Kids
Tiny one-year-old Kayla and her brother, three-year-old Malan, have formed an extraordinary bond with the two creatures after growing up cheetahs, Wakuu and Skyla, in their home in South Africa. (CATERS)
Copenhagen Ink Festival
Pernille Ferdinandsen receives a neck tattoo from Peter Madsen during the third Copenhagen Ink Festival which opened Thursday May 9, 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the biggest tattoo festival in Northern Europe. During the three days, 180 of the world’s best and most celebrated national and international tattoo artists show the audience their skills in making art on the body and tattoo’s on the audience. (Lars Krabbe/AP Photo)
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Skateboarding in the 1960s
Skateboarding in New York City as pictured by photographer Bill Eppridge in 1965. Pictures originally featured in Life Magazine on May 14, 1965.
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Fake Chicken Run
Travelling at a top speed of 70mph, this cheetah chased and caught a fake chicken as staff at the Mukuni Big 5 safari in Livingstone, Zambia, prepared it for its life back in the wild. (Barcroft)
Cosplay Leipziger Buchmesse 2013
The Leipzig Book Fair (Leipziger Buchmesse) is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days at the Leipzig Trade Fairground in the northern part of Leipzig, Saxony. It is the first large trade meeting of the year and as such it plays an important role in the market and is often where new publications are first presented.
Otoya Ittoki, Leipziger Buchmesse 2013, Germany. (Photo by AzurBlueDragon)
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Jet-powered Paint by Tarinan von Anhalt
Jet-powered paint splatters an 8-foot-by-8-foot canvas just off the runway of Palm Beach International Airport. A diminutive woman in a black cat suit teeters as she tosses quarts of brightly colored paint into the hurricane-force winds created by a Lear jet’s engine. The question isn’t whether this is art, agree those who pay Tarinan von Anhalt $50,000 a pop to watch this spectacle.
Captain Chad Gilmore readies the engine to start blowing jet wash for the painting. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Paint is scattered in the jet wash. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Painting is halted so more plastic tarp can be laid on the tarmac. A small private plane near the painting area was speckled in blue paint and had to be cleaned before the princess could continue with the multiple canvases planned for the day. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Princess Tarinan von Anhalt manipulates the paint on a large canvas. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Von Anhalt paints in the jet wash. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Princess Tarinan tosses a column of purple paint into the jet wash. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Von Anhalt instructs the pilot to reduce engine power as assistants prepare to move one of her finished paintings. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Princess Tarinan works on a canvas. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Von Anhalt reloads a blue painting bottle. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Von Anhalt’s face bears the paint splatter from her jet wash painting technique. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Princess Tarinan von Anhalt poses with a canvas at the event. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
Wood Bridge In Netherlands
Commissioned by the Province of Friesland, Oak (Onix and Achterbosch Architecture) has developed a road bridge that connects 2 districts of Sneek on either side of the A7 motorway. The bridge was designed for a municipality that wished to establish a new city marker along the motorway. Framework The Department of Public Works, the user of the bridge, stated that it wished to use more wood in its constructions.
Sole Sculpture: Toys Fashioned from Shoes
Carver Daniel Lekalau, 26, uses scissors to trim the mane of a toy lion he is making from pieces of discarded flip-flops, at the Ocean Sole flip-flop recycling company in Nairobi, Kenya. The company is cleaning the East African country’s beaches of used, washed-up flip-flops and the dirty pieces of rubber that were once cruising the Indian Ocean’s currents are now being turned into colorful handmade giraffes, elephants and other toy animals. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
Machinist Benedict Ndambuki uses a lathe to smooth off the rough edges of a toy elephant made from pieces of discarded flip-flops. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
Jackson Mbatha uses a knife to carve part of the neck of a large giraffe he is making from pieces of discarded flip-flops. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
Carver Jackson Mbatha, 40, poses next to a an unfinished large toy giraffe he is making from pieces of discarded flip-flops, in front of a painted workshop wall. (Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
Finished toy animals made from pieces of discarded flip-flops are laid out in rows to dry in the sun, having just been washed. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
A pile of discarded flip-flops sits in a crate ready to be washed, sorted, and carved into toy animals. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
Worker Jacqueline Achien washes discarded flip-flops in a bucket prior to them being sorted and carved into toy animals. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
A worker washes and scrubs discarded flip-flops prior to them being sorted and carved into toy animals. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
Finished toy animals made from pieces of discarded flip-flops are laid out in rows to dry in the sun, having just been washed. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
A female worker washes some finished toy animals made from pieces of discarded flip-flops in a bucket. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
Company owner and marine conservationist Julie Church poses for a photograph on a pile of pieces of discarded flip-flops used in a children’s play area. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)
Go be a Leopard somewhere else
An elephant showers a leopard with water to protect the herd. The leopard had been stalking the herd of around 15 elephants when one decided to frighten it off. The picture was taken by Mark Muller in Etosha National Park of Namibia at the Kalkeuwel waterhole. (MARK VINCENT MULLER / CATERS NEWS)
Aaron Paul by Terry Richardson
Actor Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”) in photo shoot by Terry Richardson.
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