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Hand-built wooden VW Volkswagen Beetle, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Oct 2013
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Wood You Believe It: Man Makes Volkswagen Beetle From Wood
A man has made a VW Beetle - out of wood.
Momir Bojic has hand-built the impressive Bug with mind-boggling patience, using high-skilled woodworking to create intricate detailing.
Everything from the bonnet to the gearstick has been carved by Momir in his garden workshop - with help from his understanding wife Nada.
The couple also created wooden fittings for the pedals, wheel caps, bumpers, front turn signal lamps, tail-lights, wipers, door mirrors, steering wheel, parcel shelf, dashboard, glovebox lid, clock and even the radio aerial.
Amazingly, the car features thousands of thumbnail-sized, finely sliced sections of oak designed to replicate the style of the commonly seen wooden-tiled roofs in Momir's homeland of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Each tile involved a process involving no less than 23 separate procedures, including cutting, chamfering, bevelling, drilling and smoothing, before they could be applied to the vehicle.
Momir, who is retired and in 'his 60s', spotted the 1975 Beetle used as a base-model for sale at a fair and got a metalwork company to take off the roof, doors and strip the chassis.
He says: "The price certainly seemed reasonable, but what really clinched the deal for me was the fact that it had a trailer hitched on the back. In my country, a trailer is a very useful item to own - it makes carting goods of any description very easy - and so I paid the vendor and took delivery of the combination.
"At the time, I told my wife Nada that I was none too sure exactly what I was going to do with this addition to the household, but whatever decision I came to it would be something original and worthwhile."
Thankfully, Nada soon joined the woodwork project after seeing how long it had taken her husband to complete the very first sectio...
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Robot sculptures made with vintage materials, Madrid, Spain - 01 May 2013
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Royal Ascot Day 3, Berkshire, Britain - 19 Jun 2008
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The runners and riders in the 3rd Race, The Gold Cup, with a whole circuit to run. The race was won by Pat Smullen riding racehorse Rite Of Passage, second on the right in the photograph, purple silks and yellow cap.
Royal Ascot Day 3, Berkshire, Britain - 19 Jun 2008
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Royal Ascot Day 3, Berkshire, Britain - 19 Jun 2008
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Back Page Images / Rex Features ( 1199411f )
The runners and riders in the 3rd Race, The Gold Cup, with a whole circuit to run. The race was won by Pat Smullen riding riding racehorse, Rite Of Passage, purple silks and yellow cap.
Royal Ascot Day 3, Berkshire, Britain - 19 Jun 2008
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Royal Ascot Day 3, Berkshire, Britain - 19 Jun 2008
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Back Page Images / Rex Features ( 1199411e )
The runners and riders in the 3rd Race, The Gold Cup, on the final bend. The race was won by Pat Smullen riding racehorse, Rite Of Passage, purple silks and yellow cap.
Royal Ascot Day 3, Berkshire, Britain - 19 Jun 2008
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The Thinker posed by Peter Terren with electricity from a Tesla coil, Bunbury, Western Australia - Apr 2009
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Peter Terren wrapped in protective builders foil. Awig covers his foil cap.
This Thinker is Electrifying
THIS THINKER IS ELECTRIFYING
A daredevil inventor has created a sparky version of Rodin's The Thinker by shooting 500,000 volts of ELECTRICITY down his body.
Using a home-built Tesla coil pieced together from junk and bits from hardware stores, Peter Terren has risked his life to make this electrifying image.
An he was also only protected from painful death by electrocution by a layer of cheap builders FOIL.
Peter, from Bunbury, Western Australia, explains: "I wanted to convey the concept of the modern electrical age with the barrage of electrical interference in our lives. So much is happening and demanding our attention that it is difficult to "think".
"I decided upon a real life posture like the thinker with a lot of electrical activity around me with sparks onto my body."
His previous Tesla experiments have seen him wrapped in a Faraday cage - kind of like a see-through Dalek - but this time he wanted to push himself.
Peter's face was protected by a mask made of fine strands of stainless steel and his "safety suit" consisted of a wrapping of builders insulating foil. A wig covered up a foil headcap.
The electricity fired from the Tesla rod, which is passed over him in a semi-circle, can then pass down the foil suit and safely out to the earth through his foot.
The 52-year-old says: "In doing this I wanted to do something new that also challenged the boundaries.
"Allowing the sparks to contact my body or face directly is not safe of course. A single spark that gets past the defences would throw me to the ground in intense pain like a Taser shock.
"Multiple sparks would also stop me...
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