Afghanistan of 2010 vs Afghanistan of 1994 – Photo Comparison

Photo comparison of looks of a Afghanistan today in 2010 and back in 1994. Intriguing photography of scenery of a country where time has obviously stopped and little changes in 16 years time. These photos were taken by photographer Seamus Murphy in 1994 and 2010. Even though the Taliban era is over, Afghanistan still looks like back in the old times. Has time stopped in certain parts of the world? What can we do to help? Those are the serious questions that arise here.

Take a look for yourself at this photo comparison between Afghanistan of 2010 and Afghanistan back in 1994. Amazing photos tell an amazing story of human life and drama.

Internally displaced families as a result of the fighting between Taliban and Massoud’s forces, Khwaja Bahauddin, Takhar province. November 2000.

Internally displaced people as a result of the fighting in Helmand between Taliban and Coalition forces. July 2010.

1994, Kabul, a Mujahedeen looks at Jade Maiwand in the old part of Kabul.

Same Jade Maiwand in 2010.

Kabul. November 1994.

Kabul. June 2010.

Kabul. November 1994.

Kabul. June 2010.

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Fantastic KickAss Women Warriors

It is well known that in popular literature, comics and graphic arts, women warriors have always been a major inspiration of many fantastic artworks. There is something intriguing about a kickass woman fighting in this men dominated world. It is a start of a new era, an era where women are getting more and more powerful. This trend clearly reflects on modern art and fantasy 3D graphic designers. Is that the factor that makes these images so awesome?

The level that this graphic arts movement has reached is confirmed in this cool gallery of fantastic kickass women warriors.

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Eggstraordinary Workspaces

Earlier this year Wadhwa Developers commissioned James Law Cybertecture to create an office unlike any other in Mumbai, India. Cybertecture Egg, an egg-shaped office building brings together iconic architecture, environmental design, intelligent systems, and new engineering to create a fascinating structure in the city.

The concept of this unique design was inspired by planets and sustainable ecosystems. Elements of the design and intelligence systems will work together to give this office building’s occupants a great place to work.

Throughout the building, a series of innovative systems will be implemented. One such system, “Cybertecture Health“, is designed to monitor office worker’s health. Data collected may be retrieved or sent to a doctor if necessary.

The Egg is skewed at an angle to alleviate the solar gain of the building. Building at this angle uses 10-20% less surface area as compared to a conventional building.

The rooftop green space dissipates heat while the building harnesses solar and wind power. Cooling of the building will be provided by an elevated garden consisting of natural vegetation. Another important element is the water conservation feature that will be controlled thanks to a greywater recycling system for irrigation and landscaping.

Within the building, an innovative structure derived from the skin of the egg creates up to 30m spans of columnless floors. The Cybertecture Egg will be completed by the end of 2010. Talk about inspirational workspaces.

Ana Ivanovic Cute Facial Expressions

Ana Ivanovic started playing tennis at the age of five after watching it on TV (a match of Monica Seles), remembering the phone number to a local tennis school and begging her parents to take her. She was given a racquet for fifth birthday and immediately fell in love with the game.

With only 19 year she won Rolland Garros champion 2006. Further, she became more and more popular. Now, she is not popular only like tennis player, also she is very attractive fashion model as you can see. About that are next facts: recently Ana named the best-looking tennis player of all-time by The Age newspaper, in October 2008 she won ‘Bild’ newspaper’s reader poll for “most beautiful body” in sport and also in December 2008 she was named “best looking” female tennis player by The Globe & Mail newspaper.Here is one of her photo galleries – Verano Expressions, with 3 facial expressions - hopeful, overjoyed, and smug feeling. These photos are involved in design of Shopping Center Zira in Belgrade and new Verano calendar.  Ana filmed a commercial for the Zira shopping mall in Belgrade earlier this year. It is owned and operated by her sponsor in Serbia, the Verano Group. Enjoy!

Hopeful

Overjoyed

Smug

Crazy Egg Art Shapes

People use very different materials to express their creativity. Sometimes material can be little strange, like eggs. As you will see below, these are very cool and funny art products created using eggs and inspired by eggs

Often a little bit of imagination, it will let people create amazing creativity. Even only the most common things in daily life, yes, just the eggs. Here are amazing photos of art shapes made entirely of eggs. Don’t ask me why anyone thought this was a good idea, but the end result is way cool. Which just goes to show, if you want to make great art, you have to break a few eggs.

Funny Eggs

Spooky Eggs

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Photo Proof That Geeks Are Attractive

‘Going geek’ has never looked better. And there’s no better way to show your geek badge than to get together with your friends and cosplay.

Here are collection of photos which give you big proof that geeks are so attractive today and draw attention everywhere they are. Their costume designs are very creative and unique more then ever.

What makes a physically attractive person even more? How about an attractive person with a dash of relateable geekyness! One really can’t deny that a solid mix of good looks and a nerdy personality makes dangerous combo. These “red warm girl” is proof!

Great Metroid cosplay by Jenni Källberg, a Swedish student and illustrator whose hobbies are art/design, cosplay, drawing and gaming. She is stunningly attractive, a gamer geek and confident as well. What else could a guy ask for.

This pair did a great job cosplaying Link’s Four Sword outfits with their clean and clear costume and image. Link is definitely popular among the girls with his pointy ears.

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Unique Wedding Cake Toppers for Crazy Marriage Beginning

For many couples the traditional bride and groom wedding topper is a great way for them to express their love for one another on their wedding cake. However, some couples get a little more creative then that. These are a few of my personal favorites featuring some of the craziest, most unusual and original wedding toppers.

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Celebrities Before and After Photoshop

This is an interesting look at celebrities photos before and after photoshop. These can give you a feel of what it takes for a person to look beautiful at all times. No wonder we, ordinary people, are left with a great deal of pressure of looking our best at all times, a high goal that is impossible to reach. Impossible even for our God-like role-models.

These are mostly used in magazines, posters and given the photoshop treatment from their original source. As you can notice these are small tweaks that were applied on photographs and the end results are astonishing. The reality of the models of these photo sessions is less so…

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Old Photos of the First Generation Of Computers

Computers, and technology in general, have come a long way in today’s world. The modern world is actually shaped and defined through the usage of computers, those neat little gadgets that do the hard work for you. Modern computers are also perfectly capable of entertaining, organizing, reminding, even surprising you. That wasn’t always the case. Here is glimpse of the history of computers and their humble beginnings. These computers may not have been as powerful as modern computers, but they’re old black and white photos are intriguing nevertheless. If for no other reason, then because those old computers were capable of filling a whole room with their robust circuitry. Enjoy these old photos of the first generation of computers.

1. AVIDAC, Argonne’s first digital computer, began operation in January 1953. It was built by the Physics Division for $250,000. Pictured is pioneer Argonne computer scientist Jean F. Hall.

2. A press conference for what is considered the first computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC), was held at the University of Pennsylvania on February 1, 1946. The machine (shown here with a technician) took up an entire room, weighed 30 tons and used more than 18,000 vacuum tubes to perform functions such as counting to 5,000 in one second. ENIAC, costing $450,000, was designed by the U.S. Army during World War II to make artillery calculations. The development of ENIAC paved the way for modern computer technology–but even today’s average calculator possesses more computing power than ENIAC did.

3. The first ever computer in Latvia was developed and made at the start-up Institute of Electronics and Computer Science in early sixties. No computers were made industrially in USSR at that time. Therefore successful completion of that project certainly represented a significant achievement. Built on a lot of vacuum tubes, the computer actually worked well and was used for supporting research activities for several years till the time when it became possible to replace it by a more powerful industrially made computer.

4. The CSIRAC was Australia’s first computer. The name stands for CSIR originally stood for “Council for Scientific and Industrial Research”. This name was in effect from 1926 to 1949.

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The Craziest Architect Of Our Age – Frank Owen Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born at February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions and many customers seek Gehry’s services as a badge of distinction. His works were by far the most often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as “the most important architect of our age”.

Gehry’s best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague and the MARTa Museum in Herford, Germany. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of “paper architecture” – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years.

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Frank Gehry, Überdacht in Berlin, Germany

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