Ветер, ветр, ты могуч! Unloading the vehicle in high winds
This video was called "Unloading a vehicle in high winds" by its authors and there is nothing much to be added here, really. However, the show by itself is pretty much.
hilarious, you might want to take a look! They say it was filmed in pretty much Southern Russia - on the coast of the Black Sea. Also a great example of a team work.
A-maze-ing Laughter is a collection of 14 enormous bronze statues depicting a shirtless guy laughing hysterically. It was installed in 2009 in Morton Park in Vancouver, Canada, as part of the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale which exhibits international contemporary works in public spaces. It has since become a permanent part of Vancouver’s landscape, and is one of the city’s most beloved public art piece.
A-maze-ing Laughter was designed by Chinese artist Yue Minjun, a leading figure in the Chinese art movement called Cynical Realism, which began in the 1990’s as a response to the suppression of political and artistic expression in China. The figures, measuring three meters tall, portrays the artist’s own image in exaggerated size with massive full-toothed grins. An inscription carved into the cement seating states "May this sculpture inspire laughter playfulness and joy in all who experience it.”
According to the agreement between the Biennale and Yue Minjun, the sculpture was supposed to stand until Dec. 31, 2011 after which it would be removed. But when the deadline approached, the city didn’t want it to go. The only way to keep the sculpture permanently at the location was to buy it at Minjun’s asking price of a whopping $5 million. The Biennale Foundation didn’t have the funds.
Seeing the response the statues generated, Yue Minjun dropped the price to $1.5 million in an effort to help Vancouver keep the work. The sculpture was later bought by Chip and Shannon Wilson through the Wilson5 Foundation and donated to the City of Vancouver, where it will continue to grace the Park and bring smiles to the thousands of people who visit the statue.
Radetzky March, Op. 228, is a march composed by Johann Strauss Sr. in 1848.
It was dedicated to the Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz and soon became quite popular among regimented marching soldiers. It has been remarked that its tone is more celebratory than martial; Strauss was commissioned to write the piece to commemorate Radetzky's victory at the Battle of Custoza.
"Après toi" (French for "After you") was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 performed in French by Greek singer Vicky Leandros, representing Luxembourg.
The song was co-written by Leandros' father Leandros Papathanasiou, also known as Leo Leandros, under his pseudonym Mario Panas. This was Vicky Leandros' second entry in the Contest. In 1967 she had finished 4th with "L'amour est bleu" (better known under its English title "Love is Blue") which subsequently went on to become a worldwide hit when covered by French orchestra leader Paul Mauriat.
"La Paloma" is a popular Spanish song that has been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years.
The song was composed and written by the Spanish composer from the Basque region Sebastián Iradier (later Yradier) after he visited Cuba in 1861. Iradier may have composed "La Paloma" around 1863, just two years before he died in Spain in obscurity, never to learn how popular his song would become.
People would eat the darnedest things, depending on their cultural background and love of unique experiences. The point of this page is to find the food that is not necessarily disgusting (in most cases it's only a matter of taste), but such food - and things made from food - that cause us to stop in the tracks and think twice before bringing it to our mouths.
Geek-oriented food: (chocolate bar)
(image credit: englishrussia)
Speaking of chocolate... you can lick the whole chocolate-covered Jeep!
(photo by Photo/Jeep, Jamie-Andrea Yanak)
Be nice to your coffee:
and it will be nice to you...
Anime Food
Love your favorite anime characters? Have them with rice! Asian creativity is put to good use in Hong Kong's fast-food establishments:
Elbrus Nigmatullin je 41-godišnji Rus koji je u sklopu svojeg posljednjeg pothvata uspio pomaknuti potpuno namještenu kuću. Sada pak planira vući brod od 1,5 tona
- Kada sam po prvi put vidio kuću, bio sam samo 30% siguran da ju mogu pomaknuti. Ali, kada se oči boje, noge ne staju, objasnio je Elbrus Nigmatullin koji će sada uz pomoć atletičara Jamshida Ismatilaevyma pokušati pomaknuti brod težak tonu i pol.
There’s an oft-unspoken rivalry between motorcyclists and us average motorists. Car-drivers are always eager to jealously complain about bikers unfairly passing them by in traffic or curse their deafening engines roaring by.
It’s in that spirit of resentment that we present this slideshow featuring a few of the weirdest sights you’ll ever see on the road, all of them on motorcycles. The photos of crazy motorcyclists just give you the feeling that there’s some sort of strange story behind them.
"Let's Twist Again" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, and released as a single by Chubby Checker. One of the biggest hit singles of 1961, it reached #2 in the UK and #8 on the U.S. Billboard pop chart. It refers to the Twist dance craze and his 1960 and 1961 re-released single "The Twist", a UK and U.S. number-one single.
The song received the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Rock & Roll Recording.
It's a cemetery for trains, for locomotives. And it's so big that it looks as though all of the trains in South America were moved to Uyuni, Bolivia, to chug their last chug.
Filled with hollowed out bodies that have completely rusted over and other remains, the "Great Train Graveyard" can be found on the otherwise deserted outskirts of Uyuni, a small trading region high in the Andean plain.
Uyuni has long been known as an important transportation hub in South America and it connects several major cities. In the early 19th century, big plans were made to build an even bigger network of trains out of Uyuni, but the project was abandoned because of a combination of technical difficulties and tension with neighboring countries. The trains and other equipment were left to rust and fade out of memory.
Most of the trains that can be found in the Graveyard date back to the early 20th century and were imported from Britain. In other places in the world, the mighty steel trains would have held up better. The salt winds that blow over Uyuni, which hosts the world's largest salt plain, have corroded all of the metal. Without guards or even a fence, these pieces were picked over and vandalized long ago.
