Unusual Life

World’s Fair, originally uploaded by compact collection.

This photo is from the Seattle 1962 World’s Fair, located in an area called “Show Street”.

Show Street was the “adult entertainment” section of the fair, tucked into the northeastern part of the fairgrounds. Here, cultural aficionados could take in Gracie Hansen’s Paradise International, a Las Vegas-style floor show, or Sid and Marty Krofft’s “Les Poupees de Paris,” an adults-only puppet show. For the less cultured, there was “Girls of the Galaxy,” where young women posed naked for visitors with cameras. One had to be fast to catch this show — fair officials shut it down almost immediately.

Century 21 World’s Fair on History Link

My brother Den David sent me a link to the new 7-8-9 from n2a. No 2 Alike. He recalls correctly that my first car was a 1959 Chevy, saphire blue and white like the tail end of this hybrid with the Chevy styling of a ‘57 front, ‘58 sides, and ‘59 tail comprising the body, all on a C6 Corvette 440 - 1000 hp powerhouse, touting a top speed of 180 mph. Yes please!!!

Well folks, Jana has done it again and in honor of Elvis’ 75th birthday may I share with you “The Elvis Aaron Presley Cake”!

See more of Jana’s Fun Cakes here.

OK, I want my own trilobite vehicle. Who doesn’t? This is The Electrobite Olenoides, A Trilobite Vehicle which Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate of Form & Reform created from an electric wheelchair to get around at Burning Man 2009. Watch the Boing Boing Video below to check it out, and here’s a Flickr Set of the build process. Giddyup!

We’ve posted previously about the incredible performance art pieces by France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company, and now they’ve outdone themselves once again with a stunning land and sea performance earlier this week. This is part of celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin wall. Check out the photos below, and the beautiful set of 35 photos just posted on The Big Picture. Please read the beautiful story associated with those pictures. Also check out the videos below and many more through the video links. Art and spectacle at it’s best. Pure magic!

Here’s the whole story on Buddha Shaped Pears.

Cakeland is a sculptural installation resembling a collection of perfect delicious cakes– wall mounted, hanging and standing– a walk-through cake environment complete with its own lighting. It is a sweet refuge, an endless kaleidoscopic landscape of cake, a respite from the grinding realities of the outside world.

The sculptures have all of the appeal of the best cake you have ever tasted, but can never be eaten. Whereas the nature of edible cake is fleeting, lasting only as long as the brief celebration it was made for, these cakes last as long as the artist or society have the wherewithal to preserve them, in order that they remain a place of pilgrimage, a seemingly idyllic oasis.

Cakeland was created by Oakland artist Scott Hove.

Cool facade projection on a building in Germany.

Summer in the city is sizzling hot and urban hipsters constantly need to come up with new ideas to entertain their creative urges. This brilliant new idea is the latest way to beat the city heat and throw a party on these hot summer nights.

Check out the great New York Times article, and slideshow by Yana Paskova

More great pictures and an explanation of how MacroSea, a team of urban planning visionaries, has been staging “guerilla pool parties” inside retrofitted dumpsters.

…And here in ReadyMade.

Hotel: San Alfonso del Mar, Algarrobo, Chile

Why It’s Cool: You can take small sailboats out on this saltwater pool that Guinness World Records calls the largest in the world. At two thirds of a mile in length, the massive stretch of water has room for several man-made sand beaches. For nighttime swimming, head to the temperature-controlled beach inside the pool’s centrally located glass pyramid—the water and the sand are heated.

Amazing Hotel Pools Slideshow

Voodoo has too many extreme doughnuts to feature just one. Some aren’t suitable for Unusual Life — we’ll refer to them as “anatomical” — but others are at once outlandish, deliciously addictive and rated G. Like the Bacon Maple Bar: a buttermilk topped with maple frosting and slices of crispy bacon; it sounds odd but really just mimics that marvelous moment when your pancake syrup runs into your breakfast meats. Voodoo also does wonders with cereal — try the Captain Crunch, Fruit Loop and Cocoa Puff doughnuts — and before health officials stepped in, patrons could even feast on NyQuil and Pepto-Bismol varieties.

Extreme Doughnuts at Voodoo Doughnut
22 SW 3rd Ave. | Portland, Ore.

Manmade Beach in Japan — Ocean Dome

If you can’t find a nearby crowded beach, make one! Only in Japan…

Ocean Dome is known as the world’s largest indoor water park
with a retractable roof. The air temperature is always kept around 30º C and the water temperature is kept at around 28º C.

The name Seagaia is a combination of the words “sea” and “gaia”, which is Greek for earth. It’s located near the Pacific Ocean on Kyushu Island.

Impact Lab’s photos of Ocean Dome

More photos of Seagaia

More photos here of Ocean Dome

Online Archive of Cereal Boxes from The Imaginary World

Cover Pop of cereal boxes

General Mills retro cereal boxes at Target

Unbelievable photo set from Boston.com

It is Carnival Season in many countries around the world with a Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations and parades put on just prior to the observance of Lent. Tomorrow will be the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but the past couple of weeks have seen parades and celebrations throughout Europe, the Caribbean and South America - notably Venice, Italy and Brazil. Collected here are just a glimpse of some of the elaborate celebrations of this Carnival season.

More fabulous photos about the Carnival on Boston.com

Bill Gates, as Microsoft Corporation Chairman (left), looks at an empty oversized bowl on a giant kitchen table, accompanied by Portugal’s Science and Technology minister Mariano Gago at the knowledge and Living Science pavilion at the Parque das Nacoes, Lisbon, Portugal.

Want your own big furniture? Great Big Computer Key-stool

World’s Largest Chair

World’s Largest Useless Things

Erika Nelson’s cool traveling roadshow: World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things

Bill enjoying his retirement hobnobbing with the rich and famous:

Marlow Harris and Bill Gates

Bill relaxing on a table in his office:

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