The old city of Venice begins to wake up.

Trey Ratcliff

 

Geometric Sculptures In Nature By Martin Hill

Living and working near Wanaka in New Zealand, Hill creates his site-specific installations together with his partner Philippa Jones, exploring the topic of sustainability since 1992.
The temporary artworks are then preserved through photographs.

 

In the Frosty Air

Photograph by Gvido Satori, National Geographic Your Shot

 

Seasons change but the cat remains the same.

Magdalena Grześkowiak

"Did I say you can stop?"

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Meet Loki; destroyer of shoes, melter of hearts

reddit 

 

Which Dog Breed Are You?

Like people, dogs come with an infinite variety of unique personality traits. In this quiz, you'll answer some basic questions about yourself, and you'll see what dog breed you'll be based on your answers.

 

Birdsong

xkcd

 

Peanuts

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A Little Monkey on the Cliff

Hidetoshi Ogata

 

Baby Bird

Keri Owen 

Seeing the Trees Through the Forest

David Ellingsen

 

Cold Light of Day

Photograph by Andrew George, National Geographic Your Shot 

 

Your Inner Child Will Be Jealous Of This Giant Automated Bubble-Making Machine

Growing up, blowing bubbles was an endlessly frustrating exercise in futility. Nicholas Hanna makes the whole thing look easy with Bubble Device #2.

 

Between The Earth And Sky

Kunihiko Nohara creates lofty sculptures whose subjects hover between the earth and sky.
Using a single piece of wood for each of his pieces, Nohara replaces clothing with clouds making his figures seem ready to take flight in a hot air balloon.

 

Bubbleissimo, Mindo Cikanavicius

His series mocks the need to define and portray what it means to be masculine, and, through what seems at first glance to be an overtly serious series, successfully, upon further inspection, invites in a air of making fun of itself.

 

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere.

maddie on things

 

Touching photo shows dog’s final run on her favourite beach

A poignant picture of Jessie the Black Labrador's last visit to the seaside at Redcar beach, North Yorkshire has gone viral after capturing the hearts of animal lovers. Jessie the Black Labrador was deaf, going blind, suffered from arthritis and needed to be lifted out from a van for her visit to the seaside. But despite her age and ailments, the 15-and-a-half year-old pet had the energy for one final run. Jessie’s owner, Lisa Rutter, knew the dog was coming to the end of her life and as Jessie ran towards her Lisa captured the moment on her phone.

 

Dancing in the Rain

Vladislav Kamenski 

 

“Uma Cabra” by Bordalo II

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Never Crew

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“Shinoya” by Fin DAC

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Get Stuck on New York's Pop Culture With These Historic Stamps

It’s hardly news that New York City has had a major impact on pop culture, in everything from theater to music to architecture. But for Calvin Mitchell, assistant curator of philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, the scale of the city’s influence hit home as he was putting together the museum’s latest exhibition, “New York City: A Portrait Through Stamp Art.”

 

Stalin May Have Studied Mao’s Poop in a Secret Lab

Have you ever been so intrigued by (or scared of) someone that you felt the need to analyze their poop? Joseph Stalin's answer to this question was apparently yes. As Steven Rosenberg writes for the BBC, a former Soviet agent has revealed that the dictator had a top secret program to analyze the excrement of other foreign leaders during the 1940s. Rosenberg reports that documents in the archives of the Russian Secret Service reveal evidence of a secret laboratory that put Soviet scientists to work studying the excrement of world leaders. The idea was that traces of various compounds in feces could give insights into each person's psychology. Continue 

 

You will be flowers

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Snow Day

Incidental Comics