BY: JESSICA BEUKER If you’re taking a stroll outside the village of Nowe Czarnowo in Western Poland, you may come across a grove of oddly shaped pine trees. Nearly 400 trees are all bent near the base at 90 degrees,…
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A Korean woman makes $10,000 a month by live-streaming 6-hr binge eating sessions everyday
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE The food porn industry is taking over South Korea. These videos aren’t naked Asian girls intertwining with tentacles, shoving eels up various orifices or blowing dead octopuses – instead, the trend is on live-streaming young, thin, attractive…
Glassblowers are creating stunning bongs that combine function with art
Source: Darby Holm BY: TREVOR HEWITT Don’t drop that bong – it’s worth more than your car. Once an industry relegated to seedy tattoo parlors and sketchy gas stations, glass pipe making is quickly becoming a modern art movement. Source:…
Here’s what happened when I decided to collect people’s stories, instead of things.
BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO Two years ago, I worked in a very corporate environment where it literally took twenty minutes every morning to get into the office. I had to go through valet workers, front desk security, assistants and elevator attendants.…
Here’s what famous art pieces look like when the gluten is removed
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Tumblr is home to many image editing blogs, such as The Kitten Covers, which replaces human subjects in classic album art with images of cats. As photoshopping gets more creative and unique, desktop artists seek stranger and…
This penguin and the 70-year-old man who saved his life are literally best friends
BY: TREVOR HEWITT Who says that humans and animals can’t become family? Every year, Jinjing the penguin treks thousands of miles to be with the man who saved his life. It was in 2011 that retired bricklayer João Pereira de…
New video reveals the truth behind female beauty trends throughout history
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Seeking to include the roles of everyday women, a costume blogger has created a video showcasing the makeup and outfit styles of “Beauty Through the Decades.” Domowa Kostiumologia (an alias) sought to create a more realistic portrayal…
These are the 116 images NASA sent into space 30 years ago to explain our world to aliens
BY: TREVOR HEWITT Trudging through interstellar space at a steady 17 kilometres per second is, quite possibly, Earth’s best chance at extraterrestrial contact. Enter the Voyager 1 spacecraft. In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to study the…
These eerie miniature sculptures are traveling the world to warn us about climate change (Photos)
BY: M. TOMOSKI Photos by: Isaac Cordal His installations have been seen on city streets across the world from London to Amsterdam, Montreal, Paris, Bogota, St. Petersburg and many more. They come as a surprise to passersby who stumble upon…
How citizens of Amsterdam used illegal protests to create the world’s most bike-friendly city
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The world’s top city for cycling wasn’t always so bike-friendly. A recent photo series shows certain intersections in Amsterdam around the beginning of the 20th century, then again in the ’70s and ’80s, and finally today—representing the…
These adult colouring books will lower your stress and boost your creativity
BY: MELISSA BOODOO As you grow older, the beloved childhood hobby of colouring in as many colouring books as your heart desires gets forgotten. Societal views associate colouring books with children, making the older generation turn away from them –…
Photographer takes his rescue dog on epic adventures to let her experience ultimate freedom
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Photographer Troy Moth freed his adopted dog from her past and took her on an adventure that is one for the books. Moth’s dog, Nikita, would tremor in the corner anytime he would show her a leash.…
Photographer and pilot capture amazing views of the world from up high
BY: DANIKA MOIR Photos by Alex MacLean Photographer Alex MacLean uses his camera to show points of view that are not often seen — aerial views. MacLean says he flies in his airplane over what he wants to capture and…
Coyotes and wolves are mating to produce a glorious super-breed of majestic “coywolves”
BY: ROB HOFFMAN If there were any animal in the canine family that could touch the crushing majestic force of the wolf, it would be the coywolf. Coywolves are the product of natural coyote-wolf breeding habits, which have resulted in…
Photo series shows our phones literally sucking away our souls
BY: MELISSA BOODOO Genuine human connection is getting harder and harder to find these days as we depend more than ever on our phones, laptops and computers as our main source of communication and entertainment. Why bother taking a streetcar…
Staggering landscape photos prove that Iceland is a travel photographer’s wet dream
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Photos: Jakub Polomski Rolling in a 4×4 SUV through the jagged coastline beside fields of lava, over rushing riverbeds, and beneath cascading waterfalls photographer Jakub Polomski fell in love with Iceland. Travelling over 4,000 km he experienced an…
Cabin Porn will make you lust for Mother Nature and inspire you to build your own getaway
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Cabin Porn images courtesy Little, Brown and Company, © 2015 by Zachary Klein In the middle of windswept plains, embedded within a staggering mountain view sits a cabin so beautiful that it could have stained the bed sheets…
5 TED Talks that will restore your faith in humanity
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Everyday our eyes and ears are bombarded with images and stories of tragedy, heartbreak, loss, suffering and injustice. It’s easy to get caught up in the negativity that circulates through the headlines, and plants itself in our…
The longest, closest and most high-definition video of the sun was just released by NASA
BY: LAUREN BRUYNS After five years, with 300 hours of compiling footage and data, NASA has released a 30-minute video of the sun in remarkable 4K detail. Beginning in 2010, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been shooting images…
Watch non-creative workers react when they’re asked to work for “exposure” (like creatives)
BY: EDITOR For young creatives, the words “opportunity” and “exposure” have become standard forms of compensation despite the fact that it’s not exactly a currency that will pay your rent or expand your diet from multivitamins and Ramen noodles. So…