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    Drawings Made With Thousands of Little Drawings

    Davit Yukhanyan is an architect and illustrator currently based in Yerevan, Armenia. Working as an architect, he always tries to find time to pick up a pen and draw. Drawing is his passion and music is his inspiration. Just as everything in our world consists of different pieces, Davit’s, drawings consist of different pieces in the form of small illustrations that...
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    Julie Gautier Performs Underwater Choreography in the World’s Deepest Pool

    AMA is a recently released short film by deep sea diver and underwater filmmaker Julie Gautier.  Performed in the world’s deepest pool near Venice, Italy, the film follows Gautier ‘dancing’ through several uninterrupted minutes of underwater choreography. She holds her breath as she uses controlled movements to twist and glide through the calm water, eventually rising up...
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    These 50 Photos Will Blow you Away

    With our two recent blogs “The Top 75 Pictures of the Year for 2013” (see HERE) and “100 of the Best Street Art Photos for 2013” (see HERE) still being viewed at viral proportions, we thought we’d start a series of showcases that are meant to make the jaws drop! Here’s the first one of...
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    This is How Chinese Models Get Photoshoots Done So Fast

    If you’re a fashion model in China who needs to pose for over a hundred outfits every day, you learn to work fast. Really fast. Videos have surfaced showing how models pose rapid-fire style for the photos used on Taobao, China’s equivalent of Amazon. As a photographer continually snaps shots, the models “freestyle” through a...
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    On The Twelve Beards of Christmas

    Movember has come and gone… but it’s spirit lives on in DECEMBEARD! Early November, Seattle-based photographer Stephanie Jarstad thought about doing a photography project to support men’s health and prostate cancer awareness. Rather than just photographing bearded men, she wanted to do something quirky and fun. And this is the result! Please enjoy this holly jolly...
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    Photographer Captures Portraits Of Soldiers Before, During, and After War

    Lalage Snow, a war photographer who has spent a lot of his working life in Kabul, Afghanistan, completed a remarkable 8-month-long project titled We Are The Not Dead. In it, he took portraits of British soldiers before, during, and after their deployment in Afghanistan. Snow captures the innocent expressions of these men transformed into gaunt, sullen...
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    Street Art on the Streets, Melbourne Style

    Melbourne, Australia, might be tucked down at the bottom of the world (depending on how you view a map!), but it definitely punches above it’s weight. It’s a hub for great food and coffee, a major destination for street art and artists, and Melbournians are often regarded as some of the friendliest people you will...
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    The Loch Ness Monster is Real and Infuses Your Tea

    It’s still up for debate as to whether or not the Loch Ness Monster is real or not, but in the world of tea he is alive and well AND infusing your tea just for kicks! The guys over at OTOTO Design came up the these Baby Nessie Tea Infusers, and they may change your tea-time...
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    Craftsmen From Japan Release An Adorable Range of Miniature Furniture for Cats

    Japan’s Okawa Kagu has just released a new “craftsman MADE” line of high quality furniture for cats. The new campaign entitled “craftsman MADE” is intended to reinvigorate the once-prosperous craft industry of Japan’s Fukuoka prefecture region. Home to 150 furniture-manufacturing factories, Okawa Kagu came up with the idea to merge the internet’s love for cats...
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    Mom Takes Darkly Humorous & Controversial Family Photos

    Susan Copich is a photographer, actress and model from New York. When not in front of the camera, she finds herself behind it, creating fictitious, dark and domestic scenarios using herself, her daughters and her husband as the actors. In her series “Domestic Bliss”, Susan has combined metaphor, irony and satire to create a dialogue around the...
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    The Best Seinfeld Moments of All Time (VIDEO)

    Can you believe that the final episode of Seinfeld aired on TV on May 14, 1998? That’s 20 years ago! The final episode enjoyed a historic audience, estimated at 76.3 million viewers (58% of all viewers that night) making it the fourth most watched regular series finale in U.S. TV history, behind M*A*S*H, Cheers and The...
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    Photo Series Shows a Different Perspective on How You See the World

    With time, a monotonous daily routine can numb even the most enthusiastic people. The world, however, is a lovely place, full of excitement at every corner. We’ve collected rare pictures of incredibly common objects to make you rediscover their beauty and maybe even expand your horizons. From the view of a theatre hall behind from...
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    The Nearly Frozen Slurpee Waves of Nantucket

    The record-setting winter of 2015 has left a lot of America with all kinds of remarkable images, most of them of snow and ice. But a photographer in Nantucket, Massachusetts, found something most of us have never seen – nearly frozen waves. Jonathan Nimerfroh was walking along a beach on the island recently when he saw...
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    Martin Whatson Masterfully Blends Street Art and Graffiti

      We’ve followed Norwegian artist Martin Whatson‘s for some time and it’s not hard to see why.  His works stand out from the increasingly hectic street art scene as a result of their brilliant blend of grayscale scenes with explosions of vibrantly painted graffiti. The works often focus on a singular matte subject, one that is seemingly...
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    Amazing Light Festival in Portugal!

    The LUMINA Light Festival is an international event that transforms urban space with color and light shows, multimedia projections, giant light sculptures and installations. Based in Portugal and free for all ages, more than 20 national and international artists are set to surprise visitors “with grandiose spectacles of light and color, video mapping, 3D effects,...