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Behold The Most Incredible Photos Of The National Geographic Photo Contest Of 2018

National Geographic has long been the leading periodical when it comes to photography – a magazine that all photographers around the world strive to be featured in. As such, their annual photo contest is a prestigious and hotly-contested event, with judges having thousands of breathtaking images to choose from, to find the eventual winners. This...
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Playful Paper Masks by Lobulo Studio for Barcelona’s Grec Festival

For the 2018 marketing of Barcelona’s long-running Grec Festival, which includes dance, theater, circus, and music, the London-based Lobulo Studio was tapped to create a series of unusual paper masks. Using the prompt “new species,” Lobulo explains on their website that they were “playing with the concept of new rare species that nobody has seen before” in order...
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The World’s First Fully Sized Lego Car That Actually Drives!

A 20-year-old mastermind from Romania has built the world’s first full-size Lego car, with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. It has space for two passengers and can hit a top speed of around 30 kph (18.6 mph). Watch this amazing clip to see it drive for yourself! Dubbed the Super Awesome Micro Project, the Lego...
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Switcheroo: Quirky Portraits of Couples Swapping Clothes by Hana Pesut

Switcheroo is an ongoing portrait project by Canadian photographer Hana Pesut where fashionably dressed couples are asked to swap clothing for a pair of portraits sent against an identical backdrop. While the premise is pretty simple, the results are often highly amusing because of all the subtle details and unusual juxtapositions. Giant feet crammed into tiny high...
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Gravity-Defying Sculpture of Mother Nature Rotating Earth

Remember those amazing sculptural hands that wrapped around a building at the Venice Biennale in Italy a few years ago? The artist of those hands, Lorenzo Quinn, is back with a new series titled 'The Force of Nature' which is a series of sculptures that depict a woman pivoting the world around with a piece...
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Almost Human Hyperrealistic Wood Sculptures (sort of NSFW)

Artist Bruno Walpoth can practically turn wood into flesh. The Italian artist has a knack for creating haunting, incredibly lifelike sculptures hewn out of wood. His works somehow manage to capture the expressiveness in a person’s eyes and the body’s fleshy curves. According to Walpoth, wood basically runs in his veins. “In our valley there is a 400-year-old...
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The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever

By Internet standards, a perfectly timed photo occurs when two of the following three conditions are met: 1. Perfect Place 2. Perfect Time 3. Perfect Angle Sometimes the holy trinity of perfectness is achieved and you get an Internet classic like so many of the photos below. There are countless galleries of these images floating around. We tried our...
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Doodles Doodle with Real Life Objects!

Bangladesh-based cartoonist and graphic designers Manik and Ratan have started a fun series where their cartoon characters interact with real life objects. The twin brothers’ adorable monsters and men look like they’re having the time of their lives, zooming past us in a LEGO car or figuring out how a magnifying glass works. The artists...
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The Best Wedding Photos Of 2018 Have Been Announced And They Show What Happens Whens When You Pay For A Good Photographer

It’s true what they say: a good wedding photographer can absolute make the wedding. Everything else can go wrong but as long as you’ve got an amazing photographer in toe, they can capture memories that will last a lifetime. The Fearless Awards was set up to recognise the best wedding photographers. The awards is a...
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Father Turns His 6-Year-Old Son’s Drawings Into Reality

Dom and his dad have the art thing worked out. Dom is six and he, as most of the kids, likes to draw. He creates his little masterpieces, and when he’s done, his dad then recreates their real-world counterparts with a dose of digital magic and a little bit of humor. From lions, lemurs and...
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Taking dog grooming and Sesame Street to a whole new level

When it comes to Extreme Dog Grooming, Kobe the poodle is the top dog. Transformed into a tribute to Sesame Street – one part Big Bird, another part Elmo with his own Oscar the Grouch in a trash can to keep him company, he won the Extreme Dog Grooming competition in Pasadena, FL earlier this year....
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Artist Captures Baroque Images By Photographing Her Subjects Underwater At Night

The ‘muses’ photo series by Christy Lee Rogers could be more easily compared to Caravaggio’s baroque paintings than any conventional piece of contemporary photography. The Hawaiian visual artist produces her colorful, luminous works by submerging her subjects, a barrage of bodies, in water at night and photographing them using the refraction of light. In an...
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Confronting Photographs From The 1900s Show The Struggles Of Working Children Before Child Labor Was Abolished

Photographer Lewis Hine was tasked with being the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee from 1908. Lewis traveled across the country, documenting child labor, and endured constant threats from factory owners as the existence of child labor was supposed to be kept away from the public’s eye. However, Hine persisted, adopting many different disguises...
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30 Reasons Why Everyone Loves Australia

Australia Day is on January 26th and commemorates the establishment of the first European settlement at Port Jackson in 1788. So let’s look at the many reasons why Australia is the greatest country on earth to be called Australia! (Some sort-of NSFW things ahead) 1. Australia is a proud nation. 2. Everyone is...
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Colorful Macro Photography of Coral by Felix Salazar

LA-based photographer and composer Felix Salazar recently captured some wonderful macro photographs of several inhabitants in his salt water aquariums. The shocking variety of color in his macro photographs makes the coral look like digital renderings, but Salazar assures us that each is a unique photo selected from hundreds of attempts to get just the right shot as he...
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The Things We Realized We Were Missing Out On After Spontaneously Adopting A Dog From A Shelter

Owning a dog is a big responsibility. You're their protector and carer and companion. But most importantly of all, you're their number one form of love and attention. Adopting a dog is an even bigger responsibility as it gives the dog a new lease on life. To help it forget about the problems that found...
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Photographer Releases Vintage Photos Of The New York Subway System In The 70s And 80s

New York's famous subway system has both fascinated and annoyed its users for as long as it has been in operation. It has been the home to graffiti artists and street photographers for generations, never more so than in the 1970s and 1980s. Gritty and tinged with danger, a subway ride was always an exercise...
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30 Thrilling Instagram Shots That Conquered National Geographic

Nature is always spectacular but in the photos selected by National Geographic, we see nature from another level. Launching the #natgeo100contest hashtag, the famous magazine with 100 million subscribers collected Instagram’s most beautiful photos from its followers around the world. We’ve brought together 30 memorable images for you that were hand-picked by National Geographic. Scroll...
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Illustrator Creates Comics That Show the Everyday Differences Between China and Western Cultures

As you're probably aware, China does things a little differently from the rest of the Western World. Comic artist Tiny Eyes – aka Siyu – has made it her mission to showcase these differences in her witty comic series that highlights things that she, as someone born and raised in Beijing, has experienced when communicating...
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Now You Can Stream David Bowie’s Complete Discography in a 19-Hour Playlist: From His Very First Recordings to His Last FOR FREE

We wish a had a better answer to the question “where were you when David Bowie died?” than, “sitting at my desk, staring dumbly at the computer screen.” While the ideal place to read every instant online tribute and RIP, it was hardly a memorable location to get the news that one of our era’s...

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Behold The Most Incredible Photos Of The National Geographic Photo Contest Of 2018

Playful Paper Masks by Lobulo Studio for Barcelona’s Grec Festival

The World’s First Fully Sized Lego Car That Actually Drives!

Switcheroo: Quirky Portraits of Couples Swapping Clothes by Hana Pesut

Gravity-Defying Sculpture of Mother Nature Rotating Earth

Almost Human Hyperrealistic Wood Sculptures (sort of NSFW)

The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever

Doodles Doodle with Real Life Objects!

The Best Wedding Photos Of 2018 Have Been Announced And They Show What Happens Whens When You Pay For A Good Photographer

Father Turns His 6-Year-Old Son’s Drawings Into Reality

Taking dog grooming and Sesame Street to a whole new level

Artist Captures Baroque Images By Photographing Her Subjects Underwater At Night

Confronting Photographs From The 1900s Show The Struggles Of Working Children Before Child Labor Was Abolished

30 Reasons Why Everyone Loves Australia

Colorful Macro Photography of Coral by Felix Salazar

The Things We Realized We Were Missing Out On After Spontaneously Adopting A Dog From A Shelter

Photographer Releases Vintage Photos Of The New York Subway System In The 70s And 80s

30 Thrilling Instagram Shots That Conquered National Geographic

Illustrator Creates Comics That Show the Everyday Differences Between China and Western Cultures

Now You Can Stream David Bowie’s Complete Discography in a 19-Hour Playlist: From His Very First Recordings to His Last FOR FREE

Artist CJ Hendry destroys her painting after being sued for copyright infringement and turns it into an NFT

This Dad Created A T-Shirt That Makes His Kid Give Him A Massage

What Happens When People Are Bored At Work (50+ Pics)

I Combine Thousands Of Photos To Create One Image Of A Mineral

Digital artist creates series of lazy animals immersed in technology