Tag: rankedlist
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Head Down Bum Up: Map Shows Exactly Where on Earth You’d Be If You Dug Straight Through the Ground
As a kid we always want to know the answer to this question when we were digging in the sandpit “if I keep on digging, where will I end up?” Well there’s now a solution that will show you the exact answer! Just plug in your coordinates at Antipodes Map, press find and let it…
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Man Spends More Than 3000 Hours Colorizing Old Black & White Photos Of Famous People
Mario Unger is a photographer and digital artist from Austria. Last year his main work was restoring and colorizing old photographs. Mario told us that is reason for doing all of this work was to bring the past back to the present. He loves B&W photography, but for some images he thought that color was…
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Painting From The Year 1559 Contains Over 100 Proverbs We Still Use Today
More than 450 years ago, Dutch master painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted The Dutch Proverbs, an oil on wood painting that visually represents over 100 Dutch proverbs. Many of these proverbs still exist today such as ‘when the cat’s away, the mice will play’, or ‘banging your head against a brick wall’. The work…
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Instagram Account Features How All Instagram Photos Are All Starting To Look The Same
Have you noticed that your Instagram feed has become a bit the same recently? Photos of people taken from the same locations with similar poses? Well you’re not alone. Insta Repeat is an account dedicated to highlighting the ‘visual sameness’ of many Instagram pics, tracking the ‘trends’ of influencers who see where the likes are…
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Photographer Takes Side By Side Photos Of Owners And Their Dogs, And The Resemblance Is Uncanny
You’ve probably heard the saying that pets often look the same as their owner. Gerrard Gethings decided to try this theory out, using some talent and a bit of creativity to create these hilarious portraits of owners posing in the same manner as their furry friends. He’s turning it into a board game called “Do…
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If You Don’t Know Whether Or Not You Should Get A Pet, This Artist’s Illustrations Will Help You Out
Artist Yaoyao Ma Van has come up with an adorable new series focussing on her and her adorable pets. These stories are inspired by events and experiences in Yaoyao’s life, where her pets are the centre of her universe. Scroll down and upvote and comment on your favorites! [zombify_post]
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Images From Burning Man 2018 Prove That It’s Still The Craziest Festival In The World
Dating back to 1986, Burning Man was originally inspired by a few friends — Larry Harvey and Jerry James — building and burning a human effigy on a beach in San Francisco. Witnessing the crowd that formed, and experiencing the bonding, almost tribal experience of people sharing a then unclear ritual, Burning Man was born. Over the next few…
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Photographer Captures Synchronistic Images in Soviet Era Swimming Pools
If you’re a Wes Anderson fan, then photographer Maria Svarbova’s latest series titled In the Swimming Pool will be right up your alley. Maria is fascinated by the sterile, geometric aesthetic of old swimming pools, especially those built during the Socialist Era in her native country of Slovakia. Each scene she photographs is highly controlled,…
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Italian Artist Creates Life-Like Figures From Hand Carved Wood
Peter Demetz has a gift for breathing life into wood, a material that seems hard and lifeless to most of us. His wooden sculptures of people are flawlessly life-like. The Italian artist’s mastery of human anatomy makes his sculptures look like paintings or sketches, and his wonderful compositions and sense of perspective help perpetuate this…
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Street Artist Transforms Ordinary Public Places Into Clever and Funny Installations
Miguel Marquez Outside is the Tumblr blog of Michael Pederson, a street artist from Sydney, Australia. For one series, the artist has placed thoughtful text on trash, including a discarded couch that reads, “No more quiet empty rooms,” and a television with “The things I’ve seen…” Another piece involves a (non-working) light switch, accompanied by…