The Daily Croissant - Filed under 'Unusual'

Hats off to Richard Waters
- 31 Jan 2012
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- Film Shorts January 31 2012 Musical Instruments Musicians Unusual
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via vimeo.com

An improvised performance by Mark Korven on the mega bass waterphone.

Richard Waters is the inventor of the waterphone.

Waterphones are in fact stainless steel and bronze monolithic, one-of-a-kind, acoustic, tonal-friction instruments that utilize water in the interior of their resonators to bend tones and create water echos. In the world family of musical instruments, the Waterphone is between a Tibetian Water Drum, an African Kalimba (thumb piano) and a 16th century Peg or Nail Violin.

via waterphone.com
Platycerium - A Pretty Peculiar Plant
- 6 Jan 2012
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- January 06 2012 Plants Unusual
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"Platycerium – even the name sounds odd. Mostly referred to as Staghorn or Elkhorn ferns, this genus of fern is, to say the very least, unusual looking. Yet they are fascinating to look at because their fronds are something else, quite unique. To look at a platycerium is to look back in time millions of years."

see more via kuriositas.com
Fox on Stilts ?
- 11 Sep 2011
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- 10September11 South America Unusual animals
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"No, it’s not a fox at all, but a maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), the largest canid in South America. The maned wolf is actually neither a wolf nor a fox, but is a canid with its own genus. With those long legs, this dog can grow to be three feet tall !"

via neatorama.com
Uhuru Dog Living on Africa's Rooftop...
- 8 Sep 2011
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- 07September11 Africa Behavior Dogs Kilimanjaro Mountains Unusual odd news
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Aug 31 2011

MOSHI – Four tourists were greeted by a rather unexpected guest when they reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, located in Tanzania.

They spotted a dog living at the Uhuru peak of the Kilimanjaro Mountain, which rises 19,341 feet above sea level.

read more via nodeju.com
Roll Cloud Over Wisconsin
- 7 Sep 2011
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- 06September11 Clouds Phenomena Unusual Weather Wisconsin
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"What kind of cloud is this? A type of arcus cloud called a roll cloud. These rare long clouds may form near advancing cold fronts. In particular, a downdraft from an advancing storm front can cause moist warm air to rise, cool below its dew point, and so form a cloud. When this happens uniformly along an extended front, a roll cloud may form. Roll clouds may actually have air circulating along the long horizontal axis of the cloud. A roll cloud is not thought to be able to morph into a tornado. Unlike a similar shelf cloud, a roll cloud is completely detached from their parent cumulonimbus cloud. Pictured above, a roll cloud extends far into the distance as a storm approached in 2007 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA."

via apod.nasa.gov
Cherkees { Beef Jerky Potato Chips } Adventures with Foodbeast
- 2 Sep 2011
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- 01September11 Food Unusual
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"Here’s the elevator pitch, beef jerky meets potato chips. Cherkees are beef jerky flavor without the chew, potato crisps with real bits of beef in them, keeping the look and flavor of beef jerky but with the crunch of a potato chip. The brand stresses that these are not beef jerky flavored potato chips, but in fact beef jerky and potato chips in one complete bite.

Much like traditional jerky, Cherkees are low-fat, high-protein, and are not fried. They have less than a third the fat of traditional potato chips and 12 grams of protein per serving. The new chips come in several jump-off flavors including: Hot Pepper, Teriyaki, Cracked Pepper and Smokehouse. ($4.99 – $9.99 @ RowanLane)"

via foodbeast.com

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The Music ofthe Wind
- 16 Aug 2011
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- 15August11 Exotic Musical Instruments Unusual Wind
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A gallery curated by les yeux heureux

"I love music and the ever expanding universe of sound out there. Each pathway leads to yet another branch that's worth hearing more from. So many stories to be told, so many notes to be played, so many musical journeys to experience.
Here are a few of the amazing wind instruments from around the world."

via flickr.com

06.blowing_of_the_big_&_small_ceremonial_horns_with_cymbals.mp3

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Blowing Of The Big And Small Ceremonial Horns With Cymbals

from "Seven Hundred Years of Music in Tibet "
Waterfall Flowing Upwards
- 7 Aug 2011
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- 06Apr11 Extreme Phenomena Unusual Waterfalls Weather Wind
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"Storms recently hammered Sydney, Australia, dropping a month of rain in a single day. They were so severe that this waterfall south of the city appeared to be flowing upwards. If you watch carefully, you can see wind sweeping water over the upper edge."

via neatorama.com
‪The Merry Cemetery‬‏ : Cimitirul Vesel de la Sapanta
- 4 Aug 2011
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- 03August11 Cemetery Human Interest Romania Unusual
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"The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânţa, Maramureş county, Romania. It is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the persons that are buried there as well as scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction.
The unusual feature of this cemetery is that it diverges from the prevalent belief, culturally shared within European societies – a belief that views death as something indelibly solemn. Connections with the local Dacian culture have been made, a culture whose philosophical tenets presumably vouched for the immortality of the soul and the belief that death was a moment filled with joy and anticipation for a better life"

via youtube.com
Pierre Cardin 's Palace of Bubbles
- 30 Jul 2011
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- 29July11 Unusual architecture
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"Also Called Palais Bulles (bubbles palace) this house near Cannes was designed by architect Antti Lovag and started to be built from 1975 for French industrialist Pierre Bernard, and sold in 1989 by Sothebys to fashion designer Pierre Cardin.

The house stretches over 1200 m2 , including 10 suites decorated by a different artist for each suite, a reception seating 350 persons, and an outdoor auditorium for 500 persons, plus 8500 m2 of garden."

via artandarchitecture.co.uk
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