Sunday 22 December 2013

92 Years old Grandmother Shares Amazing Embroidered Artwork of Temari

NanaAkua is Japanese graphic designer & illustrator; she uploaded amazing 468 embroidery pictures in 2009 of her then 88 years old grandmother made in 30 years of time.  Her grandmother practices a folk art of Temari also called Hand ball in Japanese, the art which was introduced to Japan by China around seventh century A.D. The history tells us Temari, are highly valued gift, mainly symbolizing deep friendship and loyalty. The vibrant colors of threads normally used which are symbolic wishing the recipient a brilliant and happy life. In past, embroidery work is highly challenging and complicated to understand, and if you’re really interested in trying it out or learning further there’s a great step by step tutorial guide at instructables.com, moreover alternative step by step guide also available at temari.com. You can see here some of wonderful sampling of lovely temari balls. If you are really interested more pictures, then you view at flickr.com.















Friday 20 December 2013

Bracken Bat Cave The Largest Aggregation of Mammals On Earth

The Bracken Bat Cave situated in southern Comal County, Texas, outside the city of San Antonio, in the summer home to the largest colony of bats in the world. Every year in summer, approximately twenty million Mexican Free-tailed bats move around from Mexico to Texas to give birth and raise their pups. Whereas these bats take migrate all across the state, the largest congregation takes place at Bracken Cave. From March to October, every night, these miniature creatures fly out of the 100-foot-wide crescent-shaped opening to feed. The mass departure of bats is sluggish at first as they linger at the cave’s lip, circling round and round inside before emerging. But after 4 hours, countless millions of bats stream out of the cave in elegant swirls as they rise into the wide sky and dissipate in the distance. They spread out over a 60-mile radius from the cave at heights of up to 10,000 feet and over the next eight to twelve hours nosh on hundreds of tons of insects, like as moths and agricultural pests.  They’ve dense emergence that it shows up on Doppler radar, as per TexasCoopPower.com. Those who have seen the bats’ nightly emergence have described the sound they generate as that of steadily falling rainstorm.
Bat lovers and tourists, and host of other creatures expectantly wait for their exit. Great Horned Owl and Harris’s Hawks scope out potential dinners from nearby trees, while skunks, raccoons, opossums and rattlesnakes lurk on the ground to strike low-flying bats from the air. The Bracken bat colony eats plenty of insects every night and plays a vital role in pest control, helping farmers control moths, beetles and insects that destroy corn, cotton and other crops. The Bracken site has had an important role in Texas and US history. The cave was mined in the midst of 18the century (1860s) for guano (bat droppings) to manufacture black gunpowder, during the Civil War. The guano was afterward used as a rich fertilizer for croplands across the USA. The bat cave sits upon private land owned by Bat Conservation International that owns 697 acres of undeveloped land around it. Moreover; access to the cave is restricted to keep the habitat of the resident bats, but evening guided tours to the cave are offered to look at the bats emerge from the cave.





















Sunday 15 December 2013

Modern Floating House is the Perfect Relaxing Retreat

Architect Dymitr Maclew designed floating House that offers its citizens magnificent clear opinions, a connectedness to their atmosphere, and an easy way to move from one location to another. It is espcially created for H2ORIZON, a France developer that focuses mainly on floating components like this one, the wonderful build is built on top of a secure system that comes prepared with two bed rooms, two washrooms, a lounge, kitchen and fully roofed veranda.

Although the structural components are usually prepared with related facilities, the floor plans can be modified to match any person's choices. Dymitr Malcew wanted to make a house that hardly impacted its environment while also enabling for picturesque opinions that arise naturally but do not creatively restrict the spectacular view of the house's around landscape.



English Man Walking All Day to Create Massive Snow Patterns

English expert Simon Beck never stops to astonish us with his all-encompassing paintings of geometrical styles in snow. Each creatively spectacular piece, which Beck personally makes by strolling through the snow and making behind his track prints, contributes an exclusive element to its natural scenery. Walking myriad kilometers on end, the devoted specialist controls to produce amazingly shaped and intricate designs on the soft, white bed of snow that includes kilometers upon kilometers of land.
Simon Beck skills to not only travel through the slippery surface and icy temperature ranges but to also keep a record of his steps is extremely amazing. The superbly plotted details of the artist's perform supplement the untouched expanse of snow and ice assigned mountains  that include them each season. With the next winter time just around the corner, we're thrilled to see Beck's next sequence of creative snow events.