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Photo Series Documents The Enormity Of Great Danes

To call a 175-pound dog a 'lapdog' may seem counterintuitive, that is until you meet a Great Dane. Standing at least 30 inches from paw to shoulder, these cuddly canines are often referred to as "the world's largest lapdogs," as they often don't realize their own enormity. Yes, this breed is so large a since-deceased...
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Japanese Illustrator Imagines A World Where Humans Live Among Giant Animals

This mysterious Japanese artist, who goes by the pseudonym of Ariduka55 on social media channels, creates otherwordly illustrations that breathe life into a completely new fantasy world where giant animals live and evolve alongside humans. These illustrations are inspired by our ordinary world with the exception that the little animals – cats, dogs, rabbits, owls,...
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The African Village Where Every House Is a Work of Art

Burkina Faso is by no means an area frequented by tourists, but at the base of a hill overlooking the surrounding sun-drenched West African savannah lies an extraordinary village, a circular 1.2 hectare complex of intricately embellished earthen architecture. It is the residence of the chief, the royal court and the nobility of the Kassena...
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Photographer Turns Her Small Attic Into Stunning Fairytale Garden Scenes

Daniela Majic is a portrait photographer from Canada who uses her small attic to create fairytale garden scenes for her latest series called The Secret Garden. In her blog, she mentions that she treats the set as an art installation. The set began with a small wall which she covered in flowers. As she produces...
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Photo Series Showing What 200 Calories Looks Like in Different Foods (PART 2)

Wow. Our original post about this topic “What 200 Calories Looks Like” (which you can see HERE) attracted some serious attention and at the time of writing was viewed over 900,000 times. So we thought we’d continue the discussion with part 2. As reported by Foodporn, some foods have significantly more Calories than others but what...
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How People With Bad Eyesight See The World When They Take Off Their Glasses

If you’re shortsighted, you’ll know what it feels like: take of your glasses and the world around you is a complete blur. Philip Barlow, a hyperrealistic artist from Cape Town, has created a series of paintings that replicates this sensation. At a first glance, Barlow’s paintings look like photographs that are out of focus. But...
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Frustrated By Autism, A Father Turns To Photos Capturing The Unique Habits of His Autistic Son

“I don’t care about autism,” says San Francisco-based photographer Timothy Archibald, who has a way of being refreshingly candid about kids who have it. “They can frustrate you to no end,” he says. Archibald’s son, Eli, is autistic. And really, he clarifies on the phone, he doesn’t care about the diagnosis. What matters, he says,...
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Stunning paintings by autistic three-year-old who can’t speak sell for 800 pounds after she took up a brush just a few months ago

By HUGO GYE A three-year-old autistic girl has made a splash in the art world with her extraordinary paintings. Iris Grace Halmshaw began doing art as therapy, but when her parents decided to put the works on sale they began fetching prices of up to £830. And painting has also helped improve the youngster’s condition...
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Parade in the Netherlands Celebrates Vincent van Gogh

The Corso Zundert is a parade of giant floats which traverses the streets of Zundert in the Netherlands covered in thousands of dahlia flowers. This year, the floats were inspired by the works of the great Vincent van Gogh, who was born in Zundert 162 years ago. “In Zundert, in the South of the Netherlands, we are...
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Tattooed Seniors: What Will Your Ink Look Like When You Are 60?

Many people balk at the idea of getting a tattoo for fear that it’ll look bad when they grow older. While that’s a matter of personal taste, these older tattooed folks are here to show you that their tattoos are just as awesome now as they were back then. What’s your favorite? [zombify_post]
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This Art Piece Transforms Crying Emojis From Twitter Into Beautiful Light Tears

Created by French artist Parse/Error, Tears of Twitter is a real-time visualization of the use of 😢 (crying face) and 😭 (loudly crying face) emojis around the world. A connected artwork that responds to the emotions published on Twitter. A waterfall of light tears, fed by a global data stream. Connected to the data...
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Caricature Artist Inserts Mr. Bean Into Historical Paintings and It’s Hilarious

If you love Rowan Atkinson and his alter ego Mr Bean, then you’re going to especially love the work of caricature artist Rodney Pike. He took some of history’s most famous portraits and jazzed them up by replacing the original subjects’ faces with those of Atkinson’s unforgettable characters. Artistic purists may not appreciate Pike’s comical...
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Car Crash Survivors Proudly Pose For A Chilling Photo Project To Raise Awareness About Seatbelt Safety

Shocking portraits of the searing bruises that seatbelts can leave behind after a crash are being celebrated as survival badges of honor, and showing the importance of belting up. The initiative is part of an NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) campaign to reduce the number of deaths on NZ roads. According to them, 90 people die...
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Artist’s Painting Gets Mistaken For A Van Gogh, So She Creates Brilliant ‘Starry Night’ Series

One accident inspired painter Aja Kusick to create a wonderful series that mashes up pop culture elements with expressive van Gogh's style. Everything started when an education blog mistakenly shared Aja's painting of the Eiffel Tower as Van Gogh's. However, the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889 and Van Gogh died in 1890, having spent...
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High Speed Liquid and Bubble Photographs by Heinz Maier

Amateur photographer Heinz Maier is making a splash with his water drop art. He uses high speed photography to capture the moment droplets hit the surface of water. The factory plant operator from Stuttgart has only been taking photographs for less than a year and pursues his new hobby in the evenings, when his job...
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Perfectly Timed Photos Taken At Just The Right Moment

Whether taken through careful preparation and calculation or completely by accident, perfectly timed photos are an absolute joy to look at. With the perfect angle or in the perfect split second, you’ve captured an image that may never happen quite that way ever again. Which is your perfectly timed photo?
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Photographer Takes High-Speed Photos That Capture the Moment Water Balloons Explode

There’s definitely something satisfying about seeing moments that our eyes aren’t usually able to capture. London-based photographer Edward Horsford sets up his camera, and armed with only a trigger that is set to capture the specific point he needs, he captures the exact moments that water balloons explode. The results are genuinely stunning, and are...
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Tribe in Ethiopia Turns Trash Into Interesting Jewellery

There is probably no better example of the saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” than the Daasanach tribe from Ethiopia’s Omo Valley who have found a creative and eco-friendly way to use garbage. They make astonishingly beautiful head-ware from scavenged bottle-caps, broken watches, and bits of silvery mesh. These beautiful head-wares are worn...
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Statue of a Girl Stares Down the Famous ‘Charging Bull’ on Wall St

Earlier this week, a small bronze statue of a girl, designed by artist Kristen Visbel, appeared overnight in the path of the bull statue. The young girl stares down the famous Wall Street charging bull in an act of defiance. It’s intended to highlight the gender disparity of senior level roles at US financial firms; 85...
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Celebrities Use the 10-Year Challenge to Show How Much the Planet Has Changed

If you’ve been on social media at any point in the past two weeks, you’ve probably been confronted by the latest viral craze — the 10-Year Challenge. Maybe you’ve seen your favorite celebrity flaunt their glow-up, or admired from a distance as someone you haven’t seen in, well, almost 10 years reaped the virtual benefits...