The 10-year-old girl's body on Google Street View is one of the best Google Street View photobombs. And here we've got even more Google Street View photobombs that are even better.
Brookline, MA-based Jin Choi & Thomas Shine of Choi+Shine recently received the 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Award for their "Land of Giants" project. The project was originally submitted for an Icelandic pylon competition, where it received an honorable mention. The competition was to find a new typology for Iceland's high voltage power lines and pylons. This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape by making only small alterations to existing pylon design. The pylon-figures can be configured to respond to their environment with appropriate gestures. As the carried electrical lines ascend a hill, the pylon-figures change posture, imitating a climbing person. Over long spans, the pylon-figure stretches to gain increased height, crouches for increased strength or strains under the weight of the wires.
Do you remember that poutine-eating championship? And here is another Canadian competition and it's even crazier, because it's Bee Beard Competition in Ontario! Beebearding began in 1700s when beekeepers discovered they could create a beard of bees by tying the queen to a thread around the neck. Beekeeper Melanie Kempers explained the beard process.
Every colony has one queen. They all recognize her by smell. We put her in a small plastic cage and tie it around the neck, and we take the bees from her colony. We put them onto newspaper, and then pour them into a pair of hands just below the queen. They smell her and walk up towards her. Once they smell her, they huddle around her, that’s what creates the certain look.