Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
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Crazy Self Portraits Of A Levitating Girl
Tokyo-based artist Natsumi Hayashi has been photographing herself for a long time, but her photos are not like most other self-portraits. Hayashi has made a name for herself as the levitating girl, and for good reason. Her perfectly timed self-portraits feature her cute self seemingly floating slightly above the ground. Hayashi shares the secret to her levitating photos on her website and blog, and while she ...
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Photos Of Olympians Posing With Their Daily Food Intake
A lot of food goes into nourishing a professional athlete’s body and mind, and these photos depict just that. Some of the world’s most celebrated athletes (commonly referred to as Olympians) were photographed by Umit Bektas for Reuters surrounded by their daily intake of food. You may be surprised – these thin, muscular and healthy folks eat a lot of *gasp* CARBS, and plenty of meat, ...
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Hilarious Photos Of Henry The Flying Baby
We wish we could fly. And we wish we could look as cool as baby Henry does while doing it. New York City-based photographer Rachel Hulin took these photos of her son, Henry, called “The Flying Series”. Although some images are pretty eerie-looking, the concept is quite harmless. One day, Hulin noticed her husband lifting Henry in the air and imagined what the scene would look ...
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10 Hilarious Dogs With A Napoleon Complex
Carmichael Lynch is a creative company based in Minneapolis that is responsible for the Carmichael Collective – a series of art works and expressions executed for creativity’s sake. Art direction is courtesy of Phil Jones. This awesome collective has chosen to honour the late Napoleon Bonaparte in time for his birthday (August 15 1769) by dressing up 10 cute dogs as French military/political leaders. There isn’t ...
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Cool Self-Referential Photo Mosaics Of Famous People
Greek visual designer and illustrator, Charis Tsevis, is the artistic mind behind the Tsevis Visual Design (TVD) studio and responsible for these wonderful mosaic photos. A photographic mosaic is a large image that was composed by thousands of smaller images. The colours and shapes of the smaller images work together to suggest a form or image that the human eye recognizes as a whole. In this ...
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5 Friends Who Take The Same Picture Every 5 Years
Okay, this is pretty cool. A group of friends from Santa Barbara High School have been re-enacting the same photograph of themselves at the same location with the same facial expressions and props every 5 years since 1982, and we love them! The first photo was snapped after graduation when John Wardlaw invited his close friends including John Dickson, Mark Rumor, Dallas Burney and John Molony ...
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Crazy Bubble Gum Illusion Art In Venice
Luxembourger artist Simone Decker created a provocative art installation of small-scale bubble gum wads positioned throughout Venice, Italy and photographed in a way that the gum wads appear to be large sculptural works. Th collection was called “Chewing in Venice 1 & 2″ and was created in 1999 – it’s an oldie by this time, but still a goodie. As said by the artist herself, “The ...
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16 Hilarious Celebrity Make-unders
If celebrities were not privy to the private chefs, the makeup artists, the hair dressers and the stylists that work to create the images we have come to know and love, it IS POSSIBLE that celebrities would be just as average looking as the rest of us common plebs. These photos of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Jennifer Anniston, Scarlet Johansson, ...
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Alien Looking Frost-Covered Arctic Trees
Italian photographer Niccolo Bonfadini is responsible for capturing these moments that were frozen in time – literally – in the Article Circle. The fluffly-looking ghostly creatures are actually snow-covered trees that have been completely covered by the snow and frost that is typical in the region. Bonafadini loves to travel to remote places and photograph the subjects that Nature has to offer. We love these photos ...
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Gorgeous Time Lapse Video From The Intl. Space Station At Night
Every frame in this video is a photograph taken from the International Space Station. All credit goes to the crews on board the ISS. Knate Myers removed some noise and edited some shots in photoshop and then compiled and arranged the images using Sony Vegas. The music is Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor) composed by John Murphy and performed by the City Of Prague Philharmonic. The ...
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Photos Of Invisible Bicycles In China
Photographer Zhaohua Sen has created a wonderful photo series featuring cyclists riding invisible bicycles in China. Yes, in China, they have invisible bicycles. It’s true. (Do you believe everything you read on the internet? We hope not). What’s REALLY going on in these photos is a substantial amount of photo editing. The artist has carefully removed all remnants of the cyclists bicycles digitally, leaving nothing behind ...
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Photographs Of Suicidal Astronauts
These hilariously strange photos of astronauts committing suicide have left us baffled and curious. The collection entitled the “Astronaut Suicides” was photographed by Neil Dacosta, Art Direction credit goes to Sara Phillips and Saskia Thomson is responsible for the photo re-touching. The photos were inspired by the bittersweet closing of the NASA space shuttle program, begging the question of viewers, “What will the astronauts do now?”. ...
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Two Eras Collide In Queen’s Jubilee Promo Images
British daily national newspaper, The Times, has published a series of beautiful ads that depict a collision of eras – the old fused with the new – in honour of the Queens Jubilee. A present-day photo of Queen Elizabeth II is juxtaposed with an older photo of Prince Philip and Winston Churchill; while the final photo depicts a younger queen passing a crowd of modern-day children. ...
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Filter Your World With These Instagram Sunglasses
Admit it: The world looks better with Instagram. We don’t dispute this whatsoever, which is why we are so excited to share this product concept with you. German designer, Markus Gerke has developed a way to integrate Instagram into a pair of sunglasses that allow users to view the world with a desired filter. The Instaglasses (or, Insta, for short) have filters built into the lenses ...
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Clever Strap-0n Macro Lens For Iphone
Easy Macro has found a way to reuse a thick elastic band to make a whoa-worthy product called the Maco Cell Lens Band. Embedded within the elastic band is a teeny tiny macro lens that is perfect size to use with your iPhone and amazingly enough, any other mobile phone. Simply secure the elastic band around your phone, positioning the lens over the camera portal and ...
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Steady Stand: Turn Your Smartphone Into A Pro Photo Studio
Modahaus Photo Accessories launched their flagship Steady Stand 200 last December and have now released their really neat Steady Stand 100SP for edge-to-edge, pin sharp, overhead macro photography. Shoot jewelry, textures, maps, receipts, business cards and capture detail you would not believe your phones camera was capable of! Comes flat packed in a ‘Smart Wallet’ that doubles up as a useful light reflector and a couple ...
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9 Mesmerizing Photos Of Exploding Ink
Uk-based photographer Mark Mawson is renown for his incredible works of art that capture surreal moments under water. These images are part of his “Aqueous” series, featuring exploding plumes of ink photographed under water. Images from both the Fluoreau and Electreau collections are shared here. The ephemerality behind his work and gorgeous colours have us mesmerized for sure – we can almost imagine the puffs of ...
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Creepy Portraits Of People Mutilated With Candy
Utrecht photographer Ashkan Honarvar is responsible for some pretty provocative works of art, but this 2009 collection entitled “Faces 5″ has us mesmerized. Honarvar uses present-day models to recreate portraits that were taken of WWI soldiers who suffered extreme facial injuries, and then superimposes candy imagery over the wounds in an attempt to address issues of identity and the lasting psychological effects of combat. Melting ice ...
