Marina Orlova, Sexiest philologist in the world

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Marina Orlova was born in 1980 in Arzamas (Nizhny Novgorod). She is a Russian philologist, etymologist, and author who has become an Internet celebrity, hosting one of the most popular channels on YouTube, HotForWords, and a corresponding website. She also hosts a bi-weekly radio show on Maxim Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Called the “Sexiest philologist in the world” by New Yorker Magazine, Marina was voted the World’s #1 Sexiest Geek by Wired.com, she’s a regular on Fox Network’s O’Reilly Factor Show, she was voted the 5th hottest woman on the net by G4 TV, she’s been recommended by the New York Times Magazine, she was mentioned in Cosmopolitan as one of the top 3 channels on YouTube, and she was part of the Best Online Campaign of 2009! In addition, Marina just completed her book, published by HarperCollins, entitled “Hot for Words“, and she stars in a killer iPhone game called Attack of the Bikini Zombie Babes from Outer Space!
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Portraits by Scott Scheidly

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Scott Scheidly is an american artist from Florida. He creates paintings of tyrants, dictators and popes, turning them from drab to fab with the help of some color coordination and accessorizing. On his website, the artist says he began his exploration with color after «devouring a 10 pack of crayons» as a child. The paintings allow for a hilarious take on some of the world’s most known despots and powerful religious figures, revealing a new side to men who are not known for their sense of humor.
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Auto and Moto Concepts by Mikhail Smolyanov

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Russian designer Mikhail Smolyanov makes incredibly entertaining and unique concepts of cars and motorcycles. Many works have earned fame abroad, for instance Irish firm of custom projects Putsch Racing even has adopted one of the works of Michael. Mikhail Smolyanov is from Moscow, and also works as a Director of Development of StartupIndexon and deals with industrial design. Michael graduated from Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University in 2004.
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Enda O’Donoghue’s painting

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Irish artist Enda O’Donoghue lives and works in Berlin. His artwork is directly influenced by his experience working with digital technology, computer programming and the Internet. The images in Enda O’Donoghue’s paintings all come from the Internet. Searching through popular online social networks and blogs on an ongoing basis, he collects and catalogues photographs that he finds. With each image he paints he is meticulous about tracing the ownership and requesting permission, partly as a way of dealing with the anonymous nature of the Internet and also a reaction to the issues surrounding online privacy and copyright.
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Marie-Claire’s realistic painting

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French artist Marie-Claire has been painting for 10 years. She decided to changed her career in order to totally devote herself to her art. Her oil paintings include several subjects – still life, flowers, nature, Venice, Japan and Paris, scenes of the everyday life, and so on.
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The world’s cutest baby monkey

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29-year-old amateur snapper Nikolay Sotskov pictured this adorable cute blue eyed baby monkey when he played up to the camera near his home in India. The species live anywhere from the Himalayas to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and even Afghanistan. Other cute animals were captured by Nikolay Sotskov, talented photographer from Russian town Ramenskoye, they are really worth watching.
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Dongchuan — a paradise for photographers

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Dongchuan, a rural place in the Wumeng Mountainous area, about 180km north of Kunming, becomes very famous among Chinese photographers for its red soil. In the mid 1990s, the first Chinese photographers came to discover the Wumeng’s scenery. The first came and scooped award-winning photos, but kept their location a closely guarded secret. But slowly the details leaked and now more and more photographers are making their arduous trip into the arid mountains. The brilliant red soil, the yellow buckwheats and the dramatic skies make the region around Dongchuan a paradise for photographers.
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«Lady under the veil»

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«Undine Rising from the Waters», ca. 1880–1892, by Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810–1894), in the Yale University Art Gallery.
The entire piece of these sculptures is made of marble, it’s hard to believe that this is not a living woman’s body, covered with a wet cloth, but the cold marble. We have nothing to do but admire the skillfulness of a Sculptor, he deserves our admiration. Beautiful women wrapped in veil…
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Museum of World Funeral Culture in Siberia, Russia

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The unique Museum of World Funeral Culture has recently opened in Novosibirsk, Russia. The museum was created by Sergei Yakushin, a local businessman – the founder of the Novosibirsk crematorium. The museum — memorial culture items related to the beginning of the XIX and XX century. Among the thousands of exhibits, hundreds of mourning dresses of the XIX century, antique prints and model hearses, photographs and postcards, unique original documents, books that tell about embalming, for instance. Many aspects of ancient funerary culture represented in the form of installations, dioramas scene, such as taking orders in the burial office or sewing mourning dress. In detail the generic interior players are dummies. About 14 million dollars of private funds have been spent to make the museum. The creators of the museum plans to arrange traveling exhibitions in other cities in Russia and abroad.
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Pentax LX Gold — camera made ​​of pure gold

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The famous company Pentax, founded in 1919 in Japan, in a couple of years will celebrate anniversary. To celebrate the date and 10 000000th 35mm SLR-cameras Pentax LXPentax, has released an exclusive, unique, legendary camera Pentax LX Gold, consists entirely of pure gold. Device was packaged in an exquisite box of expensive types of wood, inside — red velvet upholstery, and in addition — white silk gloves, are recommended to wear not to leave dirty marks on the shiny polished camera. It is known that at the time of sale the first price for Pentax LX Gold was $ 3,700. But in fact, a collectible model of the Golden Camera Pentax LX Gold is much more expensive than that.
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