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Photographer Captures The Ordinary Men And Women Of San Francisco In Series Exploring Humanity California-based photographer, Joe Quintana moved to San Francisco to pursue his dream of being a photographer. He enrolled at the Art Institute of San Francisco where he achieved a BFA in Photography, followed by an MFA from Stanford University. While living and working in San Francisco for 10 years, Joe embarked on a passion project where he photographed his day-to-day experiences on the streets....

Photographer Compares How Pros And Amateurs See The Same Location And The Difference Is Incredible Phillip Haumesser is an American photographer who began taking pictures in late 2015. He says beginning photographers always ask him how he finds such amazing locations for his pictures and his answer is: “Open your eyes, they’re all around you. You really don’t have to go anywhere.” Phillip says one of the struggles of a beginner photographer is seeing the world in a different way....

Photographer Takes An Intimate Look Inside Bedrooms Across The USA Barbara Peacock is an American photographer who has revealed what she’s been up to while traveling the USA. She did it with her new project, through which she aims to capture the complexities of who Americans are as individuals by photographing their intimate portraits right in the bedrooms all across the USA. The diversity of people she met along the way is rather incredible with not only her friends in their bedrooms but also random strangers who agreed to participate in the project after finding author’s invite on social media or stumbling upon her card left at the local shops....

Photographer Takes Pictures Of The Same Bench For 10 Years, And The Results Speak For Themselves Sometimes all you need to do to find beauty in everyday life is just look through a window. That is what Ukranian photographer Yevhen Kotenko has been doing for the past 10 years – looking out and taking pictures of one bench and the life happening around it. “I didn’t give myself any time limits or goals, I just went to the kitchen and looked out the window,” Kotenko explained to Radio Liberty....

R.I.P. Chuppy: The Golden Retriever Eternalized In Beautiful Photography By Her Owner For the past couple of years, Jessica Trinh has created a beautiful and heartwarming photography series revolving around her golden retriever Chuppy. Unfortunately, on the 1 st of March, the dog died from an auto immune system disease, leaving these gorgeous shots of him for his owner to remember the 7 beautiful years they spent together. The young photographer started taking these gorgeous and lively pictures of her dog when she was only 17-18 years old....

Rodiculous Artwork Sold For Millions Of Dollars What may look like a picture your 3-4-year-old son or daughter would bring from daycare for you to admire and put on the fridge or a sample of wall paint presented at the home supply store is called advanced modern art, sold for millions of dollars and displayed at the private collections of the richest houses. Remember the unsolved mystery of the iconic Black Square and the criticism the artist received for it?...

Russian Artist Creates Beautifully Accurate Steampunk Animal Sculptures With Moving Parts Russian artist Igor Verniy creates awe-inspiring steampunk animal and human sculptures that have accurately moving parts, making the creatures look impressively realistic. Birds, spiders, bugs, bats, and even robots come alive in Verniy’s masterful hands. Before assembling his creations, Verniy spends a great deal of time watching the animals so he can breathe their life into his pieces. He then assembles his creations out of random old metal bits like old car and bike parts, watch mechanisms, electronics, silverware, metal scraps, pinions, etc....

Seasonal Safaris in South Africa Located in the heart of one of the world’s most diverse conservation regions, South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal region is a top destination for safaris. The region offers an amazing collection of wildlife including a big chance of spotting the “Big Five” – lion, rhino (both black and white), elephant, buffalo and leopard. Regardless of the time of year, there’s always something to see, whether it is in the sky, on the land or in the sea....

Sharon Stone Poses Nude At 57 In B&W Photoshoot By Mark Abrahams Sharon Stone blew the world away with her role in Basic Instinct and was nominated as Best Actress for Casino. For the last decade and a half, she’s dealing with the effects of a brain hemorrhage. It occured in 2001, and lasted for nine days. It took months for Stone to regain control of her left leg, and a year for her vision to return....

Someone Called This Scientist “Unprofessional” For Her Red Hair And Tattoos But She Wasn’t Having Any Of That Of all the websites on the internet, LinkedIn is probably the last place where you should be looking for love. That, however, clearly doesn’t stop some people from treating it as a dating site and even resorting to petty insults after getting denied. This recently happened to scientist Stephanie E. Suarez after an engineer tried hitting on her on LinkedIn and, like a true “gentleman” decided it was a good idea to insult her looks after being rejected....

Star Wars Lighting With a minimalist style, designed to look like something you’d put at home, yet delicately catching the essence of the origin, these lighting fixtures are all inspired from Star Wars movies. Having that Scandinavian style, They are presented as pages in a Swedish catalog. The names remind the origin but converted to resemble Swedish and for credibility, paragraphs were added in google-translated Swedish with content from the original character’s Wikipedia page....

Students Noticed No Asian People In McDonald’s Posters, So They Added Their Own Faces And It’s Still There 51 Days Later A couple of friends – Jevh Maravilla and Christian Toledo – noticed there’s something missing in their local McDonalds – the representation of Asian people in their posters. So what did they do? They put up a poster of their own! While eating at a local McDonald’s one day, Jevh and Christian noticed that none of the many posters on the walls featured any Asian people....

Super Short Versions Of Classic Books For The Lazy Ones With a constant stream of new content every day it’s getting harder and harder to find time to read a book. Especially if it’s one thousand pages long. Cartoonist John Atkinson has also noticed this, and in response he’s come up with a useful reading hack that allows people to quickly read epic classic novels. Well, sort of… In his funny comics John has shortened classic books from hundreds of pages to less than 10 words....

The Creator Of The “Good Boy” And “Black Cat” Comics Is Back With Another Heartbreaking Comic About A Duck Jenny Hefczyc, aka Jenny-Jinya, is a German artist who creates grim yet bittersweet comics that deal with topics like loneliness and death. We already featured some of the artist’s works before and now she’s back with another heartbreaking comic about a baby duck. In an interview with Bored Panda, Jenny said she came up with the idea for the comic after seeing someone run over a family of ducks in front of her eyes on a slow country road....

The Cutest Postcards For Your Worst Enemies “Have you ever hated someone so much, that you decided to draw a postcard for them?” That’s the idea behind Killien Hyunh’s series of postcards. Since “I hate you” is hard to say with flowers, these tiny illustrations of animals and snappy phrases will have to do. It’s a classy way to show someone your disdain, if you really feel like doing it....

The New #FilterDrop Challenge Encourages Women To Skip The Beauty Filters And Share Their Natural Photos (15 Pics) Instagram and beauty filters seem like two inseparable things – but it looks like things are about to take a turn for the better. Back in July, makeup artist Sasha Louise Pallari started something called #FilterDrop – a viral campaign that encourages women to ditch the beauty filters and share their natural selfies....

The Table Reinvented After months of “beta-testing” and a successful trial on the market this revolutionary new design is now being officially launched by Hampstead based design duo Elle Halley and Nico Nardone from Modernico Ltd. The name of this product is simply “Ta-bl” “We were inspired by a vintage piece, that had universal appeal, functional design and was perfect for the needs of compact modern living” Nico Nardone. The idea behind Modernico’s designs to create products that are both beautiful and work in modern lifestyles that are often limited by space, time and yes, sadly money....

These Gorgeous Scarves Will Make You Look Like A Bird With Its Wings Spread Wide Open Roza, the Melbourne-based creator behind the stylish “Shovava” Etsy shop, has created an original and inspiring collection of handmade scarves depicting birds with their wings spread wide. The beautiful scarves are made of natural materials (mostly cotton) that are “non -itch, non-toxic, and recyclable.” Roza hand-paints and digitally prints the colorful designs, leaving every naturally hued watercolor brush-stroke visible....

These Surrealist Cat Paintings Are So Weird, It’s Hilarious Danial Ryan is a painter whose work is definitely one of a kind as it usually revolves around cats and painting them in the most extraordinary places making them the center of his art pieces. From a cat groping Donal Trump to a kitty sitting in an avocado as it’s pit, Ryan definitely knows how to create something incredibly weird and yet so extremely good at the same time....

Things you should do to book an affordable Hotel deal. Booking affordable hotels is not the most difficult thing in the world. However, we often make the mistake of choosing the wrong hotel and at the wrong price only to regret a decision on a later date. If you have made a mistake in the past and you do not want to make the same mistake with your next hotel booking, here are some important things that should be kept in mind to book an affordable Hotel deal without compromising on the quality of the hotels selected....