February 04, 2012
Behind the scenes at Puppy Bowl VIII
I'm so out of the TV loop that I'd never heard of Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl, which is airing for its 8th time tomorrow.
Here are some pix from the production of it. If you like puppies, it's like smoking a rock of cute.
Via The Agitator
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February 02, 2012
It's a medical condition
Electile Dysfunction: The inability to become aroused over any of the choices for President put forth by either party in the 2012 election.
H.T. Mary
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February 01, 2012
Long train runnin'
RailPictures.Net - Copyright © Jeff Abbott
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January 31, 2012
Nice pair
Seriously cute elephants
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January 30, 2012
What the Internet is good for
Cute cat pix
H.T. Ms M.
How to build a tank for your cat.
Via The Daily What
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January 27, 2012
Twenty-oneth street
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January 26, 2012
Blue Marble redux
'Blue Marble 2012': NASA's 'Most Amazing' High Def Image Of Earth So Far. There's a 64 megapixel version available at the link.
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January 25, 2012
Finally - a fortune cookie that's right
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January 24, 2012
Clever billboard
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January 23, 2012
LOL
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January 20, 2012
Eye in the sky
A view of the Helix nebula from CNN's Light Years blog. It reminds me of Niven & Pournelle's The Mote In God's Eye.
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January 19, 2012
Retro risqué
Retronaut has a collection of 18 LP album covers with nudes from the 50s and 60s. A few are from mainstream releases but most are from novelty albums (like the one titled Music for Hangovers).
H.T. Ms M.
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January 18, 2012
Pirated from TheOatmeal
How to contact your Congressman and/or Senator.
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January 17, 2012
Mind the bridges
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January 16, 2012
On the rocks
Sailor Jeff sends this pic.
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January 15, 2012
Engrish WTF
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January 12, 2012
Armadillo lizard
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January 11, 2012
The 2011 winners
The Big Picture has the 14 National Geographic Photography Contest Winners: 2011.
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January 10, 2012
It's no ordinary sale
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January 09, 2012
Carved books
Seventeen images of book carvings by Guy Laramee.
H.T. Ms M.
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January 06, 2012
Floating house
Float Home in Seattle -- very nice-looking.
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January 05, 2012
Everyone's a critic
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January 04, 2012
Buick Streamliner
I had no idea this beauty existed. Check those curves.
H.T. Ms M.
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January 03, 2012
Atlantic Ocean Road
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January 02, 2012
The year in tweets
The 50 funniest tweets of 2011
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January 01, 2012
What a cake!
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December 30, 2011
Designer treehouse
One of several built by the Treehouse Workshop. (These 4 images are all of the same treehouse.)
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December 29, 2011
Central Park in New York City
Hi-res image here.
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December 28, 2011
On a roll
Cut out paper rolls by Anastassia Elias; these are 3 of the 34 that she's made from toilet tissue rolls.
Via imgur
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December 27, 2011
2011 volcanos
The Year in Volcanic Activity: 36 photos at The Atlantic's In Focus blog.
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December 26, 2011
Merry Christmas, baby
Bitter: a soon-to-be-divorced husband's card.
Sweet: a wife's Christmas surprise for her husband.
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December 24, 2011
The ultimate Christmas yard decoration
One of eight images in this collection.
H.T. Jeff G
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December 23, 2011
Awkward Christmas photos
One of fifteen found here.
H.T. Ms M.
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December 22, 2011
Nativity scenes
27 worst nativity sets: the annual, growing list!. Here's one made of cupcakes; another is carved from Spam.
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December 20, 2011
Tall tree
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December 19, 2011
Redneck Christmas decorating
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December 16, 2011
DYAC end of the year review
The 25 funniest autocorrects of DYAC's first year
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December 15, 2011
Modern tradition
From XKCD:
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December 14, 2011
The year in pictures
At The Atlantic's In Focus photo blog. This page is part 1 of 3.
A gunman identified as Michael Gonzales aims his pistol at local village politician Reynaldo Dagsa shortly before Gonzales pulled the trigger, assassinating Dagsa in Manila, Philippines, on January 5, 2011. Reynaldo Dagsa took this picture of his family on New Year's eve, moments before he was killed by Gonzales, who was captured on his camera together with an accomplice (man on the right). Police said they arrested both men charged in the assassination. (Reuters/Dagsa Family)
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December 12, 2011
Gives a new meaning to 'double wide'
The fastest and most inexpensive way to build a house. (31 pictures at the link.)
Starting with these...
and ending with this.
H.T. Mary
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December 09, 2011
Über cute
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December 08, 2011
Clever ads
70 Creative Advertisements That Make You Look Twice
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December 07, 2011
Passenger photography
100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows. Some are more striking than this one - some less so.
Via Instapundit
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December 06, 2011
News from Down Under
Even though I can't find this article online, this may be legit. Mr. Penberthy is a real journalist in Australia and the brothel has a place-holder site here.
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December 05, 2011
Whiteboard art
1 of 17 copies of famous artwork Bill Taylor's drawn on his whiteboard.
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December 02, 2011
Grand Falls, Arizona
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December 01, 2011
Your cup of tea?
A baby wombat in a tea cup.
Via David Thompson
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November 30, 2011
At the Great Wall
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November 29, 2011
All you ever need
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November 28, 2011
Moose heads
One of those doesn't-have-to-be-true-to-be-funny stories.
They dressed the mannequin like a hunter & tied it to the roof of the truck. The driver and passenger put on moose head costumes. Down the Maine Turnpike they went, causing about 16 accidents. They went to jail.
H.T. Tucson John
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November 25, 2011
Hideaway
Prints available here.
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November 24, 2011
Photographed or painted? (2)
By Roberto Bernardi.
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November 23, 2011
Likewise
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November 22, 2011
Photo contest 2011
This post at In Focus photoblog shows 45 entries in the National Geographic Photo Contest 2011.
This photo was taken in the Upper Antelope Canyon near Page (AZ) and it shows the amazing effect of the sand thrown in the air and struck by the rays of the sun. (© Angiolo Manetti)
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November 21, 2011
It's a record (3)
Well, this didn't take long... I posted an image of the previous record-holder last week. Who knew street chalk was so competitive?
3D Joe and Max x Reebok – World's Largest 3D Street ArtworkYesterday in London's West India Quays, Canary Wharf, on Guinness World Records Day, Reebok CrossFit has teamed up London-based street art duo 3D Joe and Max to complete what will go down as the world's largest and longest 3D street artwork ever (for now). The deceptively realistic piece measures 1,160.4 metres square and is 106.5m long, beating the previous 892.15metre square record set by China's Qi Xinghua, and will remain on display for the rest of today. (Nov. 18th)
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November 19, 2011
Angela Merkel on the Greek debt
The title of this amusing 'infographic' reads: The development of Greek public debt.
H.T. Danilo
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November 18, 2011
Photographed or painted?
Published by National Geographic.
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November 16, 2011
It's a record (2)
Chinese 3D artist Qi Xinghua's huge 3D painting, which is called 'Lions Gate Gorge', has set a new Guinness World Record as the world's largest 3D painting.His breathtaking artwork, created in a square in front of a shopping mall in Guangzhou Baiyan Wanda Plaza in Guangzhou, China, measures a staggering 23m wide and 32m long on the ground, while the wall it utilises is more than 6m high. It took him a month of painstaking work to complete.
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November 15, 2011
It's certain
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November 14, 2011
How to pet the cat
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November 11, 2011
Clouds
A nice collection of aerial photos of clouds.
Via David Thompson
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November 10, 2011
Underwater river
We are 30 meters deep, fresh water, then 60 meters deep – salty water and under me I see a river, island and fallen leaves… Actually, the river, which you can see, is a layer of hydrogen sulphide.
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November 09, 2011
What timing!
Angelo DeSantis took this picture of his cat with a mouse.
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November 08, 2011
Lego terracotta
At the Sarasota Chalk Festival.
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November 07, 2011
Attitude is everything
Here's a collection of 13 "doormats with attitude".
H.T. Mary
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November 04, 2011
Don't forget to duck
A driver survived having his car skewered by hundreds of steel bars in Taizhou, eastern China's Zhejiang Province. Yang Junsheng, 24, was driving at around 60km/h when he smashed into a truck carrying a full load of steel bars. At the moment of impact the bars shot backward, smashing through Yang's window screen. He says: "My mind was very clear at that second, and I immediately leaned down to the passenger seat When the car stopped I found the bars had filled in the space above me and the door at my side was poked open by the bars. The closest bar was only a few centimetres away." Yang escaped the incident with just a few scratches to his face.
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October 30, 2011
Great costume concept
But I wonder how well it wears.
From Reddit
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Hallowe'en PSA
Now that you're an adult, do the kids a favor and be like this person.
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October 29, 2011
Pop quiz
Source (via Coyote blog)
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October 28, 2011
Idle hands
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October 27, 2011
Company policy
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October 26, 2011
Age test (2)
Via American Digest
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October 25, 2011
Clever window sign
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October 24, 2011
Not found
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October 21, 2011
Soup of the day
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October 20, 2011
Cool hot air
Via Maggie's Farm
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October 19, 2011
Translation provided
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October 14, 2011
What a great sign
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October 13, 2011
Extreme jacuzzi
A group of 25 extreme jacuzzi enthusiasts have a soak suspended 150 metres above the ground from the New Gueuroz bridge in Switzerland. The event took about 2,500 hours to plan and a further six hours to assemble – all for 2.5 hours in the tub
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October 11, 2011
Think quick
H.T. Jeff G
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October 10, 2011
Street art
Made by TSF Crew.
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October 08, 2011
Autumn in Colorado
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October 07, 2011
Tough call
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October 06, 2011
Ever wonder?
How Weird Al would raise a child? Heh.
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October 05, 2011
Nicely done
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October 04, 2011
Better than one
Life has 15 images in a slideshow of two-headed animals.
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October 03, 2011
The eagle has landed
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September 30, 2011
Big storm at the big canyon
Nice.
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September 29, 2011
Tabular
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September 28, 2011
In the cockpit
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September 27, 2011
Musical architecture
A building in An Hui Province, China
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September 26, 2011
Autumn 2011
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September 24, 2011
Stairway safety
What?
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September 22, 2011
Frog bait
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September 21, 2011
Roger that
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September 20, 2011
Again with the funny signs
We haven't had any funny signs for a while. Here's a collection of 24.
H.T. Mary
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September 19, 2011
Yeow
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September 16, 2011
In Saturn's shadow
This is about 5 years old now but it's still striking. It's a composite of photos taken by Cassini over a few hours; multi-megapixel original here.
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September 15, 2011
Get out and enjoy nature
Here's 1 of 14 funny pictures about animals dealing with people.
H.T. Bill F
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September 13, 2011
Hot and dry
The Big Picture has 45 pix of the effects of the 10-month drought and the recent wildfires in Texas.
A cryogenic tank from the Space Shuttle Columbia was discovered in an evaporating lake bed on the shoreline of Lake Nacogdoches in east Texas, part of debris from the 2003 Columbia disaster, on August 3, 2011. (NASA/Nagodoches Police Department/Reuters)
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September 09, 2011
What your groceries say about you
This is 1 of 6.
What Your Groceries Say About YouWhenever I'm in the grocery store, I always tend to look at someone's cart and then immediately make a judgement about that person based on the contents of it. I think Webster's dictionary defines that as "Being an judgmental asshole," but so be it. Anyway, after one such trips to the grocery store I went home and fired up the ole' photoshop machine and did this.
H.T. Jeff G
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September 06, 2011
Age test
If you're old enough, you'll get this joke.
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September 02, 2011
Bent objects
Terry Border makes these small sculptures from wire and food (mostly). You can find more at his Bent Objects blog.
And if those pique your interest, you can find still more at Really Bent (The more graphic, black sheep cousin of Bent Objects). (His description.)
H.T. Mary
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September 01, 2011
Putting it all together
Conspiracy Theories Illustrated Using Plastic Model Kits. This is 1 of 5.
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August 31, 2011
Today's PSA (4)
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August 30, 2011
Heed your elders
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August 29, 2011
Tree Rorschach
Via The Agitator
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August 26, 2011
Beardly
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August 25, 2011
Hurricane season prayer
Via Maggie's Farm
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August 24, 2011
Unusual buildings
A few of the buildings in this collection of 80+ images have appeared here before but most haven't.
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August 23, 2011
Check your pockets
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August 22, 2011
Glass beach
One of 8 pix of a California beach.
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August 20, 2011
Dear Blank
One of six in an amusing collection.
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August 18, 2011
Post-It war
Post-It Battle of the Day: Employees of Ubisoft Montreuil, located just outside of Paris, decided to decorate their windows with Post-It note pixel art. Across the street, the folks at BNP Bank saw Ubisoft's (mostly game-themed) art and decided to one-up it with some creations of their own.Challenge accepted. Before long, the windows of both buildings were covered in sticky notes.
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August 16, 2011
Refraction
smsilton took this picture of an M.C. Escher sketch refracted through a drop of water and posted it at reddit.
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August 15, 2011
Leisure diving
Here at LeisureDive.com, we're dedicated to chilling out. Poolside, with a beverage, and in mid-air.
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August 12, 2011
Handy ads
This is one of 23 ads from AT&T for its cellular service. They all feature hand-paintings.
H.T. Mary
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August 11, 2011
Flaunt it if you've got it
The solar-powered bikini charges handheld devices.
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August 09, 2011
More cinemagraphs
Tripwire has a collection of 40 cinemagraphs.
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August 08, 2011
Honk for Granny
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August 05, 2011
Manhattan in the 40s
Sixty-plus images taken in Manhattan in the 1940s.
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Weird trees
Magnificent & Weird Trees at Dark Roasted Blend.
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August 04, 2011
Texas pride
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August 03, 2011
A good comeback
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August 01, 2011
Wire sculpture
The Realistic Wire Sculptures of Shi JindianThey might look like computer-generated images, but Shi Jindian's works are so real you can touch them. Using simple steel wire, the Chinese artist is able to create almost perfect replicas of anything from musical instruments to motorcycles.
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July 29, 2011
Res ipsa loquitur
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July 28, 2011
Road rage is everywhere
Why you shouldn't try to pass an elephant -- one of six images.
H.T. Bill F.
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July 27, 2011
Bodily fluids
10 Artworks Made with the Artist’s Own Bodily Fluids
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July 26, 2011
How hot is it? (2)
H.T. Bill F.
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July 25, 2011
Why men die younger than women
One of nine pix of stupid man stunts.
H.T. Steve R.
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July 22, 2011
Twitter light
Eric Fischer has geo-tagged Flickr and Twitter activity in areas (mostly cities) around the world and put the resulting images in a Flickf set. The scheme is: "Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both."
Not surprisingly, the results look like satellite photos of city lights - except they're not.
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July 21, 2011
DYAC faves
The Best of 'Damn You, Autocorrect'
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July 19, 2011
Zeppelin Eureka
Bernard Zee writes: I'm still giddy over having had the opportunity to ride in, and photograph the only Zeppelin in the United States. The 'Eureka' is one of a new breed of lighter than air ships manufactured by the Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH, and operated by Airship Ventures. Based out of Moffett Field (in Mountain View, CA), the Eureka offers sight-seeing rides of the Bay Area and Monterey.
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July 15, 2011
Got PMS?
This is one of several images from a California Milk Processor Board ad campaign.
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July 13, 2011
In the clock tower
A 7,000 sq.ft.apartment in New York City with 360° views. (Only $23.5 million.)
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July 12, 2011
The toaster
A large (22-foot) wall mural of a toaster made from toast.
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July 11, 2011
A map of the Universe
National Geographic provides one in a 23 megapixel image.
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July 08, 2011
Grown-ups
A slideshow in which parents' and children's heads are transposed. It's called Kindsköpfe (“Grown Ups”),
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July 07, 2011
Bulls in Pamplona
12 images in this slideshow of the San Fermin Festival that began in Pamplona, Spain this week.
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July 06, 2011
World War II
The Atlantic's In Focus photblog is running a 20-part retrospective of WW II. This is one of 45 images in Part 1.
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July 05, 2011
Fellowship of the Brick
A group of people won Best Group Layout for modeling all of Middle Earth in Legos.
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July 03, 2011
Fire in the sky
A nice composition by Chris Kotsiopoulos.
Fire in the sky! This is an image sequence containing 70 lightning shots, taken at Ikaria island during a severe thunderstorm.
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July 01, 2011
How to troll
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June 30, 2011
Nailed indeed
From XKCD.
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June 29, 2011
More sand castles and sculptures
17 sand castles and sculptures in this slideshow.
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June 28, 2011
Vintage geekery
Here's a Popular Science gallery of vintage tech from General Electric's archives -- some dating from Edison's day. This is an electric vehicle charger which is claimed to date to the turn of the century. (I assume they meant the turn of the last century.)
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June 27, 2011
Invisible tape
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June 24, 2011
Vintage submersibles
Ten vintage submersible cars at Popular Science.
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June 23, 2011
Miniature life
An interesting collection of 60 pix of miniature people, made by Christopher Boffoli.
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June 21, 2011
400 pounds per megabyte
And I hate to think how many dollars per megabyte. From Old Picture of the Day:
Today's picture is from 1956, and shows an IBM hard drive. This unit would be used to store information, not unlike your memory stick, thumb drive, or camera memory card. The hard drive pictured weighed over 1 ton, and was capable of storing 5 Mb or data. For comparison, it would take over 1,000 of these units to store the information held in a modern thumb drive.
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June 20, 2011
Face palm
H.T. Bill F.
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June 17, 2011
Endeavour's final mission
The InFocue photoblog has 38 pics from shuttle Endeavour's final mission.
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June 16, 2011
Puyehue
Time's LightBox photoblog has 14 images of Chile's Puyehue volcano
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June 15, 2011
Subways around the world
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June 14, 2011
Museum of Islamic art
Interior and exterior views of this museum, which is located in Doha, Qatar.
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June 13, 2011
Now we're talking
The Hoverbike. Its inventor thinks it can reach 10,000 feet and airspeed of 170 MPH.
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June 10, 2011
Out of control
The In Focus photoblog has 36 images of the Wallow fire in Arizona.
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June 08, 2011
Yugoslav memorials
Here's a collection of 25 war memorials built in the former Yugoslavia.
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June 07, 2011
Isn't it cute?
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June 06, 2011
Paper cuttings
A dozen figures hand-cut from paper. (Bad link fixed.)
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June 03, 2011
Husband of the year
Here's the winner of the Husband of the Year contest. Five runners-up here.
H.T. Tucson John
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June 02, 2011
Mind the guardrails
Tucson John sends four pix of a Chevy Suburban that "ate" 120 feet of guardrail on a Montana highway.. Luckily, there were no passengers and no one was injured. The Suburban was pretty well trashed, of course.
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June 01, 2011
It's a winner!
The first place winner in the Worst PPT Slide Contest
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May 27, 2011
Grímsvötn
The In Focus photoblog has 23 images of this volcano in Iceland.
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May 26, 2011
Spiky thing
The Post-Dispatch has a slideshow of hail stones which fell in yesterday's big storm in St. Louis. This one was taken by Tony Howell.
Two large large hail stones from storms that swept through the Southampton neighborhood of St. Louis on May 25, 2011. Photo via Twitter by Tony Howell / @scholarpreneur
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May 25, 2011
Nicely done illusion
From Today's Big Thing
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May 24, 2011
Meet Senor Mayhem
Motorcycles and mayhem at the Mexican Electrician Union protest in Mexico City
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May 23, 2011
Funny billboard
By redditor xtcg123. Here's a news report.
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May 20, 2011
Good advice (3)
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May 19, 2011
Creepy plants
10 Creepy Plants That Shouldn't Exist
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May 17, 2011
Big Muddy
The Big Picture has 33 images of this spring's flooding along the Mississippi. The fellow below is enjoying the fishing from his deck, normally 50 feet away from the river.
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May 16, 2011
The blue sky below
Spacewalks – the blue sky below us [32 Pics]. This is a collection of pictures of space walks, not just pictures from near orbit. But I particularly liked this one of the aurora borealis.
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May 13, 2011
Landmarks
Here's a nice collection titled The 50 Most Important Landmarks of the World. I don't know if I'd agree with that claim but it's a nice collection nonetheless.
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May 12, 2011
Kite photography
A nice collection of low-level aerial photographs.
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May 11, 2011
TGFB (5)
How to reproduce Van Gogh's Starry Night using bacon.
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May 10, 2011
Draw, pardner
The beer holster.
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May 09, 2011
Dogs of war
An interesting photo-essay at Foreign Policy about military dogs.
Dogs usually jump in tandem with their trainers, but when properly outfitted with flotation vests they can make short jumps into water on their own. A U.S. Navy SEAL, Mike Forsythe, and his dog, Cara -- pictured above -- recently broke the world record for "highest man/dog parachute deployment" by jumping from 30,100 feet.
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May 06, 2011
Where do the best grapefruit come from?
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May 05, 2011
Beautiful monsters
28 images of jellyfish and other aquatic forms.
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May 04, 2011
Ten strange places
Nice photos of ten unusual places. This one's called 'the eye of Africa.'
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May 03, 2011
Cinemagraphs
Very cleverly animated GIFs. Check it out.
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May 02, 2011
Think of England
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May 01, 2011
Who says you can't polish a banana?
A Japanese person named Yamaden carves bananas.
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April 28, 2011
TGFB (4)
A tutorial on how to make them.
Bacon RosesFlowers make a nice gift to the friend that needs a smile or for that special someone in your life. Roses are even better. But sometimes even roses don't cut it. Sometimes you need something a little more non-cliché, something...extraordinary... Sometimes, you need BACON.
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April 26, 2011
Always put the paint in the trunk
This is one of four pix of some folks who had 25 liters of paint in the back seat of their car -- at least until the collision.
H.T. Bill F.
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April 25, 2011
All robots
The Atlantic's In Focus photoblog has 33 pictures of all types of robots.
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April 22, 2011
View from above
Pics from Space as seen by Astronaut Douglas WheelockNASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock who is currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shares pictures of the Earth he snaps with the world through Twitter. Known to his nearly 68,000 Twitter followers as Astro_Wheels, he has been posting impressive photos of the Earth and some of his thoughts ever since he moved into the space station in June, five months after it got Internet access.
H.T. Steve R
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April 20, 2011
Now this is a tree house
The Minister's House in Crossville, Tennessee.
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April 19, 2011
iPad self-portraits
10 ingenious iPad self-portraits
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April 14, 2011
Where the buffalo roamed
Here's a big set of images made by John C.H. Grabill between 1887 and 1892 in the Dakota Territory and Colorado.
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April 13, 2011
Truth in advertising (3)
Seen in Perth, the photographer says.
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April 12, 2011
Poor choice of words
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April 11, 2011
Awesome frogs
Frogs are awesome.
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April 09, 2011
What a craftsman
Louis Chernot built this working 1/6 scale model of a Duesenberg SJ. It's roughly 3 feet long and took 5 or 6 years to build. Full story here, which includes many detailed pix.
Mr. Chernot built the 32-valve, straight 8 engine from scratch.
H.T. Bill F.
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April 07, 2011
A forest book nook
Here's an interior view (one of six) of an interesting library.
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April 06, 2011
Big bugs
A collection of 21 photomicrographs of insects by Steve Gschmeissner. He also has a large collection of public domain images here.
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April 05, 2011
More aerial photography
A nice collection of 35 aerial photos. This one shows a massively terraced hill near Bali, Indonesia.
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April 04, 2011
Missing the point
From Mark Perry, who wonders why people wear baseball caps backwards.
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April 01, 2011
Kyrgyzstan
A large collection of photos from Kyrgyzstan.
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March 31, 2011
Norwegian wood
This is a view of the Juvet hotel. It's one of 18 images of outdoor design in Norway.
Here's the Juvet hotel site. It's billed as Europe's first "landscape hotel". It looks pretty interesting but it also looks to be pretty remote from any cities.
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Chicago 1949
Here's a collection of photos taken in Chicago by Stanley Kubrick in 1949, when he was a young photographer for Look magazine.
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March 30, 2011
The USS J.F.K. at Malta
A nice aerial photo of this aircraft carrier docking at Malta and showing its size relative to objects on the land. Note that "Big John" is smaller than both the Enterprise class and Nimitz class carriers that have been built since she was.
Bigger source version here.
H.T. Steve R
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Heh (3)
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March 29, 2011
Japan, two weeks later
In Focus has a collection of images from Japan two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami.
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March 28, 2011
Bridges
As seen in Google Earth - here's 60 of them.
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March 25, 2011
Yippie-ki-yay
...in the Rhone valley of Switzerland. This is from a collection of photos by Yann Gross, who documented his trip to Horizonville.
By the means of a trip by motorbike in the Rhône Valley, the pictures are about the American dream. The myth we know through the medias and the movies. Most of the people I photographed haven’t ever been in the United State of America. They feel a sense of belonging to another culture that they don’t really know. Far from the Swiss stereotypes, the confusion of symbols and the lifestyle of the people take us in a strange atmosphere, a dreamed reality that doesn’t exist in facts.
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March 24, 2011
Pick your battles
H.T. Mary
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March 23, 2011
Venn Piagram
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March 22, 2011
Involuntary collaborations
Involuntary Collaborations: I buy other people's landscape paintings at yard sales and Goodwill and put monsters in them.
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March 21, 2011
Screw art
Andrew Myers makes portraits with screws using a 3D relief technique.
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March 20, 2011
Happy Equinox (3)
At 7:21 p.m. EST astronomical spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere. It almost slipped by me.
Cake image from What I Eat, Apparently.
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March 18, 2011
Catching some rays
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March 17, 2011
Before and after in Japan
ABC (as in Australia) News has an interesting page of interactive overlays of satellite images before and after the tsunami in Japan. The presentation really gives you a feel for the destruction.
H.T. Kevin H.
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March 16, 2011
Bad boy
H.T. Mary & Steve
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March 15, 2011
Carnival time in Brazil
Danilo sends a link to this photo, taken during Carnival in Brazil (which ended last Tuesday).
And the In Focus photoblog has a nice collection of Carnival pix from around the world, like this one from Sao Paulo.
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March 14, 2011
All about Pi
A local pizzeria.
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March 12, 2011
Woodies
Tucson John sends a bunch of pictures of wood-paneled cars. Marty North has a slideshow of them here.
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March 10, 2011
Now that's a CAPTCHA
TYWKIWDBI has a post about math CAPTCHAs.
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March 09, 2011
Health posters
This is one of nearly 7,600 posters at an NIH site. Some are retro, some modern, and they come from around the world. Many are in French and Spanish.
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March 08, 2011
At the dog show
The Big Picture has 34 pictures from the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
A Komondorak in the ring during the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)
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March 07, 2011
Industrial retro
A collection of vintage industrial ads, along with discussion about whether they were 'propaganda'. (?)
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March 04, 2011
The book surgeon
This is one of fifteen examples of books carved by Brian Dettmer. Many are more elaborate.
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March 03, 2011
Matchstick insects
By Kyle Bean.
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March 02, 2011
Zombies, aliens and robots
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March 01, 2011
Under Paris
A National Geographic slideshow about what's under Paris.
Behind the neat stacks of skulls, tibias, and femurs in the Paris catacombs lies a chaos of bones. In the 18th and 19th centuries the city dug up millions of skeletons from over-flowing cemeteries and poured them at night into old quarries.
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February 28, 2011
Snow Monsters
A collection of pix of the snow monsters of Japan
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February 25, 2011
Clever job ads
One of nine ads (from Germany apparently).
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February 24, 2011
Solar City tower
Bill forwards an e-mail with several images of the Solar City tower and the claim that it will be built near Rio for the 2016 Olympics.
Others say that claim is an e-mail hoax. But it's a striking design by the Swiss firm RAFAA, whether it gets built or not.
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February 23, 2011
Chevrolet billboards
Here's one of 20-odd Chevy ads on billboards around Detroit (so it's claimed).
H.T. Mary
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February 22, 2011
Terra cotta fire sale
The Forbidden Gardens in Katy, Texas (near Houston) is going out of business and selling practically everything.
This is 1 of 10 photos about the sale at the WSJ Photo Journal. There were nearly 6000 terra cotta statues, most of them at 1/3 scale.
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February 21, 2011
Mr. Innovative
There's a long, funny story associated with this image. It's all posted as a screen capture - here.
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February 18, 2011
I think I'd regret this
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February 17, 2011
Peter Rabbit, Tank Killer
Read the whole story here.
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February 16, 2011
They're out there
And probably looking for you.
Mercedes Benz Fashion Force Patrol CarAs fashionistas and celebrities pile into New York City this week for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, they might want to do a look over of their outfits before heading out. The reason? The fashion police just got themselves a brand new patrol car.
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February 15, 2011
Ski Poland
One of 39 pix at The Big Picture.
A skier is pulled by a horse during a traditional highlander's competition in Male Ciche, Poland January 30, 2011. (REUTERS/Marek Podmokly/Agencja Gazeta)
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February 14, 2011
More cute animal action - VIII
A 10-slide show of newborn animals.
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February 10, 2011
Today's PSA (4)
Law enforcement officers have been approached lately by people wanting to know how to identify meth labs. Here is a visual guide. It's pretty obvious which one is the meth lab.
H.T. Steve R
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February 09, 2011
Markets in everything (9)
Tucson John forwards an e-mail with this photo and the claim that the woman's selling margaritas and making $1250 per day at it. But other stories claim it's lemonade at $10 per customer. Pretty clever, no matter what the real deal is.
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February 08, 2011
Killer graph
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February 07, 2011
Sanitation truck slogans
1 of 18 images of well-labeled sanitation trucks.
H.T. Mary
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February 04, 2011
A good landing (2)
A car landed vertically in a snowbank in an accident involving several vehicles on Interstate 93 north of Salem, N.H. No one was injured.
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February 03, 2011
Google Art Project
Visit 17 museums in Europe and the U.S.. It's a collection of high resolution images of paintings and sculpture that can be panned and zoomed, as well as "Street View" type tours through the museums themselves.
This painting is at the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. Not as good as being there, but think of all you'll save on airfare.
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February 02, 2011
Not another 2 feet of snow!
H.T. Jeff G
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February 01, 2011
Ready to rock
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January 31, 2011
Truth in advertising (2)
This is a sample from this site, where you can design your own.
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January 27, 2011
Had enough of winter yet?
One of several funny pix.
H.T. Mary
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January 25, 2011
Good ideas
Tucson John sends some images of ingenious products. I suppose the one below isn't really a product but it's a clever idea.
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January 24, 2011
Inside Ralph Lauren's garage
This is one of twenty slides. He has a gorgeous collection.
A 1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa, center, surrounded by other Ferraris from the 60s, 70s, and 90s.
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January 21, 2011
Dakar 2011
1 of 42 images of the Dakar rally at The Big Picture.
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January 20, 2011
Snow in Music City
A recent Photo of the Day at The Agitator.
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January 19, 2011
Vintage aerial photos
Eduard Spelterini: Pioneer Balloonist PhotographerEduard Spelterini (1852-1931) received his license as a balloonist from the Academie d'Aerostation in Paris, 1877, where he lived a restless and glamourous life for a number of years. He began to photograph from his balloon in 1893 as a self-taught photographer and in the following thirty years put together a remarkable body of work.
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January 18, 2011
Simple animations
This is 1 of 10 animations of (mostly) common mechanical systems.
H.T. Tucson John
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January 17, 2011
Nice work if you can get it (7)
An older cartoon from The Joy of Tech.
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January 14, 2011
Funny things about ads
Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising
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January 12, 2011
Old school social networking
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January 11, 2011
Motown down
One of sixteen pictures of Detroit in Ruins at How to be a Retronaut.
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January 10, 2011
Rail pictures
I just came across RailPictures.net, the source of the image below. If you like trains, you'll enjoy their collection.
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January 06, 2011
"Tilt-shifted" Van Gogh
Van Gogh's Paintings Get Tilt-Shifted (12 pics)After seeing how tilt-shift photography could make real world scenes appear like miniature models, Serena Malyon, a third-year art student, decided to simulate the effect on Van Gogh's famous paintings. Using Photoshop, she manipulated the light and adjusted the focus to make us see these paintings in ways we could have never imagined.
Amazingly, nothing in these paintings was changed, added or removed. The incredible illusions are all created by the magic of Photoshop.
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January 04, 2011
Street food
11 images in a National Geographic slideshow.
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January 03, 2011
Funny headlines of 2010
The 50 Funniest Headlines Of 2010
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December 31, 2010
Vietnam's mammoth cavern
This comes from a National Geographic slideshow about a mammoth cavern in Vietnam. The thing is huge.
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December 29, 2010
Blue latex
A funny Venn diagram at Chart Porn: people who touch your junk.
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December 28, 2010
Oh, give me a home...
If you like your cute animals large and on-the-hoof, here are 15 pix of a pet buffalo. Some of them show the man and his buffalo riding in his car.
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December 26, 2010
An honest tattoo
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December 24, 2010
Nokopo joey
Here's a double-barreled dose of cute: two tree kangaroos in one picture, courtesy of the Post-Dispatch.
Baby kangaroo joey peeks out of mother's pouch at St. Louis ZooST. LOUIS -- She was born the size of a lima bean six months ago.
Now the little kangaroo joey is about the size of a small cat -- and starting to make herself a little more visible at the St. Louis Zoo.
The Zoo issued a press release Friday to gush about Nokopo, a female Matschie's tree kangaroo joey.
Nokopo, or "Noko" for short, has begun poking her head out from within her mother's pouch at the Emerson Children's Zoo at the Saint Louis Zoo.
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December 23, 2010
Looking like Christmas
37 photos at The Big Picture about Christmas events around the world.
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December 22, 2010
Until Niagara Falls
An article about some pictures taken in 1969 when the US Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Niagara river to dry up the American Falls for clean up and repair.
H.T. Bill F.
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December 20, 2010
2010 in pictures
The Big Picture has not 1 but 3 sets of images for the year. This one is from the Olympics at Vancouver in February.
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December 13, 2010
Good for what ails you
"The best medicine cabinet ever," says Steve F. Here's a kitchen with a wine cellar beneath a trapdoor.
Three more images after the break...
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December 10, 2010
The Nile at night
I believe this was taken from the ISS; it appears in this Twitter page, from "astro_wheels".
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December 09, 2010
Underwater sculpture
Danilo sends a link to this page about The Underwater Sculptures Of Jason deCaires Taylor
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December 07, 2010
I did
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December 02, 2010
Drug war in Rio
Danilo, who lives near Rio, mentioned in a recent e-mail that the police were "out of patience" with the criminals there. The Big Picture has 40 pictures of the result.
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December 01, 2010
Spirals
1 of 25 photos of spiral staircases.
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November 30, 2010
National Geographic's Photo Contest 2010
The Big Picture is showing 47 images from this contest. A great collection; it was tough to pick a single example.
A supercell thunderstorm rolls across the Montana prairie at sunset. (Sean Heavey)
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November 29, 2010
Earth as art
Here's an image from a collection of 22 images from Landsat 5 and Landsat 7, chosen for their visual appeal. This is the Mississippi river near Memphis, Tennessee.
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November 26, 2010
High-resolution panorama of London
Here's a snippet from an 80-gigapixel 360° panorama of London.. Impressive resolution; it looks like you could almost identify individuals.
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November 24, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving (5)
With luck, your family photo will look better than the twelve in this slideshow.
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Don't text and taxi
Steve R. asks, "How does one tell the boss 'I couldn't see a 737 in front of me'?"
An Airbus 330 collides with a Boeing 737 on the tarmac. Seven more pix below the break.
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November 23, 2010
Cheeky chipmunks
This is one of fifty pictures of chipmunks stuffing their cheeks.
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November 19, 2010
LIFE in the lab
28 retro-tech images in a slideshow at Life.com.
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November 17, 2010
Photogenic wildlife
Tucson John sends some pictures of meeting a deer. (This is a much better way than my recent pre-dawn encounter with a fawn. I don't know about the fawn but it cost me $2500 at the body shop.)
And of a white moose.
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November 16, 2010
Unsigned
A piece of art the size of a billboard that's titled Unsigned. (Linked page is in French.)
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November 15, 2010
Lascaux
The folks running the Lascaux cave site have very nicely done Flash version available. Great graphics, navigation and audio. Worth a visit if you have any interest in paleolithic painting.
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November 12, 2010
Aerial photography
Aerial views from all over the globe. (We had a link to a different collection of M. Arthus-Bertrand's photos a couple of years ago.)
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November 11, 2010
Veteran's Day 2010
Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. He is holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who was killed in the Korean War. Photo credit: U.S. Census Bureau.
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November 10, 2010
Durex markets XXL
This is 1 of 4 ads for Durex' new condom line.
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November 09, 2010
Geometry lessons
Here's one of four dresses using solid geometry designs.
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November 08, 2010
Subway history in pictures
The New York Times has a nice slideshow about the NYC subway, 85 images total.
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November 02, 2010
Plane pix
A nice collection of pictures of planes.
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November 01, 2010
Small World 2010
Nikon announces the winners of its Small World photomicroscopy competition for 2010. This one was number 12 (of 20).
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October 31, 2010
Trick or treat
Here's 1 of 90 body paint costumes. NSFW naturally.
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October 29, 2010
Light weight wheels
Gizmag has an interesting collection of pix of concept cars under 1000 pounds. I liked Honda's compressed air vehicle but these models from Nissan were more visually striking.
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October 28, 2010
Always wanted x-ray glasses?
Then here's the calendar for you: x-rayed pin-up models. The other 11 poses are a little more provocative.
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October 26, 2010
Ain't it the truth (3)
From GraphJam.
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October 23, 2010
A word to the wise (2)
Beware the blue shift.
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October 21, 2010
Airplanes and birds
This is one of eighteen pictures of aircraft after they've collided with birds. Some of the damage is surprising.
H.T. Steve R.
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October 20, 2010
Before and after
Der Spiegel has an interesting slideshow of East Germany, before and after re-unification in 1990 (37 images). There's also a related article: 20 Years of a Unified Germany.
And I can't resist adding: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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October 19, 2010
Fat's where it's at (5)
The Krispy Kreme bacon cheeseburger at the North Carolina State Fair. I don't think it outdoes the deep fried butter from Texas, but it's a contender.
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October 15, 2010
Northern autumn
1 of 35 pictures of autumn around the Northern hemisphere at The Big Picture. This one was taken in Pennsylvania.
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October 14, 2010
Clever designs
This plus sixteen other examples here.
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October 13, 2010
Strange taxidermy
If taxidermy is the right word for this.
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October 12, 2010
Realistic pencil art
Here's one of six realistic pencil drawings.
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October 11, 2010
Detroit Autorama 2010
Tucson John sent a collection of pix taken at Detroit Autorama 2010. Luckily, I found them all in a slideshow - although it's in PowerPoint form. Worth a look nonetheless, I think. There are many amazing custom rides. (Click the link or the image below to download the slideshow.)
Here's one of my favorites, called the Decoliner. Note the matching motorcycle, which can be stowed inside.
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October 08, 2010
Impressive animals
This is a group of ibex walking on the face of a dam in Italy. More photos at the link (along with a little debuking).
This is a forwarded email [...] that says big horn sheep were photographed walking across the steep wall of the Buffalo Bill Dam in Cody, Wyoming.The Truth:
The photos are real but were not taken at the Buffalo Bill Dam, according to a spokesperson at the Buffalo Bill Dam & Visitor Center, which is located about 6 miles west of Cody, Wyoming. She also told TruthOrFiction.Com that the location of the dam in the picture was in Italy and the animals in the photo were identified as ibex, not big horn sheep.These were actually photos of Alpine Ibex taken at the Lake Cingino Dam in the Italian Alps by Maurizio Piazzai, who posted them on the Internet.
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October 06, 2010
Scarification tattoos
A collection of 23 scarification tattoos. Most of them aren't this geeky.
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October 04, 2010
Flies like a bird
From a Business Insider article about Larry Ellison winning the America's Cup (my emphasis - JdJ):
"...the true star was his monster black-and-white trimaran and its radical 223-foot wing sail, which powered the craft at three times the speed of the wind, sending its windward and middle hulls flying well above the water."
Nine pictures of this beauty here.
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October 01, 2010
Animated trignonometry
Quick: sine or cosine?
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September 30, 2010
Funny license plate
In this vein, I'm reminded of a license plate I saw once that read 3M TA3.
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September 29, 2010
Urban bodies
One of ten pix of some performance art in New York City last weekend.
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September 27, 2010
Genital tattoos
Here's a collection of tattooed genitals and tattoos of genitals, split about evenly. Definitely NSFW - the one below is the only safe one of the bunch.
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September 24, 2010
Cheers!
40 photos of Oktoberfest in Germany (which began September 18th) at The Big Picture.
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September 22, 2010
Oops (7)
USAirways HOUSTON 26 AUG 2005 PARKING BRAKE SET BEFORE LANDING (all aboard safe, as far as we know).
Those must be some bodacious brakes to hold the wheels during touch-down.
H.T. Steve R
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September 20, 2010
Recycling close to the source
I don't know where this library is but it has a novel reference desk.
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September 18, 2010
At the time travel mart
They have an interesting assortment of goods for sale.
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September 14, 2010
Astronomy photos of the year
Nice photos in this contest held by Britain's National Maritime Museum (which includes the Royal Observatory at Greenwich).
Blazing Bristlecone by Tom Lowe
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September 10, 2010
A whole lot o' redneck
Mary sent one set of pix and Bill sent another. I've combined them into this set off 22 funny images. (A couple of them are obviously Photoshopped.)
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