Frozen Views of Niagara Falls Unusual?

These days stunning frozen photos of Niagara Falls are widely spreading across on the social media. New York and Ontario are marveling at the site of the frozen falls. The ice laden waterfall is not all that surprising at least according to one meteorologist. A Meteorologist John Rozbicki, actually waterfall is not frozen over, but the water is going to continue to flow underneath. The falls has too much water to completely freeze over, but on several occasions formed an ice bridge over the lake, and winter phenomena is surprisingly common. The history shows, visitors were permitted to walk across on the ice bridges till 1912, when accidentally three people killed. Ice bridges are uncommon, and even with the polar vortex, it was not cold enough to create a bridge. The recent wave of cold weather has produced a gorgeous array of winter for photographers. Here are some of best ones from social media users.

British Artist Created Incredible Life-Size Horses Out of Salvaged Driftwood

British artist James Doran Webb created unbelievable life-size horses out of salvaged driftwood as a part of an ongoing series of animal’s sculptures. It is well noteworthy of fascinating the representation of motion in sculpture, by go all out to produce vibrant sense of energy in every animal.  Doran Webb lived several years in Philippines and gets extensive experience of driftwood, and then composed the art with the help of salvage driftwood. Doran Webb works on large stockpile of wood and collects the pieces that present finest natural form of the animal and its muscle structure. He spent his childhood in the workshop of antiques Restoration Company, runs by his parent’s, by the time passed he developed himself in an accomplished antique dealer, and also convert himself in competent cabinet maker, with extensive experience of whittling, carving and refinishing. In 2005, he decided to started work with driftwood by getting the idea of his furniture design and that was the point he started to different experiment with animal sculptures.

American Artist has selected an abandoned Cabin in the deserts of California

American artist Phillip K Smith has selected an abandoned desert shack in Joshua Tree National Forest, in the deserts of California, and transformed it into a fabulous optical illusion art called "Lucid Stead." The Phillip Smith took the cabin that has been gradually rotting in the harsh desert environments for seventy years, inserted mirrors between aged wood slats and created an illusion that you can see right through the building. Smith is excited and said; "Lucid Stead” is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert. When you slow down and align yourself with the desert, the project starts to unfold before you. It discloses that it is about light and shadow, reflected light, projected light, and change." The windows & door of the building are also fitted with color changing LEDs which after dark, change into brightly colored rectangles illuminating the desert landscape. In the day light the desert scenery is reflected upon the mirrors making the cabin barely visible. "The color of the door and window openings are set at a pace of variation where one might question whether they are really varying colors. One might see blue, red, and yellow and continue to see those colors. But looking down and walking 10 feet to a fresh location reveals that the windows are now orange, purple and green.

Time Capsule Apartment Untouched for 70 Years

A lot of people leave their home for vacation for one week or even one month so. But amazingly there is one apartment in Paris France was left isolated approximately 70 years. The ideally preserved space, which is well belonged to the granddaughter of the late Parisian socialite and the actress Marthe de Florian, was paid for month after month over the course of many decades,  but never returned to in all that time, leaving it not only unoccupied but also entirely untouched. If we go back and history tells us during World War II that the owner initially fled her opulent abode in effort to escape the Nazi raid. But never to return to her home, which is now seems a Parisian !Time Capsule! Apartment the luxurious woman’s heirs decided to make an inventory of her apartment when they uncovered it’s preserved interior and the several other treasures inside. One such gem encompassed a painting by famous 19th century Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. The painting features a woman who is supposed to be Marthe de Florian at 24 years of age. The time capsule home also revealed her love affair with the artist as a result of a stack of love letters they exchanged. The apartment, which proved to be gorgeous and luxurious with possessions as it is with secrets is presently closed off to the public, however selected speculates that may change.

Spectacular Rainbow Spectrums Mirrored throughout Palacio de Cristal

You’d imagine a vivid spectrum of multicolor would bask in while walking via a cathedral full of rainbows. A Spanish woman is Kimsooja’s 2006 site specific installation for the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid Spain. To Breather to expand and unite the architectural structure of the space, the woman had the whole floor tiled in mirrors. Then she covers the vault and complete glass surface of the palace with a translucent diffraction film. When outside light filters via glass and reflects off the film, it generates a rainbow spectrum that is mirrored in every part of the atrium. This lovely installation is also a part of great performance which plays recording of her breathing from an earlier piece entitled “The Weaving Factory”. The mind-blowing progresses and transitions in and out of multi colors tones and rhythms, subtly moving visitors via many emotional states and making the installation an experience beyond the visual. Indeed this is lovely effort. 

Puzzling Optical Illusion of a Hovering Tree Cut in Half

Art director Mario Schuster and Graphic designer have taken a solitary tree in Potsdam, Germany. They transformed it into a split, hovering trunk with nothing more than some paint and tin foil. To form the illusion, Siering and Shu wrapped a section of the tree in foil and proceeded to spray paint it in the likeness of the surrounding environment. From the precise angle, the tree appearances as though it is floating in mid-air. The talented artistic twosome, who transpire to be co-workers at ART-EFX (a company focused on crafting innovative commercial art and classical landscapes), have teamed up on this fun, personal project and gained a plentiful deal of attention from it already. However there's little information beyond their names, the city the tree is located in, and the minimal materials used, there's also not much that needs to be said about the puzzling optical illusion. We’re sure you’d like to check out the short video, below, to see just how effective the illusion is as joggers pass by in the background.

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Dubai’s World Record Breaking Largest Fireworks Display Ever

Dubai always in chase of something different which attracts tourist to be there to watch the world record breaking largest fireworks display ever! Amazing 500,000 fireworks were used in the 6 minutes display which covered a distance of more than 94 kilometer (Approximately 61.6 miles) and included the beautiful city seafront as well as Dubai's most prominent landmarks like the Burj Al Arab, Burj Khalifa, Palm Jumeirah, and World Islands. An arduous planning behind the new fireworks when workers took ten months of planning to pull off the unbelievable accomplishment with 100 computers synchronizing the pyrotechnics with a musical soundtrack. To make sure that the fireworks' timing was accurate down to the millisecond, leading up to the event, over two hundreds professional technicians worked an amazing 5,000 hours.  It is well believed, that everyone knows that Dubai does things in grand style. Organizers "just" had to beating the world record of 2012 which display to mark Kuwait's golden jubilee anniversary where 77,282 fireworks were launched. It was an awesome display of fireworks, when Dubai broke that record within their first minute. It is well reported that 1.7 million people who attended the occasion, there was no doubt a slew of snappers capturing the spectacle. Here are some photos by those lucky enough to witness it all first-hand. If you’ve missed than you can watch the recently released video. What’s your thoughts whether it is wastage of money or attract tourist to come here in 2015 for another grand style fireworks?

100 Years old Unique Negatives Preserved in a block of Ice provides glimpse of Antarctica adventures

Almost 100 years back, a box of unique negatives has been preserved in a block of ice in Antarctica. In recent times, Conservators of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust came across the twenty two exposed, but unprocessed, cellulose nitrate negatives during an effort to restore an old exploration hut. It is believed that negatives were Ross Sea Party Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1917, a group that was stranded, in the hut during a blizzard when their ship blew out to a sea, but eventually they were rescued, but their box remained buried until now. These negatives are carefully processed in order to expose the historic mysteries on each frame. Although somewhat damaged, but these can be really called unique negatives which provides a rare glimpse of 100 years back adventures tour. AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson says, it is the first example that I am aware of, of undeveloped negatives from a century ago from the Antarctic heroic era. There’s a paucity of images from that expedition.