Every two years, people flock to Tarragona, Spain for the “Concurs de Castells.” At the event, which is a Catalan tradition that dates back to the 1700’s, teams compete against each other in using their own bodies to build human towers–some of them consisting of hundreds of people. Talk about being a pillar of your […]
Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo AKA Bordalo II, likes trains. He likes them so much, that train tracks feature prominently into his latest series. These playful creations cleverly incorporate the straight lines of the tracks to create everything from musical notes to a game of Tic Tac Toe. Nice doing business with you. Bordalo II Musical notes. Bordalo II The musical notes […]
Do you remember a time when you may have been sent a love letter? Or even last time you received a handwritten piece of mail from a real person? Probably not. Thanks to email and texting, the amount of genuine person to person mail correspondence has pretty much gone the way of the dinosaur. But […]
3D TVs and movies really seem to be a thing these days, but wouldn’t it be cool if you could get the same effect without using those chunky 3D glasses? These animated pictures below demonstrate how just by adding two white lines through a flat imagine, you get that 3D effect we all love so much. […]
When I was a little kid, I once made a guitar out of an empty tissue box. I used it to strum along to all my favorite children’s songs, and I felt like a total rock star. I wasn’t the greatest guitarist, but hey, at least I looked cute. When it comes to making instruments […]
No matter how familiar you are with the biggest cities in the United States, I guarantee you haven’t seen any of them quite like this before. Photographer Stephen Wilkes has been widely recognized for his fine art and commercial photography, and he found a new way to present these major cities. His photo series, titled Day To […]
One user online found a man cave that would be any gamer’s dream come true. Someone built a customized room dedicated to every Nintendo system or video game created in the past two decades. It’s truly a beautiful thing… Those memories are priceless, but they could make a killing on ebay. In one room, years […]
There are countless social issues around the world that really need the public’s attention. Every single person gets caught up in their own life, but these shocking advertisements aim to drag everyone out of selfish habits. Each of these ads are hoping to raise awareness of a very real issue. They do the job by being so horrifying […]
Bruce Townsley was a man with a vision, albeit a strange one. In the mid 80s, he saw a guest on the Johnny Carson show that explained anyone with the money could buy a nuclear missile base for themselves. Anyone. It was an idea that was just too cool to forget. So, he tracked down […]
British chalk and street artist Julian Beever (not to be confused with teen heartthrob Justin Bieber) is known all over the world for his stunning pavement drawings, and especially his 3D illusions, which are drawn in a special distortion to create an impression of 3D when seen from one particular viewpoint. His works are so amazing that […]
