Lyapis Trubetskoy

“Lyapis Trubetskoy” (in Russian: "Ляпис Трубецкой") is one of the strangest bands of the post-soviet show business. In 1998-1999 their songs could be heard on any major radio station, their videos were shown on every top TV channel both in Russia and CIS countries. Until now their legendary hits like “Au”, “Ti kinula” (“You Gave Me Up”), “Zelenolazoye taksi” (“Green-eyed Taxi”), “V plat’ye belom” (“In A White Dress”) and “Yabloni” (“Apple-trees”) are still popular among all Russian karaoke singers. Isn’t it the obvious sign of public acknowledgement?



See also:
- Official Website
- Lyapis on MySpace
- Fan Club

Ukrainian Love of 007

Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko has been cast as the female lead of James Bond (Daniel Craig) in the new 007 sequel "Quantum of Solace".




She previously appeared in Vincenzo Natali's five-minute contribution "Quartier de la Madeleine" to the European omnibus film "Paris, Je T'Aime" (2006) playing the creepy, unnamed vampire who enters into a blood-soaked love affair with a young American tourist played by Elijah Wood. Beside this, she appeared as Sofia in "Le Serpent" (2006), as Russian beauty Nika Boronina in "Hitman" (2007) and as Mina Harud in the indy surveillance-thriller "Tyranny" (2008). To recognize her achievements, Olga's native city Berdyansk is going to name a street in her honor.



Sources:

• Olga Kurylenko's biography at IMDB
  
• Interview to FHM: The Art Of Bondage
  
• Украинская напарница Джеймса Бонда
  

Deep Sea Creatures

Many species of deep ocean fish have special adaptations to living in extremely high pressure, low light conditions. Some of them are black as night all over with light organs (called photophores) in strategic places on their bodies, including one on a long dorsal fin that serves as a lure for the fish it preys upon. Some don't have any pigment (color) at all - they're "see through", some have enlarged eyes, presumably for gathering as much light as possible where there is little or no light at all. The light organs create lights by using a chemical process called bioluminescence...



Text adopted from Life in the Deep

Coffee printer

When you marry a great imagination with an ingenious engineering the result is an absolutely marvellous coffee plotter :-)

What a wonderful world

An amazing hand-shadow show by Raymond Crowe

Lemon Kids

Just a funny collage on babies tasting a lemon :-)

Double or Nothing

In 2004, Ashley Revell of London sold all of his possessions, clothing included, and brought US$135,300 to the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas and put it all on "Red" at the roulette table in a double-or-nothing bet...



See also: Interview with Ashley Revell

Elephant Paints His Self Portrait

Have you ever seen an elephant paint his self-portrait? Could you even think of a gallery of elphant art before? Well, here it is ...



Still can't believe it? Than follow the above link to read about elephant art, and meet the elephants yourself.

Flying Penguins

Film maker and writer Terry Jones discovers a colony of penguins, which, unlike any other penguins in the world, can fly...



And here is a behind the scenes look at how the BBC created the most funny April Fools' Day comercial :-)