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Pets Meet Celebrities

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:39:02 +0000

When pets and celebrities meet this is what you’ll get a Dr. Spock corgi, a Michael Jackson chihuahua, an Amy Winehouse kitten, and so on. These are all funny photo montages of dogs and cats that are turned into famous people. They are inspired by funny gifts, mugs and greeting cards that are all over these days. This is the work of website Takkoda and publishing house TeNeues.

Takkoda is run by a couple that has developed a strong love for animals while living in England. They believe that each pet has a strong personality, and that is what they wanted to show in this book full of images. Every pet is photographed by the couple, then afterwards they fix their outfits and hair on a photo software.

And I can really say that they fit their new roles, like they were born for it. Unfortunately some pets are homeless, but at least they have some kind of shelter, check this out

Expressive Portraits Of Homeless People

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:38:33 +0000

How hard can life affect us, and can it be read on our faces? Photographer Lee Jeffries has shown that it’s possible by taking very expressive portraits of people. But not just any kind of people; all of his models are homeless men, women and children that he has met in Europe and the United States.

And we all known that they have had a tough life which shows in their faces. Jeffries was a sports photographer, but he changes his interest when he met a homeless girl in the streets of London.

Before taking a photo of the homeless people he sits down and talks to them, because he wants to know their story. His perception complete changes, and these people become the subject of his art.

You can see the people are tired and dirty with a completely unhealthy look. The old ones has many wrinkles; it’s like each of them are telling their own story of the hard life as a homeless.

Another photographer has captured how homeless people are living under the roads of Las Vegas in huge flood tunnels.

Small Things Get Really Big

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:45:46 +0000

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 tiny you would think he lives in a world with giant people.

The project is called “Zoom and Macro”, and the concept is to “give the object new dimensions, strengthening its presence and inviting us to explore it, discovering hidden spaces and unnoticed nooks”.

I think he succeeded in every way, and we can’t wait for more art works from this talented artist. What else to say than that the results are stunning.

Another art work that is as stunning is this oversized portrait of Muhammad Ali made to honor him.

Via scene360.

Most Scary And Creepy Playground Ever

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:38:12 +0000

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 Russia by the Black Sea. It used to be a famous resort but now it’s abandoned. Even more scary to think about.

The opening gate is freaky enough with a enormous green guy that welcomes you in. He looks like he’s never going to let you out again or something like that. Inside there are a lot of soulless figures that will immediately give you nightmares.

The fact that the children park is abandoned makes it worse, because all the play figures are rusty and spooky. Luckily the photographers that provided these pictures got out safe.

But who knows, maybe the Russian kids don’t see the creepiness, maybe it’s just us adults. But something that has to be scary for both children and adults is this abandoned American prison.

Russian Prisoners Life Style In 1891

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:00:05 +0000

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 because of lack of knowledge they always did some creepy things. And I bet that half of these prisoners are not guilty but still sentenced to death.

At the border of China and Russia in the far east there were this prison that photographer Aleksey Kuznetsov went to and took some photos in year 1891. The prison is located in Nerchinsk, and on the photos you can see how the prisoners lived.

There are even a female prisoner which you may thought they didn’t have. They worked all day, and when it was time to rest they got cuffed in heavy chains and got some very thing pillows to sleep on.

Not comfortable at all. Kuznetsov also photographed one of the prison executors. Scary and old-fashioned. If you would like to see more you can take a look at a creepy abandoned Russian prison, and see how it looks today.

Anamorphosis At Its Best

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:52:58 +0000

Without a cylindrical mirror these paintings would look meaningless. This kind of art is called Anamorphosis and comes from the Greek words meaning “formed again.” It’s basically paintings that can be viewed only with a special device. In this case a cylindrical mirror is the solution, and the amazing paintings are made by Indian artist Awtar Singh Virdi.

He holds a record in Guinness World Record for the largest anamorphic portrait made in 2004. He started with anamorphosis when he one day saw his distorted reflection on a very clean car at at Mercedes Benz training center at Jamshedpur where he worked some time. He went home and practiced each day his skills on making amazing anamorphosis paintings.

He makes portraits of very known people like George W Bush, Mother Teresa and Amitabh Bachchan among many others. This kind of art can remind somehow on this artist’s work; he makes enormous portraits that can only be viewed from the sky.

The Smallest Library In The World

Tue, 17 May 2011 18:56:10 +0000

Some of you have probably already seen miniature books that people make for fun, but how about a mini library full of those books? Yes, it’s actually existing. Jozsef Tari has been a collector of mini books since 1969, and he has collected about 4500 books since then. His collection includes the world’s smallest book which is 0.11 x 0.12 inches big with different genres, like sports, politics, music and religion, etc.

He has a shelf where he has put all the books, and he calls it his little library. It’s obvious that the books are just for decoration and not for reading. The impressing thing is that the books are very detailed, so detailed that you would think it’s a real book by only looking at an image of it. Speaking of small thing, this is the smallest Ferrari F40 and matching key in the world.

Real Life Shrek Existed

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:23:57 +0000

For those of you who don’t know who Shrek is, let me explain: he is a big and not so attractive green ogre in this animated movie that goes by the same name. Yes he is a fictional character, but imagine the real life Shrek. He actually existed! The French Maurice Tillet, born 1903, was better known as the “Freak Ogre of the Ring” because he was a professional wrestler.

But why he got compared to Shrek is because he had Acromegaly, a disease that made his bones grow uncontrollably large, so for many people he looked weird, and many would say scary and ugly like Shrek. But as Shrek he was a charismatic guy.

The disease made also some disfigurements to his body so he even looked more unusual. I don’t know how he got accepted at that time, I suppose they looked on him as different, but he seemed very witty and positive, and they also called him The French Angel, so never judge a book by its cover.

All I know is that it would be cool seeing him in person. He couldn’t help looking like that because of the disease, but these meth addicts could, but they chose to destroy themselves.

Fun With Old Album Covers

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:58:06 +0000

You can have more fun with album covers than you can imagine. Here you can see some examples on illusions that are made by holding different album covers in front of different people. Some are using the musicians head as their head, some are using half of their bodies as their own body parts, etc, etc.

The manipulations are detailed done with adding the right mood and the right colors to the background. You can see album covers of Cliff Richard, Prince, Jay-Z, Iggy Pop and David Bowie. If you want to do this yourself, just pay your parents a visit and try to find their old LP’s, and maybe you’ll get a few killer shots. As we all know it’s easier to hold up album cover of an LP so the artists are mostly old. Old album covers from the 80′s has also been recreated with comic book heroes, take a look.

Human Towers in Catalonia

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:48:33 +0000

These amazing human towers developed throughout Catalonia, but it is popular all over Spain. The performers are called castellers and they have strict rules about how to put up a human tower. They even have special names and positions to be perfectly accurate when they climb up, and there are usually men that creates the base.

The person who climbs all the way to the top is called the “enxaneta”, and their job is to hold up four fingers to give a signal that the human tower is done, and they say that the fingers are representing the four stripes on the Catalan flag. Of course it has happened that the castellers lose their grip and fall, sometimes the whole tower falls apart if something goes wrong, but there is always so many people on the ground that they don’t hurt themselves so much if they fall, and they always make the children castellers wear helmets. Something that can remind of the human towers are the human architecture in New York.