A new department store in Seoul, Korea celebrated its opening by hosting an underwater fashion show. Catwalks and dry land — who needs ‘em?  Mermaid-like models pulled out their best water aerobics moves during the show, which featured vibrantly colored traditional "hanbok" dresses created by fashion designer Park Sul-Nyeo. Yikes — hope those suckers were waterproof.

And while the frocks were stunning, we’re more impressed by the models’ ability to hold their breath underwater for so long. Then again, seeing how tight some of the latest runway fashions are, we suppose they’ve had a lot of practice. Meanwhile, get your own dose of mermaid-chic with a fishtail braid.

The competition was declared in honor of the publication of the 100 millionth guide the organization «Lonely Planet». Here are some of the best photos by travelers who participated in the contest.

If you thought an old typewriter was just for producing letters on, think again – one artist is using ancient manual typrewriters to create astonishingly lifelike portraits of famous people.

Barack Obama, Marilyn Monroe and supermodel Kate Moss have all been captured in amazing detail.

Keira Rathbone hit on the idea of using manual typewriters – some 70 years old – as her paint brushes.

Working from her studio in Chiswick, London, and throughout the city, Keira turns the platen or roller to move the paper and selects different characters to make the shapes she wants. The 27-year-old artist from Dorset decides which of her 30 typewriters to use and creates faces and objects using numbers, letters and punctuation.

She said: ‘I love using a typewriter to draw. It’s an enjoyable process and a unique way of creating imagery. I often go around London and just sit there with a typewriter drawing what I can see or doing portraits.

‘People’s reaction is usually to say, ‘‘It’s amazing’’.’

Keira first got the idea to use a typewriter to make pictures while at university.

Over the last seven years she has ‘painted’ David Miliband, playwright Bonnie Greer and former Miss World Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai.

She has created magazine covers and appeared at events and festivals. Some of her portraits can take up to three weeks to do.

Her work is on display at the Montcalm hotel near Marble Arch in the West End.

Uruguayan goalkeeper Pablo Aurrecochea who is playing for Paraguay’s club Guarani is famous for his hilarious and kind of geeky kits.

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These works of art were not painted on canvas as you might expect, but on glass. They are the artworks of Elsa Kolesnikova.  These drawings were made in watercolor and sealed with enamel. It seems that due to the complex technique of such pieces, any error made will require the artist to start afresh. Also, it is impossible to duplicate any of these pieces, which makes each work one of a kind.

The beauty of painting on glass is also the added effect of light. The paintings change in color tones depending on the light that is upon the glass. It is often said of these glass art pieces that they bring a sense of warmth and fire to those who look upon them.

Central Bank of Russia. The three-kilogram silver coin and a kilogram is gold.

Canadian Coins

plotted the real dinosaur fossils

coin with enamel

The heroes of fairy tales, The Three Little Pigs and Sleeping Beauty have become topics of coins Isle of Man

Palau publishes a coin "Falling Star"

One dollar, gold 9999 0.5 grams

Its shape in the form of Four-leaf clover, should attract good luck

coins, dedicated to great artists

The coin – the illusion of "The Cat in the window", 4000 Kwacha, Zambia 2001

The coin dedicated to the visit of Pope Benedict XVI

$ 5, 999 silver, 25 g, with a circulation of 5000 copies., Gold-plated, Swarovski crystals in the colors of the flag USA

Coins in the form of the Australian continent

The world’s first coin with a volume hologram

Titanium two-color coins

Coins with inserts of precious and semiprecious stones

Square coin of Turkey

Oval coin "Flowers of Turkey"

  Chinese coins in a fan.

Coin "Missing you”

Australia, 2006, a silver coin with the capsule, inside which are miniature copies of the six coins

coin about the outstanding sculptors of the world with insertion of miniature sculptures from real marble

Coin with sound! "I am proud that I am a Berliner!" – When you click on the coin reproduces historic phrase of John F. Kennedy.

Crystal and silver coin

Cook Islands, the 80-year anniversary of Benedict XVI

The coin in memory of John Paul II in the form of a cross with black Swarovski crystals

Coin "Sundial" , coin “compass”

A set of four coins. Reverse side together make up the word "Cook"

Coins with inserts elements of real meteorite

Martian meteorite

coins-whirligig

Sea calendar for 50 years

Braille

A coin with a picture Butterflies

Canadian coins with a hologram

Coins with a picture of horses

The coin with the smell of the sea!

The coin with the capsule with holy water from Lourdes source.

The coin insertion of carbon from the real Formula-1 car

wow, real works of art !

in Russia have cut and installed the largest wooden statue of ruble