I admire this Josh Keyes shark illustration on many levels!

I actually call it a shark illustration because I am aquatically biased but it really is a brute force illustration about global warming.

Oil has condensed atop the ocean surface and the dorsal fin that protrudes out of the water is suddenly ablaze due to the surface temperature from the sun. The shallow bottom where the shark is trolling is obviously a city street and Josh Keyes suddenly makes the event look like the shark is contained in a fish tank.

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Found originally at NotCot.org

An underwater museum will display Cleopatra's lost city of Alexandria in all its splendor!

From Designer Gallery for the English language overview: "... Jaques Rougerie has opted to display the palace of Cleopatra in its natural habitat. Rougerie has designed an underwater archaeological museum that would allow visitors to see the beautiful statues et al from an underwater location where the once lost city of Alexandria now dwells. ..."

Credit goes to NotCot.org who linked to totonko.com: [Link]

I don't get this pool but I bet 'George Jetson' does!

From ArchDaily comes a writeup about a trippy pool and "pool-house." Good luck with this sentence description though, I suspect it's a computerized translation: "... The “House Place Jordan “contains structural interferences in an existing garden plant of a single family house in Klagenfurt - Viktring (Kärnten/Austria). ..." Follow the link for more photos and writeup: [Link]

Originally found on NotCot

Oh, and my start dive is better than his!

Here is an Olympic memento worth collecting: Real commemorative money!

A quick post before rushing off to work: That's real money the Chinese have issued. Found at NotCot.org! Originally posted at "Ad!vertido; [link]

Amazing what you can do with a stick and 30-miles of beach!

Meet Jim Denevan and his portfolio of beach art. The man has patience, control, and a sense of symmetry. Since the average tide is six hours apart, I wonder if his work is destroyed shortly after completion? Found at NotCot.org: [Link]

Concept design for a floating hotel yet it looks like a floating "Moby DIck"

Here is a description from local boy, Jamie O'Shea's Super Touch blog

"... Though only in the earliest stages of conception, French designer JEAN-MARIE MASSAUD’s concept for a floating hotel, the glorious whale-shaped “Manned Cloud” promises to be a transcendent thing of beauty should it ever reach the clouds. ..."

Originally spotted at NotCot.org

Solar autonomous floating lamps for swimming pools in the shape of 'Jelly fishes'

These pool lamps in the shape of jelly fishes were designed by Goldesign. Here is a direct link to the product page: [Link]

What would be even cooler is if they could swim around. I found these originally at NotCot-dot-org.

When Italian fascism went swimming!

This pool is part of a sports complex once known as the Forum of Mussolini but now named the Foro Italico. It is located in northern Rome and per its Wikipedia entry was constructed in 1928 as ordered by the fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini. (AKA: il Duce, baby!)

According to the blog, "eternally-cool-dot-net":

The Forum [of Mussolini] was intended to celebrate sport and strenuous physical exercise. Fascist leaders like to picture their regime as a youthful one. After all, the fascist humn was “Giovinezza” (”Youth”), and not only Mussolini but a number of party leaders often had themselves photographed in various sporting poses. Some leaped over drawn bayonets or through burning hoops to demonstrate their physical fitness and personal courage. “Physical culture,” as the Fascists like to call it, was an important aspect of the regime’s ideology. ..." [Link]


You can tell these individuals featured in the mosaics are good swimmers; Is that Ian Thorpe on the right? ;-)

I originally found this entry at Notcot.org