Ready to Move In? Mystery ‘Furnished Apartment’ Found In Berlin Subway
Employees of the Berlin subway discovered a fully furnished apartment in one of the abandoned subway tunnels, according to Berliner Kurier. The walls were complete with wallpaper and decorated with paintings. The apartment had a bed, television, chair, dresser and even a palm tree. Power was supplied by a cable network that provides electricity to a nearby metro station. Continue reading »
This House Don’t Look Like Anything Special, But When You Go Inside…
Don’t let the minimal exterior fool you, this house has a stunning rustic interior and is ready to welcome you in the most elegant way. Floors are wooden throughout with glorious matching beams overhead. Custom wooden staircases complete the cowboy feel of this house. Downstairs is open plan and spacious, leaving you with a feel of the great outdoors. Continue reading »
59th World Press Photo Contest Winners
“Storm Front on Bondi Beach”. Nature, first prize singles. Rohan Kelly, Australia, Daily Telegraph. Location: Sydney, Australia. A massive “cloud tsunami” looms over Sydney as a sunbather reads, oblivious to the approaching cloud on Bondi Beach, November 6, 2015. (Photo by Rohan Kelly/World Press Photo Contest) Continue reading »
An Artist Has Created A Glass Sculpture With Detailed Paintings That Can Only Be Seen From Close Up
The stained glass sculpture is primarily inspired by the idea of a giant floating fluorescent amoeba. By combining and abstracting visually significant characteristics also of other living forms the art piece points to the fascination about life as a phenomenon that is difficult to grasp. Since the sculpture shines, it arouses curiosity from great distance, only by getting closer to the piece its detailed painted patterns can be spotted. Continue reading »
Beautiful Vintage Black And White Fashion Photography By Georges Dambier In The 1950s
Rejecting the standard technique of capturing emotionless models, French photographer Georges Dambier captured his models in the Fifties looking ambivalent towards their clothing and the camera, instead laughing, enjoying exotic locations like Marrakesh, Corsica, Sicily, Cannes, Palma de Mallorca and riding in cars and boats. He captured the most beautiful women of his time, including Brigitte Bardot, Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Dorian Leigh and Suzy Parker. Continue reading »
Chinese Man Builds 7-Story Home For Dead Brothers
A peculiar tower-like building in Shandong has captured the attention of Chinese netizens, according to Daily Mail, after images of the structure appeared on the popular microblogging site Weibo. The building was constructed by Chinese farmer Hu Guangzhou, 55, to house his brothers, whom – if reports are to be believed – passed away a decade ago. Hu allegedly insists his brothers are still alive and will one day return to live in the home (which is undoubtedly one of the strangest we have ever seen). Continue reading »
Louis Vuitton’s “Core Values” Campaign (2007-2012) By Annie Leibovitz
Louis Vuitton’s “Core Values” advertisement campaign which started in 2007 in collaboration with the star photographer Annie Leibovitz is featuring celebrities like Sean Connery, Steffi Graf, Keith Richards, Angelina Jolie, Muhammad Ali and many more. Continue reading »
Funny Hand-Drawn Cat Facial Expressions
Cats are known for their bored and apathetic demeanor and expressions. Redditor and pet owner, LukeHero didn’t let that curtail his creative streak – he drew funny expressions for his cat instead. Amazingly, the cat looks pretty cooperative in this collection of grin-inducing pictures. Continue reading »
Amazing Van Gogh Paintings Re-Created On Matchboxes By Salavat Fidai
Russian artist Salavat Fidai (previously) is obsessed with things in miniature, and he has previously painted miniatures on pumpkin seeds and carved sculptures into the graphite tips of pencils. For this project, he’s gone for something a little bit bigger, but not by much. One of Fidai’s favorite painters is the legendary Vincent Van Gogh, so he decided to do a series where he recreated some of Van Gogh’s famous works on matchboxes. Continue reading »
Artist Beautifully Illustrates What Happiness Is
According to artists: “These are images from our Happy Page on Facebook which currently has 2.5m fans. We’ve asked people around the world what makes them happy and illustrated over 7,000 submissions so far (and still going strong). So let us know what makes YOU happy and we’ll illustrate it and add it to the page.” Continue reading »
Eerie Statues Of American Presidents Forgotten By Time
In 2004 Williamsburg, Virginia welcomed a brand new attraction to locals and tourists alike. Named ‘Presidents Park‘, it was a large open-air museum that was the concept of landowner Everette “Haley” Newman. Continue reading »
Wonderful Color Photographs Of Street Scenes From Between The 1950s And 1970s
Fred Herzog was born in Germany in 1930. Immigrating to Canada in 1952, he took odd jobs wherever he could find them. He rented a place at a rooming house, which is where he met Ferro Shelley Marincowitz, a South African who also happened to be a medical photographer. Herzog had an interest in photography; his camera was one of the few items he brought with him from Germany. Marincowitz encouraged that interest and soon they found a basement suite where they built a darkroom for both of them to share. Continue reading »
See How This Row House Became The Best On The Block, With The Use Of One Simple Material
When Landmak Architecture were tasked with renovating a red brick row house in Vietnam, they decided to stand out from the rest, by surrounding the home with a skin of white concrete blocks. By covering the home with the blocks, it not only stands out from the rest of the row houses, but also provides some added benefits. Continue reading »
This Is What Disney Princesses Would Look Like If They Were Anime Characters
For many years Disney princesses and their strong personalities have been inspiring illustrators, photographers and artists who keep trying to re-imagine the cartoon beauties’ iconic looks. Today we’ll show you what Disney’s royal ladies would look like if they were anime characters, as drawn by a talented Pakistani artist, Maryam. Continue reading »
The Ultimate Proof That Every Daughter Turns Into Her Mother
Mail Online carried out a fascinating picture experiment to prove that human genes can really do wonders. By using computer wizardry, they combined the photos of five mothers and daughters to prove that they are more alike than they really thought. Continue reading »
Photographer Uses Roadside Weather Cameras For Creepy Self Portraits
Tatu Gustafsson’s four-year-long Weather camera self-portraits project is an exercise in relinquishing artistic control. As a photography student, he found that he “didn’t really like the control that photographer has when he or she is taking a picture.” Continue reading »
The Dark, Incredibly F*cked Up Comics Of Joan Cornellà
Spanish cartoonist Joan Cornellà combines black humor and extreme discomfort, most famously in his wordless, six-panel comics. Cornellà‘s work deals in mutilation and disfigurement, sadistic or oblivious violence, the alienation of modernity and a total disregard for human life. (I know. It doesn’t sound funny, but trust me.) Cornellà‘s aesthetic runs completely counterintuitive to his themes—his colors are lovely and soothing, and his human figures are glassy-eyed and friendly, as if they walked out of a children’s cartoon. Continue reading »
Star Wars Characters Reimagined As Winnie The Pooh And Friends
Florida based illustrator and artist James Hance just combined Star Wars with Winnie the Pooh. Titled “Wookie the Chew,” Hance’s illustrations reimagine Chewbacca as Pooh Bear and Eeyore as an Imperial Walker, along other crossovers. Continue reading »
Magical Photographs Of The Snow-Covered Small Japanese Town
Ginzan Onsen is an achingly photogenic hot spring town in the Yamagata region of Northern Japan. Literally meaning ‘silver mountain,’ the location became famous for its old-Japan look and feel after it was used for the site of the period drama Oshin. Continue reading »
Astonishing Fairy Tale Photos Help Sick Kids Enjoy Magic Moments
Through her photography business, Fairyography, Heather Larkin dresses children in beautiful, make-believe costumes and photographs them playing pretend in fairy tale scenes, dressed up as fairy princesses or storybook characters. Continue reading »
Extremely Detailed Illustration Created With 7 Million Ink Dots!
Xavier Casalta, the France-based artist has made career out of creating highly-detailed illustrations of everything from food to calligraphic letters. Casalta’s latest piece, called Autumn, is a throwback to the bygone/upcoming season. Using a technique called stippling, the artist places several ink dots in various patterns to create lines, and textures until an exquisite illustration is formed. This one took 370 hours to create, with roughly seven million dots in all. Continue reading »
“Bubbleissimo”, Photos of Dapper Men Sporting Beards And Mustaches Made Of Soap Bubbles
New York based artist Mindo Cikanavicius photographs portraits of men with foam “facial hair”. Within this series, titled ‘Bubbleissimo’, (perhaps making a play on the word “machismo”), the artist distorts the notion of masculinity through a comedic display of the growing obsession with groomed facial hair. Continue reading »
Man Quits Lucrative NYC Job, Builds Treehouse Of His “Childhood Dreams”
In 2011, Foster Huntington did something that many people only dream about. He quit his day job, bought a Volkswagen van, and escaped the urban jungle of New York City. Afterwards, he wandered the country and published multiple photo books, including one that’s aptly-titled Home Is Where You Park It. Huntington also introduced the popular hashtag #vanlife, and he inspired countless people with his beautifully-captured adventures. Continue reading »
The Realistic Zombie Mugs Every Horror Fan Should Have
Buford, Georgia-based artist Kevin Merck creates hyper-realistic zombie mugs that are scarier than Monday mornings. Cue sound effects: dun-dun-dun-dun! A teacher by day and a self-taught ceramicist by night, Merck used to sculpt horror-themed mugs only around Halloween. Continue reading »
A Mysterious And Abandoned Fishing Village Outside Of Budapest Captured In Perfect Reflection
Slovakian-based photographer Viktor Egyed accidentally found the town of Szödliget a few years ago, then came back with his camera to capture the abandoned village, which is located three hours outside of Budapest. Continue reading »
