A giant Israeli flag was displayed in Masada, southern Israel on Sunday (Nov 25). Measured at 660 metres x 100 metres, and weighed 5.2 tonnes… the flag is officially declared by Guinness Book of Records as the largest flag in the world.
World’s largest flag (Image courtesy of
Chinaview)
I am not sure if it is a good idea to lay your flag on the sandy desert though; I have always been taught that national flag shouldn’t be touching the ground. Perhaps it’s a different culture… or perhaps some people were too obsessed in creating a world record and neglecting the basic rules.
Spectacular picture of mobula rays leaping out of the ocean; taken in the Sea of Cortez at the southern end of the Gulf of Mexico.
A man competing against his pet dog in a drinking competition on German TV show… can a man drink (drink like a dog to be precise) a bowl of water faster than a dog?
Btw, I think I saw Celine Dion.
Happy Thanksgiving to people who are celebrating it. For those who are not familiar with Thanksgiving… it is a traditional North American holiday to give thanks for the things that one has at the conclusion of the harvest season.
Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. [Wiki]
One thousand PVC hula hoops have been used to make the Storefront Ring Dome Pavilion in Petrosino Park, New York. The $3000 structure was built to mark the Storefront for Art and Architecture’s 25th anniversary, and was designed by Seoul-based practice Mass Studies.
The project arose from a chance encounter.
“Storefront director Joseph Grima was travelling in Asia on business and saw a model of the dome in my office,” recalls project architect Minsuk Cho, a founding member of Mass Studies.
Grima wanted a dome three times larger than the one in Cho’s design, but for roughly the same cost, so Cho used hula hoops and zip ties, and it was assembled by volunteers. [Iconeye, via Neatorama]
Hula hoops dome (Image courtesy of Alan R Tansey)
The dome reminds me of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris at first glance.
A Jeff Koons sculpture of a stainless steel heart hanging from a golden bow sold Wednesday (Nov 14) for $23.6 million, setting an auction record for a work by a living artist, a Sotheby’s spokeswoman said.
The bright magenta “Hanging Heart,” considered one of Koons’ most important works, set records for any living artist at auction, Sotheby’s spokeswoman Lauren Gioia said, breaking the previous record set by Damien Hirst’s “Lullaby Spring,” which sold for $19.5 million at Sotheby’s in London in June. [IHT]
Jeff Koons’ Hanging Heart (Image courtesy of
Xinhuanet)
It is a lovely piece of art, but $23.6 million? I just can’t understand how artworks are priced.
Interesting photos from Flickr user Musely, by lining up dollar notes with the Washington D.C. buildings depicted on them. The US $5, $10, $20 and $50 notes feature the Lincoln Memorial, US Treasury, White House and Capitol respectively.
Swedish women have launched a campaign called Just Breasts which fights for their right to go topless on beaches and in swimming pools.
Scandinavian feminists were outraged when two women were asked to cover up their breasts by a lifeguard at a public pool near Stockholm.
A spokeswoman for the group said: ‘We want our breasts to be as normal and desexualised as men’s, so that we too can pull off our shirts at football matches.’
So far, the campaign’s strategy has been devastatingly effective. Members of Just Breasts have been jumping into swimming pools across the country wearing nothing more than bikini bottoms. [Metro]
I bet Swedish men are happily supporting the cause as well.
