The Plank Walk on Mount Huashan in China has been informally dubbed "the most dangerous place on Earth." It's not hard to see why.
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Pidapipo Gelateria in Melbourne, Australia, serves warm Nutella straight out of the tap. The hazelnut spread is scooped into homemade gelato or poured straight into a cone. It's the perfect "cherry on top."
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Cities aren't static.
They're shaped by the people that live there.
Whether or not you call it vandalism, places like New York, São Paulo, and Berlin are transformed by the artists that turn bare walls into art.
The Taedonggang beer shop in central Pyongyang is a common after-work meeting place for North Korea's working class. There are no stools or chairs. People stand around tables and converse while drinking Tadedonggang, North Korea's favorite lager.
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While selfie sticks have revolutionized the personal photography game, they're not without their downsides. They're kind of awkward to carry around, and chances are there's still going to be an outstretched arm jutting egregiously out of frame. Plus, they're banned at most theme parks.
Podo is a portable remote-controlled phone camera that's billed by its creators as a "selfie stick killer."
The eight-megapixel camera sticks to walls for hands-free selfie snapping.
The pocket-sized camera adheres to most solid surfaces, leaving users free to pose however they'd like. It can be reused by simply wiping the suction pad with a little bit of water before sticking it somewhere else.
Once it's positioned, an app controls the camera thanks to a Bluetooth connection that has a range of up to 30 feet. The app shows you a real time view of what the camera sees, and can be set to take short videos or automatically shoot a time-lapse of photographs.
Podo was created by three friends from the University of California, Berkley. Last year, they successfully raised $427,565 on Kickstarter, and are just now starting to ship the first orders.
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Artist Alexa Meade specializes in painting human subjects that look like 2D oil paintings. Recently, what started as a normal photo shoot took a heartfelt turn.
Special thanks to Alexa Meade and Ride or Cry.
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Over a period of six months, photographer Bence Bakonyi ventured from his home in Hungary and traveled throughout China by himself, documenting the cities and landscapes he saw along the way.
While China's population exceeds 1 billion, you would never guess that just by looking at Bakonyi's photos. Since the ever-present launguage barrier made him aim his camera at the environment instead of the people, the resulting images are hauntingly stark and empty.
"I didn't speak Chinese, so I wanted to show China without people," he told Business Insider.
China has a fast-growing population, so making the country look completely empty might seem like an impossible task. Yet Bakonyi managed to do just that, even without the use of Photoshop or image manipulation.
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Journalist and social media star Noor Tagouri, 22, partnered with clothing designer Adam Khafif to launch the clothing line, "The Noor Effect." The line donates 50 percent of proceeds to Project Futures, an anti-human trafficking charity.
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Sleeper sofas are nothing new, but the Doc sofa bunk bed is a game changer. The front flips up to become an upper bed, and a ladder folds out so you can climb up. It takes just seconds to set up.
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For beginners, the world of watches can be a mysterious and intimidating place.
But before you even start wading through the millions of quality watches for sale today, the first hurdle is knowing about you're talking about. Let us help with that.
We've rounded up 16 of the most common watch-specific terms. If you're looking to build a watch collection, we recommend bookmarking this.
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Turkish coffee is thicker and stronger than regular coffee, as the grounds aren't filtered out. One way of making it involves a sand-filled pan, which evens out the heat and makes it possible to control the temperature.
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Luxury shoppers are highly coveted customers for brands and retailers. The top 10% of US household earners (those taking home $120,000 or more annually) account for approximately half of all consumer expenditures.
This demographic’s growing preference for online shopping is changing the face of luxury retail, and it has significant implications for how brands target luxury consumers.
In a new report from BI Intelligence, we profile the luxury shopper and take a close look at the spending habits and preferences of high-income earners — including how and where they shop.
Here are some of the key takeaways:
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"Love at First Bite" is the signature dish at Doughnut Time, a bakery with shops across Australia. Nutella aficionados love this insanely dense doughnut that oozes mounds of the hazelnut spread.
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They way that artist Tim Bengel creates art is just as amazing as the final results. The German artist uses sand to draw complex designs on a sticky canvas, but you can't quite tell what he's made until right at the end. That's when he dumps off all the extra sand, and his finished pieces appear like magic.
Bengel uses a very, very slowly drying adhesive to get his sand to stick and allow him time to work.
After spending weeks "drawing" his design by carefully placing grains of black sand and occasionally gold onto the sticky canvas, he fills up the blank space with white sand. The whole piece looks like an indistinct mess until he lifts it up. Then, in an instant, all the excess sand cascades off of the canvas, leaving behind an immaculate, detailed work of art.
"The last work step at my artworks have this "wow-effect,'" Bengel explained.
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We sat down with six-time Olympic gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt and asked him his key to winning. He works really hard to prepare, but once the race happens he stays as relaxed as possible.
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Newborn baby photographs have become a must-have for parents seeking to capture the early moments in their baby's life. But those adorable portraits are not as easy as they seem.
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Fire ants are a dangerous, invasive species. They also make incredibly complex nests. David Gatlin found a way to get rid of ants nests and create beautiful art at the same time: he pours 1,400-degree molten aluminum into them. When the metal dries, it creates an intricate sculpture.
"The larger colonies probably have thousands of interconnected tunnels and chambers," Gatlin told INSIDER. He mostly casts fire ant colonies, but has poured liquid metal into seemingly abandoned carpenter and field ant nests, and they all look distinct.
His anthill art is for sale, but the waitlist is very long.
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The Hamptons are the summer playground of wealthy New Yorkers. They're also home to some of the most expensive real estate in the country — the Hamptons zip code of Sagaponack, for example, topped our list of the priciest places to buy in the country.
According to a recent report from Douglas Elliman Real Estate, the number of home sales in the Hamptons market is down by 19.2% this year, perhaps because of trouble on Wall Street. Still, that means plenty of high-end homes are still up for grabs.
With the help of real estate site StreetEasy, we've rounded up the most expensive properties currently on the market in this Long Island enclave of exclusivity, which ranges from stately Westhampton in the west to beachy Montauk in the east. Of the 21 priciest listings, the bulk are located in super-rich Southampton.
Median sales prices may have dropped about 34% for luxury listings in the first quarter of this year, but these homes are still up for eye-watering prices.
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Location: Bridgehampton
Price: $29.995 million
Location:Southampton
Price: $32 million
Location:Southampton
Price: $32.5 million
Tamra Judge may be most well known as one of the "Real Housewives of Orange County," but the 48-year-old grandmother is tackling a new role — bodybuilder!
Judge has been training for the past five months to get herself in shape for a Muscle Mania competition on May 28th and documenting her transformation on Instagram.
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About 2,000 feet under Lake Erie, 30 miles east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine. Since 1959, the Fairport Harbor Morton Salt Mine has been exclusively mining for rock salt, which is most commonly used to melt snow and ice on roads.
The mine does not allow people other than workers to go underground, so when Morton Salt's parent company, K+S, offered photographer Ricky Rhodes a tour to photograph for their company newsletter, he jumped at the opportunity.
"The experience was like nothing I have experienced before," Rhodes told Business Insider of his tour. "I don't really have anything to compare it to."
The mine is an unusual space of long tunnels lit only by headlamps of the workers and minimal lights on the ceiling. Luckily, Rhodes had the proper photography gear to bring the place to life.
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