Belgian Man Discovered Stash Of Cars Hidden In Abandoned Quarry Since World War II
For nearly 80 years these cars have been hidden underground in a quarry in France but they were uncovered by Belgian PE teacher Vincent Michel in 2016. The cars were hidden away during World War II and after the war ended they were never removed. Continue reading »
Official Final Fantasy 14-Themed Weddings Now Available In Japan
Couples who love playing Final Fantasy 14 Online together can now get married with an officially licensed wedding themed after the in-game Eternal Bonding Ceremony in Japan.
The ceremony is set up through a wedding planning company called Bridal Hearts, and cost about $31,500 for a standard plan with 70 guests. Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida confirmed that the reservations for the service should open in a few weeks. Square Enix and Bridal Hearts held the first mock Final Fantasy 14 wedding on Feb. 14, in Kobe, Japan. Continue reading »
Spies, Nazis, Beautiful Women, Mobs, Daredevil Explorers, Heroes & Traitors In Incredible Adventure Artworks Of Mort Künstler
Mort Künstler is best known today for his vivid paintings of scenes from American history, specifically the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. These works have been featured in books and calendars, and spotlighted in exhibitions around the country.
Less known is Künstler’s early work in men’s adventure magazines, a unique genre that populated newsstands from the 1950s through the late ‘70s. Also known as “men’s sweats,” because most covers featured a sweaty, shirtless guy facing some type of peril, scores of adventure titles vied for a reader’s attention with eye-popping headlines such as “Death Orgy of the Leopard Women” and “Weasels Ripped My Flesh!” Continue reading »
Russian Photographer Captures Stunning Aerial Photos Of The Magic Pink Lagoon In Western Australia
Hutt Lagoon is a pink lake on the west coast near the town of Gregory. This very small town is located on a narrow spit between the ocean and the pink lagoon.
Hutt Lagoon is considered to be a salt lake with a red or pink hue due to the presence of the carotenoid-producing algae Dunaliella salina, a source of ß-carotene, a food-coloring agent and source of vitamin A. The lagoon contains the world’s largest microalgae production plant, a 250-hectare series of artificial ponds used to farm Dunaliella salina. Continue reading »
Amazing Black And White Photos Capture SoCal’s Skate, Beach & Punk Scenes From Between The Late 1960s And Early 1980s
Spot is a man of many talents. Besides serving as the album producer and sound engineer for punk bands like the Misfits and Black Flag, the photographer, who goes only by Spot, also snapped a treasure trove of photos that perfectly captured SoCal beach and punk rock life during the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Continue reading »
Meet YAP!band: Innovative Multi-Purpose Smartphone Band Holder
No more worry to drop your smartphone. This multi-purpose band fits in your smartphone and its case!
YAP!band is a multi-purpose elastic band that fits in your smartphone and its case. It’s not only for holding your fingers & smartphone together. YAP!band is with you when you’re walking, texting, gaming, browsing, watching videos and so on. Stretch your imagination and have fun to use YAP!band. Continue reading »
The Mysterious And Misty Eerieness Of Japanese Horror Illustrator Mozza
Student and illustrator Mozza is a fan of the horror genre with a particular fixation on mist or fog to convey a sense of eerieness, uncanniness, a border space between the world of the living and the world of the dead, or the physical manifestation of a malefic presence. Moreover, this extends to her use of colors and textures to blur boundaries and distinctions between dark and light. Continue reading »
Japanese Artist’s Charcoal Skulls Are Perfect For A Macabre Barbecue
Japanese artist, Sekisadamu whose brainchild is the skull-shaped charcoal said he is surprised at the overwhelming demand for his charcoal after showcasing it at the recently concluded Wonder Festival, in Chiba, Japan where all his products were bought. Continue reading »
A Black Cat Interrupted A Football Match And Unsurprisingly Refused To Leave
Over the weekend, the Premier League match between Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers had a short delay as a black cat had wandered onto the pitch – and refused to leave.
The game, which took place at Goodison Park in Liverpool, saw the four-legged spectator wandering around the goal and sidelines. The crowd looked on in delight as none of the players or officials even tried to chase away the feline. Perhaps they all forgot their laser pointers and balls of yarn? Continue reading »
Excellent Pencil Drawing Of Cars By The 15-Year-Old Boy From Russia
Being a young cars fancier, school-boy Ilya Boyarskih from Russia makes excellent pictures of vehicles. All he uses is ordinary pens and pencils. Now he is already 17 but the drawing below was created when he was 15 years old. Continue reading »
People Are Photoshopping Trump’s Face On The Queen To Annoy Him
Poor Donald once again meets his mortal enemy: Adobe Photoshop …and OGTrumpQueen Facebook account who is willing to put it to a good use. Continue reading »
World Press Photo Contest 2019: See The Nominees For Prestigious Photography Award
The World Press Photo Foundation has unveiled its global photojournalism prize nominees for 2019. Here are some of the finalists’ images, in categories from the environment to sport. The winners will be announced in April.
Photo of the year nominee: Akashinga – the Brave Ones, by Brent Stirton. Petronella Chigumbura, 30, a member of an all-female anti-poaching unit called Akashinga, undergoes stealth and concealment training in the Phundundu wildlife park, Zimbabwe. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images/World Press Photo 2019) Continue reading »
This Guy Shot 50,000 Pics To Make An 81MP Photo Of The Moon
Check out this incredible photo of the moon. It may look like it was captured using some ultra-advanced (and expensive) equipment, but it was actually created by astrophotography enthusiast Andrew McCarthy by capturing and combining 50,000 photos. Continue reading »
“As We Dance The Paths Of Fire And Solace”: Superb Dark And Surreal Photo Manipulations By Alex McWherter
Creative photo manipulations by Alex McWherter a.k.a. Tankuss, a gifted 24-years old visual artist, and graphic artist from Pennsylvania, USA. Alex focuses on creating surreal digital art and manipulations. Continue reading »
The Industrial Cutaways Of Frank Soltesz: Amazing Cross Sections Of Modern Life From The Mid-20th Century
Born in Pennsylvania in 1912 and active from the 1930s to the 1960s, Frank Soltesz was a versatile commercial illustrator who had a love for large cutaways. He spent part of his career working for the BBD&O advertising company. Continue reading »
“Eaters Of The Dead”: The Outstanding, Totally Creepy And Nightmarish Pagan Artworks By Yuri Hill
Yuri Hill is a young freelance digital artist based in Ukraine. And his art is a totally creepy as hell! Just sit back and enjoy. Continue reading »
The Most Expensive Cat Toy That Your Cat Might Actually Play With
Mousr is the only toy designed from the wheels up to play the way your cat wants. Mousr’s variety of tail attachments means he’s customizable to match just about any cat’s play style. With a switch of his tail, it’ll be like your cat is meeting Mousr for the very first time! Continue reading »
Making Fun Of Hipsters’ Melodramatic Captions
So deep, so though-provoking, so… Continue reading »
Two Guys Built This 400,000-Brick LEGO Volkswagen Van In Six Weeks
At the travel and leisure convention in Munich, Germany, the beloved Volkswagen Type 2 Bulli van comes in three flavors: classic, miniature Lego, and full-size Lego classic. Sitting on a stand next to its nearly identical brothers, the LEGO Bulli was constructed in less than six weeks out of approximately 400,000 bricks. Continue reading »
Great Portraits Of Ireland And The Irish At The Turn Of The 19th Century
Four boys at the Rocking Stone at Islandmagee, County Antrim.1870
Ireland in the late 19th Century was all boulders, rocks, pigs, plus fours, mud and stoicism. Well, it is if these photographs of the period are our guide. For people of great wit, anecdote and gab, the subjects look remarkably glum. You can detect a hint of merriment in the eyes of the cricket team, one or two of the lifeboat men are chipper and a member of the Waterford bicycle club is breaking ranks with an insouciant smirk. But either the photographer waited for his sitters to grow bored and sullen before capturing the moment for whatever agenda was being pushed – a clear association of people and the rugged milieu; an Irishman’s mien as grey as the skies and rocks – or else he got them all on a bad day. Continue reading »
The ‘Weird Ass Bird Found In Venezuela’ Is A Potoo, Have The Cutest Face You’ve Ever Seen
Potoos (family Nyctibiidae) are a group of near passerine birds related to the nightjars and frogmouths. They are sometimes called Poor-me-ones, after their haunting calls. There are seven species in one genus, Nyctibius, in tropical Central and South America. Continue reading »
This Futuristic Design Of The TWA Lounge At JFK Airport In The 1960s Remains A 2001 Space Odyssey Movie
The airport is where you arrive and depart. It’s like a hospital, but without the certainty and the escape of anaesthesia. Something might go wrong and the routine operation ends with a slip of the scalpel or a martyr’s bomb The airport is where you wait, get separated from your bags and of your own free queue to have your identity ascertained and reasons challenged by armed and dangerous officialdom. Continue reading »
“No Animal Takes Pleasure In Suffering”: Shocking Images Of The Powerful Awareness-Raising Campaign
Tier im Recht (TIR) has been advocating for a strong legal protection of animals since 1996. The main purpose of TIR’s actions is the continuous improvement of the human-animal relationship in a legal, ethical and social sense, by fighting for animal laws and it’s consequent execution. Continue reading »
Extreme Hipsters: People Who Took Hipsterism To A Whole New Level
If you think you can out-hipster these people, then you’re probably wrong. These are no regular hipsters, these people have taken hipsterism to a whole new level. Continue reading »
From The Depths Of Your Nightmares – The Fantastically Disturbing Creepy Art Of Trevor Henderson
One of my favorite things happening on the internet is this series from Trevor Henderson, which mashes real photographs with drawings of original monsters and wraps them together in found footage-style packaging. “Found footage” is typically a filmmaking style, of course, but Henderson’s photo-drawings cut out all the filler and get right to the goods. Continue reading »
