The Beauty of Magic Water. And Concrete.
8:12 am, 13 August 2011
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Concrete and Water - Paul Roper-Gee

This shot is easily amongst the most beautiful pictures I’ve ever seen. What is it doing here then, you ask? Told ya this project would slowly shape shift to “http://themostbeautifulshitunderthesun.com”, didn’t I?

This stunning photographic extravaganza was captured by the indomitable Paul Roper-Gee. Thanks so much, Paul!

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Photo © 2011 Paul Roper-Gee. Original here.



The Beauty of Fence Messages
9:32 pm, 10 August 2011
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Fence art 1 - Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

“Somebody used a fence and some pieces of cloth to “write” the sentence “It will all be OK” on a fence in Wellington.”

Fence art 2 - Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

“Now it was changed to “You are doing OK”. What will come next?”

Another masterpiece from the sensational Kristina D.C. Hoeppner. This time starring the typeface “Fence Sans Serif“ and documenting a message from a higher entidy.

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Photo Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic) 2011 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner. Originals here and here.



The Beauty of The Beech
8:15 am, 08 August 2011
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Next Stop: Beach - Emily Walker

Life’s a beech. This photo, on the contrary, is greet!
Thanks to the breethtaking Emily Walker.

Miniature railway proudly powered by the The Hutt Valley Model Engineering Society, Marine Parade, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand. Every Sunday from 1—4 pm, weather permitting (uh-oh…).

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Photo Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic) 2011 Emily Walker. Original here.



The Beauty of Hammers

Hammer - Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Whenever european architects mess up so badly that more than a dozen people get injured or killed, they are exiled to New Zealand. Where they do stuff like this.

A big thanks to the bodacious Kristina D.C. Hoeppner for providing all these gems under a Creative Commons license! It feels good to act legally from time to time!

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Photo Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic) 2011 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner. Original here.



The Beauty of Perth’s Worst
6:00 pm, 05 August 2011
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The Worst of Perth

Ladies and gentlemen, something wonderful has happened: I have found a friend somebody similarly twisted and mean! (Actually, considerably more twisted and mean, but who am I to be picky.)

Since 2007, an individual disguised as “Lazy Aussie” runs a site devoted to the mockery of Australia’s Perth and its – more or less global – surroundings: The Worst of Perth.

A, quote, “showcase of the worst examples of architecture, design, culture and humanity in Perth Western Australia.” Ladies and gentlemen, this is the start of a new movement: the network of the birds fouling their own nests, or, like Germans would say, das “Nestbeschmutzer Netzwerk”. Welcome to the…

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The Beauty of Memorials
2:30 pm, 02 August 2011
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Memorial to those lost at sea (Greymouth) - Gary Williams @ kovertuk

Kiwis seem to like are seemingly able to endure a lot when it comes to monuments. Every 50 metre there is some preposterious pile of rubble or twisted DIY-artwork with clumsily attached plaques well-meaning monument, reminding passer-bys of this or that. Those lost to the sea in this case, undeniably a serious and worthwile cause.

I still wonder if, given the number of ships that sank after contact with cliffs and the amount of witnesses permanently disposed with the help of rocks, a huge piece of stone is really the most sensitive way to convey this message? Perhaps the objective wasn’t tippy-toeing…

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Photo © 2011 Gary Williams @ kovertuk. Original here.



Finally! The Beauty of Sheep
1:31 pm, 01 August 2011
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Sheep - Weltwunderer

The sun may always shine on T.V. (still a great song, by the way), but not on these Oamaru sheep. Meeeeh! Another startling contribution by the phenomenal, yet surreptitious Jenny M. of the german New Zealand travel blog weltwunderer.de. Ta, Jenny!

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Photo © 2011 Jenny M.


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