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Notebooks Covered In Embroidered Veins, Holograms, And Floral Patterns There’s quite a quirky and creative shop on Etsy called Fabulous Cat Papers that has a wide range of beautiful handmade notebooks with intricate embroidery. Chara, the Athens-based creator behind the shop, uses unconventional images to breathe life into her embroidery: from blood vessels, skulls and holograms to webs, carcasses, and mathematical formulas. The artist also creates gorgeous black paper notebooks that truly look elegant and original if written on with silver or white pen....

Nurse Shares 11 Stories About The Craziest And Funniest Patients She Had It’s pretty surprising how many people think that nurses do nothing but bring patients an occasional pill and drink coffee all day when in reality it is they who make sure the patients are comfortable and don’t die after their operations. It’s the nurses, not the doctors, who spend the most time with patients so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that many of them meet all sorts of crazy people during their day....

Old City Buses Will Be Turned Into Mobile Homeless Shelters in Hawaii Hawaii’s homeless are about to spend a lot more time on the bus. A new project headed by Group 70 International would see 70 decommissioned and donated buses turned into shelters. It’s more than that: the buses would be specialized and operate in fleets. Some buses will feature shower areas, other buses will be dedicated to learning. Together, they’d provide comprehensive services....

Old Romanian Glass-Plate Photos Revitalized With Color And Digital Magic The re-discovery of over 5,000 glass plate negatives by Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte in 2013 was a sensation for historians and professional photographers alike. Australia-based photographer Jane Long created original artworks based on Acsinte’s newly-discovered black and white photos, giving them color and a sense of magic with digital manipulation. Each of these portraits carries a unique story, which Long tried to elaborate upon in her own artistic way....

Palestinian Woman Plants Flowers In Israeli Army’s Spent Tear Gas Grenades There is a peculiar garden of flowers near the State of Palestine’s de facto capital Ramallah where dozens of tiny vivid flowers grow from spent tear gas grenades. This unusual garden and silent peace demonstration was created by a Palestinian woman who gathered the spent grenades from clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians. The garden was created on land that the Palestinians were able to reclaim after a court battle two years ago that re-routed Israel’s controversial security wall....

People Are Posting ‘Illegal’ LEGO Building Techniques You Probably Didn’t Know Before (26 Pics) Everyone knows that given enough LEGO bricks, we could build anything (even a house ) and it’s only our imagination, or rather lack of it, that could stop us. And while some people choose to follow the instructions on the box, others are out there looking for non-traditional building techniques that they jokingly call ‘illegal’....

People Are Sharing Weird Disney Observations Most Of Us Missed (33 Pics) Many of us grew up with Disney movies and remember them as these wholesome stories full of colorful characters and valuable life lessons. Now, while this is mostly true, looking back on the movies as an adult, you quickly begin to observe the many funny and weird things you might have missed as a kid. People online are sharing the stuff most of us missed in Disney movies and some of it is truly bizarre....

People Share Their Crappy Life Hacks, And They’re Hilarious So, maybe knowing how to quickly untangle your headphones or microwave two bowls at once won’t necessarily save your life, but it can sure save you some time and keep you from unnecessary frustrations, which is always appreciated. However, these life hacks below are the opposite of what you would call life-saving tips. Still, while instructions on how to cut a bagel and an efficient way of preventing gas leaks can get a little dangerous if taken seriously (and we strongly advise you not to), we do, in all sincerity, recommend that you listen to the brilliant advice on how to prepare kale....

Photographer Dad Makes His Kid With Down Syndrome Fly In A Heartwarming Project Everybody wants to fly, especially the kids. And ‘Wil Can fly’ is a very special project about a flying boy. Wil (William) is the fifth child in the Lawrence family, and the only one to have Down’s Syndrome. As he crawled around (as babies are wont to do), he used to lift his legs and flap his arms in the air, something that looked like flying to his parents....

Photographer Puts Everyday Objects In Unusual Places, And It Looks Weirdly Satisfying Mauricio Alejo is a New York-based artist who creates incredibly pleasant and eye-catching photography. According to Mauricio himself, he takes familiar objects that have their place in our surroundings and brings them to a new narrative which doesn’t obey their functionality. “It mostly obeys to a specific intuition I have about space, time, materiality, displacement or physical force....

Photographer Spent 3 Days Walking On Frozen Baikal, The Deepest And Oldest Lake On Earth Russian photographer, Kristina Makeeva has just come back from a 3 day trip on the frozen Baikal lake in Siberia, and she brought pictures that seem out of this world. “It’s the deepest and the cleanest lake on Earth,” explains Kristina. “When we were planning a trip, we didn’t even suspect it is so wonderful, majestic and fairy....

Photographer Takes Funny Pictures Of Herself And Her Dog In Silly Costumes Ursula Daphne Aitchison is a photographer and the creative mind behind Phodography , where she does photoshoots of people and their dogs. When she’s not busy taking pictures of others, the photographer takes funny portraits of herself and her dog Hugo in silly outfits and it’s just too adorable. Ursula has been working with animals for the past 5 years and says she couldn’t be happier....

Photographer Travels The World To Capture Every Skin Tone In Pantone Style Race, ethnicity, and skin color have been dividing factors among humankind for centuries, but Brazilian photographer Angélica Dass is seeking to break down the barriers with her latest project, Humanae . She’s on a mission to capture examples of every skin color in the world, to prove that diversity goes beyond the standard confines of white, black, red, and yellow....

Photographer Uses A 160-Year-Old Camera To Create Unique Portraits Giles Clement is not your usual photographer, he does it his own way, or rather the way it was done back in the 1800s. The Nashville-based artist makes portraits using both tintype (a photograph taken as a positive on a thin tin plate) and ambrotype (an early type of photograph made by placing a glass negative against a dark background): “ My tintype images are created using equipment made more than 160 years ago, ” writes the photographer on his website....

Photographer Weaves Compelling Stories Through Emotionally Evocative Photography (20 Pics) Helena Georgiou’s journey as a photographer is a testament to the profound impact that a single image can have. With a career built on exploration and discovery, Georgiou has dedicated herself to mastering the art of visual storytelling. Her work embodies the belief that photography is not just about capturing moments but about conveying deep, emotional narratives that resonate with viewers....

Photographer’s Controversial Experiment Shows What Happens When Strangers Who Just Met Pretend To Be In Love Marie Hyld is a 24-year-old photographer and she says that she is tired from the “same polished posts, pictures, and updates” in social media. After deciding to create “something real” she started her project called Lifeconstruction where she pretends to have serious relationships with random strangers she just met before the photos were taken....

Photos of the mysterious garbage on the Hong Kong beaches An unexpected tsunami has riddled the beaches of Hong Kong with heaps of trash and various junk items, overshadowing even the latest pictures that have been coming from Rio. In the wake of the 2016 Rio Olympics, there have been many reports about polluted rivers and beaches in the Brazilian city but Rio is not the only one who is having these sort if problems as a surprising wave of trash has been brought by tsunami winds and has all but covered the beachfront of Hong Kong with tons of garbage....

Rabbit Hole Leads To A Secret 700-Year-Old Knights Templar Cave Network It might seem like the times of exploring have long passed, but it’s not completely true. Take this rabbit hole for example, which seems ordinary enough only until you go inside and find a 700-year-old caves network once used by Knights Templar. It’s located in Shropshire, England, and called The Caynton Caves. Since 2012, the network has been closed down to the public by the landowners, but throughout its 700 hundred years history it housed many privacy seekers like Templars, druids, pagans, and secretive religious sects, which used it as a safe ceremony space....

Teen Filmmaker Recreates Iconic Movie Scenes With LEGO In A Brilliant Stop-Motion Video Morgan Spence is a 15-year-old aspiring filmmaker who spent three weeks recreating scenes from several celebrated Hollywood classics using LEGO figurines and bricks in a short video for his “Brick Flicks“ project. In collaboration with LEGO masterbuilder Warren Elsmore, Spence LEGO-ified famous scenes like the “I‘m flying!” scene from Titanic, the dance lift scenes from Dirty Dancing, and the classic terrifying axe scene from The Shining....

Terrifying Animal Skeletons Crocheted From String Inherited From Dead Family Members Skeletons aren’t made of yarn – but Caitlin T. McCormack has made a lot of them. Her animal skeletons are crocheted from yarn and then solidified with glue. The works are intricate and look extremely fragile, just like old animal bones that have spent time in the ground. Her works come in several forms, from single skulls (in jars) to complete skeletons to skeleton “families....