Photography is a hobby for some, an occupation for some others, a passion for some more, but for most of us, it’s the means to capture our fond memories and cherished moments. Be it nature or persona, they capture the magic around in a small frame. The arrival of Polaroid took the art of photography [...]

Living in a desert is definitely a challenge especially if it’s in a country like Syria where winter chills are as competitive as summer swelters or the torrential rains. With a constrained choice of building materials and resources, here’s what the Syrians have come up with- the effortless, innovative and well-designed Beehive homes.

Premeditated exclusively for [...]

Who wouldn’t love a dwelling wrapped around with scenery? An agricultural scientist, Chris Anderson and Claire Davenport wished for the same in their 10-acre wooded site an hour’s drive south of Adelaide. They laid the burden on South Australia–based architect Max Pritchard and this is what they finally got- a stunning Bridge House. Straddling a [...]

Wordsworth heavily criticized the fatalistic effect of man’s decadent materialism. For the poet, the material world is what is foremost in man’s mind, preoccupying and consuming his entire being. In the process, man forgets the beauty of nature in his life full of “getting and spending.” Wordsworth’s insight into the relationship between man and nature [...]

Each day brings with it some new green surprise. It is indeed a delight to see the number of ways the human mind can devise to work around Mother Nature without hurting her or lowering our style of life. Welcome Zweitsinn, a German word that means a second meaning. Well, an eco-friendly effort too goes [...]

There is always speculation that will going green eventually mean moving around in your birthday suit? Well, that will soon be the scene if the video Pants Exposed: Know What’s in Your Kickers is anything to go by. Created by Jenny & Verity White of Eco-boudoir, this advert in public interest shows how your underpants [...]

Werner Herzog’s film Aguirre, the Wrath of God (made in 1972) will always be counted among one of the finest and magnificent films ever made. The theme of the film and characterization of Aguirre will find a special mention for time immemorial in the history of film-making. 
Amazingly this film on greed and ambition of a [...]

In what was initially a frightening and then very intriguing experience, Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have concluded that peeling out an ordinary scotch tape in vacuum can generate X-rays intense enough to create an x-ray image of one of the scientist’s hands! While the initial fears were obviously about how this [...]

At first glance nearly everyone out there would get astounded over this headline since nobody would have ever thought of reading or writing to be such a nature savvy experience? Actually it’s an emblematic human propensity that whenever something innovative comes out of someone’s intellect we confer it awfully apprehensive look.
But this time in reality [...]