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creator — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:04:08 +0000

Crazy Photos From Asia

creator — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:57:05 +0000

Everyone is different in this world, and these pics don’t represent every person in Asia, so either accept it, or suck it…

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Painting Made From 200000 Ants by Chris Trueman

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:30:10 +0000

Painter Chris Trueman, from Claremont, California, has created a unique painting by using 200,000 dead ants instead of paint.

The painting Chris calls “Self Portrait With a Gun” actually features his younger brother, dressed as a cowboy, holding his dad’s rifle. From afar this unusual artwork looks more like an old yellowed photo, but as you approach it, you realize it’s actually something completely different – a painting made of ants.

To the artist, this bizarre ant painting represents how humans learn about things abstractly, only to have their impressions changed as they get closer to them. But actually completing his masterpiecewasn’t the simplest task, mostly because he hated killing the creatures he perceives to be ” right on the line of what I consider intelligent life.” When he first began the project, he decided to catch the ants himself, but the ants in San Francisco, where he was living at the time, were too small. So he decided to order them online, from a guy who was breeding and selling them as food for lizards.

First he ordered just 1,000 ants, because he didn’t know how many he would need for the right density, but then he started ordering 40,000. They came in peanut-butter jars, and seeing them moving around in there, it was hard for Chris to make a decision. He couldn’t release them, because they weren’t native to that area, and they could start biting people. So he decided to kill the ants himself. It wasn’t easy, and he even took a 1-year-break, but decided to complete his ant masterpiece, because he didn’t want the first batch to have died in vain.

Some of the ants dried up and were torn to pieces, so Chris Trueman used them in the large parts of the painting, where details weren’t important, saving the full-sized ants for the detailed parts. he would handle them with tweezers, placing them on the Plexiglass canvas and coat them in a painting resin called galkyd.

Chris Trueman‘s ant painting is on display, at an art gallery in San Diego, and is priced at $35,000.

Nazi Food in Moscow

creator — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:19:41 +0000

Recently in Moscow supermarkets there have appeared swastika stickers on Lithuanian products. The day before the youth movement “Nashi” (“Ours”) called to declare a boycotte to the Lithuanian goods because the Klaipeda court had announced swastika to be a historic heritage of Lithuania.

The lying down game

creator — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:11:16 +0000

The Lying Down Game is an Internet meme typically involving individuals having their photograph taken whilst lying rigidly face down.

Unusual Way to Travel in Columbia

creator — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:30:30 +0000

Residents of Los Pinos, Colombia, including children, use a zipline for their daily commute. There are two ways in or out of Los Pinos– A two-hour hike or a one-minute zip line ride. Eight children use the zip line daily to go to school and return home. There are no plans to build a bridge, because the population of the village doesn’t justify it. Two separate cables strung across the river 1,200 feet below allow you to come and go, so– bring your own pulley, rope, and brake, and away you go! It looks like fun, but I don’t know about doing it every day.

Maximum speed, which can be developed on these ropes – 62 km / h.
Length – 400 meters.

Face Painting by James Kuhn

creator — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:52:27 +0000

46-year-old James Kuhn uses his face as canvas, to create some of the most eccentric face-paintings you’ve ever seen.

Kuhn says he has always been an artist, drawing in his oatmeal, as a child, but found his passion for face-painting, one day when he was snowed in, and couldn’t get to work. He is famous for taking on a project that implied drawing a different thing on his face, every day, for an entire year.

His “self-portraits” include different animals, foods, cartoon characters and pretty much anything you can think of. Kuhn himself admits he is addicted to face painting, always thinking about what his next design will be.

Because he found the first 365 project fun James Kuh decided to go through it one more time. You can track his progress and check out the rest of his rich face-painting portfolio on his Flickr stream.

Coins of ancient Rome

creator — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:06:39 +0000

Nude Figures and Erotic Images on Ancient Coins. These coins were made in Rome around the first century BC and they were paying for certain services, or they went as usual?

All flamboyant eccentricity

creator — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:23:40 +0000

Amazing collection of images, and the fine art of eccentricity.

Cold War Vintage Ads

creator — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:15:13 +0000

The Red Menace: fascinating vintage ads from the times of Communism and the Cold War.

A Scot Tissue Towels ad. (Photo)

A 1950′s propaganda ad from Radio Free Europe, printed at Better Homes and Gardens magazine. (Photo)

“Communism and Christianity”, a 1955 ad from Canadair. (Photo)

A Republic Steel ad from 1951. (Photo)

A 1949 ad for Douglas Aircraft Company. (Photo)

U.S. Savings Bonds ad from 1962. (Photo)

This is one of the great print ads from Expo 1967 marketing blitz. Printed in American magazines, it played off the major theme ofthe cold war , USA vs Russia, taunting the American audience to get to the Expo and check in on the Russian building project. A little dark but extremely witty and smart. (Photo)

A Western Electric ad from 1951. (Photo)

Compare two boys working under the shadow of a) Lincoln and b) Lenin, says this Young & Rubicam 1959 ad. (Photo)

A 1961 Radio Free Europe ad. (Photo)

Another Radio Free Europe ad from the sixties. (Photo)

This 1956 advert from Canada exhorts the young men of that nation to get off their behinds and go train to become better athletes than their communist counterparts. The fact that sporting excellence is good propaganda for any nation failed to encourage the Canadian government to sponsor its athletes as communist countries had done. (Photo)

Another Canadair from 1955 about Communism and education. (Photo)

“How to Survive an Atomic Bomb”, a 1951 ad by the Mutual of Omaha, an insurance company. (Photo)

A 1951 ad by the American Railway Car Institute. (Photo)