Society
Predictions of the Future from 1910 [23 Pics]
May 26 2012
These post cards were a vision of a French artist, Villard. He envisioned our planet as a perfect utopia for all. Although many of these are very inconsistent with current technology, the underlying idea of “how things would be” is definitely there!
A Room Lined with $100,000 Dollars
May 24 2012
Money is art and art is money – states the German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann that created this “Room of Money”. Not a single inch is showing of the bare wall behind the thousand tacked-on dollar bills.
A Love Story in 873 Stock Photos
May 24 2012
An awesome compilation of stock photography images to make this short clip for an advertisement of Getty Images! The film took six months to complete. Did you notice the power rangers (#392) or the random native people (#411)?
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
May 23 2012
– Zig Ziglar.
The Fearless Honey Hunters of Nepal [14 Pics]
May 22 2012
High in the Himalayan foothills, fearless Gurung men risk their lives to harvest the massive nests of the world's largest honeybee. They do all this without any safety equipment against the bees or the height they work at. Photos by Eric Valli.
Art that Speaks a Thousand Words [36 Pics]
May 18 2012
Pawel Kuczynski is an extremely talented Polish artist that specializes in satirical art. It is fantastic how much meaning each one of these images has without the use of any words.
The Best Animated GIF Images Pt.3 [15 Pics]
May 12 2012
The next installment of the best animated GIF images that we found on the web. Make sure to check out our previous animated GIF posts and share with your friends!
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
May 10 2012
– Abraham Lincoln.
Early 20th Century Russian Empire in Colour by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky [23 Pics]
May 10 2012
Around 1905 Sergey envisioned an immense plan to document the vast land of the Russian Empire. He wanted to apply recently emerging technological advances in colour photography to document the vast and diverse history, culture and modernization of the Empire.
“Worrying is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do but doesn't get you anywhere.”
May 9 2012
– Van Wilder.
A 92 Year Old Hollywood Pirate & a Hero to Soldiers
May 8 2012
Hyman Strachman is a WW2 veteran that spends most of his time pirating movies. He started doing this as a hobby shortly after his wife passed away to keep himself occupied. Since 2004 Hy has copied an estimated 300,000 movies and sent every single one to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan – out of his own pocket.
The Final Shuttle Launch
Apr 27 2012
Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, USA on its final mission to space. For the first time in history, a submarine officer (Capt. Stephen G. Bowen) was selected to be a mission specialist.
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Apr 26 2012
– Plato, a philosopher in Classical Greece. He was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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