Snowfall Makes Cars Happy: Someone Drew Eyes And Smiles On The Snow That Fell On The Cars
It had been snowing in St. Petersburg, Russia all night long, and early in the morning owners of cars found their vehicles very happy. They were looking from below in the windows smiling at people. Continue reading »
20 Amazing Photos Of A Young And Hot Axl Rose In The 1980s
It’s hard to believe it now, but there was a time when Axl Rose was on top of the world.
Axl Rose was born William Bruce Rose Jr. on February 6, 1962, in Lafayette, Indiana. He eventually moved to California, working odd jobs and playing in bands until the formation of Guns N’ Roses in the mid-1980s. Rose was frequently in trouble with the police and spent time in jail on charges of public intoxication and battery. When the police threatened to charge him as a career criminal, he moved to Los Angeles in 1982. Shortly after, he joined the band AXL. The experience was so all-consuming that he legally changed his name to W. Axl Rose. Continue reading »
Inhumans Of Late Capitalism Facebook Page Posts Pics That Show The Dark Side Of Consumerism
“Recording the slow collapse of humanity”—that’s how the Inhumans of Late Capitalism Facebook page explains its mission in life. The page documents just how bizarrely inhumane and immoral life in modern capitalist societies can be by collecting depressingly hilarious pictures from all over the internet. Continue reading »
Japanese Amphibious Gill Garment Aims To Let Humans Breathe Underwater
By 2100, a temperature rise of 3.2℃ is predicted to happen, causing a sea level rise affecting between 0.5 – 3 billion people and submerging the megacities situated in the coastal areas. Continue reading »
Star Wars Japanese Ink Warrior Paintings Give Darth Vader And Stormtroopers Samurai Portraits
Given the inspiration that Akira Kurosawa’s films and the lore of samurai warriors have meant for the Star Wars franchise, it’s no surprise that affinity between Japan’s feudal warriors and the galactic epic has produced some truly awesome collaborations. Continue reading »
Ancient Chinese Artists Give Advice On How Not To Get Infected With Coronavirus
A series of portraits with characters from the Beijing Opera has received a new vision. The characters put on masks and give instructions in the form of a libretto. Continue reading »
Former Audi Designer Develops Star Wars Inspired Bike Lights To Increase Safety In Traffic
The result can be spectacular when lightsabers and minimalism collide. Former car designer, Octavian Richea, decided to take a radical approach on the classical bike light design. The LUMMA Lights concept challenges the single light method used by bikes today. Continue reading »
These 12 Pictures Of Building Compositions Won The 2019 Art Of Building Photography Competition
“Fish” By Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz, Winner Of The Judge’s Prize
Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz/CIOB
Art comes in many shapes and sizes, whether it’s visual, aural or experiential, digital or physical, written or drawn—the list can be as extensive as human imagination and ambition is. Continue reading »
The Passion Of Trees In Pictures By Iranian Photographer Ali Shokri
To me, each tree, like a human-being, has a tale to tell. When a tree dies, a whole story is interrupted, a destiny is altered for the worse. I feel as if the trees, bundled at the back of trucks, are cursing us with their broken hands, wounded faces, and severed roots. Perhaps this is how we are led towards damnation, little by little stripped of our humanity, when man’s “abounding foliage moistened with the dew” is reduced to ash and smoke. Continue reading »
Shortlist Photographs Of The 2020 Bird Photographer Of The Year Competition
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Pavel Chekanov/Bird Photographer of the Year
The prestigious Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) announced the shortlist photographs of the 2020 BPOTY competition. This is the fifth year of this competition. There are five categories like Birds in the Environment, Birds in Flight, Bird Behaviour, Best Portrait, and Garden and Urban Birds. There are 15,000 images submitted by photographers from over 60 countries worldwide. Continue reading »
The International Landscape Photographer Of The Year Winners Show All The Beauty In The World Around Us
The International Landscape Photographer of the Year (ILPOTY) has announced the winners of the 2019 contest. Both professional and amateur photographers from all over the globe posted their photos, and the best of the best have been selected. From vast spaces to abstract patterns, the winning photos show the immense beauty of the world that surrounds us. Continue reading »
This Fire Station In Italy Looks Like A Supervillain’s Secret Base
Jürgen Eheim, Ullrich Egger, and Günter Richard Wett
Recently, this fire station in the northern part of Italy went viral. Despite having been built a decade ago, it started gaining more and more attention after one person on Reddit compared it to a villain hideout. We must admit, though, it does look sort of villainy. But it wasn’t built inside a cave just for the sake of Bond movie aesthetics. As the farmable land in the Alps is scarce and the restrictions on non-traditional architecture are rigid, the architects have come up with an ingenious solution. Continue reading »
This Artist Gives Animals A Rainbow Makeover
Ramzy Masri is a talented Brooklyn-based graphic designer who uses rainbow colors as a major inspiration for his artwork. Masri made a name for himself on social media for his colorful works on which he gives landscapes, cityscapes, people, food, and all sorts of other subjects a rainbow makeover by injecting warm colors to ordinary photographs and making them pop. Continue reading »
Artist Recreates Best Picture Nominees As Oscars 2020 Statues
The 92nd Oscars is almost upon us, and it’s time for one of our favourite pre-event activities: checking out Olly Gibbs’ annual Oscars project. For the past seven years, Gibbs has taken each of the nominations for the Best Picture gong and encapsulated the essence of the movie on an Oscars statuette. Scroll down for a look at our favourites this year. Continue reading »
Riding Giant Mechanical Tricycles In 1896
This giant eight man tricycle was indeed a promotional stunt, used to promote “VIM” tires made by the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company, around 1896. Continue reading »
Adam Lister Pixalates Pop-Culture Characters And Iconic Art
Adam Lister is a 42-year-old artist living and working in Beacon, New York who creates pixelated paintings. He says that he is visually breaking down an image and then reconstructing it with an organized jumble of right-angled shapes. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Remarkable Sculptures From Driftwood He Found On The Beach
Hungarian artist Tamas Kanya is best-known for his creations made of driftwood and pebble stones. Living near the Romai-beach in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, the artist got inspired to make sculptures out of pieces of wood that washed ashore. Continue reading »
The Uncannily Realistic Landscapes Of Carolyn H. Edlund
Scrolling through Carolyn Hutchings Edlund’s Instagram page, it’s hard to tell at first which of her shared posts are paintings and which are photographs. Recognized for her uncanny realistic style, her paintings capture the natural world in great detail. Continue reading »
Ocean Tea Bags Are Sea Life-Shaped Sachets That Come Alive In Your Cup
Japanese brand Ocean Tea Bag (previously) has tried a new approach to packaging its tealeaves with a series of animal-shaped sachets. The collection features sea creatures including giant squids, sea turtles, and an anglerfish, as well as other mammals like a panda, squirrel and a fox. Continue reading »
Stunning And Heartwarming Photography From The ‘Bubble Uncle’ Who Spreads Joy Around Japan
A man who calls himself Bubble Ojisan (a word meaning a middle aged man or uncle) on Twitter has been spreading joy with the simple pleasure of soap bubbles. Continue reading »
Japanese Photographer Perfectly Captures His Grandmother’s Playful Nature In Touching Portraits
Portrait photography becomes compelling when the photographer seems to capture something about the subject through the image, something that becomes clear to the audience as soon as they look at it. Continue reading »
Canadian Artist Turns Popular Brands Into Stylish Anime Characters
Canadian artist Sillvi (previously) of Sillvi studios has built quite the artistic reputation for turning popular brands–whether they be fast food, social media, or soda–into impressive anime character illustrations. Continue reading »
Artist Shows The ‘Unseen’ Side Of Popular Characters And People Are Saying It Looks Just Wrong
Do you like pop culture, dark humor, the occasional pun, and having your childhood ruined? You’re about to find out—once you see these illustrations by Chicago illustrator Alex Solis, you won’t be able to unsee them. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates An Abstract Illusion Using Only Black And White Bodypainting
Michal Zahornacky is professional fine art photographer from Slovakia. He is a self-taught. The main role in his photography plays the human. He mainly focuses on fine-art and conceptual portraits. He brings thoughts and moods to his photographs which he always shows in unclear imagination. Continue reading »
Artist Turns Her Lucid Dreams Into Whimsical Paintings
According to Hanin Shaqsi: “I’m a pop-surrealist from Oman. My paintings are inspired by lucid dreams. Those dreams always have whimsical and weird images. It’s fun to paint your own dreams. Continue reading »
