white semitransparent PET rotational molding and inside is LED lighting. The table lamps are wireless and use a base charge.

 Book Rest Lamp
Whilst you're all tucked up in bed reading your favorite fairy-tale, horror story or glamour model biography, you can read to the glow of this clever and uncomplicated lamp. Made of frosted glass it gives off a soft light, ideal to read to but also doubles as a book rest ensuring you never lose your page. Designed by Lee Sang Gin.
 
 Nymph Lamp
Nymph, as in “the immature form of some insects”, is the name of this odd and cool looking lamp by Site Specific Design – an interior and furniture design company based in Brooklyn, New York. The price: $2,600.

 Martini Lamp 
This sophisticated lamp model has an illuminated red pimento.

 Memento Lamp
ID Award 2008 Biennial Winning an interior product award. Design by Hiroshi Yoneya and Yumi Masuko.

 
Moon Rock Lamps
Beautiful and original design from the 1960's. Each lamp is handcrafted in Ravenna, Italy, of fiberglass and then coated with a layer of natural Italian stones. Both beautiful and modern, these lamps give any space a natural warm atmosphere. Can be used as ambient lighting on the floor or table top.

 

5/18/2011

10 Really Amazing And Cute Animal Pictures

This bobcat got into a spot of bother after running from a pack of wild dogs - and climbing to the top of a prickly cactus. It sat on the spines and cowered as ten hounds gathered at the base of the 15ft-high saguaro cactus. Paco Espinoza took the picture in Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico. He said: ""The saguaro had a lot of thorns and it would have been painful sitting up there. The dogs had the cactus surrounded and the bobcat was scared so my dad and I threw stones to make them flee."
Picture: Paco Espinoza/Solent News & Photo Agency
 A Fennec Fox looks around its enclosure at the zoo in the southern German city of Heidelberg
Picture: AFP/GETTY
 Two pug named Roxy and Ivan are dressed up as Dorothy and the Tin Man from the movie Wizard of Oz, at the Pug Rescue of San Diego County's 20th annual Pug Party in Del Mar, California
Picture: REUTERS
 A dog retrieves a sandal from the sea during the women's Billabong Rio Pro surfing championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Picture: AP
 Pet rabbits and their handlers compete in the rabbit showjumping competition at the London Pet Show 2011 at Olympia
Picture: Paul Brown / Rex Features
 A pet rat looks at a camera at the London Pet Show 2011 at Olympia
Picture: Paul Brown / Rex Features
 Imre Szpisjak grooms his record-breaking 560kg (1234 pounds) giant hog Bela at his farm in Kenderes, Hungary
Picture: AFP/GETTY
 A little Australian freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni) shows his pointed teeth while being held by a keeper at the zoo in Frankfurt
Picture: EPA
 A fire ant appears to be pulling off a one-handed breakdance move on a log. The insect held the pose - known as a hand freeze in breakdancing circles - for 30 seconds. Robertus Agung Sudiatmokos photographed the unusual sight using a macro lens in the village of Cibinong, Indonesia.
Picture: Robertus Agung Sudiatmokos / CATERS
 A bumble bee collects pollen from a dog rose near Frankenthal, western Germany
Picture: AFP/GETTY Source

5/17/2011

10 Most Beautiful Female Athletes

Clair Bidez

Clair Bidez missed the 2010 Winter Olympics and has done nothing too special in the X-Games.
I can snowboard. I've played 1080 Snowboarding on N64. It's basically the same thing right?
 Natalie Gulbis
If you're ditching your sport to be on a reality show like Gulbis did when she went on Celebrity Apprentice 2, then no matter what, you probably made the right decision. Her mind couldn't have been in the right place.
Sure, she was sixth overall on the money list, but she only has one win on tour. The strategy has to be to just linger until it's winning time, then make your move.
And did you know she has two brothers named George and Charles Innocent?
Yeah, they're a crime fighting duo whose nemesis is the notorious mobster Louis Guilty.

 Jenn Brown
Baseball was my chosen sport, so whenever I see a softball player, I immediately think I have a chance of being better than any of them. Especially one who quit in college and now is a broadcaster.
Think of the rules of softball. You have a smaller field and you can't lead off the base pads. It is essentially little league baseball with a bigger ball. How does anyone ever strike out trying to hit something that big??
 Maria Verchenova
I just can't take Verchenova's game seriously when she set the female athlete stereotype back a thousand years when she told Maxim magazine:
“I always like to bring something extra special to the golf course, so if I’m wearing sexier, more stylish stuff like a shorter skirt or a nice tennis-style dress, and if people notice then great.”
All right Maria. While you're making hard decisions like if you should wear a black skirt or a pink one, I am out at the driving range day and night, getting ready to take you on.
 Claudia Toth
Claudia Toth's chosen sport is curling. You know, the Olympic sport where you push a large piece of stone and use brooms to put that large piece of stone in a spot?
This is arguably the toughest matchup because of the involvement of a broom. Men are fighting centuries of training that women have had with a broom.
 Sophie Horn
You can drone on all you want about your golf accomplishments, Sophie, but until you're on the LPGA tour, I know I can take you.
Just don't talk though. The British accent thing will make me collapse on the green, and no one wants to see something like that.
 Victoria Vanucci
The internet tells me Victoria here hurt her back, so she can't play tennis anymore.
Fine, Victoria. I call your bluff. I am totally willing to roll out in a wheelchair and duel you on a tennis court. No more excuses, this is for real.
Wheelchair tennis. I'm surprised that hasn't caught on. Maybe because it would take about as long as a game of Monopoly and would be equally as exciting.

 Leryn Franco
Leryn Franco specializes in the javelin throw. She is also a clutch performer.
She set her personal best at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, which was good enough to get her last place. Well slap my ass and call me Shirley! That is what I am competing with! The best you can do is last!
Her personal best is 55.38 meters, which is 181.69 feet. If my math is right, and it is because I know I carried the four, then that means she can probably throw a baseball about 43 mph.

 The Feres Sisters
he Feres sisters' list of prestigious accomplishments is so vast and endless, it earned them about three sentences on their Wikipedia page.
They were champions in Brazil for both juvenile and adult categories. That is like me proudly telling people I won some championships in the sixth grade.
 
Ashley Force
I'm not only sure I could beat Ashley Force in a drag race, I am confident I could beat any drag racer at anytime.
Let's review what this "sport" requires.
1) Sit in car
2) Buckle seat belt
3) See green light
4) Push accelerator down
5) Keep car straight
Whew. Number two would really give me some problems, but if I got past that hurdle, I think I have a chance.
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5/16/2011

Really Amazing And Cute Animal Pics Of The Week

A dolphin named Cessol looks as if he is smiling and blowing a welcoming thought bubble at Planete Sauvage wildlife park in Port Saint Pere, France. Amateur photographer Yohann Aberkane said: "I couldn't believe it when Cessol swam to the glass and blew a bubble - he really seemed like he was trying to communicate, almost like using a thought bubble."
Picture: Yohann Aberkane / Rex Features
Kishi, a Western Lowland gorilla, cradles her two-week-old unnamed baby at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, as it becomes the 130th born at the Aspinall Foundation's two wildlife parks in the county...
Picture: PA
A baby male baboon called Sekani rides on the back of his mother, Ayisha, in their enclosure at Auckland Zoo in New Zealand
Picture: AP
Baby elephant Nuka is presented with a honeydew melon with a '1' written in icing on it, on her first birthday at the zoo in Hanover, Germany
Picture: EPA
Two kingfishers mate at a pool near Droitwich, Worcestershire. Wildlife photographer Mark Hancox said: ''The pool is very popular with kingfishers at this time of year and I get some great pictures of them diving. I took dozens of shots of diving kingfishers but was intrigued by these two birds who were obviously in the middle of their courtship."
Picture: Mark Hancox / SWNS.com
A 560-pound polar bear called Tatqiq dives into the water and comes face-to-face with the underwater 'Polar Cam' at San Diego Zoo in California
Picture: San Diego Zoo / PacificCoastNews.com
Humboldt penguins swim in their pool at the zoo in the southern German city of Heidelberg
Picture: AFP/GETTY
A pair of Northern Gannets perform a courtship display on the clifftop at the RSPB's Bempton Cliffs on the East Yorkshire coast
Picture: GETTY
A leopard is chased by a lioness at Urikaruus waterhole in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Kgalagadi, South Africa. The leopard narrowly escaped a swipe before leaping into the branches of the area's only tree. Amateur photographer Callie de Wet from Johannesburg captured the chase on camera. He said: "Lions can't climb so [the tree] was the only option for the leopard."
Picture: CALLIE DE WET / BARCROFT MEDIA.
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5/15/2011

10 Amazing And Unique Gold Made Weapons

International fashion with an emphasis on cultural uniqueness. A push towards using locally significant materials, that carry cultural weight.
For 2010 expect a more localized focus to feature your own native materials and beads.
The price of gold continues to skyrocket. This will continue to have an impact on jewelery making trends. Brass, silver, wood and beads are going to take over the field while gold remains unaffordable for the masses.
 Handcrafted unique jewelery will continue to be hugely popular. More popular than ever, in 2010, because of the desire to express oneself through creativity rather than extravagance. Expect the truly fashionable to be wearing their own beaded jewelery, from necklaces, pendants, to rings and bands.

 Craft jewelery making will be an unbeatable trend for 2010. With financial pressures mounting, and little relief in sight, families will return to what matters, and fashion will reflect this. The value of sharing the joy of creation together with children, creating memories as well as jewelery grow even further in popularity than it is today.