Amusing Ads For Star Wars Weekends
Photo: Lucasfilm/Disney
There’s a bunch of new print ads out for Disney’s Star Wars Weekends, and they’re pretty funny. See Darth Vader wait in line, Ewoks get denied, TIE fighters at airport gates and more at The Chive.
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Scientists Discover Coral That Eats Jellyfish
Up until now, scientists believed that coral only ate plankton and other micro-organisms, but a new discovery shows the mushroom coral can actually eat jellyfish almost its same size. Scientists were diving near the Israeli city of Eilat in the Red Sea, when they photographed the phenomenon for the first time.
“We couldn’t believe our eyes when we saw it,” Ms Alamaru, a member of the research team, says. “This is definitely unusual. As far as I know no other coral are reported to feed on jellyfish. However, some sea anemones, which are close relatives of corals, are documented feeding on other jelly species.”
Scientists have suspected that coral must eat microscopic baby jellyfishes, but this is the first time they were presented with evidence of the animal eating adult jellies.
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Color Photos of Germany's WWII Surrender
Photo: Ronald Playforth
Early in May, 1945, officers from the German army and Gestapo met with Allied commanders, including Field Marshall Montgomery to offer their country’s surrender at his headquarters near Hamburg. Interestingly, the only color photographs of this event were taken by a clerk, Ronald Playforth, who hid in the trees during the meeting.
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His pictures show Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeburg, the most senior member of the delegation, General Eberhard Kinzel, chief of staff of the north west Germany army, and Major Friedl, a 6ft 6ins Gestapo chief. They were received by Field Marshall Montgomery, with his customary black beret and army uniform, who, when the Germans tried to negotiate, reportedly gave them a ‘tongue lashing’ about the bombing of Coventry and the horrors of Belsen. The delegation reported back to their HQ and Admiral Karl Doenitz – Hitler’s successor – and were given permission to sign the surrender papers, which they did the next day, May 4. When it was all over Montgomery is said to have leaned back and said simply: ‘That concludes the surrender.’
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Bundled Bat Buddies
Just in time for Halloween, adorable bats bundled up with their baby bottles. These little guys have a bad reputation, but how could you imagine anything evil from these beautiful babes?
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60 Iconic and Classic Cars
Ok we’ve all seen cars lists before but this one has quite a few I’ve never seen before. The three-wheeled Robin, the futuristic Loremo and stout scarab? Weird stuff! Other are quite familiar, like the 1957 Corvette pictured.
During this time cars have had some radical design changes; some for the better and some for the worse. Here are our top pics for the 60 most distinctive and iconic, classic cars, and while you may not like them all – they are memorable.
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Photographing Light
Photo by Alan Jaras
Alan Jaras has a creative way of composing his photographs. By focusing a beam of light through transparent, textured materials, and recording that light directly onto 35mm film without the use of a lens, he produces dazzling works of color and light. The images are scanned to a computer, but no CG was used at all. Check out his featured work at two different host sites, or his Flickr.
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Amazing Landscape Photos
Web Urbanist has a really amazing set of 23 landscape photos on the site right now. These four are my personal favorites, but the entire collection of images is absolutely stunning. You’re really missing out if you don’t click the link.
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Bacon Photo Contest
Do you have a special connection with bacon? Can you get it to pose for you in sexy positions? The Official Bacon Contest at Mr. Baconpants might be your chance to win all kinds of glorious bacon prizes. Categories include:
Most Creative: This is a photo that shows a creative way to use bacon. Think bacon AK-47 or Waken Bacon. Funniest: This is a photo that incorporates bacon that will make us laugh. Think Lol Cats or Fail photos. Sexiest: This is a photo of bacon that will make us drool for two reasons. Think bacon babes.
To enter, send your photo to jmosely@mrbaconpants.com and use “photo contest” as the subject line.
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How Secure Are Your Private Photos?
The Found Photos project consists of a collection of private photos which file-sharing users have unknowingly made public when installing P2P software.
The result is a pastiche of modern life upon which you can’t feel at least slighty guilty for intruding:
The Found Photos project started in 2004, while searching for mp3’s using a filesharing program.
After downloading a folder of mp3’s, I came across a folder named ‘pictures’ inside of the album folder, and found a handful of digital camera photos. This made me wonder what else was out there, what people are publicly sharing – after a few quick keyword searches I came across thousands of them publicly shared.
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Time-Shifted Self-Portraits by Chino Otsuka
Imagine Finding Me, 1976 and 2005, Kamakura, Japan, double self portraits
by Chino Otsuka
The woman and child in this photo look like mother and daughter, but they are actually both artist Chino Otsuka at different ages.
In Imagine Finding Me, Otsuka’s series of "double self-portraits," the artist shows herself (with herself) over the span of decades, using what she calls "a time machine of digital tools."
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Exploding Water Balloon Photos
These fantastic shots of water balloons taken with a high speed camera are just fantastic. Who knew water could look so fascinating?
They bring back memories of when you were a young scamp, mischievously dropping water bombs on hapless cyclists from overpasses, or soaking whole streets in drive-by drench-athons – but those days of innocence are gone now. So, it just leaves us to sit back and wonder at the beautiful physics of the things – as well as the devilish uses to which they can be put.
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Cute Children Help You Get Your Wallet Back
If you’ve ever lost your wallet, you know what a pain it is to cancel all your cards and get them reordered. You know how annoying it is to go to the DMV and get a new driver’s license. You probably also know how much of a bummer it can be to lose important phone numbers, photos, tickets stubs and cash you had in there too.
Fortunately, scientists have come up with a great way to increase your likelihood of getting your wallet back -put cute kids pictures in it. Adorable images of children trigger a person’s empathy and their “compassionate instinct towards vulnerable infants that people have evolved to ensure the survival of future generations.”
Wallets with a cute baby pic were sent back 90% of the time, whereas those with no images only had a one out of seven chance of reuniting with their previous owner.
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Great Photos By Mark Velasquez
I love Mark Velasquez’s portrayal of Little Red Riding Hood in this photo. His gallery has a variety of other amazing images. Stop by and enjoy them all.
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Glorious Pet Costumes
For those of you who love animals in costumes, WebEcoist has a collection of 20 great pet cosumes. There’s bunnies, kitties, doggies and more. I personally perfer the Harry Potter cat above. What’s your favorite?
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Junk Shop Photos
Take all those photographs you’ve got collected in treasured photo albums and imagine them suddenly discarded in a dusty old box in the corner of a junk shop and removed from any context that might explain just who the people in them are or what the heck they were doing when those pictures were taken. Photographer Wesley Treat has made a hobby out of sifting through these orphaned snapshots from other people’s lives and plucking out the most unusual and enigmatic, and has recently launched a blog titled Junk Shop Photos so other people can enjoy them and mock them with their own captions.
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An Entire Site Dedicated Uncomfortable Family Photography
We all have them – those horrible moments when we are crowded, pushed and shoved into position so that Uncle X can take a photo of us. Rarely, however, is one enough. Sometimes this process gets repeated over and over again for what seems like ages. One industrious blogger has set about collecting the most memorably terrible such images online in one place. The site does not have much to say about itself but then again: the images really do speak for themselves.
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Tastespotting
Tastespotting is a community-driven visual potluck with irrestitible photos. You can sign up and submit photos and recipes, or just browse the tempting site.
The photo here shows Creamy Scrambled Eggs and Asparagus on Toast, submitted by Sarah. She found the recipe and photo on the New York Times Health & Fitness page, so it’s good for you too.
Photo by Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times
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Past War and Present Peace: the Siege of Leningrad Then and Now
It was a terrible time and difficult for us to imagine, when people froze to death and cooked soups from their belts and wallpaper glue just to stay alive. So how do we put ourselves in their shoes and see into the past? One man has assembled a collection of disturbing images from those dark days and collaged them with colorful images from present times. The results are spectacular, stark and thought-provoking.
“The Siege of Leningrad, also known as The Leningrad Blockade was an unsuccessful military operation by the Axis (Nazi) powers to capture Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during World War II. The siege lasted from September 9, 1941, to January 27, 1944, when a narrow land corridor to the city was established by the Soviets. The total lifting of the siege occurred on January 27, 1944. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest and most destructive sieges of major cities in modern history and it was the second most costly.
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Blog Post Helps Man Find Family Roots
The chances had to be a million to one. When I traveled around the world for six months in 2007, I blogged about every place I visited. Because Matten, Switzerland was one of my most picturesque destinations, I featured many photos of the town, especially the historic buildings.
Months later, I received an email from a William Diesslin, regarding my photos of Matten:
You didn’t know it at the time, but you photographed my great
grandfather’s store front! I’ve attached the photo for your reference.”
I scoured my photos until I found what seemed to be a match for the historic black and white picture Diesslin had sent. During the next few weeks, I learned the rest of the story. Diesslin’s search for his ancestry had been unsuccessful until he discovered my blog. Once he saw my photo he was able to identify the present day building and track down the owners, who confirmed the store had originally belonged to his great grandfather.
In a subsequent email he remarked:
"This will be a landmark for my family as my dad was orphaned at 14
years old, all family history was lost. Your photos may have opened up
a long lost link to my ancestors.”
There’s more to the story, like the fact that Diesslin stayed in that very building (it is now a hostel) back in the 1980’s and had abslutely no idea that it had any connection to his family. The series of coincidences are so bizarre as to be almost unbelievable. To read the rest of the story, and to see the histoic and present day photos, visit Hole In The Donut Travel Blog.
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Kodachrome Dreams
Not too long ago a small local newspaper up here in Maine ran an article about a guy who had collected countless rolls of undeveloped film. It started with one roll of Kodachrome from a discarded camera but soon became the reason he would rummage around thrift stores when driving around the country. Over the years he collected a huge stash and finally had it all developed.
The result of his obsession is a site called MangoFalls where he’s posted hundreds of images from those rolls of film that he dragged around for so long. You won’t find any scenic snapshots. It’s all about the people and their fashions from the 50’s and 60’s. I suppose it’s possible that you might even see someone you know.
The metal body was battered and the lens looked like a coke bottle that had been dragged down 5 miles of asphalt. The camera had been dead a long time. I was about to set it down when I noticed that there was a roll of film inside. I slowly rewound the film, popped the door, and was rewarded with a pristine roll of Kodachrome. I asked the guy at the counter how much he wanted for it. “Gimme a quarter” he replied. I paid the man and drove home with the mystery roll.
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Awesome Urban Camouflage
Urban camouflage is a fantastic new art form. Weburbanist has a wonderful collection of a variety of fantastic examples of modern and somewhat pointless camo.
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When No One's Looking, The Little People Come Out To Play
The brilliant photos from Vincent Bousserez show us the world that goes on behind closed doors. Just like in toy story imagine all these tiny people coming out of the woodwork and exploring your house. (some slightly not safe for work)
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Breathtaking large-format pictures of London at night
Jason shot these images with a camera attached to gyro-stabilized mounts from a Eurocopter AS355, hired out at around £1150 (GBP) per hour, using Nikon gear and either a 14-24mm or a 70-200mm lens. Even with that, the low light and heavy vibrations can make things difficult, Jason says "I often shoot tethered to my MacBook Pro to check the sharpness of the images whilst I shoot."
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Grueling Guinea Pig Games of the 2009 Olympics
Someone … clearly had too much time on their hands. Sick of the mainstream media only covering the most popular sports? Take a look at these guinea pigs performing in their very own and very special olympics.
The cute critters are digitally manipulated by
Steve Bicknell of Icarus Arts Publishing. You can buy the 2009 Calendar featuring the guinea pigs at Maverick Arts Club.
Life in the Fast Lanes has a funny account of the guinea pigs:
The Guinea Pig Games (GPG) Olympics have started with an amazing opening as rascally rodents display their dedication to their chosen sports. In the struggle for survival, only the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals with their stamina, prowess, and incredible feats to win gold, silver, and bronze medals.
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Stunning Frozen Beauty
Maybe it’s just because I live in sunny Southern California and never actually see snow, but it truly fascinates me. Even if you’ve had your lifetime share of cold weather though, you’ll still probably love these photos of frost, snow and ice. Plus, if you actually read the text, you just might learn something new.
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Incredible Edible Art
Food art is a strange field, but I can’t help but love people who not only decided to play with their food, but make a living out of it. Over at WebUrbanist, they have spotlighted a few great food artists, one specializes in bento, one in food carvings, one in landscapes of food and then there’s the sculpture/photographer above. They may make you love art their art work, or they might make you hungry, either way, it’s certainly not a bad thing.
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Oldest LOL Cat Revealed
A fan of I Can Has Cheezburger sent them this delightful postcard he found in an antique store. The print is from 1905. The grammar may have been nicer back then, but those poor LOL Kitties are have been being denied food for over 100 years. What a shame. I think someone needs to start a charity organization to get kitties cheezburgers once and for all.
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HairMixer
Here is a neat website that allows you to swap hairstyles with celebrities. For example, how would Will Smith look if he sported Hillary Clinton’s hair? You can also upload photos of yourself for the fun of it.
Link: HairMixer
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