Impressive Mechanical Watches For ‘Only Watch’ Charity Auction

“Only Watch” is a special charity event that takes place every two years, in Monaco during the Monaco Yacht Show. All the proceeds gathered go to research on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). This year’s event, which is the 4th one so far, will take place on September 23rd at the Hotel Hermitage where Prince Albert…

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Pictures From the Crazy Spanish Festival Tomatina 2011

So in 1902 some young Spaniards were unhappy and started a brawl with the local police by throwing tomatoes from the vegetable stand nearby at them. Next year they brought their own tomatoes. And since it perpetuated in the following years, it became a tradition so well kept, that right now Buñol is one of…

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Greatest Bars in Africa

Feel like going on a holiday in Africa sometime and you’re not the Safari type? Well there’s definitely more to it than that. Sure, some civil wars might break in, slavery is still at high in some parts of Sudan, Mauritania, Nigeria and other places, but you can actually pull it off and have a…

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How to Promote a New Event

You have big plans: you want to start an event and the idea is simply brilliant. And you want people to come to your event so you’re probably wondering about how to advertise it in a way that it’d do justice to all the effort you put into it. Moreover, you want it to be…

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The Fantasy World of Terry Pratchett

Remember when scientists said the world was flat? Well, the world is flat. Terry Pratchett’s Discworld at least… According to him, the world is on a giant turtle named A’Tuin the gende of which is a mystery. On top of A’Tuin there are four elephants that sustain the Discworld. Photo by Paul Kidby Do you believe…

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Gulp: World’s Largest Stop-Motion Animation Shot With a Nokia N8

‘Gulp’ is a short film by Sumo Science at Aardman – a creative team from Bristol/England, showing a fisherman going about his daily catch. This short movie was shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales. Every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot with a Nokia N8, which has a 12 megapixel camera…

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Move, Eat, Learn: Three Spectacular Short Travel Films

I’ve watched ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ and enjoyed the movie, but what you’re about to see below is pure awesomeness. ‘Move’, ‘Eat’, ‘Learn’ represent a trio of short travel films by Rick Mereki, an Australian filmmaker. The idea? 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost…

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10.10.10 – A Movie Filmed in Every Country of the World in One Day

Over 3,000 hours of filmed footage have been gathered from contributors all over the world helping to make what might be refered as “the first worldwide movie ever”. On October 10, 2010 (10.10.10), be it accomplished filmmakers or just amateurs, people from all around the world have tried to illustrate best what’s happening in their…

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Fran Lebowitz – A Role-Model

If you were searching for a role-model in thinking, look no further. She’s cutting-edge rational and also brutally sincere in whatever she says. Her words simply slash conceptions so fast, that before you know it, you realize that she’s entirely right. If you want more Fran Lebowitz, you’re on a lucky streak because the documentary…

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Retro Electronics Amazing Paper Art

Two artschool grads from Nancy, France had a terrific idea to create old electronic items out of paper. Be it a cassette, a walkman, an old telephone or a Nintendo controller, these things are just so colorful and well-made that you wish they were real. Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann, who’ve studied graphic design and…

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Imposing Pictures From the Chinese Communist Party’s 90th Anniversary

The Chinese Communist Party has done it again. Done what? A party. Yes, one to celebrate the party. The other party. The communist one. 90 years of it. Whoa! So you’re curious of how it went? Now just look at ’em toe dancing the altogether: So basically, a grand communist celebration is like a sh*tload…

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What Song Are You Listening To?

This May a 24-year-old New Yorker decided to ask people on the streets what music they were listening to at that specific moment and made a video of it. Eventually, this intriguing idea spread all over the world and now all major cities have a Ty Cullen inspired video consisting of people sharing their listening…

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