This Vokswagen ad was in air during the Super Bowl this year and it features a little kid dressed like Darth Vader who is becoming increasingly frustrated at his inability to harness the power of the Force. It’s freakin’ adorable and it almost makes me want to buy a Passat and drive around [...]
Diego Rivera : (Dec 8, 1886 – Nov 24, 1957) – 125th Birthday “An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down [...]
Yesterday, I went to Honey Bee Centre (http://www.honeybeecentre.com/) . Saw one of my friend's family and walked in to the Honey Bee Festival....It's really Fun for Kids. It seems, they celebrate once every 2 years. The only thing which attracted me is the Street Organ Grinder!! I saw a musician playing a Street Organ. I researched a [...]
I travelled recently to Oregon and way back just hit this bridge, a engineering marvel! Driving down the steep 4.1 miles Astoria-Megler bridge is an Awesome experience. This bridge connects the states of Oregon and Washington over the columbia River. Check this Video Astoria Bridge, also called Astoria-Megler Bridge or Columbia River (Astoria) Bridge, bridge spanning [...]
Recently, the Hong Kong authorities invited the North Korean female traffic police to help with traffic regulation.. You know why?? North Korea may have a few things, but one of the more implausible – unless you happen to be a raving Leninist – is fashion style. Yet that is just what Pyongyang’s traffic police girls [...]
What is organic? Organic refers to the way agriculture products, food and fiber are grown and produced. "Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management practices that restore, maintain and enhance ecological [...]
We have heard about Rocket Launches.. There is a count down and then boom... I met a cargo ship maintenance engineer from Greece in 2007 and he told me few marine's funny things. Among that the Ship launching procedure is really a awesome procedure and over centuries nothing has been done technologically apart from few inputs. It is [...]
This is a segment from the film Life with an Indian Prince. In 1939 two young Americans traveled to India to experience the falconry practices of Indian royalty and to photograph and film wildlife for National Geographic. In addition to hunting with birds of prey, members of the royal party used to hunt with cheetahs. [...]
Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) is generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, though he had little success during his lifetime. Van Gogh produced all of his work (some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings) during a period of only 10 years before he succumbed to mental illness (possibly bipolar [...]
