Worst Oscar dresses of all-time

Take a look at the past Oscar events to see  the biggest fashion mistakes Hollywood celebs have done

You would think that with all the money that Hollywood celebrities have, they would make sure they have an amazingly beautiful dress for such a glamourous event like the Oscars, right? Well, you're wrong there - we've seen some pretty horrendous outfits on the red carpet before!

Beyonce at the 2009 Oscars:

This is one body-hugging dress, but the pattern is somewhat unfortunate - boring as your grandmother's curtains, don't you think?

Jessica Biel at the 2009 Oscars:

Did Jessica decide to use her bed sheet as a dress for the red carpet or what is that
she's wearing?!

Amy Adams at the 2009 Oscars:

Amy Adams decided to be inspired by Spiderman and wore a similar outfit to the Oscars.

Sarah Jessica Parker at the 2009 Oscars:

One accessory that doesn't belong on a gown is a belt! Also, shouldn't she be going for
a more classy look instead of a grown-up trying to play princess?

Miley Cyrus at the 2009 Oscars:

While some people dress up younger than their age, Miley goes the other way and wants
to look older! This flamboyant dress just doesn't suit her!

Gwyneth Paltrow at the 2002 Oscars:

Showing off your assets like that in a transparent gown at a red carpet event is not classy
at all, Gwyneth!

Uma Thurman at the 2004 Oscars:

What is this outfit? We can't even call it a dress, because it's not!

Scarlett Johansson at the 2004 Oscars:

This must really be the saddest looking gown on the Oscars red carpet in 2004!

Melanie Griffith at the 2005 Oscars:

Wow Melanie Griffith looks like Courtney Love here. And you know something's horribly
wrong when people start drawing comparisons between you and Courtney Love!

Naomi Watts at the 2006 Oscars:

Can you look any more colourless, Naomi? Don't ever choose a gown that emphasizes
how pale you are!

Charlize Theron at the 2006 Oscars:

What just landed on her shoulder?! Oh wait, it's just an ugly, ovrsized bow.

Kirsten Dunst at the 2007 Oscar:

Are those feathers jumping out of the hem of her dress? Or is she walking on chickens?

Anne Hathaway at the 2007 Oscars:

The lace dress could have looked elegant on Anne if not for that black giant bow
covering her chest!

Helena Bonham Carter at the 2006 Oscars:

The queen of mis-matched clothes is back, and it's no surprise that Helena Bonham Carter
is in this list, really. Everything is just wrong, from the messy hair to the bright blue dress,
dark red bag and white heels!

Megan Fox Armani

 

Megan Fox has been announced as the new face of Emporio Armani.

The actress, who stars in the Transformers films, will front Armani's spring/summer campaigns this year, with photographs of the 23-year-old modelling the designer underwear set to appear on billboards in cities across the world.

Promotional shots released on Wednesday show the brunette posing in underwear, mini skirts and tight shirts.

The advertising campaigns were shot on location in Los Angeles by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

Designer Giorgio Armani said: "Megan is young and sexy and has a lot of spirit.

"Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans are all about a youthful attitude making her the perfect choice for the collections."

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Bodybuilder Cows

Belgian blue cows look as if his life they had, tyagaya iron in the gym. But in fact, a powerful set of muscles it was given careful breeding and genetics

As the name implies, the cows were bred in Belgium. In the second half of the 19 th century shortornskie bulls were shipped from the UK to Belgium to improve dairy breeds. 
Until 1960 the breed was balanced and gave out an average amount of milk and the average amount of meat, but in response to the demands of the meat industry, a Belgian Blue was subjected to selection for breeding meat breed. The breed is different size muscle to ensure a low fat content and the special tenderness of meat, making the Belgian Blue is very popular breed. 
Muscle Belgian Blue bulls breed twice as much than conventional breeds, each bull weighs over a ton. Scientists were able to achieve this through the "violation" of a gene that controls the generation of an protein that suppresses muscle growth after a certain point, creating, thus, Arnold Schwarzenegger in the animal world. 

The Most Psychedelic Picture of Science

Scientists have determined that you do not take hallucinogenic drugs to get the psychedelic patterns: fractals, particle collisions, computer simulation, sun spots are perfect for this.
One of the main parts of the psychedelic art are fractals. Benoit Mandelbrot, who died in October 2010, was the king of fractals. Outstanding Mandelbrot set - a figure, where each small part repeats the figure in general, and when zoomed image boundaries are becoming clearer.

2.Julia set

 

The Mandelbrot set is not the only psychedelic fractal vortex, which originates in mathematics. This image of the Julia set, named after the French mathematician Gaston Julia.

3. Spiral Algae

In the center of this image colony of green algae volvoksa whose width is 100 micrometers, and around -stirring nutrients. Multicellular colonies volvoksa existed for more than 200 million years.

4. Bubbles

In October, Gerd Gunter took 18 place at the Eurovision micrographs from Nikon - the psychedelic bubbleimage at 150 × magnification. Light falls on the upper and lower surface soap film and the color is constantly changing. It is very difficult to make such a shot, but even if to get one - it's well worth the effort.

5. Overloading of smell

 This photo is called "What lies behind our nose?". She took the prize in 2007 at the International Competition for Scientific and Engineering Visualization (International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge). Dr. Kai-Hong Funem from hospital Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Hong Kong creates an exciting photo using computed tomography (CT). Images obtained by scanning the patient's thyroid gland. To create a frame cavity sinuses used about 200 pictures CT.
6. Journey to the Sun

This sunny spot is not present, although one of the best ever made imitations spots. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (the National Center for Atmospheric Research) have created this image by placing the latest information on sunspots in a super-computer capable of performing 76 trillion operations per second. It took 2 billion points to convey the magnetism, temperature and other characteristics of the sunspot. Shows the phenomena occurring at a depth of more than 6000 kilometers.
7. Excellent option textbook

1972. Several years after the Summer of Love, it seems that the authors of the textbook "Biology Today" stayall in the same mood. In his blog, Will posted photos from the book. Here's the cover of the chapter onhuman sexuality.

8. Refraction at a critical angle

This iridescent image of concentric circles is a quartz crystal, as it looks through a microscope, which shows double refraction. The unusual ability of the crystal differently refract light depending on its direction. Since the multi-directional light rays are refracted differently, there is a difference when they pass through a quartz crystal, creating a double image, and even more insane psychedelic colors. This photography was researcher Mike Glazer, Oxford University.
9. Psychedelic clash

You would think that this figure spirography child. In fact, this is the result of hoping to see scientists atCERN, the Large Hadron Collider when on full power. The collapse of the smallest subatomic particle, the Higgs boson.

10. Red Himalayas

Multispectral image processing satellite NASA officials made the usual images of our planet in an entirely different picture of the world, comparable to the world of science fiction. Purple oceans and orange mountain ledges. This occurred through the use of highly sensitive radiometer ASTER, which combines near infrared, red and green waves.

11. Fire Wave

The sultry heat. Emberstorm created on a computer, Paul Desjardins and colleagues from the Center for Computational Research at the University of Buffalo. Scientists wanted to show the "dynamic instability" fiery waves to look at the volatility of the heat, which was observed in experiments with fire.

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Best See-through Homes on the market.

Full exposure: Ultracool glass houses

People who live in glass houses …

A modernist statement — the use of industrial materials such as glass and steel for domestic home construction — was made by such visionary architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, with his 1929 Barcelona Pavilion. Later he did the same in the United States with his Farnsworth House, and Phillip Johnson followed suit with his Glass House in New Canaan, Conn.

These homes blur the line between indoor and outdoor spaces and are studies in transparency and reflection.

The saying that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones predates the building of the first glass home, but it certainly is good advice for anyone looking to live in one.

Glass homes continue to make statements in residential design, though it does take a certain kind of person to feel comfortable with all that exposure. Life in a modernist fishbowl requires either a lot of chutzpah or plenty of private acreage — not to mention some tight security to keep those gawkers away.

For now, take a look at the best see-through homes on the market.

The Glass Pavilion

This Montecito, Calif., home was designed by Phillip Steve Hermann, who also designed homes for singer Christina Aguilera and comedian Lenny Bruce. It's going for a cool $35 million.

The Glass Pavilion is set within a 3.5-acre estate of oak groves in one of the wealthiest communities in the U.S. Inside – if you can call it that – is more than 14,000 square feet of living space.

The foundation

The home is almost entirely constructed of glass, with massive structural steel beams, and took six years to build. The large glass panels are Star Fire glass, an incredibly clear glass often used for jewelry displays. The multiple fireplaces are made of statuary marble.

Extra space

The home has five bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, a grand hallway and a large wine room. It also includes an art gallery where the architect, who designed the home for himself, displays his vintage car collection. The space accommodates more than 30 cars within its walnut-lined walls.

The view

Bathe within full view of the outdoors in an Antonio Lupi free-standing tub. Fortunately, there is plenty of security to keep the peeping toms at bay. The home is in a gated estate at the end of a long driveway and comes equipped with a high-tech security system.

The digs

Built in 2007, this rounded pod house in Quepos, Costa Rica, was designed by Andres Morales. The home has a main house and a guest house, with the added perks of horse stables and a helipad.

Park life

The home is near Manuel Antonio National Park, one of the most biodiverse in Costa Rica. On display are exotic monkeys, sloths, iguanas and a whopping 184 bird species. Along the beach, you'll find dolphins and even migrating whales.

But the real beach party starts at home with the Austin Powers-esque bar. Groovy!

The main house

The main house has 360-degree views of the surrounding ocean and mountains, not to mention the glamorous pool that wraps around half the home.

The bedroom

A marble staircase leads to a master bedroom suite with a jetted tub directly behind the king-size bed. Can you say posh?

Cameron's house

Remember the Highland Park, Ill., house of Ferris Bueller's uptight buddy, Cameron Frye, in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"? Well, the iconic house is on the market for $1.65 million — crashed Ferrari not included.

The Ben Rose Home

Cameron's house is known as the Ben Rose Home, after the noted photographer who owned it. It was designed by A. James Speyer and David Haid and built in 1953.

Into the woods

The ultraswank house is dramatically cantilevered over a ravine. It's also set on more than an acre of gorgeous wooded property.

Star-worthy style

Here, you'll find 5,400 square feet of living space, thanks to the enormous dining room, bedrooms and living rooms. Surrounded by glass, this exquisite home has Hollywood style to spare.

Rebellious roots

This London house overlooks the Victorian-era Highgate Cemetery. Philosopher and economist Karl MarxMalcolm McLaren are just two of the famous figures buried in the backyard. and punk impresario

The windows are almost entirely frameless on the cemetery side, while the street side is a curtain wall of honed black granite, steel panels and opaque glass, for privacy. The house is listed for $7.97 million.

See-through courtyard

Inside, you'll be dazzled by 4,225 square feet of living space with four bedrooms and bathrooms. The kitchen has a retractable skylight that transforms the space into an open-air courtyard.

Staying cool

Designed by architect Eldridge Smerin, the house replaced a 1970s structure by John Winter. The idea was to design a building with significantly lower energy consumption than the original but with a greater floor area. The home has a green sedum roof, and its temperature is moderated by its stone and glass construction.

Glass island

For $13.73 million, a glass and steel home in Son Vida on Mallorca, the Mediterranean island off the coast of Spain, offers much to admire, thanks to its windowlike walls.

Palma-ramic views

Secured in a gated community overlooking the city of Palma, the Bay of Palma and surrounding mountains, this home offers security and unrivaled natural beauty.

Take the plunge

The home has six bedrooms and a separate apartment, but even more droolworthy is the large, teak-decked pool with its own sauna.

Martha's old crash pad

Private homes aren't the only way to get full exposure. Renowned architect Richard Meier designed a number of glass-walled apartment buildings that have attracted celebrity interest. A penthouse duplex in his iconic Perry Street Towers in New York is for sale for $13.9 million. It also happens to be Martha Stewart's old crash pad.