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Sultan’s elephant made it way through the streets of London. It was designed by Francois Delarozière, and commissioned to celebrate the death of Jules Verne. François Delarozière (born 1963) is the Artistic Director of La Machine, a French company which is a collaboration between artists, designers, fabricators and technicians and which specialises in producing giant performing machines, often creatures...

Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, bucket and cab on a rotating platform (known as the "house"). The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. All movement and functions of the excavator are accomplished through the use of hydraulic fluid, be it with rams or motors. Their design is a natural progression from the steam shovel...

2800 dogs are serving in the US army at this time. Dogs in warfare have a long history starting in ancient times. From 'war dogs' trained in combat to their use as scouts, sentries and trackers, their uses have been varied and some continue to exist in modern military usage. History War dogs were used by the Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Sarmatians, Alans, Slavs, Britons, and the Romans...

The Brown Sister project is a a very interesting but also sad project. Nicholas Nixon took a picture of four sisters, Heather, Mimi, Bebe and Laurie, every year since 1975. Nicholas Nixon (born 1947 in Detroit, Michigan) is a photographer, known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography, and for championing the use of the 8x10 inch view camera. Biography Nixon attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 1969 with a degree in English. He went on to earn an M.F.A...

A POTD is an acronym for "Photo of the Day", "Picture of the Day", "Post of the Day" or "Poll of the Day". It is a term most commonly used by online digital photography communities as an honor to outstanding photos that are selected daily from among that community's membership. They can either be tagged as POTD or displayed in a special page on that site...