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Heartbreaking Colorized War Photos That Were Rejected By Everyone Until I Posted Them On artFido
About five years ago I made a portfolio of colorized images of World War II and reached out to various organizations dedicated to preserving the memory of this horrific period in history about the possibility of working with them. Many of them didn’t respond and the ones that did didn’t seem interested in colorized images…
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Photo Series Shows How Insanely Cold It Is In America Right Now
The polar vortex: everyone’s talking about it. It’s a band of strong winds, high up in the atmosphere that keeps bitterly cold air locked around the Arctic region. Sometimes, like this year, it can drift further south than usual and envelop highly populated areas of North America. Chigaco has been particularly hard hit, with its notoriously…
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Powerful Photos of People’s Eyes That Say More Than Words Ever Could
“The eyes are the windows of the soul” is a saying that we have all heard many times. Your eyes can portray pure joy, deep sadness, and any manner of feelings in between. The santabanta group recently put together a forum which documented historical images where the eyes say it all. We’ve collated the strongest…
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Stunning Images Show The Stages of Human Life Forming Until a Child is Born
Swedish photographer, Lennart Nilsson (1922 – 2017) was a science enthusiast whose passion for photography led him into doing something amazing using a cystoscope. In 1965, LIFE magazine published some of his amazing photos on the process of how a baby is conceived. The first photos he took in 1957 were in black and white…
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Stunning 19th-Century Sculpture Cloaked in a “Translucent” Marble Veil
Sculpture is among the oldest of the arts. Even before painting cave walls, early humans fashioned shapes from stone. From these beginnings, artifacts have evolved to their current complexity. Among the commonly available stones, only marble has a slight translucency i.e. subsurface scattering that is comparable to that of human skin. It is this translucency…
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These Perfectly Timed Photos Will Definitely Mess With Your Head
You might not be the best photographer in the world, but sometimes everything in the universe aligns so precisely, and all you have to do is be in the right place at the right time. Every now and then, perfect timing can make or break a photo, turning it into a hilarious coincidence or a…
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Designer Crochets Seafood So Well You Can Almost Taste It
Knitwear designer Kate Jenkins loves to keep busy and push herself to grow and be better every day. So when she realised she was getting to cozy with her career, she started looking for new ways to express her love for wool, textile, and color. “I have always crocheted since being taught as a small…
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Man Seamlessly Photoshops Himself into His Old Childhood Photos
Ever wanted to go back in time and hang out with your younger self? While looking through some old family photos, photographer Conor Nickerson wondered what it would it look like if tried to photoshop himself today into them. He gathered all the old hats and t-shirts that he could find and did his best…
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These Artistic Maps of Pakistan and India Show The Embroidery Techniques of Each Region
Journalist Saima Mir posted to Twitter this “map of Pakistan showing the embroidery techniques of its regions.” And, sure enough, it led to someone surfacing a corresponding map of Pakistan’s neighbor, India. The underlying message of the maps? It’s to show, as @AlmostLived noted, “how diverse elements come together to make beautiful things.” The map…
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Foreign Student Hospitalized In China Gets Note From Artistic Nurse Who Doesn’t Speak English, And The Comments Are Hilarious
‘Lost in translation’ language mix-ups and misunderstandings can make for hilarious travel anecdotes – but not when they happen at a hospital. An international student was hospitalized in China and fell under the care of a nurse that didn’t speak English. Understanding the importance of getting the proper medical information across to her patient, the…