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Fragile Works of Art

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Paper Lace By Hina Aoyama, The work of the artist looks airy and light, as a weak breeze in the first ray of sun. For the work she does not need anything other than the usual paper and scissors. It's just an incredible example of jewelry and art. Hina Aoyama (Hina Aoyama) was born in the Japanese city of Yokohama, but now lives and works in Paris. Fragile works of art in the form of delicate butterflies or flowery lace letters affect its accuracy. Read More after the break.......... According to the artist herself, the creation of one job can take several hours to a whole week of hard work. Hina tries to mix different techniques to emphasize your own style in the genre of paper art. And it looks like she has it already is. Small scissors, paper, talent and hard hard work - these are the main tools Hina Aoyama. The artist and designer from Japan, living in France, and this is where it creates its own extraordinary, delicate, very delicate work. Hina cut from paper drawings, texts an...

Top 10 Legal Addictions

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In the Eighties, Nancy Reagan led a militant campaign to do away with drugs, from the backs of schoolyards to the cartels of Columbia. However, when her husband ultimately succumbed to Alzheimer’s, you didn’t see her telling him to “just say NO” to his medication. There’s a clear double-standard on how drugs are handled in this country, but there seems to be one unifying principle: if they government can somehow make a profit, it’s a-okay as far as the law goes. Nonetheless, substance abuse and addiction rages at full force on both sides of the law, and feigning an injury is a much less risky way to acquire an opiate than to cross the border and smuggle a plastic-wrapped portion of suspicious black goop. Addiction is good business for all involved. Here are ten of the leading example of those which the law doesn’t frown upon...  10. Shopping  Compulsive shopping is a disorder, and one that can keep the economy churning, that is if the afflicted member is a responsible credit c...

Women's Logic

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World's Top 10 Refineries

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10 BP Texas City The British super major’s largest refining complex and only entry in this top 10, Texas City is the third largest refinery in the USA and one of the most versatile, processing up to 54 different types of crude oil from oil over the world. Location – Texas City, Texas, USA Owner/Operator – BP Capacity - 23.0 million tons/annum Barrels per Day - 467,720 Read more after the break...............................   9 Baton Rouge Refinery Located in the capital city of Louisiana State, the Baton Rouge refinery is the second largest refinery in the United States and produces a wide range of petrochemical derivatives from motor and aviation fuel to petroleum coke and waxes. Location – Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Owner/Operator – Exxon Mobil Capacity - 25.0 million tons/annum Barrels per Day - 503,000 8 Ras Tanura Refinery Ras Tanura is Saudi Aramco’s largest refinery and the biggest in the Middle East. The complex processes both crude oil and gas c...

Wheels of Life

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Crazy House Hotel

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Featuring a truly unique design,  Hang Nga’s Tree House Hotel is, without a doubt, one of the most bizarre buildings in the world. Read More after the break........ Located in Da Lang, Vietnam, Hang Nga’s Tree House Hotel, better known as Crazy House, features giant tree trunks and branches that try to trick you into believing this is an actual tree house. In reality, it’s built from conventional construction materials. But there’s nothing conventional about the architectural principles used by Hang Nga, the woman behind Vietnam’s Crazy House. Daughter of a former president of Vietnam, Hang Nga was confronted with almost no restrictions at all, when she decided to build her wacky hotel. The Vietnamese government simply looked the other way and allowed her to let loose her imagination, without considering rules and regulations. And you can witness the end result in the photos below. The interior of Hang Nga’s hotel is just as unusual as the outside. It’s filled with unexpected twist...