Ghent Light Festival Creates a Technicolor Dream Cathedral
Clark Griswold? Amateur. This is how you put on a light show—the 2012 Light Festival at Ghent, Belgium. And this 28 meter tall cathedral, the Luminarie Cagna, was its centrepiece.
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Push the Button?
Serious drama, that’s what. In the best stunt I’ve ever seen for, well, just about anything, a Belgian TV channel staged this awesome prank, which literally left bystanders agape in astonishment. Push...
View ArticleYou Will Never Sleep Through This Hotel’s Gigantic Alarm Clock
At first glance it looks like some hotel in Belgium has sacrificed floor space for a massive four-sided novelty alarm clock to attract tourists. But in reality, what you’re seeing is actually the top...
View ArticleIn Case You Missed It, This Is What a Massive F1 Flying-Car Pile-Up Looks Like
You were watching the Belgian grand prix at the weekend, right? No? Well, slap your eyes on this. A twitch too far at the start from Romain Grosjean sent Hamilton into the back of him, sending the...
View ArticleWoman Drives for 900 Miles Instead of 90 thanks to GPS Error
I’ve read plenty of crazy GPS stories, but this has to be the craziest of them all: a 67-year-old woman drove for 900 miles over the course of two days because of a GPS error combined with her complete...
View ArticleA Former 1900s Coal Mine Reborn as a Modernist’s Playground
Post-industrial cities have long struggled to find new uses for the (often gargantuan) factory infrastructure that once made their towns boom. Usually, that means a park or a museum. But a few...
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