This melting building mural is located in Georges V Ave. in Paris France. Trompe-l’oeil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. The name is derived from French for “trick the eye”, from tromper - to deceive and l’oeil - the eye.

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The Sultan’s Elephant is one of the biggest piece of free theater and it stopped the traffic and captivated everyone who saw it. An earlier post, ‘The Giant Girl Doll‘ is a part of the Sultan’s Elephant show as well. The elephant is made mostly of wood and operated by over ten puppeteers using a mixture of hydraulics and motors. Weighing as much as 7 elephants, a replica was built in Nantes France in 2007. A spectacle on a huge scale, this is one of the most stunning shows which is created by the Royal de Luxe - a French mechanical marionette street theater company. Check out 10 more pics of the Sultan’s Elephant after the jump.

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Fake swimming pool art installation in an art museum at Kanazawa City by Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich. There are replicas all over the worlds and people underneath the swimming pool can actually look above where it is covered with a piece of glass with realistic water effect on top of it. Check out 7 more pics as well as 1 videoclip after the jump.

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Amazing HDR photo by Franck who took it when he saw this reddish glowing aura above the tower just right after sunset. This beautiful capture looks like a scene from a sci-fli flick and it was titled by Franck as ‘Shanghai - The End Of The World on Pearl Tower’.

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The New Seven Wonders of the World is a proposed alternative to the Seven Wonders of the World, organized by a Swiss corporation called New Open World Corporation (NOWC). The final list was announced on July 7, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal, in the Estádio da Luz, SL Benfica’s stadium at 9:30pm (local time). Voting closed on July 6, 2007. The selection was made by free and paid votes, through telephone or online. 6 more Wonders of The World after the jump.

You can check out the Ancient Seven Wonders Of The World at Ahboon as well.

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The bull running festival began in 1924 and 13 people have been killed during the race so far. The event now held in the Spanish town of Pamplona involves hundreds of people and injuries are common as the crowds run with all their might from the bulls in narrow streets. 8 more pics after the jump. Source: Sky News

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If you like the beautiful night shots of Yokohama, Japan then you will definitely love this set of HDR photography of Tokyo at night. 23 more pics after the jump.

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Amazing dance choreography sponsored by Samsung where dancers uses card flipping to create a big human pixels animation. The level of cooperation in this dance is almost unseen of anywhere before (Unless someone can prove it wrong). A very entertaining show where the South Koreans show their best in national pride. 1 videoclip after the jump.

Update: Apparently Samsung new employees must participate in this dance and not dancers sponsored by Samsung

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A series of beautiful autumn pictures which provides a great sense of peace and tranquility. Fall into the autumn journey with mother nature with 8 more pics after jump .

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Paul Merton, an English actor in a clip with Emma, his translator as they voyage across the communist state, exploring Chinese culture. Here, he meets a farmer with limited education who ‘grows robots’ who never had any formal training whatsoever. He made these robots from scrap metal and other materials. The worst thing that happened so far with his obsession with robots was that he burned his house down and his wife is quite resentful with his hobby too. I’ll have to say he do have some talent and his latest creation ‘The Rickshaw Robot’ is definitely one of the most unique robot I have ever seen. 1 videoclip after the jump.

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Archibase has an interesting compilation of the top monuments around the world which includes the Ushiku Daibutsu in Japan, Buddhist statue in China, Motherland in Ukraine, Statue of Peter I in Russia, Statue Of Liberty in The United States, Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, Buddha of Bamyan in Afghanistan and others.

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Beautiful views and sceneries in Asia where some of them can be easily recognized if one has been there before. These views include Taj Mahal in India, Twin Towers in Malaysia, Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque in Brunei, Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall in Taiwan and many others. 18 more spectacular pics of Asia after the jump.

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A look at street dentists in China and India who are veterans of their own trade. These skills are usually brought down by their family and are slowly becoming extinct as dentists with degrees and clinics slowly take over their businesses. However poor people still visit them for their services. 10 more pics after the jump.

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Earlier on, Hemmy.net posted about Crab Fishing In Alaska, World’s Highest Paying Job but it did not justify how it is like to fish in Alaska. These set of pictures would definitely entice travel lovers who would be interested to see how fishing in Alaska experience like. 20 more pics after the jump.

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How many is ‘too much’ is the question and it really wonders how they can stack up so much on such little space. Logistics at its best with 23 more pics after the jump.

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