Swimming pools in Manhattan New York

In the central part of Manhattan in New York established a small portable swimming pools. As a basis for the creation of these reservoirs used garbage.

Pools will be available for residents and tourists in New York on Saturday, when camaya wide from all Avenue in Manhattan, two-way street with a boulevard in the middle of Park Avenue is closed to all traffic.

Amazing Paper Sculptures Art

I am amazed at the skill and talent infinity in humans. I recently talked about the wonderful wizard who makes sculptures from grifilya pencil.
And today I will show you amazing works of paper Jeffrey Nishinaka.

Nishinaka Jeffrey (Jeffrey Nishinaka) cuts and crushes the paper with an enviable skill to create exquisite paper sculptures. 52-летний иллюстратор и скульптор из Лос-Анджелеса создает свои работы с 1982 года. 52-year-old illustrator and sculptor from Los Angeles creates his work from 1982.

On the establishment of leaves from three days to four months. Эти работы с большим количеством мелких деталей варьируются от 20 см до 6 метров в высоту и ширину. These work with a lot of small details vary from 20 cm to 6 meters in height and width.

Jeffrey Nishinaka uses very simple tools: forceps, mechanical pencil, toothpicks, knives, a matrix for cutting, curve and triangles.

The works have the effect of 3D thanks to several layers of paper and adequate lighting. The artist uses paper from 100% cotton, so it does not yellow with the years.

The largest installation he did for the hotel «ANA Hotel» in Tokyo. It was a tree with birds, grass and fish. The entire sculpture was about 6 meters in height, 6 meters wide and 3 meters in depth.

Jeffrey sells his work. Prices range from 960 to 16 000 pounds sterling for sculpture small and medium sizes. Then there are large figures. The most expensive was a tree for «ANA Hotel» in Tokyo, which cost more than 64,000 pounds.

Who Says Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees

If your parents are anything like mine, they probably told you money doesn’t grow on trees more than a million times, when you were growing up. Well I can’t wait to show them how wrong they were all those years.

In an attempt to “wake up people’s lazy money”, RaboDirect, an Australian online bank sponsored a special experiment that fulfilled the financial fantasies of hundreds of passers-by – a real-life money tree. The event took place in one of Sydney’s park, where a tree was covered in $5 bills, from its lower branches to the top. People were secretly filmed, to see how they would react to such an unbelievable sight.

Believe it or not, the first 100 or so people who walked by the money tree flat out ignored it. Some of them didn’t even notice there was anything odd about the tree, a group of joggers was to busy running to stop and check it out, and passers-by who did stop to analyze it, just took some photos and left empty handed.

The Scissors Dance, An Ancient Tradition Of Peru

Performed in the central and southern highlands of Peru, the Scissors Dance is a traditional event that tests the physical and spiritual strength of the participants.

Westerners usually regard “La Danza de las Tijeras” as a physical test where two men have to prove their dexterity and resistance to pain, but to the people of the Andes, this dance is a sacred ritual. The dancers, called danzaq, perform difficult stunts and leaps, called atipanakuy, accompanied by the music of a violin, a harp and the sound of the scissors they each hold in their hands. So much about not playing with scissors, right?



The origin of the danzaq and their Scissors Dance is shrouded in mystery, but some anthropologists believe they appeared in 1524, during the rebellion against Spanish colonial rule. According to old Spanish chronicles, Huancas (pre-Hispanic deities) possessed the bodies of indigenous young men, allowing them to perform an impossible-looking dance signaling the return of the Old Gods to vanquish the Christian God of the Spanish. As we all know, that didn’t happen, but the tradition of the Scissors Dance was kept alive by the Andean people.

It’s almost impossible to believe someone can accomplish this kind of acrobatic moves, while handling a pair of scissors made out of two individual sheets of metal, 25 cm each, but the danzaq do much more. To show spiritual superiority, they go through a series of challenges that include sticking sharp objects through their bodies, eating glass or walking on fire. The Scissors Dance is sometimes performed continuously for hours, until one of the competitors proves his superiority.

The best Scissors Dances can be witnessed in Ayacucho, Apurimac, Arequipa, Huancavelica and Lima.

Shaolin Soccer in Real Life

Remember the movie "Shaolin Soccer", about the Shaolin monks, lovers play football? It turns out that this type of football really existed. In his play, young monks of Shaolin Temple in the Chinese city Denfen.