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Japanese Harvest Festival Displays Massive “Scarecrow” Of Space Battleship Yamato


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Chikuzen, Fukuoka is known for its annual harvest festival, where locals work together to construct awesome statues or “scare crows” out of harvested straw. Two years ago, the festival featured an impressive 10-meter straw Godzilla, but this year’s massive structure may have set a new standard. Japanese Twitter user Natsu posted photos that have anime fans excited for the festival, revealing a giant Space Battleship Yamato scarecrow! Continue reading »

This Artist Is Ruining Our Childhoods by Revealing The Secrets Of Our Beloved Characters

Illustrator and cartoon artist Ed Harrington has been creating a series of images that can ruin some of your best childhood memories. He takes our favorite pop culture characters and tries to guess what they do when they’re not working, revealing their secrets and hidden private lives. Continue reading »

2020 Pooping Dogs Calendar Is Here

White Elephant Party coming up? Yankee Swap? Secret Santa? Do you know someone who loves dogs…too much? This 12 month 2020 calendar of pooping dogs will be the most memorable gift you give this year. Talk about a gift that keeps on giving; each month reveals yet another beautiful pooch answering nature’s call. Continue reading »

Meet Sygmond, The Beautiful Gray Cat Of Your Nightmares

Meet Sygmond the grey. He had the face of a king when he was a kitten. This majestic cat is even fluffier today fully grown and whenever he goes, he makes it epic. Continue reading »

16 Bizarre Inventions From The Victorian Era

If you think that organs and bones crushing corsets were the most bizarre creation of the Victorian era, you could not be more wrong. Victorians have come up with its fair share of weird inventions. Even though this era was a long period of peace and prosperity, science was going through a weird phase.

Below are 16 bizarre inventions from the Victorian era, some useful, and some… not so much.

1. THE TRICK PLEDGE ALTAR

Oh, those Victorians! They did love a practical joke. And what could be funnier than encouraging a friend to make a pledge at your new home altar… only for him to be surprised by the abrupt appearance of a human skeleton – which spits scalding water into his face!? Continue reading »

Russian Artists Recreate Famous Paintings And Have Much Fun

Some exciting results of the photo challenge arranged in the Russian social network “VK” – “Photograph as if Rembrandt”. Look them through to the very end, they cool! Continue reading »

Japanese Students Build Massive Boat Made Of Handmade Sweets

600 cookies (each half the size of a standard sheet of paper), 40 muffins, 600 bread slices, 200 cream puffs, 420 leaf shaped pies, 250 tarts, 108 waffles, 200 bagels, 600 dice-cut cookies, 1000 marzipan sweets, 2000 chocolate roses. Continue reading »

Photographer Steve McCurry’s Photos Show The Complex Relationship Between Humans And Animals

The legendary US photographer’s favourite shots of creatures and how they interact with humans feature in “Animals”, his latest book.


A mahout and his elephant at a sanctuary, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2010. (Photo by Steve McCurry/The Guardian) Continue reading »

The Showy And Coloured Selfies Of Véronique Duplain

Véronique Duplain‘s “Selfie Project” started in February 2014, when the Montreal photographer decided to make one self-portrait everyday. Her project was finally extended over six years, and takes a critical look at social networks and their uses, including voyeurism and the media construction of public figures. Continue reading »

Polish Artist Turned Local Tram Station Into Floral Museum


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A tram stop at Dabrowskiego Square in Łódź, Poland is blossoming with dried flowers, giving pedestrians and commuters a new perspective of the urban space around them. The local student Dominika Cebula was at the origin of the project, that she called “Nostalgia”. The idea is inspired by the traditional flowers market of Dabrowskiego Square. Continue reading »

Artist Reimagined Famous Movie And TV Scenes With Cartoon Characters

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According to Omerika, an artist:”The idea of replacing people with famous Disney and other cartoon characters in photos has been long done before by many, but I wanted to perpetuate it in a cool humorous way that will bring back nostalgic memories for some people, and inspire those who haven’t had the chance to watch these cult movies before.” Continue reading »

Worlds Largest Jesus Christ Statue From Poland Began Distributing Internet From Antennas In His Crown


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The world’s largest figure of Jesus Christ in Świebodzin has been blessed with newly installed equipment for commercial broadcasting of Internet signals – inform Fakt 24.pl. The antenna assembly was ordered by the parish priest in Świebodzin, the main initiator of the construction of the monument. Continue reading »

Bizarre ‘Ice Eggs’ Stranded On Finnish Shore Go Viral


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Grotesque oval ice formations created by a rare coincidence of factors on Hailuoto island in northern Finland have wowed netizens. Continue reading »

Cool Pics Defined Fashion Trend Of Young Women In The 1990s

Group at seawall, West Palm Beach, July 4, 1990

Women’s fashion in the 1990s is very distinct. While not quite as loud as the eighties, the nineties took that attitude and tried to be a little smarter and a little classier. Sometimes designers succeeded, sometimes they didn’t. Continue reading »

Tommy Washbush’s Alternate Humor Illustrations Perfectly Describe The Absurd World We Live In

Tommy Washbush is an illustrator and graphic designer who draws extreme violence, stupid things and t-shirt designs. Trying to trudge back to productivity, for him, is a bit like walking on wet cement every time. Of course, one of his favorite celebrations is Halloween, when he can get together a bunch of friends for a marathon of truly terrifying movies. Tommy is based in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Continue reading »

Superb Colossal Steampunk Sculptures By Pierre Matter

Pierre Matter works mostly with bronze and embellish the sculptures with recycled objects, using welders, plasma cutters, laser cutters and grinders to shape and sculpt. “I’m a kind of salvager. I feel like a child in a heap of sand, but instead of sand, there’s a lot of recycling and scrap, full of magnificent objects.” Often, the sculptures which emerge from these scraps of metal speak to us of who we are and how our future might be. Continue reading »

Scenes From A Tiny World Where Everything Could Happen: Photograher Turns Everyday Objects Into Fun Miniature Worlds

According to Péter Csákvári: “I’ve spent 3 years creating this project called “Tiny Wasteland”. The series feature miniature figures placed next to everyday objects in order to create the illusion of microscopic worlds. I’m actually a food photographer so the whole idea came from there. I made about 100 pictures already from this tiny world, the rest you can find on my Instagram page.” Continue reading »

Traveller’s Joy – The Key To The Countryside – Beautiful Shell Adverts From The Mid-1950s

From the 1920s and into the 1950s the Shell Oil Company produced some wonderful advertising posters and some said, the most beautiful the country has ever seen.


1954: Arranged and painted by Edith and Rowland Hilder

Looking at these examples from the mid-fifties it’s difficult to argue. It was a different time and the adverts, mostly shown in up-market magazines such as Country Life, show us a view of Britain as a lost rural idyl while, somewhat ironically, promoting not only petrol and oil but motoring in general and where it could take you. It was only Shell petrol and diesel that could give you the exhilarating pleasure and joyous freedom of the countryside. Continue reading »

Invisible People: Stunning Street Photography Series Inspired By A True Story

According to Česlovas Česnakevičius: “My name is Česlovas Česnakevičius, I am an artist and a photographer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Continue reading »

9-Year-Old Kid Who Kept Getting In Trouble For Doodling In Class Gets A Job Decorating A Restaurant With His Drawings

You should always support your kids and their natural talents. And if you nurture them, great things will happen. That’s what 9-year-old Joe Whale’s parents thought when they encouraged their son to keep drawing, even though he got into trouble for doodling during class. Continue reading »

With No Photoshop: These Creative Vintage Collages From An American Artist Are So Exciting

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A cool photo collection of creative collages was created by American artist Angie Naron who cut and pasted for The Kollage Kit, her blog with weekly themes. Continue reading »

Incredible Vintage Photographs From The Gibson Archives Of Ships Wrecked On British Coasts

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The Gibson family’s photographs of shipwrecks were taken in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Four generations of the Gibson family (1872 to 1997) photographed over 200 wrecks along the coasts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in south England. The Gibsons also compiled telegraph messages of the human and mercantile cost of ships running aground off the hazardous coast. Some of these are also featured below. The Royal Museums Greenwich bought the family’s work for £122,500 ($158,000). Continue reading »

An Alabama Mom Turned Her Baby Girl And Husband Into Terrifyingly Realistic Zombies

The only thing scarier than “The Walking Dead” is “The Just Started Walking Dead.”

An Alabama mom looking for a fresh take on Halloween frights turned her 11-month-old daughter into a terrifyingly realistic zombie straight out of the hit TV series, according to a new viral post on Facebook. Continue reading »

A Well-Dressed LEGO Alien Xenomorph Prepares For A Day At The Office

David Liu brought the cinematic world of Alien into a more civilized setting by building a LEGO Xenomorph officer worker. The extraterrestrial is shown getting ready to dig into another work day while wearing a snazzy pair of slacks and a red necktie.

This is Bob the Alien. Bob the Alien is a salesman. He manages a whole department. Bob works for his manager David Liu. David taught Bob everything he knows and helped him to be where he is today. In fact, one could say Bob only exists today because of David. Continue reading »

Sisters Are Taking Makeup To The Next Level And Here Are Their 30 Mind-Blowing Transformations

Sibling rivalry often drives them to compete against each other in the same activities. However, it’s quite rare to see siblings who, instead of competing, try to support each other. One of the amazing examples of it is two sisters, Charlotte and Abby Roberts, who both share an amazing talent for makeup. What’s even more impressive is that the makeup duo constantly supports each on social media by promoting each other’s work. Sister goals, right? Continue reading »