If you're tired of the #FollowMe I.G. posts, & you love dogs (who doesn't?) you'll love photographer Honza Řeháček from Czechia, & these awesome photographs.
He's always trying to take advantage of the fog & mist to create dramatic scenes with the help of his faithful hiking buddy Sitka. We think every one of his shots is amazing.
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Image Credit: Honza Řeháček
Photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza took this neat photo of a damselfly with huge eyes peeking from behind a small twig. Or maybe it was trying to hide, but its eyes were too wide!
Every year (except 2017), redditor aubra_cadabra and her friends do a group costume for Halloween, focusing on the roles of one versatile actor. They've done Bill Murray, Robin Williams, Will Ferrell, Jim Carey, and Johnny Depp. This year, they chose Tom Hanks. The movies represented are, from the left, Toy Story, Castaway, Apollo 13, Forrest Gump, Big, David S. Pumpkins from Saturday Night Live, and A League of Their Own.
You can see a gallery of all the costumes from from 2012 to 2018 at Imgur, plus a chart to show each costume with its inspiration, and a picture of all the friends in regular clothing. -via reddit
Wes Hurley and his mother Elena Hurley tell us how they lived through the fall of the Soviet Union and then immigrated to America. There's a lot more that happens after that. Read more of the story behind the film Little Potato at the Atlantic.
The Natural History Museum has announced its Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award winners, and the top award goes to Marsel van Oosten for the picture above called The Golden Couple, taken in Shaanxi Province, China.
As the group of Qinling golden snub-nosed monkeys jumped from tree to tree, Marsel struggled to keep up, slipping and stumbling over logs. Gradually he learned to predict their behaviour, and captured this male and female resting. With the Sun filtering through the canopy, they are bathed in a magical light, their golden hair glowing against the fresh greens of the forest.
The title of Young Photographer of the Year went to Skye Meaker of South Africa for this close-up called Lounging Leopard.
Look through the gallery of award winners in the adult division and the youth division. You may find it easier to peruse the pictures and descriptions at a user-ranked listing at Bored Panda. Some images may be disturbing. -via Metafilter
The editors of Gizmodo put together a list of the 100 websites that made the internet what it is today. The 100 sites include the big ones, like Google, YouTube, and Twitter, but also long-gone pioneers like Geocities and Hamsterdance, and some of your favorites like TV Tropes, The Onion, and xkcd. It also includes some awful sites you'd never want to visit. But the list isn't ranking the best sites, just those that made their mark and showed us what the internet could do. Really, where would be be today if we didn't have resources like Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary, and Snopes? Not to mention how we've been dependent on Netflix and Amazon! Read about all 100 at Gizmodo.
It can happen to humans, too. HydrogenGreen (Austin Green) recreated the memorable scene from the movie Bambi in which Thumper becomes twitterpated. It's adorable. -via Laughing Squid
Musician and YouTuber Rousseau connected some LEDs to his piano and filmed himself playing. The results look like he's playing piano a la Guitar Hero at expert level!
Here's Rousseau playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement):
One of the most mysterious cats on earth is the Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti). These wild cats live in the high elevations of the northeast Tibetan plane. The first photograph of a Chinese mountain cat in the wild was taken in 2007. Before that, all we had was a few zoo specimens and some old pelts. But in September, a bird researcher from the ShanShui Conservation Center discovered a den with a mother and two cubs, and set up a camera trap. You can see the footage and some still pictures at Birding Beijing. Not only are they rare, but they are adorably rowdy, too. -via Metafilter
(Image credit: ShanShui Conservation Center)
“My art is the only kind that does not need to be beautiful,” forensic artist Lois Gibson said to Colors Magazine. “It’s ugly and sloppy and sketchy – but if it saves lives, it becomes beautiful and perfect.”
If there's an artist whose art has tremendous impact in real life, then Lois Gibson would be it: in her 30-year stint as a forensic artist, her artwork has helped the police identify more than 500 criminals.
Read more about it over at Colors (Photo: Scott Dalton)
To celebrate its tenth year anniversary, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope released a new constellation map with 21 gamma-ray constellations, named after famous landmarks and characters from pop culture, including Godzilla, Hulk, the Little Prince.
Best of all, you can explore the gamma-ray constellations in this interactive website over at NASA.
In the 1950s, people in the United States were enthralled by the power and potential of nuclear energy. Nuclear optimism and the atom bomb fever was in full swing, and President Harry S. Truman authorized a nuclear test site just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Indeed, mushroom clouds from the 100 nuclear blast tests were visible from the hotels in downtown Las Vegas and those tests themselves became tourist attractions.
So naturally, Las Vegas decided to combine that with another one of its major attractions - showgirls - and the Miss Atomic Bomb was born.
There were four Miss Atomic Bombs ever crowned. This one above was in 1955, where multiple delays of Operation Cue due to high winds got Linda Lawson crowned with as "Miss Cue." Her tiara was in the shape of a mushroom cloud!
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It's like Mad Max, but with Hot Wheels.
Make Magazine's Gareth Brandwyn explains how much fun it is to convert a regular die cast toy car into a post apocalyptic combat car for the popular tabletop game Gaslands.
BRB, getting myself some Hot Wheels to Mad Max-ify!
Portuguese artist Sergio Odeith specializes in painting giant anamorphic insects. Here, he took converted a concrete dome into a giant beetle.
View more of Odeith's anamorphic graffiti below:
In the erstwhile Mulberry Bend area of New York City, the most feared man was not a mob boss, a hit man, or even a gang member. He was the local banana vendor, Casoli Paracrotti. Considering how he was treated, you have to wonder whether he ever sold any bananas at all.
During the late 1890s, whenever the tiny, friendless fruit merchant in dirty rags pushed his cart around Mulberry Bend, the crowds would immediately disperse. The more religious among them would mutter prayers and turn away, while the superstitious clutched their talismans and rubbed the feet of dead rabbits. Even the children scurried away in fright, screaming their warning: "The banana man is coming! Be quiet, or he'll kill you!"
Paracrotti was not a criminal mastermind, a crooked law patrolman or a man of violence, but he was what the Italians refer to as a jettatore-- a jinx, a bringer of bad luck, possessor of the dreaded "evil eye". And it has been written that more than 50 persons met their demise simply by being acquainted with him. For this reason Paracrotti was a lonely man; no man wanted to be his friend, no woman wanted to marry him, and even inside the Catholic church on Roosevelt Street he was relegated to the back pew, shunned as if he were the carrier of a deadly and highly contagious disease.
You may feel sorry for Paracrotti, but first read the history that brought him from southern Italy to New York, and the extensive trail of dead people he left in his wake. Paracrotti was arrested several times, but he doesn't come across as an evil man. His reputation as a jinx came about because he was careless and not all that smart, with deadly consequences. -via Strange Company
