Happy Birthday Google!!

Google was started by Sergey Brin and Larry Page who were undergraduates at Stanford University. In these ten years it survived the dotcom crash and become a nighmare for internet gaints Yahoo & MSN. Google’s success is built largely around internet search & online advertising. In last 10 years it has become most people’s favourite search engine.

Google derived its name from a common misspelling of the word googol, which refers to 10100, the number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros. Today, the world google has become so popular that it has found its way to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. It means using Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.

Let’s see how Google celebrates its 10th birthday this year & how does it twists its logo this time. In the meantime Happy Birthday Google from our team at Damn Cool Pics & thanks for making a great search tool.

Official Google Blog: Ten years and counting

The World’s Largest Fountain in Dubai

Dubai’s prominent developer, Emaar Properties said on Monday it plans to build one of the largest fountains in the world as the centrepiece of its Downtown Burj Dubai project. Arabian Business reveals what the real estate giant has in store.

The fountains, which has yet to be named, will be capable of shooting water over 150 metres into the air, the height of a 50 storey building, and stretch over 275 metres, the length of two football fields.

The $218 million project will be 25 percent larger than the iconic fountains at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

Like the Fountains of Bellagio, Emaar’s fountains will include an integral light and sound show and is expected to become one of Dubai’s major tourist attractions, drawing over 10 million visitors per year.

The fountains will shoot 22,000 gallons of water in the air at any given moment and feature over 6,600 lights and 50 colour projectors.

The fountains have yet to be named and a cash prize of $27,225 has been assigned to the winner of a competition to name the water feature.

The structure is scheduled to be operation by 2009.

At the beginning of the week, I ran into Josh, a chef at an upscale restaurant in Tribeca. He was actually showing his tattoos to a couple of people standing with him, so I felt in apropos to join in the conversation.

Josh is hard at work on a culinary sleeve on his left arm, which includes a langoustine, a Red Junglefowl, and the tattoo above, a sturgeon, complete with slicing knife and roe.

The tattoo, as well as his other work, was done by Mark Harada at East Side Ink in Manhattan.

Thanks to Josh for sharing his sturgeon with us here on Tattoosday. Here's hoping he'll return to show us more. The Red Junglefowl was not completed, otherwise I would have asked to feature that piece here. It's a sweet piece (you can see a fragment of claw above the sturgeon).

Earlier this week, I met Dylan as she was crossing 34th Street by Macy*s Herald Square. She had the tattoo above her right ankle.

She had been a competitive dancer as a teenager, and had this inked when she was eighteen in Santa Cruz, California.

It was merely an expression of her love for the art of dance.

Thanks to Dylan for sharing her tattoo here with us on Tattoosday!

Amazing 2008 Apple Festival in Sweden

Apple creative author - Helge Lundstrom. Showing all this was at apple festival in the city Kivik, which is located in Sweden. Each picture went 4 tons of apples, and that about 75,000 pieces. Short, but as beautiful.

Tattoos Gain Even More Visibility

By GUY TREBAY

Published: September 24, 2008

WHO in the world gets a neck tattoo? A couple of years back you could have narrowed the answer to gang members, prison inmates, members of the Russian mob and the rapper Lil Wayne. Then something occurred.

Continued from the New York Times here

Chuck Taylor Scares Kids

Chuck Taylor scares kids at IWA Deep South's Risking...

Unusual Road Marking 'Street Art' by Peter Gibson

Peter Gibson, is also known as Roadsworth, is keen that attaches to road markings city of Montreal more than a pretty kettle and a live appearance. He started in 2001 with a drawing on cycle tracks. The artist himself said that he would like to create a new vision for the seemingly everyday things, in particular, and to attract universal attention to the “automobile culture” in general.

In autumn 2004, Peter Gibson was arrested and charged with committing 53 crimes related to the deterioration of road markings, but thanks to the support of residents of the city was relatively lenient sentence.