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		Getting carried away
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		In case you haven&apos;t noticed, we live in a very strange world. And if you happen to be in Sonkaj&auml;rvi, Finland, on the 4th of July, you&apos;ll know it for sure.&nbsp;Brace yourself for the&nbsp;World Wife Carrying Championships.


It&apos;s almost surreal but the event is basically a relay race for brawny men and their over-the-shoulder wives. The prize? Their wives&apos; weight in beer.&nbsp;
Everyone is invited to compete, but the minimum weight for the wife&nbsp;is 49 kilos. &apos;If it is less,&apos; say the organizers,&nbsp;&apos;the wife will be burdened with such a heavy rucksack that the total weight is 49 kilos.&apos;...
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		Lush Istanbul
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		It looks more like a boutique hotel you&apos;d find in New York, but Lush is actually in Istanbul, Turkey. A self-proclaimed &apos;highly individual place&apos; in the Beyoglu district (near Taksim Square), Lush is a stylish city hotel with a difference.


Far from the ornate Moorish style the Middle East is better known for, Lush hides an assortment of contemporary designs behind its traditional Victorian townhouse exterior.

Having said that, it doesn&apos;t ignore its roots. At least one of the rooms is a modern spin on old-world Ottoman, and many rooms have Turkish baths alongside flat-screen TVs and WiFi.

It&apos;s an interesting blend of almost every imaginable style, from Ottoman to&nbsp;Pop Art, with huge black and white photo murals and exposed brick walls&nbsp;alongside Victorian mouldings&nbsp;and&nbsp;...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		Europe by Designers
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		You don&apos;t have to travel to see exhibitions any more. You should, but you don&apos;t have to. This month, you can not only catch a great exhibition from the comfort of your sofa, but you can also gain a fascinating insight into Europe - through the eyes of designers.


Europe by Designers has been organized by HUG United (Hype Up Gallery Utd), and here&apos;s how they describe their project: &apos;an international artistic project whose aim is to unveil a multitude of images of Europe from the inside and from the outside. Design as the expression of a cultural vision, a political vision, or a simple unposed feeling... design and its diversity as a new way to catch Europe.&apos;

After their call for submissions, HUG received 600 contributions, by artists from...
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		Michael Jackson
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		Michael Jackson passed away June 25th, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. He was also known as the &quot;King of Pop&quot; by millions of people around the world. He sold more then 750 million records in his career and his album thriller is the best selling record of all time.I remember years ago traveling to India and walking into a small record shop, in it they only had local artists except for one foreign album, Michael Jackson&apos;s Thriller. Thriller alone sold more then 100mi...
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		The End of the Line
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		Here&apos;s a chilling thought. Scientists predict that if humans continue fishing the way that we do, we&apos;ll see the end of most seafood by 2048. That&apos;s bye-bye fish. Sayonara sushi.&nbsp;The End of the Line, a new feature documentary film,&nbsp;outlines the devastating&nbsp;effects of the human appetite for seafood.&nbsp;


The End of the Line is An Inconvenient Truth with a marine flavor. The film follows investigative reporter Charles Clover (author of the book of the same name) as he travels the world from Gibraltar to Tokyo, confronting politicians and restaurateurs about their reckless attitude to fishing excesses. It tells of the imminent extinction...
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		Blowing in the wind
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		Seems like a no-brainer to me. We burn fossil fuels and pollute the atmosphere that sustains us. We split atoms and - oops - irradiate the land we live off. However, we&apos;re surrounded in natural energy that we can draw upon without, it seems, hurting anyone.&nbsp;Wind power - great idea. But if you&apos;re not so sure about those giant windmill farms, here are some alternative ideas for turbines.&nbsp;


Doug Selsam is a serious player in the wind power world. Pictured top is his&nbsp;extremely photogenic Sky Serpent, which&nbsp;uses a line of small rotors that catches wind more efficiently than large rotors. Check out his website - there&apos;s plenty more to see on there.
Above is the Darrieus turbine, a vertical axis device which&nbsp;has been around since 1931. It looks cool, but isn&apos;t seen as often as the more conventional windmill design. It&apos;s something to do with its inability to withstand extreme wind conditions, apparently... scary thought.

Here&apos;s a great idea. A highway-mounted wind turbine, or Parasitic Catalyst. Deve...
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		Be Scilly
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		Close your eyes, and take a trip with me to a small group of five islands and 75 rocks in the northern Atlantic Ocean. At the age of 15, I closed my eyes, and took my first trip to these islands, having seen a picture of them in art class at school. What looked like a tropical paradise was in fact the Scilly Isles. Yes, the islands with a funny name, and big palm trees growing outside.

British and only 28 miles off Land&apos;s End in Cornwall, they defied my imagination. &apos;Kew Gardens with the roof off,&apos; as someone once said.
Two years later, and I&apos;m in Penzance, the gateway to the islands, and getting on the Scillonian which will ferry me the&nbsp;three-hour journey to Hugh Town, on the main island of St Mary&apos;s....
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		Simple sophistication
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		Eighteen months ago, I wrote an article on Been-Seen about the Glencomeragh House Retreat Centre in Ireland, which features poustinia, small cabins used for meditation, around its grounds. It&apos;s beautiful in its simplicity - a 19th-century house surrounded by striking modern cubes. So it&apos;s great to hear about Consolaci&oacute;n, a similar hotel in the relatively undiscovered&nbsp;Matarra&ntilde;a region of Spain.


This time round it&apos;s a baroque stone building (close to the Consolacion Hermitage), surrounded by ten &apos;kubes&apos;, wooden blocks built into the landscape. Each is 100m from the main building, in the middle of fragrant herb gardens.

Designed by Camprubi i Santacana Arquitectes, the hotel makes great use of natural materials like wood and stone, as well as sheet metal. The kubes are&nbsp;36 sqm of minimalist architecture - black slate floors,&nbsp;with...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		Explore The World From Your Computer
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		Panoramic photography has always been a wonderful way to get good look at landscapes and locations around the world. GigaPan images take panoramic pictures to a whole new scale by allowing people to create and share super high-resolution pictures that you can zoom into. This allows you to not only see the scale of a location but also all the small details one would get from close up photography.Beach and Pier in Santa Monica, CaliforniaGigaPan images are created with a digital camera with a telephoto lens that is attached to a GigaPan Epic. The GigaPan Epic is a robot that pans and tilts to automa...
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		The Continental Divide Trail
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		This short montage shows the hike along The Continental Divide Trail, which is 3100 miles long and goes from Mexico to Canada across New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. This version of the video compressed the five and a half month trip into 3min but be sure to check out the 15min and 2hour versions here if you have time....
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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