What is "superadobe" ?

Superadobe houses at the Cal-Earth Institute, a nonprofit founded by Nader Khalili to share the technique with others (Credit: Getty)


Like adobe, superadobe is earth-based, economical and keeps houses cool in the day.
But it’s also earthquake resistant. Could this twist on a tradition save lives around the world?
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Padaung Women

Photos: Hugo Santarem

 

Tattoo You

Tattoos by Zihee

 

Shitty Watercolour ‏

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Cyanide and Happiness

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Andrew Fairclough

See more of his work here.

 

This Life

Max Löffler on Behance

 

Big Words

Rose Nolan

 

What We're Reading

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber

 

A Lesson in Seduction

Photograph by Yarin Klein

A male weaver building his nest, trying to impress the female.

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Dog Snapchats

Compiled by Bored Panda.

 

Every Smile Has Its Moment

A series of mosaic illustrations for the advertising campaign of Cyprus Airways by Charis Tsevis.

 

A Chilean paraglider and his hawk in flight

A Chilean paraglider has been photographed flying in tandem with his hawk outside the capital city, Santiago.
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The Masks We Wear

We wear masks for many reasons: for fun, for protection, or to make a statement. In turbulent public settings, obscuring one’s face can protect an individual from retaliation while evoking fear and uncertainty in others. Donning the masks of cultural, political, or religious figures can ridicule them, or lend them power and further their legacy. Those who wear masks to protect their face from environmental hazards might also end up sending a message of caution to observers. In many cases, though, masks play a more lighthearted role, allowing the wearer to take part in a festival and become someone (or something) else for a time.
 By Alan Taylor

 

Swiss 'valley of monsters'

Once a year, as the last icy of blasts of winter begin to give way to spring, strange figures start to appear in the remote Swiss valley of the Lötschental.

 

CB Hoyo

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Why nostalgia?

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Real Vintage Lamborghini Worth $2M “Explodes” into Thousands of Pieces

Swiss artist Fabian Oefner is known for his Disintegrating series, which picks apart scale models of cars and features individual pieces for an incredible final image of what appears to be an exploding vehicle. For his newest work, Disintegrating X, Oefner was not only able to get his hands on a real car, but an iconic vehicle at that. A 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV—a car valued at $2 million—received Oefner’s signature treatment, and the results are as explosive as ever.
 Over the course of two years, Oefner took more than 1,500 photographs of each part of the Lamborghini. Working methodically, Oefner has created a hyperrealistic art piece that shows off the Lamborghini Miura in a way that’s never been seen. The work explores the boundaries between time, space, and reality by creating a moment that looks real, even though it isn’t.
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Aishti By The Sea

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