Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
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Psychedelic Soap Bubbles That Look Like Alien Planets
As much as we’d love to claim that you’re looking at photos of newly discovered planets from another galaxy, we just can’t bear to lie to you. And so, without fibbing, we’d like to share these awesome photos of soap bubbles that resembles psychedelic planets…but they really are just super-magnified images of soap bubbles. Does this make the art less cool? Hope not. This collection is ...
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Projecteo: A Mini-Projector For Instagram Pics
We love the idea behind the Projecteo – a mini-projector that will allow instagram-obsessed users to share their photos with others without having to pass around their tablet devices. We stumbled across Projecteo on Kickstarter, and at the time, the company had garnered 2,000+ backers who provided $65,000+ of funding to produce Projecteo. UK-based innovator and designer, Benjamin Redford, requested $18,000 on Kickstarter in order to ...
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Fisheye, Wide-Angle & Macro Pics With The OlloClip
The olloclip is a quick-connect lens solution for the iPhone that includes fisheye, wide-angle and macro lenses in one small, convenient package that easily fits in your pocket. Nestled in the palm of your hand, the olloclip connects to the iPhone within seconds so you’ll be sure to capture the image you want…if you don’t see the picture you’re looking for just flip it over to ...
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Poignant Photos Showing the Before & After Effects of Drug Use
London-based photographer Roman Sakovich has brought to life the images that kids all love to look at – the before and after effects of drug abuse. Remember being in school and being taught that drugs will screw up your life and make you look horrific? We do. We remember those days and would have appreciated if the lectures were accompanied by useful visuals such as these ...
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Photoshopped Scenes from WWII In Today’s Streets
Artist Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse has created this breath-taking photography collection that features photoshopped images of people during WWII transposed over photographs of today’s streets. The artist aims to remind viewers to “stop and think about history, about the idea and sometimes forgotten stories of where they live”. Her collection entitled “Ghost of History” was inspired by film negatives that were found at flea market in Amsterdam ...
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10 Brilliant Long-Exposure Photographs of Fireworks
Photographer David Johnson captured these fireworks at the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using a long exposure of approximately one or two seconds long. Sure, it doesn’t sound like that much time, but in shutter speed terms, the two seconds allowed Johnson to capture the little stems and the long dropping branches of the fireworks in a way that highlights the bursting effect of the ...
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Cool Scientific Photography That Demonstrates Time Over Space
These photos made us say, “wow” because they are super stylist and very cool, but once we discovered that these images have not been photoshopped, we let out a deep and resounding “WHOA!” in the Whoa Headquarters. Seriously?! An architect, painter, political activate and cinematic special-effects designer (AND student of cognitive sciences, we might add) by the name of Jay Mark Johnson has managed to create ...
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12 Jaw Dropping Photos Captured by Google Street View
Montreal-based artist Jon Rafman has managed to make us say, “WHOA” twice in a row, (a double-WHOA, if you will) with the imagery he has captured through Google’s own Street View program. The popular Google Maps program uses satellite imaging that is equipped with 9-sided cameras that allows users to view the world one street at a time in a bird’s eye view. Another feature of ...
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Stunning Photos of Cars Getting Absolutely Destroyed
UK-based photographer Jody Daunton is responsible for this photo series of cars getting smashed up. We love when artists are able to capture the ephemeral, and the fleeting moment that was captured in this images made us smile. We can almost hear the metal and glass smashing, crunching and squealing under the pressure of other cars, bricks or concrete barrels that were dropped on the vehicles. ...
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Creative Food Manipulations by Brock Davis
Brock Davis is an award-winning, multidisciplinary artist and creative director with a knack for creating ground-breaking work. Brock has worked in advertising for the past 17 years. Most recently as group creative director at Carmichael Lynch, Brock concocted the memorable “Messin’ With Sasquatch” campaign for Jack Links Beef Jerky as well as compelling work for Subaru, Harley-Davidson, Porsche, Rapala and many others. His work has received ...
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Classic Album Covers Photographed in Original Locations
This collection of photographs by Bob Egan is mesmerizing! First of all, Egan has managed to decode the locations where these iconic rock album covers were photographed, secondly, the artist placed the albums (or in some cases, a music video still, or promotional photography) in the accurate position in which the musicians were located when photographed. Double dose of awesomeness. This collection of photographs by Bob ...
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Crazy Van Covered in Hundreds of Cameras and Lenses
From 1993 -1995, Harold Blank was a very busy man as he worked on the Camera Van – a regular van that is now covered in hundreds of real cameras and lenses. The idea to create the Camera Van came to Blank in a dream where he was able to drive around in a camera-covered van and capture peoples’ responses and facial reactions to the unusual ...
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100 Year Old Color Photos From The Russian Empire
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii’s colour photographs of the Russian Empire are vividly brought to life in a new book that features 250 examples of his work from 1905-1915… Prokudin-Gorskii wanted to capture the entirety of his native Russia as a way of providing its citizens with a stronger connection to their country and an idea of common identity. The photographer was even given a railroad car darkroom by ...
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Retro Photos of The Very First McDonald’s Restaurant
We owe all things McWonderful to Maurice and Richard (“Mac” and “Dick”) McDonald who moved their father’s restaurant from Monrovia to San Bernardino in California in 1940. The restaurant was renamed McDonald’s Famous Barbecue and served over forty types of barbecued items – a big change from the menu we’ve come to know now. The brothers quickly realized that the majority of their profit came from ...
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Polaroid Style Enlarger For Printing iPhone Pics
Ok, the title of this gadget is a real doozy, but for good reason. This wonderful gadget called the Impossible Instant Lab is not easily summed up in a short sentence, but it does serve a much-needed market with a purpose. Ever wish you could print your iPhone photos without having to go through the trouble of syncing your device to your computer, resizing the images, ...
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Cool Photos of Wigs Made From Breaking Water Balloons
Artist Tim Tadder is responsible for these hilarious photos that capture the perfect moment in time when a water balloon explodes on a person’s head – except Tadder has figured out a way to depict the water explosions as funny water wigs. Tadder is a visual communicator and photographer who has worked on award-winning campaigns for top consumer brands including Adidas, Budweiser, Coke Zero, Craftsman, Gatorade ...
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A Funky Digital Frame Only For Instagram Pics
The word on the street, in case you haven’t heard, is that Istagram rocks. However, we’re sad that we can’t save or print our instagram pics as easily as some other digital files, so when we heard about the Instacube, we were super happy. The Instacube is virtually a digital frame, but cooler. The Instacube aims to “liberate Instagram photos from your smart device but feeding ...
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8 Amazing Photographs Of Things Refracting Through Water Droplets
German photographer, Markus Reugels, is known for his high-speed macro photography works of art, and this collection of water droplets is no exception. The collection, entitled “Refractions”, features real life water droplets that are photographed at perfect moments in time as they fall in front of backgrounds with notable imagery. Reugel’s ability to capture the “refractions” (aka inverted reflections) in the water droplets calls for a ...
