Category: Art
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90 Year Old Grandma Turns Small Village Into Art Gallery With Hand Painted Flowers
Anežka (Agnes) Kašpárková, a 90-year-old resident of Louka, Czech Republic, spends every spring and summer adorning window and door frames with majestic designs. A former agricultural worker, Agnes picked up the hobby from other local woman who had been doing the same for years. Using vibrant blue paint and a small brush, she creates intricate floral…
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When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Tightening America’s Gun Laws
This photo is from 1997 in Australia. Mick Roelandts, a firearms-reform manager, looks over prohibited weapons that were handed in under the Australian government’s buy-back scheme. 700,000 guns were bought back. Percentage-wise, that’s the equivalent of 40 million guns in the US. 20 years on, and the breaking news is that dozens of people have…
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Photos That Prove Depression Has No Face
September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and throughout the last few weeks, Instagram has become flooded by empowering survival stories. A new hashtag, #faceofdepression, is adding an important layer of depth to the widespread conversation, and it’s one we simply can’t ignore. What does a depressed person look like? What does someone with suicidal thoughts…
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Playboy Playmates Recreate Their Covers 30 Years Later
To celebrate the life and death of Playboy Founder Hugh Marston Hefner at the age of 91, we thought we’d look at an interesting series by photographers Ben Miller and Ryan Lowry for Playboy. In this series, a number of Playmates were given the opportunity to recreate their iconic covers, some 30 years after their release. …
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Girl From Belgium ‘Escapes’ to Ethiopia to Spend a Week With the Surma Tribe
Photographer and Travel blogger Marisa Papen recently wanted to experience a new culture. Something radically different from her cosy life in the heart of Belgium. So along with photographer Jesse Walker, Marisa caught a plane to the Omo Valley in Ethiopia and spent a week living with the Surma Tribe. Marisa tried to integrate herself…
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Artist Transforms a Fallen Redwood Tree into A Gigantic Octopus
Talented artisan Jeffrey Michael Samudosky of JMS Wood Sculpture in Gig Harbor, Washington has created an absolutely stunning giant pacific octopus that he carved with a chainsaw into a large piece of wood from a fallen redwood tree. The enormous cephalopod took a great deal of time and effort, but the result is absolutely gorgeous. And don’t forget, if you’re…
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This is Why You DON’T Ask Photoshop Troll to ‘Fix’ Your Images
James Fridman is probably the most renowned Photoshop troll on the Internet. A master at turning the pictures people send him and sending back finished products that make them wish they were never born. Rest assured that no matter how specific of a request you give this man, he will follow through with it exactly how…
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Couple Asks Internet to Photoshop Out Shirtless Guy from Engagement Photo, Regrets It Immediately
We’ve all been aware of the joys of photoshop for some time now. We should also be aware of how people can use photoshop for good and evil. With this in mind, you would think that by now people wouldn’t ask the whole Internet for help with photoshopping. Yet they still do… A simple request…
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Stunning Images From the 2017 Bird Photographer of the Year Awards
The Bird Photographer of the Year 2017 has just closed, and the stunning photo above by Alejandro Prieto Rojas was declared the overall winner. For its second edition, this photo contest was dedicated to the photography of birds. Organized by Nature Photographers and the British Trust for Ornithology, the Bird Photographer of the Year contest is dedicated to raising public awareness…
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Photographer Finds Locations Of 1960s Postcards and Compares Them With Photos of Today
Photographer Pablo Iglesias Maurer was recently sitting at his desk when the postcard picture of a matchbox caught his eye. It was a picture of resort complex built in the 1960s and got Pablo to wondering how the place looked now. As a result of this series of events, Pablo produced his latest series called Abandoned…