Train Rails and Whale Tails
A Dutch train driver was saved by an art installation of two giant whale tails after the engine crashed through the end safety barrier.
Photography
Nun or None?
Let’s play… Nun or None? Nun or None is a very straightforward game, all you have to do is guess whether the hidden picture will have a nun in it or not. PRO TIP: Study the small circular preview shown on each image. Watch out for fake Nuns! In the […]
As Natural as the Weather in this Moody Sky Today
Or an Alien invasion? Recently some photos of the sky and cloud formations have caught my attention, here’s a small roundup. I’ve tried not to post any fake pictures, let me know if you spot any.
The Retro Cinema Extinction
A random collection of photos of old cinema houses, mostly defunct and run down.
The East End in the 1960’s – A Pictorial by John Claridge
Starting out as a enthusiast, John Claridge photographed the streets of London’s East End. The pushed, grainy black and white prints perfectly capture and take the viewer back in time. These pictures and quotes are from the book East End, published by Spitalfields Life Books. All photographs © John Claridge. […]
These People Do Not Exist
All images © thispersondoesnotexist.com These faces were created by a generative adversarial network or GAN. A GAN is a machine learning system where two neural networks compete against each other, while at the same time learning and producing new, better output. The networks are called the generator and the discriminator. […]
Kiyo Murakami’s Post apocalyptic carnival retro gothic erotic fantasy burlesque cyberpunk art
Not to be confused with that master of magical realism Haruki Murakami, Kiyo Murakami’s work could well be considered to be its photographic equivalent. Post-apocalyptic-carnival-retro-gothic-erotic-fantasy-burlesque-cyberpunk art. See for yourself. FROM KIYO MURAKAMI’s website: I was born in Shizuoka, currently based in Tokyo, Japan. After I graduated from art school, I […]
Face Mask USA: The Blonds
For years people have worn face masks to combat smog and air pollution. Can they ever become a fashion accessory? To countries that don’t have extreme pollution it must look odd if not melodramatic even. But after the disastrous wildfires in Australia where the smoke clogged the skies from Sydney […]
Brinkmann’s Cigarette Cards
These colorful German cigarette cards from the mid 1930’s caught my eye. The background designs reminded me of Shepard Fairey‘s Obey series. All of the cards are from Brinkmann’s Cigarettes Bunte Filmbilder –or Colored Film Pictures– series 1 and 2 which ran in 1935 and 1936. The designs are almost […]
Bullet Speed
A Photo Erotic Novel
by Chen Zhun
(Mildly NSFW)
Click on the image above to launch the slideshow. Originally I posted some stills from this pictorial in 2007. While searching backup drives for something else entirely I came across the whole set—somehow 13 years later and halfway around this flat earth—they followed me to Cambodia. This novel was first […]