British Defense Secretary Liam Fox called Afghanistan “a broken 13th-century country” when he visited it. His words drew fire on him. This happened not because he was wrong, but because he was way too blunt. Actually, Liam Fox wasn’t the first person to call Afghanistan a medieval country. There were people who labeled local inhabitants “barbarians with a 1200 A.D. mentality”. Many people really think that Afghanistan is an ungovernable land with chaos that would never make it out of the Middle Ages.

Still there were times when Afghanistan was a nice country where women could pursue careers in medicine, where people could go to the movies and work on the factories. This country used to produce many goods. It had a government that was able to undertake national infrastructure projects. People believed they had a future, but all their hopes were destroyed by 30 years of war.

We have here an excellent compilation of aerial pictures of different airport runways from every corner of the world.

Most of these photos are truly beautiful!

Dali’s works are truly awesome, you can spend a long time looking at them, because there is a lot to see in each painting, plenty of little and ingenious details that make his works unique.

I love it.

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This series of high speed photographs from Scott Linstead is amazing, each picture gives you the impression that the animals are frozen in time.

These shots required a lot of hard work, patience, knowledge and good photography skills.

Fashion can be really weird sometimes. For example, Patrick Mohr thinks that his models don’t have to be sexual or good-looking. It is enough to just make them looking bald and add beard on their faces. This is what Mohr did for Berlin Fashion Week. It looks shocking.

When Gustavo Villafane was 9 years old, he was hit by a train. The boy lost both his legs and one of his arms. Today he is one of the world’s best wheelchair basketball players. Now Gustavo and his Argentine teammates are preparing for the Paralympic Games that will be held in Venezuela this fall.

I am so jealous of pilots and birds, as they can see such beauty every day, and I can’t. All these beautiful photographs were taken by George Steinmetz during his expeditions to different places around the world. He is well known for his exploration pictures of deserts, different cultures and mysteries. George has many awards for photography, and he is truly a genius photographer because he took these amazing and incredible pictures while piloting a motorized paraglider.

These submarine caves, also called vertical caves, located in the Bahamas are amazingly beautiful.

Too bad they are so dangerous to explore, because they would make perfect diving spots.

I would have loved to dive in these caves but I guess I’ll have to leave it to professional divers…

Actually, some “nuts” started practicing rock-boarding long time ago, back in the 1990s. This sport is called the hardest one. It requires skis or snowboards that are used to ski a lope of rocks. It is very dangerous and extreme to downhill the rubble slope in a straight line, but there are many riders who love rock-boarding and can’t live without it anymore.

Since many dogs have long fur, their owners feel ok about giving their pets a haircut. Sadly, some of these dogs just cannot say, “Hey, please, noooooo!” before they start looking so funny or get the worst haircut ever.

This is the russian giant boxer Nikolai Valuev and his tiny wife...

This image is some photo collage from Tsunehisa Kumura's Photomontages, which was published in 1979. How something like this is possible without Photoshop ?¿

The Google Earth satellite photos in this post are quite unusual. In the cities, the buildings look like they are leaning and in the country there is everything from crop circles to human figures. There are even people who put the strangest things on their roofs. They are unusual photos to say the least.

Nice trick if you don’t wanna be caught while tagging.No harm, no foul..

Yousuf Karsh is one of the most genius masters of 20th century photography. Looking at his works, you get the feeling that the human story is told in these amazing pictures. You can see extraordinary and unique portraits of outstanding people of the last century after the jump.

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When lots of people tend to say that Avatar is nothing more than another Pocahontas, someone saw in the last Cameron’s movie lots of similarities with ‘Alien’.

Indeed, it seems those two movies have a lot in common, so let’s see in what they are the same.

Warning: those of you who haven’t seen these two blockbusters (if it’s possible…) should skip this post as it reveals some important aspects of the movies.

Human genius creates out of ordinary things some extraordinary ones. A selection of creative thoughts, ideas and finds of different designers.

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Many of the photos were all taken in the days before Pearl Harbor, during the great depression. It was a more innocent time when nearly half of all Americans still lived in small towns or on farms. Mothers still made all of their children’s clothes and color film wasn’t invented until the late 1930s. A very interesting glance at the history. 

Oil spill is now observed in China. A pipeline that was transporting oil in the port city of Dalian explosed. The oil workers tried to fix an underwater pump, when one of them began to drown in the oil slick. Good, his co-workers rescued him…

Now Chinese workers understand what birds and other animals felt in the Gulf of Mexico.

The photos in this post are of a restaurant in China that has sundaes that look like feces, bathtubs for tables, and toilets for seating. We’re not exactly sure what the fascination is all about but it appears that they do a brisk business. They are actually known as toilet restaurants.

Most zoos don’t allow visitors to see tigers eye to eye. But if you come to Thailand and visit a local tiger farm, you will be allowed not only to pat a tiger but also to hold this animal. Baby tigers look so sweet and innocent, and even grown tigers look tamed here. Still you can’t forget that they are superb predators.

All these bars are located in Nambia and have ‘cool’ names, plus, it seems that they like American TV series..

A set of pictures with different video game consoles very beautifully painted.

The fantastic street art in these photos was created by artist Robin Rhode from South Africa. It is absolutely fresh and beautiful. It does beg the question of why graffiti is illegal since it is certainly much better that what was there previously. How can something so fantastic be illegal?