How & Wow!

A full day of sunset will make enjoying the real thing a lot less special.

There’s nothing more romantic than watching a beautiful sunset with that special someone. It’s such a poetic way to the end of a day. It completely changes the way the world looks, if but for a few minutes, and is one of those things that just makes you take pause and appreciate everything around you.

In a world often too busy to enjoy it in person, here are some beautiful sunsets from around the world.

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Library is a collection of information, sources, resources, and services: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual.

Libraries are integral parts of the country and nation, and indicate the human desire to preserve and collect knowledge, and progress both culturally and intellectually.

Nowadays there are different types of libraries: national, regional, public, specialized, and “academic” (university, institute and school libraries). Library always gives us the impression of dull and bore, but there are also some Fascinating one which will keep the bore feeling away; such as the following:

The above is the Bristol Central Library which celebrates its centenary in 2008.

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An internet café or cybercafé is a place where one can use a computer with Internet access, most for a fee, usually per hour or minute; sometimes one can have unmetered access with a pass for a day or month, etc. It may serve as a regular café as well, with food and drinks being served.

Not all the internet cafes are same as the above where you are accompanying by [Computer Trainers in China], below are some strange internet cafe from around the world:

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From flight to gymnastics to the circus to space travel, no matter how much gravity holds us all together the human mind is always enthralled with new ways to make it seem as if we break free from the Earth’s hold. There’s something fascinating about seeing humans suspended in space, and in “Hyper”, the latest series from Paris-based photographer Denis Darzacq (who also did similar work in his serene, monotone series “La Chute”) we see a beautiful mix of gravity defiance and the cool, clean lines of modern spaces.

None of these images has been “Photoshopped” or tampered with. They are surreal photographs of real moments – or real 1,000ths of a moment.

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In a world of converging cultures, Africa stands apart with its rich variety of people, customs, and culture. The African landscape, flora, and fauna are rich enough in variety to keep a photographer busy for a life.

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Belisama. Photo by Toby Keller.

Burning Man is a gathering of the spicy, creative people who “come home” to Black Rock City, Nevada for one week a year to share wildly artistic creations and to play, dance and live in the moment dressed, or undressed, in whatever style suits them.

Burning Man was originally created on the beaches of San Francisco before moving to the Black Rock Desert, a dried up lake bed known as the playa. This is where some 48,000 people gather to create a bustling city that breaths art and interaction 24 hours a day for seven days each year.

Although Burning Man was always predicated on art and participation, it wasn’t until 1995 that Larry Harvey began introducing yearly themes to give focus to the growing, and increasingly diverse community.

Since then, the scope of the art installations have only been limited by the creators’ imaginations (and budgets).

Here are some of the more awe-inspiring and ambitious pieces on the playa in recent history

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The Nine Emperor Gods Festival, also known as Vegetarian festival, a Chinese festival to celebrate the return from heaven to earth of the Nine Emperor spirits. The festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth moon in the Chinese lunar calendar.

In Thailand, this festival is called Tesagan Gin Je ???????????, the Vegetarian Festival. The festival takes place on the first 9 days of the 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar. Everyone dresses in white and shopkeepers set up small alters with offerings of incense, flowers, candles, fruit, and 9 cups of tea to the 9 emperor deities honored by the festival.

Chinese in Phuket Island celebrate the festival by holding a massive street processions by ‘Carrying Gods‘, they are believed to be ‘possessed by the spirits of gods’, so that they can perform some outstanding stunts.

To be able to participate in the events, one must have No Meat, Smoke, Alcohol and Sex for 10 days, to be Cleaned from dirty sins. Hundreds of believers pierce their cheeks, nose, lips, using different kind of sharp objects such as swords, daggers, rods, and M-16 Machine Gun!

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Traffic jam is the worst nightmare for people who travel on the road. When traffic demand is great enough that the interaction between vehicles slows the speed of the traffic stream, congestion is incurred. If the situation become worse, where vehicles are fully stopped for periods of time, this is colloquially known as a traffic jam.

Here are some major traffic jam from around the world:

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Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position.

The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or triggered automatically.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born March 13, 1946) is a renowned and internationally-recognised French photographer. He originally specialised in animal photography, but later turned to aerial photography of subjects in many locations across the world. He has produced over 60 books of his landscape photographs taken from helicopters and balloons. Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s work has often been published in the National Geographic magazine.

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City life is fast and fun in the bright lights of cities at night. Whether you like Shanghai night skyline pictures, New York night time city images or other great cities around the world at night, you’ll love taking them.

The night time transforms the day city landscape to the totally another scene. The night illumination outlights the historical buildings, skyscrapers, roads, trees, etc. and makes the fairy-tale atmosphere in the well-known places. Color lights together with illuminated sky produces fantastic impression from the night city. This screensaver will present you the views of different cities at night time.

Try to guess the city name having the night scene only, sometimes it is not easy as it was thought before.

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