Pop art ... the Albanian artist who created the world's largest toothpick mosaic has set another world record with a mosaic made of 229,764 corks.


Big plans ... artist Saimir Strati, 42, created a cork mosaic of a guitarist at the Sheraton Hotel in Tirana, Albania. The artist told visitors to the hotel to "Drink, because I need the corks." He worked 14 hours of work a day for 28 days.


Mediterranean tribute ... Strati glued 229,764 corks of various shapes and colours over a plastic banner measuring 12.94m by 7.1m to show "Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing with the sea and the sun"


Backing the champion ... Albanians have been following Strati's third world record attempt much more closely than his previous two record-breaking pieces of art, a portrait with nails of Leonardo Da Vinci and a galloping horse made with toothpicks.


Dot matrix ... "I love mosaics, they are a dying genre. I follow the same technique used 3000 years ago," said Strati, at work here on his cork mosaic. "A mosaic requires you to work for a long time and keep the emotion alive," said Strati.

He has a 25-year-old mosaic collection which features one created with fragments of egg shells and a portrait of Elvis Presley, made with compact discs.


Record-holder ... Albanian artist Saimir Strati holds his certificate from Guinness World Records adjudicator Carlos Martinez in front of the largest mosaic made of corks in Tirana.


Take it in ... visitors to the Sheraton Hotel in Tirana, Albania admire Starti's finished cork mosaic.

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Every woman wish to dress up in their gowns with perfect looking to have an unforgotten memory in the future. Here 15 womans dress up in their gowns and eat cake, they make their face full of cream and don't bother it. What happen with them? Lets check it out!




Well, actually they are during Bridezillas Cake-Eating Contest in Times Square in a bid to win $25,000 for a dream wedding. The WE television network and WPLJ radio selected 15 fiancées from the metro area to compete in the contest celebrating the fourth season of "Bridezillas".


The women donned dresses from David's Bridal and were given 2 minutes to eat 15 minicakes. Long Island's Stephanie Florio scarfed down nine cakes for the grand prize.


No matter who won in the contest, they definitely remember this unforgotten experience with their pretty gowns.





Asked what it was like to win $25,000 for eating cake, Stephanie replied, “As gross as I feel, it feels really great!”

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ThrustSSC is the most powerful, most extraordinary car ever to be designed to attack the Land Speed Record, and as the SSC (SuperSonic Car) in the name indicates, it is also one of the first with genuine potential to breach the Sound Barrier.


Where Thrust2 used a 17,000 pound thrust Rolls-Royce Avon 302 engine from a Lightning fighter, ThrustSSC is the first car to use not one, but two turbojets.


These will initially be Rolls-Royce Spey 202s from the Phantom fighter, each producing 20,000 pounds of thrust. Richard Noble has acquired two of them, but also has two even more powerful 205 units (25,000lb of thrust) for use when ThrustSSC has proved itself in transonic testing. ThrustSSC thus has the power of 1000 Ford Escorts, or 145 Formula One cars...


It will weighs 10 tonnes, and initial performance estimates suggest it will accelerate from standstill to 100mph (161kph) in four seconds or 0-600mph (1000kph) in 16 seconds. Within five miles (8 km) it will then reach its maximum speed of 850 mph within half a minute.


The driver, any driver, always has the steering wheel in front of him or her - right? Such astounding good sense leads to the logical conclusion that the steering wheel will therefore be connected to movable front wheels for the purposes of keeping the vehicle on the straight and narrow.


ThrustSSC's cockpit is positioned in the middle of the car, between the two massive Spey engines and close to the car's centre of mass. It can be reached from either the rear or the front of the car, and entry is via an opening roof hatch.


Thrust SSC is powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey jet engines, as used in the RAF and Royal Navy's Phantom fighter-bomber aircraft. Testing of the car is performed using two Spey Mk202s, while record runs utilise a more powerful hybrid Mk202 - often called a Mk205 - version of the engine.


The Parachute Braking System is employed to slow the car to a speed at which the wheel brakes can safely be used. Although the method of parachute deployment is the same, two distinct standards are provided, one for low speed use on, say a runway at deployment speeds up to some 200 mph, and the high speed system for use up to a speed of 600 mph.


Two parachute containers are fitted. At low speeds, both contain identical parachute assemblies, the second assembly intended only as a reserve, for use in the unlikely event of a malfunction occurring on the primary system. Either system can be used as primary or secondary.


 Therefore in short , World Fastest Vehicle or the ThrustSSC, the world fastest car, the record is 1281kph/768 mph. If has wing besides i think can fly into sky. This car using twin Lockheed Martin F-104 engine. It has 39000hp. When full speed advance consumes fuel each minute 40 gallons.

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Strapping in ... Jo from Wollstonecraft straps herself in before the race.

Making ready ... a racer shuns her red high heels by the start line as she awaits the race in bare feet.

Victorian ... sporting her racing number of 515 Julie has come all the way from Melbourne to take part in today's race.

Boys and girls ... The tradies working down at the Rocks take a time out to watch the leggy ladies getting ready for their race.

Winners Hug ... a presenter from the Kerri-Anne Kennerley Show show is the first to congratulate Brittney as she crosses the line.


Rising Star ... race winner Brittney poses with Australia's fastest ever sprinter, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor. Brittney was part of the team that recently won the bronze at the Junior Athletics Championships in Poland in the 4x400m relay.

Well-heeled ... Brittney McGlone leads a world record breakingly large field of entrants in the Venus Smooth Stiletto Sprint, which is an 80m dash in 3-inch-plus heels for $5000. Golden slipper ...sprint winner Brittney gives her golden slipper trophy a kiss as she poses on the podium. Her mother tells us that Brittney will be using her prize money to further her athletics career.

TWO of the teenagers in Friday night's horrific car crash that left three dead and two fighting for their lives were teenage sweethearts.


YOUNG LOVE: Crash survivor Adam Johnson, pictured with girlfriend Rosy White, who died in the Riverton triple fatality.

Adam Johnson has been visited in hospital by family and his girlfriend's sister, but does not remember the crash. Last night his family was waiting to break the tragic news of girlfriend Rosy White's death.

Braydon de la Nougerede and James Klessens, who died along with Rosy, and Adam were all Year 12 students at Corpus Christi College.


Friends and family grieve the loss of their three young friends.






The three 17-year-olds died after a BMW driven by a P-plate driver -- who had only had his licence a month -- was airborne on Vahland Ave, Riverton, at the intersection with High Rd.

The speed limit is 70km/h and witnesses said the car raced through the intersection at up to 140km/h and hit a hump.

Sparks flew as the car landed 12m farther on and one tyre may have blown. The BMW then went sideways for 70m and slid up the medium strip into the tree, throwing debris across the road.


An ambulance driving past just after the crash about 9pm was waved down by horrified witnesses.
The BMW driver from Winthrop, in his parents' car, was killed. A front seat passenger, a boy from Canning Vale, and Rosy from Riverton, who was in the rear, also died at the scene.


 

The scene of a horrific crash in Riverton that claimed at least three lives.





The exchange student is in intensive care in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital with critical injuries and Adam is in Royal Perth Hospital in a serious condition with injuries, including a broken leg.

Hilary Spoelstra, who lives opposite the crash site, was hosting her daughter's 18th birthday party on Friday night.

``We were just about to cut the cake and there was an incredible bang,'' she said. ``We went outside and I heard the engine whooshing and there was smoke coming out of the vehicle.''

A witness who would only give his name as Byron was at the party with his sister Chantelle.
After laying flowers at the tree yesterday, he said: ``My sister held the hand of one of the passengers and I understand that later the hand went limp and that person passed away.

``My sister hasn't spoken about it. She gets really upset talking about it.''

Another eyewitness Luke Marris, 19, said: ``It was a massacre.

``It was like something you would see in a movie.''

Locals say the hump at the intersection is a hazard.

Ms Spoelstra, who has lived in Vahland Ave for 20 years, said: ``Cars go over the hump at the intersection and they get airborne and the drivers lose control.''

The officer in charge of the major crash section Snr-Sgt Alyson Brett said: ``This was a tragic scene for police who attended and members of the public. The amount of damage to the vehicle was significant.

"From what we've seen at the scene, the amount of damage done to the vehicle, and also what witnesses have told us, it appears the vehicle was travelling too fast.''

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An unusual competition to create makeup for horror films... crazy peoples are applying halloween makesup that can make people scared. This is really horrible !

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