The girl who gets gifts from birds

Lots of people love the birds in their garden, but it's rare for that affection to be reciprocated.

 One young girl in Seattle is luckier than most.

She feeds the crows in her garden - and they bring her gifts in return.

 

All In All It’s Just A…’Nother Pup In The Wall

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Amazing Photos Of Our Best Friends

Our best friends in single photo to melt our hearts with love! They are the star of the photo shoots of Juliana Frug , a photographer of São Paulo-Brazil dedicating his love of animals in amazing photos.

 

It’s a Photo! It’s a Collage! It’s a Pop-up!

Pop-up photography? 3-D pop-up? It’s tricky coming up with one label to describe the works of art that Colette Fu creates—maybe because so few people do what she does.

 

I Am Dust by Olivier Valsecchi

“What I looked for in the ‘Dust’ series was to curve around the timeline like a circle and capture, in the same image, something and its opposite, like endings and beginnings, dead and alive, floating in water and flying in dust, so in the end the viewer can never know when it starts and when it ends.”

The models in “Dust” capture this atemporal moment of creation perfectly. Their bodies are frozen in time and space, but with their eyes closed, they become expressions of pure energy.
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This is what a Martian sunset looks like

Every evening, when the sun sets on Mars, this is what the Opportunity rover — one of two active rovers on the planet — sees:

You may be wondering about the one big difference between this sunset and those on Earth.
 Why is everything so blue?
 As it turns out, it's an effect of Mars' dust. Airborne dust particles disproportionately scatter red and green wavelengths of light, so that mostly blue light reaches the surface. On Earth, gas molecules in our atmosphere disproportionately scatter blue light, so more red light reaches our eyes. via 

Welcome to the Jungle

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it comes back

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Calvin and Hobbes

Canadian 'freezeway' could let residents skate to work

Cold temperatures persist over much of North America this week. But rather than just trying to survive the winter, one Canadian city is trying to turn it into an asset. With an average temperature of -12C (9.5F) in the heart of winter, and home to seven city-owned outdoor skating rinks, Edmonton, Alberta is no stranger to the cold. Unlike other cities in the US and Canada that have banned activities such as tobogganing because of insurance costs, Edmonton has no such laws. Now the city is considering flooding an 11km route for residents to commute through the city on skates.
 It's called the Freezeway.

 

Crystallized Books

Never has the thought of books and newspapers becoming obsolete been so appealing. Artist Alexis Arnold makes the idea attractive by gathering different National Geographic magazines, Bibles, and discarded phone books and turns them into crystallized sculptures.

 

Photoshop Manipulations By Anil Saxena

Anil Saxena from Mumbay, India creates amazing photo manipulations with Photoshop.
 These surreal photos will truly amaze you.

 

Celebrity Portraits Taken At Vanity Fair Oscar After-Party By Mark Seliger

Alejandro González Iñarrítu

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Eye for an Eye

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And how may I help you?

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Optical Illusions By Erik Johansson

We’ve all seen plenty of optical illusions before, but Erik Johansson’s masterfully twisted works of art still retain their power. Perhaps it’s because they’re composite photos, making them some of the most realistic and unsettling illusions we’ve ever seen.

 

70 Years Ago Today

On February 19, 1945, United States Marines landed on the rocky volcanic island of Iwo Jima in the western Pacific Ocean. The plan was to capture this island, build air bases on it, then use those bases to bomb mainland Japan, beating it into submission. 18,000 dug-in Japanese soldiers defended this 8-square mile island. 70,000 Marines took responsibility for rooting them out. It took almost a month to do so. It was only on March 16 that it was finally secured. That victory cost the lives of 7,000 Americans with 20,000 wounded. Before that time, the Americans had the opportunity to announce that they intended to stay. On the fifth day of the battle, the Marines took Mount Suribachi, a high point on the southwestern tip of the island. They raised the stars and stripes on a staff over the top.
Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press was there to photograph it.

 

Kids Musical Group's Interpretation of Led Zeppelin Songs Wins Approval of Jimmy Page

 Shown here in what is just a rehearsal, musical group Louisville Leopard Percussionists play a medley of three Led Zeppelin songs, "Kashmir," The Ocean," and "Immigrant Song" on xylophones, marimbas and drums, definitely bringing it on home with their performance. The group consists of 55 student musicians, ages 7 through 12, all from the Louisville, Kentucky metro area. Each group member achieves proficiency on several instruments including marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, drums, timbales, congas, bongos and piano. The group likely was thrilled when none other than Jimmy Page linked to this video from his Facebook page on Friday, with the message “Too good not to share.” Now that is the stuff of a "band geek's" dreams! Congratulations, kids!
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Calvin and Hobbes

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15 Great Neil Patrick Harris Moments At The Oscars

In case you missed it.

 

That Monday morning feeling....

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after watching the Oscars.

And the Oscar Goes To

Dark comedy Birdman won best film and best director for Mexican film-maker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. It also won best cinematography and best original screenplay. The film sees Michael Keaton play a former movie superhero actor, who hopes to revive his washed-up career by putting on a Broadway play. more

She Told The Chimp She Had Lost Her Baby. The Chimps Response is Heartwarming.

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If The World's Major Cities Were Made Of Food

In a charming photo series called BrunchCity, photographer Andrea G. Portoles and illustrator Bea Crespo reimagine the world's cities as mini metropolises where midday noshes are part of the architecture.