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vineri, 2 septembrie 2011

Damn Cool Pics

Muammar Qaddafi’s Family Photo Album
Labor Day Travel and the Impact of the Economic Climate [Infographics]
100 Years of London Fashion in 100 Seconds
Tomatina Festival 2011 in Bunol, Spain

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:03 PM PDT

Tyler Hicks of the New York Times found family pictures at the the Qaddafi residence in Tripoli, and they're amazing. How often do images of a Third World dictator make you irresistibly nostalgic for childhood?

The Qaddafis playing soccer. Baby photos. Colonel Qaddafi as a young lieutenant in the late 1960s. Later, as a father. And finally, a bizarre figure; something of an object of ridicule.

Muammar Gaddafi's daughter, Eisha, his second wife, Safia Farkash, and Seif al-Islam, his son, in an undated photo from a collection of photos taken from Gadhafi's home, in Tripoli, Libya.

Muammar Gaddafi and his wife, Safia Farkash.

Muammar Gaddafi with Hannibal Gaddafi, Safia Farkash, center, and unidentified family members.

Gaddafi, right, with Leonid Brezhnev, of Russia.

Muammar Gaddafi with former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

Seif al-Islam

Labor Day Travel and the Impact of the Economic Climate [Infographics]

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 02:19 PM PDT

As we prepare for our upcoming holiday travel, we turned to social media and the data we gather from it, and took a deeper look at people's travel plans this holiday season and if there was a perceived impact due to our rocky economic climate. Using Visible Intelligence, our social media monitoring and analytics platform, here's what we found:

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Source: visibletechnologies

100 Years of London Fashion in 100 Seconds

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 10:28 PM PDT

This film is a 100 year countdown to the grand opening of Westfield Stratford City on September 13th 2011, and celebrates a century of East London fashion, dance and music. It was shot over 4 days in east London locations with hundreds of costume changes.

Tomatina Festival 2011 in Bunol, Spain

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:41 PM PDT

Every year on the last Wednesday of August, the townfolk of Bunol, Spain and tourists alike gather together to throw tomatoes. Over 100 metric tons of ripened tomatoes are hurled, lobbed, smashed, and flung in the streets which turn the town into a crimson saucy mess. Bunol has a population of 9,000 local citizens but when the Tomatina festival begins, the population swells by another 20,000 to 40,000 visitors who enjoy the week-long festival and of course, the tomato throwing carnage.

The history of this crazy festival goes way back in 1944. During that year some young men who wished to participate in the parade of gigantes y cabenzudos throwed the tomatoes at the people. They did the same thing in next few years that unofficially established the festival.

It was in 1959 when the town officially approved the festival. Since then La Tomatina has become one of the most popular and attractive event of the year. Thousands of tourists travel to Spain for the annual La Tomatina festival.

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