The largest Solar Furnace | Odeillo in Pyrénées-Orientales, France

The largest Solar Furnace | Odeillo in Pyrénées-Orientales, France The largest Solar Furnace is at Odeillo in the Pyrénées-Orientales in France, opened in 1970. It employs an array of plane mirrors to gather sunlight, reflecting it onto a larger curved mirror. Solar  furnace  consists of 10000 concave mirrors that reflect and focus the sun's rays on the square diagonal of 40 inches. Diameter mirror construction is 54 meters. An array of mirrors acts as a parabolic reflector, concentrating light into focus. Temperature...

Festival of Music and Light | Sydney, Australia

Festival of Music and Light | Sydney, Australia Vivid Sydney, a festival of light art, music, and ideas, is going on now in Sydney through June 9, 2014, whose founder is a well-known musician Lou Reed, and helped his wife Laurie Anderson.  So it was at first, but now the festival has an impressive team of organizers. It is also noteworthy that the festival has outgrown itself and today is considered a significant event not only for the metropolis. In Sydney attracts thousands of tourists and music fans to take an active...

The longest tree-lined avenue in the world | Cedar Avenue of Nikkō, Japan

The longest tree-lined avenue in the world | Cedar Avenue of Nikkō, Japan The Cedar Avenue of Nikko is a street in Japan lined with approximately 13,000 cryptomeria trees, known as Sugi, the national tree of Japan. Consisting of three parts converging on the city of Imaichi, the Cedar Avenue of Nikko is 35.41 kilometers long and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest tree-lined avenue in the world. The Cedar Avenue of Nikko is the only cultural property designated by the Japanese Government as both a Special...

Super Creepy Sculpture | Implants Teeth into the Shoe Sole

Super Creepy Sculpture | Implants Teeth into the Shoe Sole UK artists Mariana Fantich and Dominic Young of Fantich and Young have covered the soles of shoes in hundreds of false teeth for their super creepy sculpture series “Apex Predator” for young girls. The pair of youth footwear are mary jane style, with hot red patent red surfaces and a buckled strap. at their sole, instead of the traditional rubber bottom, the creative duo have implanted hundreds of individual back and front teeth dentures into the base. the result transforms...

Hong Kong Building Construction Sites | The Colorful Cocoons

Hong Kong Building Construction Sites | The Colorful Cocoons Photographer Peter Steinhauer‘s drew attention to staying in Hong Kong, the appearance of bright multi-colored pillars in the midst of the gray mass of skyscrapers. Having studied the question carefully, the author has created a series of images. In his two Cocoons series, Steinhauer, who lived in Asia for near twenty years, beautifully captured the style of construction that is unique to Hong Kong in which the building is wrapped in silk fabric to prevent...