A modern art critic was asked to review some of Adolf Hitler’s paintings without being told who painted them. He judged them to be “quite good” while also stating that the artist’s depiction of human figures in the paintings revealed his profound disinterest in people.
Photographer Spends Two Years Taking Heartbreaking Photos of Soon-to-Be Extinct Animals
The plight of endangered animals is a very real one, and it’s largely our own fault. Thankfully, while much of the world wrings its hands in apathy, there are people like British photographer Tim Flach – a man who has made it his mission to document this plight and raise awareness around animals facing extinction.
Flach spent two years around the habitats of endangered animals, photographing their everyday lives. The images he’s created are both extremely powerful and heartbreaking.
A recent U.N. report stated that a staggering one million species of animals and plants are now facing extinction, which makes Flach’s work even more important.
Here are 15 examples of Flach’s photos. You can order his book Endangered on Amazon.
1. Philippine Eagle
2. Iberian Lynx
IUCN Red List: Endangered #iberianlynx #lynx #cat #bigcat #canon #wine #cork #endangered #timflach #photography #wildlife3. Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
4. Axolotl
5. Hyacinth Macaw
6. Snow White Tiger
Shankar the Snow White Tiger. Completely white stripeless tigers are rare in the wild, in captivity they tend to be Bengal Siberian cross, or have a variety of recessive gene combinations. Only one has been born in captivity in recent years. pic.twitter.com/xS0Y0CxVSE
— Tim Flach (@TimFlach) February 20, 2018
7. Shoebill
8. Snow Leopard
9. Saiga
10. Polar Bear
11. Hippopotamus
12. Pied Tamarin
13. Sea Angels
14. Yellow Eyed Tree Frog
15. Crowned Sifaka
Check out Flach’s website and his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages to keep up to date on his incredible work.
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French Artist Brings Humor and Whimsy To the Streets of His City
Art is all around us, if you have the eyes to see it. If you don’t, a little help from a creative street artist certainly helps!
French artist CAL has made it his mission to do bring art into everyday life. Where we might see a bunch of leaves. he sees a blanket. Where we see a bush, he sees a nest of baby birds. Check out these awesome photos of his work!
1. Hungry birds
2. Popcorn petals!
3. Ladybugs
#trottoir #streetartlyon #coccinelle #ladybug #streetart #streetartglobe #streetartnews #streetartgallery #tv_streetart #graffiti_art #graffiti #ilovedetails #cute#graff #streetarteverywhere #urbanart #かわいい #かわいい
4. Frightened leaves
5. Beauty
！これ話こけしです！ #hanami #はなみ #はな #花見 #こけし #こけし屋 #kokeshi #streetart #printemps #graffitis #streetarteverywhere #printemps #streetartnews #streetartofficial #cute #poupee #urbanart #urbanpoetry #trottoir6. Weigh yourself
January check up …7. Reading in bed
8. Angry trash
9. Crabby shoreline
10. Where’s Waldo?
( redif )CAL has the ability to make the ordinary extraordinary!
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This Woman Is Waging a Hilarious War Against Selfies
If you’ve never seen a picture of a person impersonating a cadaver and taking a picture of it, then you’re in luck! STEFDIES is a photo series by an anonymous woman who pretends to be, well, dead in photos.
And there’s a good reason for it!
The STEFDIES series reminds us we will one day die, like our face down figure. Hence seeing her in the photograph wakes up not only the image but us. We are given the opportunity to ‘die before we die’ and really take in the moment in the photo as we must in life. It is not about death, it is about life.
STEFDIES is a constant reminder of how precious life is. The breath inside is what we all ultimately seek.
So that’s fun!
You know what’s more fun? Her pictures!
1. Looks like London?
2. At a petting zoo!
3. A friend joining her for an art show!
4. Okay, that could actually be lethal…
5. Submerged
6. Outside Notre Dame
. #notredame #cathedrale #cathedralenotredame #paris #stefdies #stefdiesinparis #cathedral #streetphotography #photography #femalephotographer #performanceart #performanceartist #contemporaryart #contemporaryphotography #antiselfie #faceplant #leaveamark #femaleartist #travelphotography #artexhibition #celebratelife #humour #photogallery #photoexhibition #coffeetablebook #rencontresarles7. Clowning around!
8. Eiffel corpse!
9. Smashed on the rocks!
10. Under the Golden Gate bridge…
11. In Madrid!
12. At Disney World?
13. Enjoying a snack…
14. Parking lot probs…
15. Along the English countryside…
Check out her website here and Instagram here, and enjoy all that weirdness. You’ve earned it.
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Based on da Vinci’s work…
Based on da Vinci’s work, there is evidence that the artist had strabismus: one eye is straight, while the other eye can drift. Some forms of strabismus are thought to facilitate artistic work by suppressing the deviating eye, which creates 2D monocular vision advantageous to painting and drawing.
Boston Elementary School Tries Out New, 3D Crosswalk
Young students in Medford, Massachusetts, have come up with a brand new innovation for the area: 3D crosswalks. Not only do they look way cooler than regular ol’ 2D crosswalks, but they also make the intersection safer.
The 3D crosswalk is at the intersection of a parking lot and Allston Street at Brooks Elementary School, and it was two students at the school who came up with the idea. Fourth-grader Isa and fifth-grader Eric worked with their teacher and the Brooks Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility to make it happen.
Photo Credit: City of Medford / Mayor’s Office/Facebook
Painters added additional shaded shapes around the normal white stripes of the crosswalk, creating an optical illusion for drivers approaching the intersection. Instead of obviously lying flat on the ground, the white lines appear to be blocks on the street, which prompts drivers to slow down and pay more attention.
“It’s been really well received and there’s a lot of excitement about it,” teacher Michael Coates told The Boston Globe.
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Boston artist Nate Swain, well-known for his photo murals around the city, designed the crosswalk. Medford plans to install three more of the same crosswalks in the near future, also outside elementary schools.
3D crosswalks are a first for Medford, and for the Boston area in general, but they’re not a brand new concept. They’re also known as “Iceland crosswalks,” as that country started the trend. They also exist in other cities around the world, including Chicago.
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Nabisco Sets Animal Crackers Free from Their Circus Cages
It’s a symbolic gesture, but an important one, nonetheless. After 116 years, the famous Barnum’s Animal Crackers have a brand new box design – and the details are important.
To refresh your memory, here’s what the old box looked like.
Photo Credit: Public Domain
Now here’s the new design for the packaging.
After 116 Years, Barnum's Animal Crackers are…
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That’s right, the animals have been “freed” – they are no longer in cages and behind bars. A push from folks at PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) helped to spark the change.
The new design shows the animals walking across the savannah with no bars, cages, or chains in sight. PETA’s people got in touch with the company back in 2016 and suggested it might be a good idea to show the animals in their natural environments.
Several companies make animal crackers, but Nabisco’s Barnum brand has been the most popular for decades. The brand was named after the legendary P.T. Barnum, and Nabisco started manufacturing the cookies in 1902. Obviously, attitudes towards animals have changed since then.
Times have changed so much that in May 2017, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus closed business for good.
Photo Credit: Public Domain
In a statement, PETA said, “The new box for Barnum’s Animals perfectly reflects that our society no longer tolerates caging and chaining exotic animals for circus shows.”
Bravo! Any progress is good these days…
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15 of the Ugliest Belgian Houses You’ll Ever See
There are no shortage of things in this world that go so far down the ugly scale they begin to somehow get cuter – like the scale is actually a loop and not a straight line.
I wouldn’t have guessed that this would apply to houses, but thanks to blogger Hannes Coudenys, now I do. Belgium is notorious for its quirky buildings, and in 2012 Coudenys started an Instagram account documenting some of the weirder ones.
It’s called Ugly Belgian Houses, and even architects and architecture enthusiasts can’t get enough.
After you scroll through these 15 bizarre architectural oddities, you’re not going to be able to, either.
#1. Are you sure it’s finished?
#2. A couple couldn’t decide on what kind of house to build and so this happened?
#3. Warped storage box or a house?
#4. Why would you do this.
#5. So weird.
#6. No idea what’s happening here.
#7. It’s a door! It’s a window! It’s both!
#8. That’s quite a beak.
#9. I can’t stop staring.
#10. Is it falling apart?
#11. This one, though.
#12. It looks like it’s made of Legos.
#13. I’m strangely uncomfortable.
#14. Somebody pissed this house off.
#15. In a science fiction movie, this is where the evil scientists are being all evil-y.
You can keep up on Instagram or Facebook.
Hot tip: don’t build a house like this.
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This Mom is Changing the Game by Shooting Portraits of Girls in Sparkly Dresses and Sports Gear
From a young age, girls are sent the message that they have to either be girly-girls or tomboys. There’s no in between and there’s no overlapping.
Well, not anymore.
Heather Mitchell runs HMP Couture Imagery in Alabama, and she shoots portraits of young girls who want to do what they want to do. Her series is called “Because you can do it all”, and it has gone viral in a big way.
Dress by Dollcake
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Mitchell said, “My youngest daughter is 8 and she is trying softball this year for the first time. We were at practice a few weeks ago and I was talking with the other moms. I was saying that I hoped Paislee learned to love the game because she was athletic. One of the moms told me that she was not athletic, that she was a girly-girl.”
She added, “I couldn’t sleep that night. All I could think was, ‘Why does she have to choose?’ I played every sport my school offered and wore lipstick to every game. So the next day we went to the studio and created her shot.”
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After posting shots of her daughter Paislee on Facebook, the requests from other moms came flooding in.
Take a look at these young ladies.
Dress by Dollcake
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Posted by HMP Couture Imagery on Friday, April 12, 2019
Mitchell added a final comment. “My parent taught me that I could be anything I wanted growing up. I didn’t realize till I was much older that everyone is not that blessed.”
Great stuff! Remember girls – you can do it all!
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Artist Finds Her Childhood Bully Online and Shares the Results
Many of us get picked on at a young age in school by bullies and as we grow up, we never forget their name or their face.
For those who are bullied, many of the things people have said to us stay with us as we get older and torment us for years. It’s hard to completely let go of things that had such an emotional impact on you, especially as a kid. Canadian artist Meghan Lands was bullied and tormented for years–and she has constantly tried to forget her past.
Lands told Bored Panda:
“I think many of us have been either picked on or the pick-onner at some point in our lives. Growing up is tough to begin with, and in school we have to contend with this social pecking order that’s constantly reasserting or reorganizing itself.”
Lands decided to look up her bully on Facebook, all these years later, to see what she looked like now and what she was up to. Instead of sharing what she found, she decided to showcase it through a comic strip that has since gone viral on Tumblr.
Photo Credit: Meghan Lands
Many people online could relate to Lands’ comics on a deep level. Others shared some advice.
You can see more of Lands’ work on her website and social media profiles: meghanlands.com | Instagram | tumblr | Twitter
This article was originally published by our friends at Woke Sloth.
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