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Macaque Monkey Is A Photobomb

Posted on 05 September 2011 in: Animal Oddity, Featured Articles

You have maybe heard about the crazy Macaque monkey that stole a photographers camera to take photos of himself. If not, here is the story: Visiting a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, award-winning photographer Mr Slater left his camera unattended for a while. Nearby a female black macaque monkey was attracted to it. She [...]

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Anti-Nazi Photomontages

Posted on 31 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Before Photoshop even existed German citizen, John Heartfield born Helmut Herzfeld, made photomontages. Already from the 1930′s Nazism was getting bigger and bigger. People didn’t care, they chose to ignore it, but that was not the case with Heartfield. He just wanted to criticize the regime by making hilarious but artistic photo montages. He had [...]

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Stunning Aeiral Map Of Twitter And Flickr Users Activity Around The Globe

Posted on 30 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Without reading any kind of description you would believe that these maps are showing the continents at night, but that is not the case. The lights are in red/orange, blue and white, and they are showing Twitter and Flickr activity. Pretty crazy, right? So you can easily see who is the most active of the [...]

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The River Fleet – An Amazing River In The Underground Of London

Posted on 29 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

It’s not enough that whole London has a complete underground system, it has a underground river too. It’s called the River Fleet and is London’s largest subterranean river. Long time ago Victorian engineers built a whole system of tunnels and chambers under London. The river can fill up to the roof in about 30 minutes, [...]

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The Hills We Wish Were Full Of Chocolate

Posted on 25 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

The hills of Bohol province in the Philippines has nothing to do with chocolate, but still they are called the Chocolate hills. Disappointing, but true. We know you would all like to visit a chocolate heaven.   These hills got the name because during the summer times, the green grass turns into a chocolate brown [...]

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Unique Handmade Russian Ring

Posted on 23 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

The decorative ornament that you put on your finger, also known as a ring, is probably something that is not so easy to make. It’s detailed work that you need to have patience with, as well as enough skills. This Russian home made ring looks even more difficult to make than other random ones that [...]

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Stunning And Delicate Toothpick Art

Posted on 05 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Most of us use toothpicks after eating or maybe for some detailed work like nail art. This guy is using it to make art. Amazing! His name is Steven J. Backman and for him every toothpick can be made into a famous landmark replica. The sculptures are so small that it’s ridiculously difficult to even [...]

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Small Things Get Really Big

Posted on 01 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Spanish artist Romulo Celdran wanted to make small things look bigger, a lot bigger. He turns everyday objects like gloves, sponges and match sticks, and turns them into oversized items that are overwhelming. He has taken a lot of photos where himself is sitting next to the things. This of course makes him look so [...]

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Beautiful Vintage Photos Of Moscow

Posted on 30 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Moscow is such a beautiful town with so much to see. It has always been that way it seems. You can see some amazing photos from 1909 of this capital. They were taken by an American that came to Moscow on an exhibition tour with a group of American champion trotting horses. The traveler had [...]

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The Biggest Landfill Of E-Waste In Ghana

Posted on 26 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

When you throw away your old computer or laptop, do you ever think where it’s going? Ghana, India, Vietnam, Pakistan, China and Nigeria. It’s awful, but millions of tons of electronic waste from first world countries goes every year to these countries, mainly to Ghana. People there has therefore begun with illegal e-waste trade. 3000 [...]

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Storseisundet Bridge Of Norway Leads You To The Edge

Posted on 22 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

They call it the drunk bridge or the bridge to nowhere, but it’s just the Storseisundet Bridge in Norway. It is a part of the “Atlanterhavsveien” which means Atlantic Ocean Road. A lot of tourists actually come here to see this crazy bridge, because it’s really something to see. It’s still a mystery why the [...]

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The Incredible Volga Delta

Posted on 21 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

You will maybe recognize the river on these photos or maybe you’re not familiar with it. It’s the Volga Delta, the largest river delta in Europe. It drains into the Caspian Sea in Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast. During the past century Volga has grown because of level changes, but it’s still an amazing river delta. It [...]

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Rusty Russian Jet Fighters’ Days Are Over

Posted on 18 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

If you are into old jet fighters, especially the old Soviet ones you will be amazed by the fact that there is a big field near Moscow that holds several of them. Of course they’re not in use any more, but they still look powerful. As you may notice some of their parts are missing, [...]

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Extravagant Bishop Castle In Colorado

Posted on 15 July 2011 in: Featured Articles

In the middle of Cowboy Country Colorado you will find San Isabel National Forest and Bishop Castle. This castle is the work of Jim Bishop and is 160 foot tall and weighs 50 000 tons. It’s made of local stone and it is a family home that is open to public all year around. You [...]

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Joyful Military Patches

Posted on 13 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Serving the army can be a tough job and experience, so why not have fun while you’re in the misery? Here are some funny American military patches that are made so soldiers could brighten up a bit. They are so many and you can spend hours looking at them because some are really detailed. You [...]

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Most Scary And Creepy Playground Ever

Posted on 08 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

A lot of people think that clowns are creepy, or even the porcelain dolls, like a lot of children too. But the most creepy thing from children has to be this playground. I really don’t understand what kind of children would enjoy it in here. This is a playground or children park in Sergeevka in [...]

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Beautiful Parts of West Siberia We Didn’t Know About

Posted on 05 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Photography with an “above-view” has always been popular. Here we have a selection of those kinds of photos of The Novosibirsk region which is a part of the West Siberian Plain. It’s a huge area that’s about 178,2 thousand square kilometres. It’s mainly plain but in north there are some huge woodland with lots of [...]

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Where Children Sleep

Posted on 04 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Photographer James Mollison has traveled around the world to see how children are living and where they sleep. The results are shocking because most of them are too poor to have a real bedroom, and the differences between the children are enormous. This can be a wake-up call for everybody. Lamine is 12 and lives [...]

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Cartoon Characters Go Victorian Style

Posted on 02 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Funny&Crazy

Mix up paintings and cartoons, what do you get? A hilarious set of manipulated photos. Here you have nice paintings from the Victorian era just invaded by Betty Boop, Homer Simpson, Cinderella, Bugs Bunny and the rest of very known cartoon characters. OK, the paintings are beautiful but now they are a lot funnier, don’t [...]

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Russian Prisoners Life Style In 1891

Posted on 01 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

When old photos are shown in sepia style, which was the only way to color the photos back then, it almost always look like taken from a horror movie. Maybe it’s because we have seen too many old sepia photos in scary movies nowadays, or it just was a lot of horrible things happening then [...]

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