This Is What A Psychiatric Hospital That Has Been Abandoned For Years Looks Like
A spooky sight to behold! This is what a psychiatric hospital that has been abandoned for years looks like. Complete with bowling alley and a theater, the hospital shows just how much nature has weathered it over time as paint peels from the walls and the mattress gather dust. The shots were captured by Will Ellis, 26, a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, with a Canon 5D Mark II with a long exposure to get the full range of shadow creeping across the scenes. The photos were taken at the hospital in summer 2015 at a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. Continue reading »
No-Shave Movember: Disney Princesses with Beards
In probably the weirdest and most unsettling commemoration of Movember (mustache November) that we’ve seen yet, blogger and illustrator Adam Ellis has created a series of images of Disney princesses with lush beards. Continue reading »
This Artist Already Knows What to Do With Her Life
Emma Lindström is an extremely modest artist. The girl discovered what she wants to do in life while she was painting, or actually – splashing paint on the canvas. In addition to creating art, Emma wants to inspire other people to act on their own, so that they can discover their own path in life. Continue reading »
How an Island Full of Landmines Led to a Thriving Penguin Population
In the south-eastern part of the Atlantic Ocean is a small archipelago known as the Falkland Islands. Now there are more than 1 million penguins, but a few decades ago, these birds here were on the verge of extinction. Below you will find a story that tells how because the actions of human penguins had almost died, and then due to unintentional help people multiplied their number. Continue reading »
Musical Roads That Play Melodies When Cars Drive Over
The Civic Musical Road in Lancaster, California. Photo credit: roadtrippers
A Japanese engineer by the name of Shizuo Shinoda was digging with a bulldozer when he accidentally scraped some markings into a road with its claw. Later when he drove over the markings he realized that the vibration produced in his car can be heard as a tune. In 2007, a team of engineers from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute refined Shinoda’s designs and built a number of “melody roads” in Japan. Continue reading »
This Artist Spent 10 Years Carving A Giant Cave – Alone With His Dog
For the last 10 years, American artist Ra Paulette has been walking alone into New Mexico’s desert to work. He spends his time carving a sandstone cave that he found, turning it into a wonderful subterranean space full of light. Continue reading »
Make Sure Your Cat is Battle Ready With 3D Printed Cat Armor
House cats may not seem like the warrior type. Lazy, self-centered, and prone to diving under beds at the first sign of an enemy vacuum cleaner, cats don’t exactly come to mind when you think of valiant battle steeds. Continue reading »
Fantastic Worlds of John Brosio: Tornadoes, Twisters, and a Jerk in a Road
You have to like John Brosio: a guy who appreciates a bottle of Chateau Yquem, but is equally happy with a can of Budweiser. Brosio, who paints Texas twisters with the aplomb and sensitivity of Corot, is an artist who can make you smile and scare you at the same time. His canvases fuse dark humor and a dose of awe into memorable images that get you in the gut. Continue reading »
The Woman Who Turns Models into Monsters
Flora Borsi was fed up of seeing perfect fashion photographs – so instead of retouching them, she started ‘detouching’ them, morphing the models into surrealist portraits that she calls her ‘little monsters’ Continue reading »
16 Ironic Comic Strips Every Girl will Understand
So many things happen to a girl every day: some sad, some funny, some just downright absurd. Talented illustrator Sarah Andersen knows how to express all of the different facets of a girl’s life perfectly through her unique comic strips.
Here are some of the best one’s we’ve found. We’re sure every girl will understand them! Continue reading »
Old Thrift Store Paintings You’ll Actually Want To Take Home
Remember those thrift store paintings you often see collecting dust on the wall of your local charity shop? They’re the kind of generic, inoffensive and unimaginative artworks you’d see propped up in cheap hotels or mounted on the wall down a corridor nobody visits.
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Welcome to the Saddest 1980s Mall in America
Think of the funnest place where you hung out as a teenager, when you were first allowed to go out with your friends on your own and pick up the latest chart-topping single. Now imagine it looking as sad and empty as this.
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The Trendy New Toy that’s Wrecking Children’s Hair and Driving Parents Crazy
A popular new toy called Bunchems has turned out to be a huge pain for parents and their kids. Continue reading »
Farid Rueda’s New Pieces of Street Art in Bogota, Colombia
Farid Rueda just took a quick trip in Colombia to visit Bogota where he was able to work his magic on a new piece. Continue reading »
Jigsaw Puzzle That Will Exercise Your Patience
By completing these complex jigsaw puzzle with ducks, you exercise your patience and determination regarding pursuit of the goal. We don’t recommend putting them together with your partner – it can cause a serious fight. Continue reading »
Singapore to Transform Disused Railways into a 15-Mile Park Spanning the Entire Nation
Singapore will soon embark on one of the most ambitious rails-to-trails project in the world. The country’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) recently selected Nikken Sekkei’s proposal to redevelop a 24-kilometer (15 miles) disused rail corridor into a multipurpose linear park. The former cross-country train line spans the entire nation of Singapore, from Tanjong Pagar Railway Station on the south to Malaysia’s border on the north.
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Every Penny Counts: This Artist Created a Clear Acrylic Structures to be Completed With Coins
Get involved in completing an acrylic structure, and make it your own sculpture.
Beyond holding a round capital when completed (£5, £20, £100, …), this new intake on a money box will contain the souvenirs of a personal experience and challenge. Up to the owner to empty his urn, flowing back soulful coins to the market stream, or to keep it, enjoying the sweet sight of fruitful efforts. Continue reading »
Paws For Thought With Kitty Yoga Classes At Australian Cat Cafe
What’s better than yoga? Well, according to Australian cat cafe Catmosphere, yoga with cats (of course). Continue reading »
Is this New Hotel in Amsterdam the “Hotel of the Future”?
There’s a recently opened hotel in Amsterdam called CityHub, which is aimed at Generation Y (currently 25-35 years old) travellers that are all about a digital lifestyle. Continue reading »
11 Totally Accurate Illustrations Showing Exactly What It’s Like to Be a Woman
The artist Agustina Guerrero draws brilliant illustrations about the everyday life led by ordinary women all over the world. She is seriously observant, noticing the kind of details about their lives that many men would never even guess at. At the same time, her illustrations are charmingly straightforward — she draws her own life, with its joys and sorrows, and at the same time manages to always see the funny side of what happens. Continue reading »
Devoted Husband Plants & Harvests 4.5 Miles Of Sunflowers To Fulfill Wife’s Dying Wish
When Don Jacquish lost his wife Babette to cancer, he was determined to fulfil her dying wish of selling sunflower seeds to raise money for others battling the disease. Continue reading »
This Ingenious Vending Machine Feeds Homeless Animals
The company Pugedon has come up with an effective way to both look after the environment and care for animals living on the streets. In one city, they set up vending machines which fill up special trays with food when an empty plastic bottle is placed in them. The profit made from the recycled bottles covers the costs of providing the food for the animals. Continue reading »
Bright Moments in Life of USSR People
Some call those photos propaganda, some are being nostalgic and think this was the best of what happened to Russia and her people ever. Those photos are very bright and show a really bright side of life in the state which disappeared long ago. There are no actors in the photos, no models, just people caught having a good time. Take a look at this really interesting set of photos. Continue reading »
Black Friday Shoppers are Suspiciously Similar to Zombie Hordes
If you want to shop in Black Friday, try to not get into the vortex of shopping and don’t turn into of the store zombies that can jump down somebody’s throat for some sale item. Continue reading »
Breathtaking Photos of Models Pose with Endangered Animals
These poignant portraits look to shine awareness on the plight of some of the world’s most endangered ecosystems and species of wildlife. The images combine animals, art and celebrity, with Asia’s top models posing with the likes of rhinos, giraffes, leopards and marine life. Shot by renowned photographer Sean Lee-Davies, Love is Wild shows intense emotion between the humans and the animal subjects. Sean spent around four years travelling the globe in order to shoot the project. Continue reading »
