Love is a very unique feeling, and it can make even the most stoic and cold-hearted person turn into a gibbering maniac when they're under the effect of that powerful emotional drug.
People started manipulating images just a few decades after Niépce gave the world photography, and soon these altered images would change the face of history.
Image manipulation was a good way for people to control the messages their photos were sending to the world, as Mussolini proved when he had the horse handler removed from a 1942 photo so he would look more heroic.
And speaking of using image manipulation to shape a person's image, this infamous TV Guide cover featuring Oprah's head stuck on Ann-Margret's body caused quite a stir because it was such an obvious fake.
Both Oprah's and Ann-Margret's people claim this cover was created without their permission, but are we really supposed to believe "the richest woman on TV" let this one slip by under her nose?
Problems need solutions or they become disasters, so when problems arise the solution minded leap into action and make the tough calls necessary to nip those problems in the bud.
Worried about a skyrocketing suicide rate in your country? Problem solvers in South Korea handle it by throwing funerals for the living, letting them lie in the coffin and attend their own funeral to better appreciate life.
Female workers too stressed out in the office? Japanese problem solvers came up with a suitably Japanese solution- hire hunks to wipe away their tears and make them feel better after work.
Both of those strange solutions seem to actually work, but thinking outside the box doesn't always lead to an innovative solution, as performance artist Mark McGowan learned the hard way.
He heard Prince Philip beat a fox to death during a hunt and decided to protest this royal act of animal cruelty by eating meatballs made from a Corgi that died of natural causes, Corgis being the Queen's favorite breed.
The stunt was largely ignored by the public, and Prince Philip was declared innocent of animal abuse, so it seems all Mark's stunt had succeeded in proving is Corgis are not a very tasty breed.
The palm tree has become a symbol of California and, more specifically, Los Angeles, but at the beginning of the 20th century pepper trees far outnumbered palms in L.A.
So how did this exotic tree become the symbol of LaLa Land?
It turns out L.A.'s association with palm trees wasn't an accident, it was an advertising gimmick crafted by Hollywood to make Los Angeles seem like a more exotic and fantastic place.
Combine the use of palm trees in advertising with all the old movies set in the Middle East and you've got the makings of Hollywoodland mystique.
"the rise of Hollywood ushered in the city's aura of glamour and luxury. Many Hollywood films featured Middle Eastern locales, further imbuing Los Angeles with an exotic, 'dangerous' appeal. Just as the Victorians had allowed themselves to be seduced by their own constructions of Orientalism, so too did more modern Los Angeles residents fall under the embellished foreign allure of the palm tree."
Curious minds love to see how things are made, and watching machines crank out massive quantities of hockey pucks, beer, threaded bolts and crayons can be a lot of fun for both our eyeballs and our brains.
These production processes can take hours to complete, but thanks to cutting edge Graphic Interchange Format technology you can take a peek at the key parts of the process in a flash.
These production GIFs are also perfect for winning arguments via email, improving your knowledge of modern production techniques and crushing haters during a heated chat online.
We must assume that anyone who asks the internet for "help” with their photo is looking to be roasted by Photoshop trolls, but is that actually what English diver Tom Daley had in mind when he posted this pic?
He claimed to be running a contest designated #COVERDALEY, but could he possibly have been so naive he thought posting such a request online wouldn't end in image manipulation mayhem?
While #COVERDALEY drew lots of Photoshop pranksters to the party it also attracted the attention of some pretty important people, and suddenly Tom was taking a ride through the countryside with Putin.
Tom couldn't have known the contest would make his wildest dreams come true, nor could he have foreseen about all the fun new places he would go thanks to #COVERDALEY.
And even though he settled on a boring cover photo after all was said and done, Tom's contest got him in touch with the most important person of all- Tom Daley.
He Took His Skin Off For Me is a surreal short film by Ben Aston which is based on the surreal short story by Maria Hummer. Ben's "pearl of wisdom" about this piece:
if you take off your skin just to be with somebody? That’s only ever going to end messy…
Skyrim is chock full of quests for eager adventurers, and there are so many things to do in the game players usually don't catch them all on their first playthrough.
But animal lovers were disappointed to find Skyrim sorely lacking in quests to find canine companionship, because players can't directly adopt a stray dog in game.
worst part of Skyrim was when I found that dog whose owner died in a cabin, and then I of course had to adopt the dog bc i'm not a monster
The lack of dog adoption options made most gamers shrug their shoulders and Fus Ro Dah on, but dedicated dog lover Patrick Lenton wasn't going to let the game squash his dream of adopting a virtual dog.
@PatrickLenton and i have to fight like 300% harder to save my dog from being eaten by a dragon and i've honestly never been so anxious
Rich kids don't have to worry about much in life, and this lack of care is exactly what makes them become careless.
Carelessness may lead to accidents or messes to clean up, but careless criminals end up doing hard time or worse, so it's best anyone involved in illegal activity stay on their toes.
But what's a wealthy criminal to do when their kids are the ones who end up incriminating them via social media?
Posting to social media sites is a great way for rich kids to ruin their parents' lives by inadvertantly exposing their fraud schemes with flashy photos, as seen on the Instagram account richkidsofinstagram.
Investigators are using photos posted by rich kids to social media sites like Instagram to uncover hidden assets, shady business dealings and all the other criminal ways their parents are raking in the dough then lying about it.
Nowadays leading cybersecurity firms use posts and pics from social media in "75% of their litigation cases", because those little snobs are handing investigators all the evidence they need:
Another cybersecurity expert explained to The Guardian his firm recently was able to seize a "newly acquired private jet" by a fraudster because his son posted a picture of him and his father in front of the jet to Instagram. Similarly, K2 Intelligence in London solved a recovery asset case when a man who claimed to have no significant valuables let his children post pictures on their $25 million yacht in the Bahamas.
Going to a party is easy, and crashing a party is surprisingly easy too as long as you don't draw attention to yourself, but leaving a party can be a bit tricky.
But party escape is always possible, and if you need to update your book of strategies then study this comic strip by Christiann MacAuley of Sticky Comics and learn the ways of the leaving.
All photo editors use Photoshop these days, because aside from making basic touch ups a breeze it also makes it easy to radically alter a photo, perhaps a bit too easy for all those sloppy editors out there.
Whether they're changing a model's skin color, chiseling away at body contours or simply erasing someone or some thing from a photo entirely, it's easy for editors to make obvious mistakes when they're in a rush.
Even His Holiness the Pope can't prevent a Photoshop disaster from befalling one of his photos, unless this mysterious third leg is actually one of the Vatican guards going full ninja mode...
When you're the passenger you ride and you ride, you travel through the city at night, and if you're lucky everything will look good tonight.
But if you find yourself driving through the industrial part of town and you start to feel like you might fall asleep at the wheel take a note from the short film Passenger and get a hotel room!
Every culture on Earth has been stereotyped by now, often reducing a rich and diverse culture to a few funny quirks and a signature assortment of foods.
This is especially true of the stereotypes about British people, which claim Brits go all out for teatime, attend posh garden parties, and behave in a dignified manner while out in public.
However, here's what the typical teatime actually looks like for many Brits:
And lastly there's the stereotype about all Brits acting very classy and dignified while out in public, which makes them seem like a bunch of Beckhams:
But the truth is, it's far more common to see young Brits in love acting like this after a night out on the town:
When Peter Capaldi was a young Doctor Who fan drawing cartoons of Tom Baker at the TARDIS controls there's no way he could have known he'd someday get to play the role dearest to his heart.
But now that his geeky dreams have finally come true his drawings of the Doctor have become drawings of himself all decked out in the Twelfth Doctor's garb.
Capaldi created this far out illustration as a thank you for illustrator Rachael Stott's hard work on the Titan Comics' Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Adventures series, which naturally sent her over the moon with good feels.
To further illustrate his cartooning prowess, and the fantastic effect Doctor Who has had on his life, here's a video of Peter Capaldi talking about his favorite Doctors while he sketches their portraits.
The Japanese make American things look so much better when they apply their unique and weirdly wonderful view of the world to a product from the United States.
They make Kit-Kats seem like magic candy, turn Pepsi into a multi-flavored elixir of the gods, and make working at McDonald's seem like a grand adventure. (Subtitles by AnimeBird)
McDonald's Japan is using this anime style ad as part of a new part-time worker recruitment initiative, enticing young employees to hire on by showing them that working at McDonald's is a blast.
