Year: 2005

Since Lev is against blogging alltogether while having plenty of cool stuff to post, I’ll use these opportunities to gain some more fans for my blog. ;)

Today he send me a link to these pictures of amazing things that Chinese artists do with watermelons. Unbelievable! This is yet another proof to the theory that real artists don’t depend on the media – they can express themselves using absolutely anthing and everything they can find.

This stuff also looks very original and I think they can make a lot of money doing it. VIP party decorations come to mind…

If you’ve been watching Monty Python trying to learn how to defend yourself against an attacker with a pointy stick, you probably had a good laugh, but never learned the technique. Well, here is a nice explanation with pictures how defend yourself using a walking stick or an umbrella. Not, by any means, as funny as Monty Python’s episode, but way more useful (read: does not involve guns, tigers, or 16 tunn weights).

Apparently, there is a project for development of three palm-shaped islands in the Gulf of Arabia, not far from Dubai. The first island is almost ready and people will start inhabiting it this year already. There is more information over here.

It must be a hell of an engineering project. And of course it should have been pretty tough financially. Nice way to boost country’s coastline though…