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Get Out! Outdoor Lounge Bed by Patricia Urquiola for Kettal. Have you ever just wanted to move your bed outside so that you could sleep under the stars? Or, so you can pretend you’re camping without having to sleep on the ground? Luckily Milan-based designer Patricia Urquiola has created something where you can do just that. The Kettal Cottage was made for the Spanish company Kettal and it’s a modern, house-shaped retreat that just screams relaxation (and my name!). Under the slatted roof, there is a platform with chaise-style seating built for two, which you can raise or lower.

It appears that you can choose fabrics and finishes to really personalize it into your own little backyard paradise. I don’t know about you, but I’d take any of them – any which way they came. Molokini by Clear Blue Hawaii | designose.com. Clear Blue Hawaii offers a transparent canoes and kayaks that turn a regular sport into undersea exploration. Weighing 18kg/40 pounds – half the usual weight of a canoe – its transportation is not a big issue. Padded seats offer higher comfort for your trip and fulfill all your demands for top quality and style .

These models should be used in areas of calm ocean conditions, even though they are sturdier and stronger than the traditional non-transparent builds. Their material is impact resistant and has been tested (the trials involved hammer blows, height drops, height drops from rocky cliffs and drops from a moving vehicle). In a sunny and windless day the water depth visibility is 23 metres / 75 feet. photos: clearbluehawaii.com. Movie: Justin McGuirk on Torre David at Venice Architecture Biennale. Curator Justin McGuirk tells us why his Golden Lion-winning installation about a community living in a vertical slum in Caracas could set an example for new forms of urban housing, in this movie we filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale. "Why should the majority of the poor in countries like Venezuela be forced to live in the slums around the edge of cities if there are empty office towers in the city centres? ," he says. McGuirk teamed up with architects Urban-Think Tank and photographer Iwan Baan to create the Torre David/Gran Horizonte exhibition and restaurant, which presents the findings of a year-long research project.

The 45-storey Torre David skyscraper was designed for a financial organisation in the 1990s, but construction was abandoned following the the death of the developer and squatters began moving in. The building is now home to around 3000 residents, who have adapted the concrete shell by partitioning off rooms to suit their needs. Photography is by Iwan Baan. 30 Shocking and Unexpected Google Street View Photos. EmailEmail Canadian artist Jon Rafman is an unusual photographer – he explores Google Street Views and takes screenshots of the most incredible sights here. From a toddler left on street to a tiger roaming near a convenience store – “with its supposedly neutral gaze, the Street View photography had a spontaneous quality unspoiled by the sensitivities or agendas of a human photographer,” says Jon.

The original pictures were actually shot by an army of Google’s hybrid electric automobiles, each equipped with 9 cameras on a single pole. That’s why Jon calls his project “The Nine Eyes of Google Street View.” Website: 9-eyes.com. GameKlip - Real Controller - Real Games. Urbex - pięć superkierunków dla miejskich eksploratorów. Choć zabawa w urbex bywa ryzykowna (bo część spośród najpopularniejszych wśród miejskich odkrywców obiektów to tereny prywatne i często chronione), urbexowcy twierdzą, że sposób, by do wymarzonego celu wejść i dotrzeć aż do podszewki, znajdzie się zawsze. Opuszczone miejsca to także rewelacyjne „tereny łowieckie” dla fotografów, coraz bardziej popularne także jako plenery dla... zdjęć ślubnych. Gdzie się udać, gdy przygoda z urbexem dopiero się zaczyna?

Kozubnik to jedna z ulubionych lokalizacji miłośników urbexu z całej Polski (i nie tylko). Położony w wyjątkowo malowniczej okolicy stary ośrodek wypoczynkowy przyciąga rzesze ciekawskich. Zarówno tych zdeterminowanych, aby zdobyć najwyższy stojący tu budynek, jak i tych, którzy chcą tylko pospacerować po urokliwym, pełnym wspomnień miejscu. W latach 70. Dziś w Kozubniku bywają turyści i grafficiarze. Najbardziej atrakcyjne jest wejście na najwyższe dostępne piętra dawnego hotelu „Kiczory”. Likwidacja cementowni nastąpiła w 1980 roku. 35 interesujących faktów na temat j.angielskiego o których mogłeś nie wiedzieć. Interesujące fakty o języku angielskim o których mogłeś nie wiedzieć. 1. Słowo "triskaidekaphobia" oznacza "strach przed piątkiem 13-go".

Oznacza również ogólny strach przed liczbą "13" 2. Wyraz "uncopyrightable" jest najdłuższym wyrazem, w którym żadna litera się nie powtarza. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Źródła: Wikipedia, Internet, własne notatki. Hilariously Photoshopping Celebrities as Everyday People. Angelica Dass "Humanae" - Skin Color Pantones.