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The Kobe Portliner Monorail in Japan has been decked out in all things Ikea, creating a very Swedish, mobile showroom.

Ikea, known for its affordable, flat-pack furniture, is using the train as an advertising gimmic as the exposure it will get from traveling across Japan will be immense.

It looks very hip, with bold, vibrant colours, and crazy patterns adorning the upholstered seats and adding punch to curtains and towels. Even the outside has been painted in theme, featuring fun retro prints like flowers and hearts.

It was done as part of a promotion for the opening of a new showroom at Port Island later this month; the train will remain Ikea-ed until May 6.

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Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games is less than 100 days to go, I am so facinating of getting to China to enjoy the sensational event. I ‘ve started to decorate my desktop with these lovely the mascots of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; The Fuwa.

The cute Fuwa group consists of five members according to the traditional five elements: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. Each of the five names is designed to look like a plausible name for a small child, while also achieving a more complex task: when the first syllable of each name is put together, it sounds nearly identical to the phrase “北京欢迎你”, Běijīng huānyíng nǐ which means “Beijing welcomes you”.

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Jordanian taekwondo instructor Mustafa Dasan breaks cement slabs with his elbow in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records during a public show in Amman April 26, 2008. Dasan, 54 and father of six, on Saturday broke 5,000 kg of marble and cement bricks in one minute and sixteen seconds in the presence of Jordanian referees. In the same event, Mustafa also let another man operates a jackhammer on his stomach.

He is Invincible!!

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When purchaing a digital camera, we not only need to know [The Need of Megapixel], but some other technical jargon; such as Fast Autofocus. The advertisement below give a good explain on it!

This is a creative and eye-catching advertising ad from Olympus to promote their E-3 SLR camera in Korea. These men surely have the fastest autofocus mode when it comes to checking out the gorgeous woman! The Olympus E-3 was released in November 2007 claiming that its new 11-point biaxial cross type autofucus system is the world quickest autofocus camera. Along with its 1/8000sec shutter speed, 5fps and a 10mp sensor, this high-end gadget will retail for $1,700 . The company is truly back in the professional digital imaging arena with this digital SLR.

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The National Aquatics Center, or simply the “Water Cube,” a blue palatial structure with an area of 80,000 sq m, that was built alongside Beijing National Stadium in the Olympic Green for the 2008 Summer Olympics, completed January 28, 2008.

It is situated to the east of Beichen West Bridge on the North Fourth Ring Road and to the west of National Stadium. Underneath a pure and simple facade, this translucent building embodies a complex and unrestricted framework as well as environmentally advanced technology. It is a class piece of Olympic architecture that has become a landmark structure.

The Water Cube displays its transparent effects under colorful shining lights on Monday night, March 31, 2008, the same day the Olympic torch is welcomed to Beijing at Tian’anmen Square.

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Johan Lorbeer is a German street performer. He became famous in the past few years because of his “Still-Life” Performances, which took place in the public area. His installations includes “Proletarian Mural” and “Tarzan”, which are famous in Germany. Several of these performances feature Lorbeer in an apparently impossible position.

With his still-life performances, this German artist seems to unhinge the laws of gravity. For hours on time, he remains, as a living work of art, in physically impossible positions. Elevated or reduced to the state of a sculpture, he interacts with the bewildered and irritated audience, whose appetite for communication rises as time goes by, often culminating in the wish to touch the artist in his superhuman, angelic appearance in order to participate in his abilities.

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The British GT4 Championship driver Hunter Abbott not only emerged alive from the tangled wreckage after crashing at 100mph but did not even break a single bone. 10 minutes into the first race of the season when he left the track at 100 miles per hour trying to negotiate The Cascades, an S-bend on the Oulton Park circuit in Cheshire.

The crash happened in dry conditions, shortly after the start of the hour-long race, the first of the British GT Championship season.

His Ginetta G50 smashed through a crash barrier, went airborne, thudded into the ground, rolled about three times, landed on its roof and burst into flames. Then the driver walked out alive and well enough to assist the stewards in putting out the flames around his racing suit.

The race was temporarily halted as Abbott, in his mid-twenties, was helped into an ambulance. His car, thought to be brand new and worth more than £50,000, was destroyed.

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When I first looked at these gadgets, I really think that was an antique calculator.

It is actually fantastic anachronistic adding machines designed by Andy Aaron. An adding machine is a type of calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations. Conceptual residing between the abacus and supercomputer, these machines are the products of Aaron’s ‘Back to the future’ type of obsession, a marriage of 70’s era calculator technology, LED display, and old, odd switches in still older wooden boxes. Some have a nautical vibe, some agricultural, others look like they might be magic contraptions - all are unique and ingenious.

At the time when lighting-fast calculation is taken for granted, Aaron’s machine offer deliberate purposefulness to everyday calculation.

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Photographer Zena Holloway’s stunning underwater photography. I can’t say much about this except - wow!!

Zena Holloway, the underwater photographer, is an enthusiast. She enjoys being a photographer, but it is the underwater part which really gets her passions bubbling. To talk with her is like taking part in the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale; you feel that she is doing her best in a dry world but deep down she yearns to be back where a mermaid belongs - under the waves.

A freelance underwater photographer since 1994, Zena now has a very impressive list of clients and a collection of awards. The most recent was a merit in the 19th AOP Awards, but the Royal Photographic Society, The Portugal Film Festival and the Underwater Film Festival, France, have also added to her trophy collection.

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We all agree on the concept “Make Love Not War” … here is set of impressive photoshot by photographer Steven Meisel.

Steven is a an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in the latter’s 1992 book Sex.

Steven stirs up controversy with his glamorized imagery of the war in Iraq. His ‘Make Love Not War’ series (mostly) depicts sweaty, dirty soldiers in the middle of a war-zone interacting with models in a very “heated fashion” Apparently, claims are being made by ‘Women In Media and News’ suggesting this series of photographs are pornographic and evoke sexualizations of horrific situations, also saying that violence is erotic.

More than 60 people including models, make up artists, stylists, hairdressers … took part in this amazing photoshoot. It was published on `, September 2007.

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