Trip Out On Pics From ROFLCon 2012
Well, ROFLCon 2012 went off without a hitch on May 4th and 5th in Cambridge, Massachusetts so the interwebs is safe for another year.
Double Nyan Cat rainbows were spotted in the sky, cat breading and LOLz were enjoyed by all in attendance, and Rage Faces Mountain became a popular tourist destination.
The future of internet humor rests squarely in the hands of these fantastically funny people, and Scott Beale from Laughing Squid has the pictures to prove it. ROFL on and on!
Link –via Laughing Squid
Real Life Anime Portraits Are Really Creepy
Anime girls may look cute in the cartoons, with their big, bright eyes and pinched features, but translating them to real life makes them just plain creepy.
If you see a girl that looks like this coming your way, eyes wide open and mouth agape, you’d better make a break for it because she may be after your soul!
Photographer Chris Scarborough apparently likes the look of the anime ladies, so he’s created an entire series of manipulated photos showing what they might look like in real life. All I can say about this series is AAAAGGGGHHHH!!
Link –via Geek Tyrant
When Real Life Looks Like Skyrim
No, that’s not a scene from the best role playing game of 2011, it’s actually a photo of an auroral storm over Arctic Henge in northern Iceland. Sure video game programers are talented artists, but pictures like this remind us that they have to get their inspiration somewhere.
Dark And Creepy Digital Art By Adam Hosmer
There’s s0mething unnerving about the understated horror lurking behind Adam Hosmer’s digital artworks.
Perhaps it’s the way these dark figures blend in with the photograph, or maybe it’s the frayed and unraveling nature of his subjects. Either way, Adam’s works give me the creeps!
Check out more of Adam’s snapshots from the darkside at the links below, but only if you can handle seeing people fall apart right before your eyes.
(NSFWish due to nudity in one pic)
Link –via Beautiful/Decay
Descriptive Camera Turns Pictures Into Text
This camera doesn’t want to simply duplicate whatever you see through the viewfinder, it would rather describe the whole scene to you via text.
Created by Matt Richardson to explore the possibility of adding metadata to digital photos, it requires a team to analyze each photo, who then sends the description back via text 3 to 6 minutes later.
It’s safe to say that the descriptive camera won’t be replacing traditional photographic equipment anytime soon, but it does have the distinction of being the strangest, and arguably the most useless, bit of tech I’ve seen in quite some time.
Hit the link if you want to find out more about the ideas behind this conceptual gadget, and how the whole process really works.
Link –via DesignTAXI
Levi Mandel Does Some Strange Things With Photographs
Most photographers are content with taking and editing photos, but Levi Mandel can’t leave well enough alone.
He feels the need to print out said photos, then he folds and bends and wrinkles them into some strange semblance of the original subject, then he shoots the photo again so we have something delightfully creepy to stare at.
You can check out more of Levi’s discarded portraiture at the links below, take a gander before they end up in a pile of trash!
Link –via Booooooom!
The Avengers Assembled Out Of Household Items
Target stores have come up with an extremely clever way to advertise both the items they sell and the upcoming Avengers movie-they’ve put together household items sold in their stores to form iconic images based on The Avengers.
The images are so densely packed with details that it takes a while to see all the products featured in each photo, which is what, in my opinion, makes them cooler than your average advertising campaign.
And I must admit that these ads make me want to buy some Avengers related merchandise, and I now have a mysterious craving for a Mr. Goodbar and a Dr. Pepper!
Attending An Outdoor Music Festival When…WTF?
The guy in this pic clearly wants to live under the sea, but lacks the gills needed to breathe underwater, so he has decided to wear a fishbowl, complete with live fish, over his head and breathe through a tube for the rest of his life.
Perhaps these fish are his only friends, and they’ve encouraged him to get out and meet people from his own species, but if that’s his game he’s going about it all wrong.
I give him credit for having a lot of nerve though, and for the fact that he had the foresight to wear goggles under his fishbowl, so he can still check out the ladies while he’s making a scene at the music festival.
Link –via Geekologie
Kermit The Frog Visits Yankee Stadium
Kermit the Frog took in a ball game at Yankee Stadium recently, and had a great time despite being seated next to Mayor Bloomberg, who was clearly unamused by the presence of the fleece superstar.
Kermit was also unfazed by the lady who spent the day on the stairs next to him wondering why some guy had his hand stuck up Kermit’s butt, unaware of just how tight security has become for the Muppets. Fame has its price, boys and girls.
Link –via The Mary Sue
Street Style 1906
Edward Linley Sambourne was a professional illustrator and cartoonist, but his hobby was photography. He took pictures of women on the streets of England to document their choice of dress, but rarely did the subject know he was snapping the pictures! Sambourne’s method would be a privacy issue today, but as the photographs are now over a hundred years old, they are a catalog of what women of the time looked like in their natural habitat. See more photographs at The Library Time Machine. Link -via Nag on the Lake
Antique Photo GIFs Reveal The Dark Side Of History
Things are not as they seem in these antique photo GIFs, and they confirm that the dark side is a silly place indeed.
Clearly influenced by Monty Python‘s Terry Gilliam and old ghost stories, artist Kevin Weir has discovered a fun way to play with images from the Library of Congress’ Flickr account.
Take a gander at the rest of these ghoulishly ridiculous animated delights at the links below, they’re like waiting for paint to dry…and reveal a ghostly visage on the wall.
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Sit Back, But Don’t Relax
Photographer and artist Philippe Remette knows how to make an impression with his pictures, of course, usually that impression is OFG! That’s because he uses an amazing array of tricks to capture himself looking strangely comfortable and composed in totally impossible ways and no, the images aren’t Photoshopped. Despite his calm demeanor, you can tell he is actually working hard to hold these outrageous poses, “You see a tension in my hands, my red face is far from serene as the blood rushes to it, my suit is ruffled,” he says. Find out how he makes these images a reality over at the link.
Comments Off Awkward Stock Photos Are Really Awkward
If you haven’t visited the Tumblr site known as Awkward Stock Photos, you’re missing out on a daily dose of hilarious photography which embodies the elusive WTF factor.
Occasionally there are NSFW images included, but since they’re supposed to be stock photos usable for advertising, videos, etc. they’re mostly just ridiculously strange, which makes it hard to figure out what the photographers were thinking when they took these oddball pics.
Take a gander at the site, and if it tickles your funny bone I guarantee you’ll be checking back to see what sort of strange new images have been posted.
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Although someone thought it was a great idea around 1910, this sport never really caught on. However, some speculate that it may have been the inspiration for MarioKart. -via reddit
(Image source: Flickr user The Library of Congress)
Porcelain Fighters Come Crashing To The Ground
The tiny ceramic combatants in this gallery look like they’re battling themselves into pieces with their fierce kung fu skills, but they’re actually just a bunch of figurines that have been dropped on the ground for the sake of art.
Photographer Martin Klimas decided these fighting figures might look pretty cool if he could capture them in mid-shatter after being dropped from a height of about 3 meters.
The resulting photos are well worth all the destruction, but I can’t help wondering if some of these images are photoshopped because the figurines are breaking apart so perfectly. Maybe these photos are a testament to how well these figurines were made? One thing’s for certain-all of the figures were harmed in the making of this series.
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Well, it’s about time someone did something with all those old photos the New York Times has been sitting on for, oh, the past hundred and fifty years or so.
The Times recently launched a Tumblr site dedicated to sharing and archiving millions of historic photographs that might not have been seen and enjoyed otherwise. Here’s more on their new site:
The New York Times has just launched a Tumblr blog called ‘ The Lively Morgue’ showcasing great photographs from their archives, accompanied by the notes that appear on the back of each one.
According to NYT social media editor Liz Heron, the blog “draws from the historical riches of [their] photography morgue” which houses some 5 to 6 million prints and 300, 000 sacks of negatives.
More interesting are the details that readers often don’t get to see—the scribbles and stamps on the reverse side of each photo that tells you when and how often a photo was used and in what context.
‘The Lively Morgue’ is essentially a collection of great black and white photographs that takes you on a nostalgic and historically important journey and at the same time, gives a peek into what goes on in the one of the world’s most established newsroom.
There isn’t a ton of pics to peruse on The Lively Morgue just yet, but I’ll be waiting impatiently for them to continue adding photos to the site in the upcoming months, and I think it’s rather cool that they’ll even sell you a print if you find a pic you just can’t live without.
Link –via DesignTAXI
Abandoned Cars Reclaimed By Nature
The poor old cars in this series of photographs by Peter Lippmann, entitled Paradise Parking, are seemingly being reclaimed by forces of nature, one branch at a time.
It’s a dark and horrifying series if you’re a classic car lover like me, and I feel like these pictures should be posted on car restoration enthusiast forums as a plea for help.
They would make great backgrounds for a post-apocalyptic photo shoot, or scenes from a horror movie about zombie cars coming back for revenge against their negligent owners. But, like the cameraman shooting a nature video, I can’t help but wonder if Peter had to fight the urge to cut these classic beauties free after he got the perfect shot.
Even Superheroes Aren’t Recession Proof
The sad truth discovered by most superfolks is that saving the world doesn’t exactly pay the bills, and you’re left looking far less than heroic when you lose your day job due to the recession or a twist of fate.
This photo series by Bechet Benjamin finds some spandex-clad superfolks and Disney characters at the lowest points in their lives, working hard for their money and loathing every minute of it, just like us regular folks.
That being said, I can’t help but wonder why Batman is pumping gas for a living? Isn’t Bruce Wayne a billionaire industrialist? Things must not be going very well at Wayne Enterprises, or else he’s just putting in work for his community service sentence.
Link –via DesignTAXI
What Plushies Look Like Turned Inside Out
Anyone who grew up with older siblings, especially older brothers, might already be familiar with the concept behind this series of photographs by Samuel Coendet and Lea Gerber of the design group Atelier Volvox-stuffed animals look weird, completely different, disturbing even, when they’re cut open and turned inside out.
I am an older brother, and I will admit to some Barbie decapitations and other doll oriented mishaps, but I never had the heart to cut open my kid sister’s beloved plushy pets. To her, these things were like a pet that didn’t make noise and needed very little care, and yet somehow she loved them like they were living creatures, at least until middle school.
I think that’s what intrigues me about this series, the fact that some people will have a visceral reaction to seeing plushies treated this way, coupled with the fact that it will evoke childhood memories from the same and others, makes this series a study in surreal nostalgia, which is how I felt when I was a kid. How about you?
A Twin-Lens Reflex Camera Made Out Of LEGO Bricks
In an exercise to prove how easy it is to build a camera, photographer Carl-Frederic Salicath has built a twin-lens reflex camera out of LEGO bricks and a pair of binoculars. Here’s how it was done:
While the body is made up of LEGO bricks, the camera’s lens came from an old pair of binoculars.
For the viewfinder, Salicath has used a mirror and a matte ground glass and as for the shutter and aperture, he built plates (single technic-pieces).
Lastly, Salicath employed brackets and rods from a technic kit to build the film chamber that also has a rewind mechanism.
Salicath has included instructions on how to build one for yourself (LINK), you know, in case Ebay is down and you need a twin-lens reflex camera for a photo shoot that afternoon.
This is perfect for a post-apocalyptic photographer who is stuck with a box of LEGO bricks, some binoculars, and a ton of 120 film. For the rest of us, it’s probably cheaper and easier to just pick up an old used reflex camera at this point, but if you’re the type that enjoys LEGO AND a challenge, then have fun building and let us know how it turns out!
Link –via DesignTAXI
Scenes From Oscar Nominees Recreated With A Baby
The silly images that make up this series show what this year’s Oscar nominees would look like if they were recast with adorable babies. They already look like little stars to me, since they really seem to capture the mood of each film.
There’s The Artist looking all silent and moustachioed as he hangs out with his doggy pal at breakfast, War Horse looking pinker and puffier than I remember from the movie, and a really sad baby girl who has been cast in The Help.
I have a feeling some of these movies would have been better off if a baby had played the lead role!
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What’s the best thing to do when you discover that your adorable infant has super powers, specifically the power of flight? Why, shoot a ton of pics and share them on the interwebs, of course!
Photographer Rachel Hulin aims to show the world just how super her baby Henry can be, whether he’s floating over a mountain, inside a ghostly manor or dangerously close to the edge of the stairs. Rachel’s photos show us that no obstacle is too large to overcome when you use the power of imagination.
Link –via DesignTAXI
Comments Off Real Life Diglett Is Too Cute To Battle
Diglett may be one of the least popular Pokemon to collect, due to his small size and limited power, but in real life he sure is cute!
He’s too cute to tag on, or back your car into after a long night at the local Sigma Chi house, and he’s probably a bit too heavy to just toss in the trunk of your car and take home, although I’m sure someone has attempted a Diglett kidnapping at some point because the little guy sure does have a lot of admirers!
Comments Off The 50 Most Ridiculous Outfits From New York Fashion Week 2012
Okay, so you should be able to tell from the headline that this was a particularly bad year for fashion at the New York Fashion Show.
Granted, there are probably at least 10 outfits every year that make people want to break out in fits of laughter, but to have a whopping 50 examples, many of which look like they’re straight out of a Sci-Fi movie from the 1960s, makes 2012 the year of Fashiongeddon.
Bask in the ridiculousness, show your friends so you can share a laugh together, and imagine the price tags attached to these examples of when good fashion design goes horribly wrong.
Torn Photograph Collages Show Life In New York
Several photos torn into strips then put back together-that’s the basic concept behind this photography series by John Clang, but the end result is so much more than just a bunch of torn pictures.
These are snapshots of life in New York taken at all the prime spots, like the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, Times Square and Wall Street, and they reveal how the lives of people from all walks of life intersect in the same place on a daily basis.
Here’s what John has to say about this series-
Working on this series, I explore how time moves in this seemingly static urban space. The people become the moving energy flowing through this space, marking the changes, forming the time.
These images also explore my fascination that there are probably many time dimensions in this universe. We may have a ‘life’ that exists similarly on a different path, one minute before or after the one we’re living now. We merely just exist in this current dimension, and sometimes when time paths collide, we have déjà vu experience.
This series brings new meaning to the phrase “a slice of life”, except there’s nothing mundane about the way John Clang has chosen to present the lives of these New Yorkers.
Star Wars Characters In A Post Apocalyptic Cityscape
French photographer Cedric Delsaux sees a different setting for the Star Wars saga when he looks through the lens-a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of ruined buildings and bleak landscapes.
It’s the kind of place that seems perfect for devotees of the Dark Side, a world which leaves most droids feeling a bit lost. Here’s a bit on how this photo series came to be:
In his series ‘The Dark Lens’, Delsaux first set out to highlight the decay of the post-apocalyptic modern world, but found the landscapes too plain.
That was when he incorporated notable scenes and characters from Star Wars, with the help of CGI maestro Pierrick Gueneugue, bringing to life two distant worlds.
We’ve featured the works of Cedric Delsaux here on Neatorama over the years (Link and Link), and now he’s back because his series The Dark Lens has been put together in a book, which features a forward by George Lucas (link).
What an interesting way to put a spin on a sub-genre and sci-fi series which are in danger of becoming an artistic cliche. And I quite like the idea of Darth Vader lording over the reconstruction of a massive skyscraper (Death Star Towers, maybe?), while Jabba the Hut is holed up in some rat infested slums, conducting his dirty business from the shadows.
Link –via DesignTAXI
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These Victorian style portraits of Star Wars characters by Terry Fan lead one to believe that C3PO is powered by steam, and that droids actually enjoy wearing three piece suits. Everyone knows that these things are untrue, of course, but it’s a romantic version of the Space Opera that hasn’t been fully explored yet, so let’s just go with it.
In this series you get Darth Vader looking quite dapper, Yoda with a top hat that somehow makes his head look even smaller (and his ears even bigger), C3apo as a gentleman about town and Boba Fett fresh from overseas service in the military. These portraits look like they were taken a long long time ago, in a place that’s not so far away after all…
Link –via Rampaged Reality
Comments Off Bowser Looks A Lot Smaller In Real Life
Watch out for these guys when you’re out on the race track in your Kart, because they might puncture your tires with their sharp spikes and bad attitudes. Created by DeviantARTist Dragonfly929, they’re the most punk rock father and son duo I’ve seen since the trailer for The Other F Word and they’re out for a bite of Italian.
Bowser is such a bad boy that he must get lots of love from the ladies, so why is he always after the Princess? And isn’t little Bowser Jr. adorable? I guess male pattern baldness starts at an early age for these guys, no wonder they’re so angry!
Link –via Obvious Winner
Comments Off Fused Portraits Of People Then And Now
Now this is an interesting idea for a photo series-combine recently taken portraits of people with photos from when they were children, but instead of using Photoshop photographer Bobby Lee Adams uses a well placed tear down the middle of the face.
I was amazed at how similar they look when compared to their childhood selves, quite the difference from the other series that have been going around the interwebs lately (soldiers/drug addicts before and after). I guess everyone in this gallery has had a relatively trauma (or addiction) free life!
Check out more of these fused portraits at the link below, I’m gonna go do this with some of my own pics!
Link –via DesignTAXI
Ansel Adams Photos Of Los Angeles In The 1940s
Everyone knows Ansel Adams was a master of landscape photography, a master of black and white naturalist photography, and one heck of an innovative artist. What most people don’t know, however, is that Ansel also enjoyed documenting life in the city through the lens of his view camera.
Flavorwire has posted a gallery of images that were commissioned by Fortune Magazine in the 1940s, in order to document Los Angeles’ aviation industry as only Ansel Adams could.
See what the City of Angels used to look like, compared to what it has become, by taking a fascinating trip back in time through these magnificent photos.
Suggested soundtrack music-Come Fly With Me by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, or Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition by The Merry Macs.
Link –image credit: Ansel Adams
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