Design Buzz Surprisingly emotional pictures. Chinese artist Jiang Zhi Love Letters gallery speaks volumes about how love can consume. (via designyoutrust.com)
This pop culture landmark burned, just like the desire between Baby and Johnny!!1!
Bear Grylls throws out the first pitch at Dodger Stadium and literally brings the heat by setting the baseball on fire!!!
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Texas is having a weird streak of luck with nature. A great ball of fire streaked across the Texas sky during the daytime last week, much to the surprise of thousands of people who witnessed it.
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And ignites six parked cars. Mattresses may seem all soft and innocent but deep within the heart of every posturepedic lurks a diabolic pyromaniac just waiting to set the night on fire.
Culture Buzz Here are the first photo from the scene, taken just minutes ago. The two Navy pilots managed to successfully eject and, as of this writing, no one was killed. Three people, including the pilots, have been hospitalized with minor injuries. UPDATED: Video of the immediate aftermath has surfaced.
Shift Buzz The second books in both the “Hunger Games” and “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” trilogies have “fire” in the title. Apparently this is a hot — pun intended — book trend, as you can see by this slew of fire books.
Culture Buzz While it looks apocalyptic, thankfully no one was hurt. The fire broke out early this morning and the cause is still unknown. Anyone else having flashbacks to “Die Hard”?
Culture Buzz WARNING: These are obviously disturbing images, so discretion is advised. An exile from Tibet immolates himself in New Dehli to protest the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao. Tibet is currently under Chinese occupation and has been struggling for independence for decades. The protester survived and is in critical condition.
Culture Buzz An apparent oil overflow during a routine oil change caused one man's 2001 Impala to catch fire and completely torch his entire engine. The guys at the station claim it was a factory defect, but the real story here is that someone was clever enough to mash up Bon Jovi's hit single from “Young Guns II” with the incident. Nice.
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Don't try this at home. Or do, I'm a blogger not your mom a cop.
Culture Buzz This stunning video shot on a Contour HD helmet camera puts the viewer into the boots of a firefighter rescuing a house from destruction. This is the closest most of us will ever come to crossing the threshold of a burning building.
Here's a blazing video of Hollywood's hottest characters harnessing nature's most finest, flaming element. Cut to Katy Perry's chart burning hit song, naturally.
In this new flame-kissed portrait-based installation, artist t-radya pastes bandages on wooden panels and pelts the canvasses with molotov cocktails. As the fires burn out, the charred surfaces that appear create shading and outlines of faces of well known Russian soldiers. (via thesuiteworld.com)
Culture Buzz Here are some horrifying pictures of some guy lighting himself on fire outside a bank because the bank wouldn't renegotiate his overdue loan payments. (via shortformblog.tumblr.com)
Politics Buzz In this Op-Ed for CNN, Democratic strategist James Carvill warns that if Obama doesn't do something drastic, we may have a “crazy person” in the White House after 2012. Think it'll make a difference? (via reddit.com)
How do residents of Nejapa celebrate the anniversary of a village-destroying volcano? By throwing flaming, gasoline soaked rags at each others' legs. ¡VIVA EL SALVADOR! (via telegraph.co.uk)
Sports Buzz What could go wrong? I mean, there's water right there and it's only a flare. I smell a new Olympic event!
Culture Buzz Thirty-five officers were injured and over one-hundred and sixty people arrested over the weekend. The violence broke out in the gritty north London suburb of Tottenham on Saturday night amid community anger over a fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old father of four. Police said “copycat criminal” violence spread to other parts of the city Sunday night and early Monday, including, briefly, London's busy shopping and tourist district at Oxford Circus.
Culture Buzz UPDATE: Parliament has passed the austerity measures, paving the way for financial assistance from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund which will hopefully stabilize not just the Greek economy, but the world economy. Unrest continues in the streets of Athens. Demonstrations against the Greek government's proposed austerity measures turned violent in Athens today, with protesters hurling rocks and firebombs at police. Police have responded with tear gas and batons. If parliament doesn't pass the cost-cutting plan, Greece will not receive a bailout package from the European Union. Without the aid package, Greece will default on its debt, sending shock waves through the world economy.
Culture Buzz Photos taken shortly after the emergency landing of a Cathay Pacific plane, which burst into flames mid-flight. Fortunately no one was injured.
Culture Buzz If you had time to think about it (and take an artsy fartsy photo), what would you take if your house was burning? It's an interesting way of evaluating someone's personality with one simple question.
A man at a San Francisco porno shop bursts into flames, runs through the store and out onto the street as his clothes disintegrate. He sustained life-threatening, third degree burns over 90% his body and is still in critical condition. The cause is officially unknown, but the video poster seems to think crack was involved.
Amazing video of something called “Jeux Olympiques des Pompiers” (“Olympic Games of the Firefighters”), in which Frenchmen in tights do incredible feats of skill with ladders, hoses and fire. How do you say 'badass” in French? Oh. Babel Fish is telling me “mauvais âne.” Sorry to bother you with that easily answered question.
This is the video that sparked the ongoing riots in Afghanistan which have left at least twenty dead, including two Americans. Pastor Terry Jones, of Florida's Dove World Outreach Center, is an asshole.
Science Buzz …is in Turkmenistan. Which is surprising considering until just now if someone had told me there was a country called Turkmenistan I would not have believed them. While drilling in 1971, geologists in Derweze hit a methane gas pocket. Instead of letting the gas into the atmosphere, they decided to burn it off. Forty years later, this two hundred-thirty foot crater is still on fire.
Welcome to the real America. If this was even taken in the United States. No one knows what's actually going on here. There's a big ass gun and a cow. Could be Oklahoma, could be a former Soviet Bloc state.