Tag: world
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The 60 Best Street Art Works of 2014
Street art has come in leaps and bounds in the last few years and there seems to be no ends to the creativity and imagination of the world’s street artists. To celebrate this, here are the best 60 street art works for 2014. What’s your favorite? By Oakoak France: Street Art by Paulo Ito in…
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People From Around the World Next to the Amount of Food They Eat Every Day
Photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D’Aluisio traveled the around the world for three years. Their mission was to visit and document the eating habits of 80 people from incredibly diverse backgrounds. What they discovered delivers a hard hitting dose of perspective. What they did was photograph individuals with the amount and type of food they…
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This Is What School Lunches Look Like Around The World
About 32 million children in the US eat cafeteria school lunches every day. As a nation with a childhood obesity epidemic, Sweetgreen – an organization that seeks to battle childhood obesity and promote healthy eating habits for children—decided to take a look at what these kids actually have for lunch at school. The organization also takes a look…
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Infographic Visualizes the Cost of Living Around the World!
We often think about the cost of living from city to city and less often from country to country. Movehub, a resource for those moving abroad, visualized data that shows us how this cost changes around the world. They used information from the website Numbeo, which is a crowdsourced global database. Users report the prices…
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The Terrible Effects of Deforestation Exposed in Disturbing Print Ads
Now this is one way to convey an important message. Creative director Ganesh Prasad Acharya and copywriter Kaushik Katty Roy have just created a series of shocking concept print ads for Sanctuary India that show how habitat destruction affects wildlife. The ads depict various animals perched on tree trunks, with their heads cut off and dripping blood. The ads feature…
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The 38 Most Haunting Abandoned Places On Earth. You Won’t Be Able to Look Away…
These real life ruins offer an eerie glimpse into a world without humans. Their dark walls inspire a sense of wonder like I’ve never felt before. 1. Pripyat, Ukraine Pripyat, a city of nearly 50,000, was totally abandoned after the nearby Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. Due to radiation, it has been left untouched ever…
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The 10 Weirdest New Year’s Eve Traditions From Around The World!
Update: we’ve added more unusual NYE traditions to the bottom of list following your comments! Keep them coming and we’ll keep on adding them! Every country has its New Year’s traditions, but here is a visual blog of the funniest and most unusual traditions we’ve discovered from around the globe. What’s your New Years tradition? Add it to…
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Too Beautiful to be Real? 16 Surreal Landscapes Found on Earth
These bizarre locations may seem like a series of elaborate movie sets, but they are real destinations that you will definitely want to see for yourself! A true example of life imitating art… What’s your favorite? The Wave, Arizona, U.S. (Photo: Greg Mote/Flickr) * * * Travertines, Pamukkale, Turkey (Photo: Shutterstock) * * * Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park,…
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Geography You Weren’t Taught at School: Frequency of Red Heads in Europe…
By the time we finish high school, we realise that a lot of the time the things they taught us weren’t that useful or interesting. Sure, you might be able to name the European countries or point out major landmarks on a map, but does that give you a real understanding of how the world…
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Photographer Follows His Girlfriend Around The World
See part 2 of this photo series HERE! In his photo series “Follow Me To”, Russian photographer Murad Osmann is taking the viewer on an intimate journey together with his girlfriend who’s leading him around the world. The pose is almost the same in every picture: the girl never shows her face, and the guy almost never…