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Abandoned Dreamland Theme Park In Japan Now Looks Like A Graveyard Honestly, you couldn’t experience a much bigger contrast than the one you can see in this abandoned amusement park in Japan. In it, all the cheerful atmosphere of fun and laughter has been replaced with an eerie silence and crumbling down attractions, all of which now seem to have turned into haunted houses. In 1961 the Japanese opened their answer to Disneyland – Nara Dreamland theme park....

Alice In Wonderland 3D Papercraft By Marina Adamova Alice In Wonderland can be liberally described as “somewhat trippy”, and these paper-cut images by Talamaska are simply wonderful. Layer upon layer of cut shapes create 3D images of some of the most famous scenes from the book. The artist does well with both shape, stylization and the choice of colors. The somewhat subdued hues add a layer of subtlety to the whole thing....

Artist Born Without Hands Draws Amazing Realistic Drawings Some people have eyes, yet they cannot see. Less metaphorically, many people with hands cannot draw. However, his own lack of appendages has not stopped Mariusz Kedzierski. This guy was born without arms, but has spend thousands of hours drawing better than you. “But for me disability doesn’t mean that I can’t live my own, great life,” Kedzierski wrote on Bored Panda....

Artist Draws Pokémon As If They Were Human (15 Pics) Pokémon Go brought the beloved cartoon characters closer to reality. But not close enough for South Korean illustrator Tamtamdi, who is taking it a step further by redrawing famous Pokémon as humans. The California-based artist has already drawn 254 Pokémon Gijinka illustrations, giving the beloved characters like Shellder or Snorlax a more realistic look. It usually takes him from 30 min to 1 hour to finish one drawing....

Artist Fights Redhead Discrimination With Her “Ginger Project” Portraits Have you ever been picked upon by children? Red haired people have. “The Ginger Project” aims to show that red-heads are beautiful too. Gabrielė Gurčiūtė takes portrait pictures of people with red hair, fair complexion and freckles. The goal of the project is to show that they’re neither freaky nor all that different from anyone else, but unique and beautiful....

Artist Mixes Up Famous Brands And It’s Really Confusing French graphic artist Mike Stefanini has been playing around with iconic international brands and placing them on everyday consumer objects such as soda cans, burger boxes, and soda cans. His other Warhol-esque designs include the red and white Marlboro logo on a takeout burger box, Heinz Tomato Ketchup branding on a spray canister, and our favorite, the Netflix logo on a pill box....

Artist Reimagines Disney Animals As Humans Everyone and their grandma have reimagined Disney princesses – twice! S0alaina chooses to redraw an oft forgotten class of characters: Disney animals. This has been done before, but the author claims that she always found the drawings lacking the original mannerisms of characters. S0lainad replicated the style of the movies and kept a consistent shape language, so now we have the closest reinterpretation of The Lady And The Tramp as people....

Artist Repaints Celebrity Dolls To Make Them Look More Realistic (20 Pics) Have you ever seen those mass-produced dolls that aim to look like celebrities but still lack some important details? Noel Cruz is an artist who decided to repaint those dolls to make them more life-like. Noel’s dolls are highly admired by collectors for their intricate detailing and accurate resemblance to popular celebs. His recreated works are obviously more refined and hence more appreciated....

Artist Spends 10 Years Digging This Mesmerizing Cave In New Mexico American artist Ra Paulette digs cathedral-like art caves into the sandstone cliffs of Northern New Mexico. After being cut off from most of his projects due to artistic differences between him and his commissioners, the artist decided to start his own personal and independent project and to dedicate 10 years of his life to dig a cave subject only to his own artistic vision....

Artist Turns Bananas Into Creative Works Of Art Fruits are regularly featured as subjects of beginner painters, but they’re not often used as canvas. “Not anymore!” shouts Netherlands-based artist Stephan Brusche as he holds a viking-ship-shaped banana up to the sky. And behind it, there’s an all banana nativity scene, with a banana baby Jesus proudly displaying “V for Victory” (over Satan, Death and baby-killing satraps, I guess). Stephen’s work makes me jealous – all he needs is a knife, a pen a needle and a banana to make something that looks a lot cooler than anything I could do by ruining a good canvas and wasting some paint....

Austrian Artist Reinvents Door With Innovative 4 Folding Triangle Design Artist Klemens Torggler has reinvented one of the most fundamental pieces of any home – the door. The artist’s brilliant door design, called “Evolution Door,” is made of four triangular panels that elegantly open and close with only a light flip. While this prototype door system may not seem practical or safe, the artist does his best to assuage our fears....

Barbie And Ken Get Transformed Into Soviet Russians By Photographer Lara Vychuzhanina The Barbie doll has to be one of the most iconic children’s toys ever created. It seems like there’s a Barbie for every profession and seeing her as an astronaut, a doctor or a race car driver just doesn’t surprise us anymore. However, Russian doll photographer Lara Vychuzhanina tried to reimagine Barbie and Ken in a different setting – she reimagined the dolls as a couple living in 1980s Soviet Russia....

Barbie Unveils 17 New Dolls Based On Inspiring Women, And We Want Them All After surveying 8.000 mothers, Barbie has found out that 86% of them are worried about what kind of role models their daughters are exposed to. So, they decided to release 17 new dolls that are based on inspiring and famous women all around the world. “Girls have always been able to play out different roles and careers with Barbie and we are thrilled to shine a light on real-life role models to remind them that they can be anything,” senior vice president and general manager of Barbie, Lisa McKnight, said in a news release....

Benefits Of Using Cloud Service Infrastructure Management Cloud service infrastructure points to the hardware and software components used in cloud computing. These components — such as servers, storage mediums, networking, and to include virtualization software are the basic needs that provides support to the computing requirements of a cloud computing model . To sum it up, cloud infrastructures contain a software abstraction layer that processes the virtualization of resources and logically presents them to corresponding users in a programmatic means....

Black & White Photos Reveal The Mysterious Lives Of Cats In today’s world, there’re not too many mysteries left to be uncovered. Not many, but there are still a few, and the one we usually miss is right in front of our noses… We mean cats, of course. The cute beasts are mysterious enough by their nature already, but these photographers have managed to capture an even more enigmatic side of them with a series of black and white photos that utilize color contrasts perfectly....

Black Model Recreates Famous Fashion Campaigns To Fight The Lack Of Diversity In The Industry Deddeh Howard, a Liberian-born model is rattling the fashion industry with her new photo project called Black Mirror . In it, she recreates the famous campaigns of the renowned fashion brands which seem to rely only on white models for their photo shoots. “ I would walk into various fashion model agencies and I would immediately be compared to that one or two black model that they had on the roster, ” Deddeh writes on her website....

Breast Cancer Survivors Model Stylish Single-Breasted Swimming Suits A social art project called “Monokini 2.0” gathered designers and models to promote a different perspective on beauty and fashion with a series of bathing suits made for and modeled by by breast cancer survivors. These daring and super-stylish bathing suits are for single-breasted women who won the battle against breast cancer at the cost of a mastectomy. The bathing suits were not designed to hide the absence of one or both breasts, though....

Breathtaking Photos of Asian Landscapes And People By Weerapong Chaipuck Asia is a land of fascinating nature, history and traditions, and this is exactly what photographer Weerapong Chaipuck captures on camera and shares with us in his stunning images. The Thailand-based photographer found his brand new passion for this visual art only after an early retirement from the medical profession, which makes his amazing photographic accomplishments all the more impressive....

Cartoon Characters Shave Their Heads In Solidarity With Kids Who Have Cancer Garfield, Olive Oyl, Snoopy and a bunch of other famous cartoon characters shaved their heads to raise awareness of kids with cancer and to help these brave kids feel better about their new and different appearance. The solidarity project came to life with the help of Brazilian cancer charity and hospital operator GRAACC. The campaign seeks to change the way people perceive a child with cancer and how this everyday prejudice makes those children feel and think of themselves....

Chernobyl Captured With Infrared Photography, And It Looks More Haunting Than Ever Infrared filters are known for creating a weird, eerie mood in pictures, no matter what you’re capturing. That is why taking a filter like that to an already haunting-looking place like Chernobyl might make the scenery pictures you take look even more impressive. Photographer Vladimir Migutin did just that on his trip to the town in Ukraine that suffered the infamous nuclear disaster....