Home cinema, also called home theater, are entertainment systems that seek to reproduce movie theater quality video and audio in a private home. The most basic system could be a DVD player, a standard CRT television, and a “home theater in a box”, a 2.1 speaker system with left and right speakers and a small 8″ subwoofer cabinet. An expensive home cinema set-up might include a High-Definition video format such as Blu-ray, a 60″ High-Definition Television with a “cinema-style” 16:9 format, a several thousand-watt home theatre receiver with five to seven surround sound speakers, and a powered subwoofer with a 12″ (or more) driver. The most expensive home theater set-ups, which can cost over $100,000 US, have digital projectors, expensive screens, and custom-built screening rooms which include cinema-style chairs and Audiophile-grade sound equipment.
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Creative Bus Stops
Riding the bus is not usually a pleasant experience. All the sweaty workers coming home, many smells combining and you won’t find very nice people. Luckily, you can enjoy some pleasant moments while waiting for the bus, more precisely in one of these creative bus stops advertising agencies came up with.
Amazing Camouflaged Animals Photos
Over time camouflage has been an evolutionary adaptation of most animals. Camouflage primarily provides animals with either a first line of defence against predators, or as effective means of camouflaging themselves from prey.
Prepare to train your eyes for spotting the animals and their amazing disguises!
Women and Beer Advertising in The Past
Check this collection of 21 old beer posters. Beer is definitely male drink and woman has always been the best way to sell something to man.
Creative Logo Hallucination
Use technologies of recognition of images in order to detect subliminal forms of logos or emblems, hidden (generally involuntarily) in the visual environment or in the whole of the images of the Internet.
Creative and Funny Billboard Advertising
The billboard is one of the highly effective advertisement strategies. When driving along the road, highway, interstates, city center and the business district street, the billboard use quick-witted slogan and the eye-catching image receive driver’s attention. The messages must be simple, effective and creative in order to attract driver attention in a second.
Here’s a collection of 20 creative and funny billboard advertising.
Brand Irony
Brand Irony
Sharad Haksar takes pictures of people in close proximity to advertisements of popular brands. Someone urinating next to a Nike slogan exhorting them to “Just do it.” Or a toothless Indian gentleman standing in front of a stack of Colgate boxes that promise “strong teeth.” His work show us how advertising gets co-opted by its environment (specially in countries of the third world), for good or for ill.
A Day in the Life of a Stormtroopers (Part 1)
Ever wonder what your toys do when you’re not around watching over them? Star Wars fan and photographer Stefan brings to life his stormtrooper action figures in a series of photos he’s taking every day for a year. His stormtroopers are capture on film undergoing dangerous adventures, playing games, hanging out with monkeys and more. Here are some of the best moments in this project.
Check out the second part as well: A Day in the Life of a Stormtroopers (Part 2)
Continue reading A Day in the Life of a Stormtroopers (Part 1)
Floating Swimming Pool
A swimming pool on water, that is something you don’t see every day.
Called the Badeschiff (that’s German for “bathing ship”) this floating swimming pool is really just an old barge transformed into a public pool last year in Berlin, on the Spree river. Unfortunately, the river itself is much too polluted for people to swim in, so this idea, as crazy as it looks, makes some sense.
It was first spotted in 2007, during a very hot Summer and during the off-season it’s covered and closed to the public. But the hot Summer is here again and the Germans in Berlin will once again be able to enjoy a swim in the cool water of the Badeschiff. Would’ve been cool if it had a glass bottom though, so you could see the river.
Beautiful Aerial Photography
EARTH FROM ABOVE – YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND
Project “Earth from above”, from photograph Yann Arthus-Bertrand, contains more than 500,000 aerial photos that have been taken in 100 countries from all over the world. Here you will find a selection from them.
