August 2007

Archive: August 2007

	Cute Vintage Album Covers Pretty girls attracted by music
	When Construction Goes Wrong Hilarious Building Blunders
	Recreational Super Vehicles Sell your house, buy something bigger!
	Dust Storms! When the air itself turns against you
	Lords of the Logistics, Part 5 It seemed like a good idea at the time...
	Robotic Art Bliss Miniature Robots, Insects & Animals
	World's Wildest Roller Coasters Don't have eggs for breakfast!
	The Fine Points of Romance Love, hate & understanding
	Heavy Seas, part 2 Hurricane Force vs. a Few Brave Ships
	News from the Animal Kingdom, Part 6 Humans will never be as funny as animals
	Most Unusual Books From Codex Seraphinianus to pulp sculptures
	Flying Submarines! Sky Captain's dream come true
	World's Smallest Cars Vintage and modern miniature wonders
	Tesla Power in Your Backyard Get an ultimate energy buzz in the morning
	Weird Signs, Issue 6 Follow them at your own risk
	Cool Ads, Issue 7 Prepare to be persuaded to buy stuff
	Ladies & Robots Melting in embrace of the Metal Man
	Big Rig & Truck Accidents Take care when driving big & heavy rigs
	The Rusting Monsters of Lopatino's Mines More skeletons in Russia's haunted countryside
	Dangerous Roads of the World, part 4 Spectacular Alpine passes, Norway fjord roads
	Capsule Living Student Housing Taken to the Extreme
	Balancing the Forces, Part 2 Interesting examples of equilibrium
	It's a Guy Thing! (Weird Inventions) Innovations from the Underdeveloped Male Mind
	Creation and Destruction of Sand Mandalas Infinite Patience, Transient Masterpiece

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Archive: August 2007

	Cute Vintage Album Covers Pretty girls attracted by music
	When Construction Goes Wrong Hilarious Building Blunders
	Recreational Super Vehicles Sell your house, buy something bigger!
	Dust Storms! When the air itself turns against you
	Lords of the Logistics, Part 5 It seemed like a good idea at the time...
	Robotic Art Bliss Miniature Robots, Insects & Animals
	World's Wildest Roller Coasters Don't have eggs for breakfast!
	The Fine Points of Romance Love, hate & understanding
	Heavy Seas, part 2 Hurricane Force vs. a Few Brave Ships
	News from the Animal Kingdom, Part 6 Humans will never be as funny as animals
	Most Unusual Books From Codex Seraphinianus to pulp sculptures
	Flying Submarines! Sky Captain's dream come true
	World's Smallest Cars Vintage and modern miniature wonders
	Tesla Power in Your Backyard Get an ultimate energy buzz in the morning
	Weird Signs, Issue 6 Follow them at your own risk
	Cool Ads, Issue 7 Prepare to be persuaded to buy stuff
	Ladies & Robots Melting in embrace of the Metal Man
	Big Rig & Truck Accidents Take care when driving big & heavy rigs
	The Rusting Monsters of Lopatino's Mines More skeletons in Russia's haunted countryside
	Dangerous Roads of the World, part 4 Spectacular Alpine passes, Norway fjord roads
	Capsule Living Student Housing Taken to the Extreme
	Balancing the Forces, Part 2 Interesting examples of equilibrium
	It's a Guy Thing! (Weird Inventions) Innovations from the Underdeveloped Male Mind
	Creation and Destruction of Sand Mandalas Infinite Patience, Transient Masterpiece

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"QUANTUM SHOT" #262
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Hilarious Building Blunders

When you have workers who don't care for what they're building, and architects with very little common sense, then you'd better not panic when you see results. Mournful cries like "Oh No!", "You've ruined it!", "Can it possibly be rebuilt??" are not going to help, while a simple "Oops!" would also sound like a gross understatement. In many cases the architectural horrors shown on this page were left "as is", without any fixes. The tenants and businesses moved into these structures, leaving passerbyes and photographers to marvel at their idiotic construction.

First let's get an obvious Photoshop job out of the way - the builders may have finally build something out of Escher's bad dream:

Stairs into nothing - a classic blunder:

If builders had a little more to drink, the stairs might've turned into a modern art sculpture ("Revolutions", located in Montreal):

Situation with doors is just as dire. They would not open, lead anywhere, or even exist...

Especially when the slogan above the door reads "Have a Successful Working Day!"

or "Sales Center", apparently with a very poor sales record:

Same thing with balconies:

(image credit: Frank Kunert)

An insurmountable challenge - to properly align windows:

Even harder is to make the ends meet...

We really hope that the picture above is photoshop :)
Speaking of bridges... some would require an extra support:

Things got in the way? Just build around them!

The caption says: "Please be careful when you put revision clouds on your drawings. Some of the contractors do not understand" -

Driveway Oops:

Crazy Garages:

Wrong Placement:

- of heaters and air-conditioners:

- of ATM:

- of camera:

- of toilets:

The only power outlet is on ... the ceiling:

They've been building something for months... Now the Final Results are here! Get yourself a tranquilizer:

Do you think this ad is a pure fantasy?

Think again:

Finally, a "mystery tool" that these workers must've been using:

Sources: offtop.ru/misi, exler.ru, karaul.ru, Ezzprezzo

Most of the other images came from sites and emails which did not credit the original photographers. Please help us to find out this information, so that we could include the credits.

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