Asia From Above: Breathtaking Drone Photography By Kosuke Kurata
Stunning aerial landscapes by Kosuke Kurata, a talented Taiwanese photographer, and drone pilot currently based in Tokyo, Japan. Kosuke focuses mainly on aerial and urban photography. He shares amazing drone landscapes from Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Hanoi, and Singapore. Continue reading »
A Time Travel To The Happy Childhood Times In The Soviet Russia
This is pure nostalgia, something so kind and dear, so touching and warm. It would be cool to travel back to that time for a few days. That happiness had a different taste. Continue reading »
They Want Their Houses To Be Brighter
Riser blocks of flats in Russia are usually so dull and unattractive that one probably wants to skip this view when he enters the house. But some dwellers are ready to do something to make their everyday reality brighter and more joyful. Continue reading »
A Physicist Does 3D Printing Project With His Son: Builds A Full-Scale Lamborghini
If you have blueprints, schematics, or designs of any object, then you can build it yourself with the help of a 3D printer. For Sterling Backus, that meant building his own Lamborghini Aventador inspired supercar with his son which they will showcase at local schools as a STEAM project. Continue reading »
Street Artist Peeta Recently Created This Optical Illusion House For The Street Art Festival
Peeta recently stopped in the lovely city of Mannheim in Germany to create a new piece for the Stadt Wand Kunst Street Art Festival. Continue reading »
Ed Merlin Murray And His Quirky Hand-Animated Illustrations
With simple materials like paper and ink washes, Scotland-based artist Ed Merlin Murray creates lively and illustrations that come to life with the pull of a tab. Through hand-activated animation, the faces show expression by rolling or blinking their eyes and by slithering their tongues. Continue reading »
Japanese “Sheer” T-Shirt Gives You The Body You Always Wanted
The “Delusion Splash T-shirt” is an intriguing Japanese garment that cleverly uses shading to trick people into thinking that you look much better than you actually do. Continue reading »
Photographer Travelled The World To Document Children And The Food They Eat In A Week
Photographer Gregg Segal travelled the world to document children and the food they eat in a week. Partly inspired by the increasing problems of childhood obesity, he tracked traditional regional diets as yet unaffected by globalisation, and ironically, found that the healthiest diets were often eaten by the least well off.
Meissa Ndiaye, 11, Dakar, Senegal, 2017. Ndiaye shares a single room with his dad, mum and brother in the heart of Parcelles Assainies, which means “sanitized plots”. A treeless, sandy suburb of Dakar, Parcelles Assainies was developed in the 1970s to house the poor overflowing from the city. Ndiaye, a devout Muslim and student at Quran School, loves sweet foods, such as a porridge, and goat meat, although in the week he kept a diary of his meals, he ate very little meat. (Photo by Gregg Segal/The Guardian) Continue reading »
Atmospheric Retro Images Of The USSR As Photographed By American Professor Thomas T. Hammond
Thomas T. Hammond, an American professor at the University of Virginia and a specialist in the history of Russia and the USSR, was taking photographs of Soviet Russia for long time, nineteen years during the 1950s, the 1960s and the 1970s. He paid many visits to the USSR with his family, saw Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yaroslavl, Samarkand, Pyatigorsk, and Riga. Thomas used his photos as illustrations for his works – thus, for example, National Geographic Magazine published his material in a 1966 article, “A first look at the Soviet Union – An American in Moscow”. Continue reading »
Models Posing Awkwardly For Photos
Haha! In this age of selfies and narcissism, it’s hard not to be a little cynical about our fellow men and women who try too hard to look good in photos. We’ve got to give it to humor site Sad And Useless for rounding up some of the best examples of people clumsily contorting their limbs and faces in weird and awkward ways in pursuit of that perfect picture — and failing rather gloriously. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures Stunning Overhead Shots Of An Island In Finland During All Four Seasons
Nature photographer Jani Ylinampa who lives in the city of Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland has captured absolutely gorgeous overhead photos of the tiny Kotisaari Island during a clear day in summer, autumn, winter and spring. Per the city’s tourism website, the island sits in the middle of Rovaniemi and is only accessible by appointment and by boat. Continue reading »
Scary Looking Loaves Of Bread That Turn Out To Be Adorable Anime Characters When Sliced
Japanese baker Izuyo creates loaves of bread and other baked goods that look really scary when they come out of the oven. Once the loaf is sliced, however, adorable animé characters are revealed and the world is good again. Continue reading »
In Russia, Girls Ready For Exams!
It’s getting more and more difficult for students to cheat by taking notes into exams. These Russian girls have invent their own methods to pass exams. They choose rather intimate places for hiding notes, knowing that these place will never be checked by teachers. And it probably works well! Continue reading »
Magical Cityscapes And Travel Landscapes By Dotz Soh
Stunning travel landscapes by Dotz Soh, a multi-talented photographer, adventurer, and Instagram star from Singapore. Dotz graduated from London as an Interior Designer. She travels around the globe to capture majestic natural and urban landscapes. Continue reading »
The Intelligence Service Owl From Russia
A Russian technopolis ERA presents a remotely piloted vehicle that looks like an owl. The intelligence service drone can stay in the air for forty minutes and overcome a distance up to twenty kilometers. Besides, it can recognize ground targets from a distance up to ten meters. Continue reading »
A Car For The Jet Age: Cool Pics Of The 1956 Oldsmobile Golden Rocket
The 1950s was a rememberred decade in many things. From the boom of culture and fashion to the unique inventions of cars, especially the 1956 Oldsmobile Golden Rocket. Continue reading »
Russian Forest As Viewed By Russian Officials
The Rooks Have Come Back, 1871 by Aleksey Savrasov
Did you know that trees in Russian cities are being destroyed in massive numbers? They do it under the “tree sanitation pruning excuse”, but in fact, it’s nothing but barbarism. Poorly educated and incompetent officials simply destroy nature in cities, and there’s not any logical explanation for such actions. Let us now see how the country painted by famous Russian artists would look after “sanitation pruning of trees”. Continue reading »
Photographer Uses Creative Tricks To Take Amazing Pictures
Photography is all about perspective – the person behind the camera can use their imagination to tell different stories about a subject from a variety of angles. Perspective gives depth to an image and can make a two-dimensional photograph feel like a three-dimensional scene. Continue reading »
Russian Artist Creates A Crazy Sole Drinking Art Project
An artist from Samara named Arseniy gave an unusual and risky performance at a height equivalent to a five-storey building. He created the image of a boozer sitting at a table, with a carpet behind his back. The performance became a part of the art project “1m2” devoted to the chase after a living space. Continue reading »
Cool Snaps Show What Badass Girls Looked Like In The 1940s
And good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere… A cool photo collection shows what badass girls looked like from the 1940s. Continue reading »
Minimally Painted Wood Sculptures That Highlight Environmental Decay By Willy Verginer
Capturing the essence of its territory, the memory of the places without denying its roots, Willy Verginer has built a road of his own, original and figurative. Appearing simultaneously lifelike and whimsical, the sculptures of Willy Verginer are dipped in bold colors and patterned, adding just the right amount of surrealism. Continue reading »
Amazon Is Selling Chicken Harnesses That Help Your Chicken Cross The Road Safely
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get this chicken harness from Amazon, duh. Turns out a company called Yesito is selling colorful chicken harnesses that will help solve all your chicken walking needs – and you can choose a color that matches your chicken the best! Continue reading »
“One Photo, Four Seasons”: This Is How 8 Different Locations Around The World Look Across The Four Seasons
Have you ever felt like you have all the energy in the world during the summer and could go without sleep and as soon as winter comes, you’d rather warp yourself in a warm blanket and conserve energy until it starts blooming? The annual cycle not only leaves fingerprints on scenery around us, it majorly affects our lifestyle, habits and moods. Continue reading »
Rather Than Cut It Down, Family Builds House Around 150-Year-Old Tree
When the Kesharwani family in Jabalpur, India, decided to expand their home back in 1994, they pondered what to do about the giant fig tree growing in their garden. Rather than cut it down, they decided to build a four-storey house around it. Continue reading »
Valais Blacknose Sheep Always Look Like They’re Posing For A Metal Album Cover
If you think you’re the ultimate metalhead, you haven’t met these hardcore sheep. They’re called Valais Blacknose Sheep and they always look like posing for a metal album cover. Continue reading »
