Category: People
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This is What the Average Person Looks Like in Each Country
The website faceresearch.org allows you to participate in short online psychology experiments looking at the traits people find attractive in faces and voices. They just released a fascinating study which aligns many pictures of individuals from every country and created composite images of what the average face would look like. It’s a complicated process that isn’t 100%…
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Comic Strip Shows Why Anxiety & Depression Are So Difficult To Fight
Depression and anxiety disorders are different, but people with depression often experience symptoms similar to those of an anxiety disorder, such as nervousness, irritability, and problems sleeping and concentrating. But each disorder has its own causes and its own emotional and behavioral symptoms. To try and explain the disorders in their own very personal way, artist Nick Seluk (author of the Awkward…
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Artist Draws Herself On Drugs to Show How it Affects Your Brain
We’ve previously written about artists who have experimented with the effect drugs have on their work (see HERE). User whatafinethrowaway, inspired by the “Nine Drawings” series which was the result of an experiment by the US government in the 1950’s, asked her friend to draw self-portraits while on LSD. The friend took 200µg of LSD and…
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Artist Photographs 100 Naked Women To Show The Power Of A Strong Nude Photo (NSFW)
Warning: as the title of this post suggests, this photo series contains a lot of nudity. London artist Nadia Lee Cohen who knows the power of a good nude. “The female form has always fascinated me and featured predominantly in my work; therefore, it was important for me to embark upon a project that allowed me to explore…
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Woman Gets Her Body Photoshopped in 18 Countries To Examine Global Beauty Standards
Inspired by artist Esther Honig and using the below original picture, a U.K.-based online doctor service asked graphic designers from around the world to photoshop the model’s form by making her, in their opinion, more attractive to other citizens of each of their countries. “Widely held perceptions of beauty and perfection can have a deep and lasting cultural…
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Stunning Portraits of Redheads Captured in Their Stunning RedheadedNess!
Photographer Maja Topagic likes redheads. And it’s clear why. She takes the most spectacular photographs of them. Long hair, freckles, flowers, and more often then not, surrounded by a summer’s bounty of flowers. There’s youth and energy in every picture, the colors are vibrant, and it’s a pleasure to behold. Sometimes images are far more powerful…
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The Top 50 Images of the First Half of 2015 According to Twisted Sifter
The guys over at Twisted Sifter recently compiled their list of the top 50 images for the first half of 2015. Here they are in all their glory. What’s your favorite? 50. City Issues Parking Ticket to Car Sculpture it Commissioned: Artwork by Erwin Wurm 49. Cypress Tree Avenue – Point Reyes, California: Photograph by FRANK SCHULENBURG 48.…
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Artist Depicts the Homeless in a New Light To Remind Us They’re Also Human
Photographer Aaron Draper wants to change perceptions about the homeless, who are regularly photographed in black and white. Inspired by the works on Steinbeck, his latest series called “Underexposed”, has a simple premise: to take beautiful, well lit portraits of the homeless. So instead of misery enhanced by a lack of color, you get hopeful people, possessing…
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Double Exposure Portraits Combine Human Faces with Nature and Architecture
Photography in double exposure seems to be all the rage at the moment, however Spanish artist Antonio Mora‘s has done something altogether different, merging human faces with landscapes and distinct architectural forms. Each work and every expressive piece looks like a snapshot from a dream, allowing viewers to easily connect with Mora’s ethereal creations on an inexplicably surreal level. No…
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An Amazing Sculptural Gun Installation by Michael Murphy
Installation artist Michael Murphy’s are a little different from most artists – to see his works ‘properly’ you must be standing at just the right angle. One of his latest works, called Damage, consists of 1,200 ping pong balls, painted black, and then suspended from a ceiling. Damage is meant as a way for us to…