Cool Rings
30 08 2009 Comments : 6 Comments »
Categories : Bizarre
Tree of Life, Florida Disney Park
27 08 2009The Tree of Life is sculpted by more than a dozen artists with 325 animal carvings on the outside. This 140-foot artificial tree is the centerpiece of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
Categories : Art, Bizarre
Snake Wine
24 08 2009Snake wine is a Vietnamese alcoholic beverage that includes a whole venomous snake in the bottle. The snakes, preferably venomous ones, are not usually preserved for their meat but to have the snake poison dissolved in the liquor. However, the snake venom is denatured by the ethanol and therefore inactivated. In many countries in the Far East, snakes are believed to possess medicinal qualities and the wine is often advertised to cure everything from hair loss to eye troubles.
There are two varieties of snake wine:
- Mixed: body fluids of snake are mixed into wine and consumed immediately in the form of a shot.
- Steeped: a large venomous snake can be placed into a glass jar of rice wine, often with many smaller snakes, turtles, insects, or birds, and left to steep for many months. The wine is drunk as a restorative in small shots or cups.
Categories : Bizarre, Food & Drink
Alyssa Monks Art
14 08 2009Alyssa Monks portrays a specific place and time with simultaneous empathy and detachment.
Monks is part of the Continuing Education Faculty at the New York Academy of Art, where she teaches Flesh Painting. She currently is also an instructor at the Montclair State University.
Oh, yes, they are all paintings, not photos!
Lake George
Steamed
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Categories : Art
Strange Houses
13 08 2009A house made of doors. Can you find the right one to get inside?
An airplane house
Categories : Bizarre, Life
