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Last night two of the biggest cities in Brazil (and the world), Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, were plunged into darkness for several hours after a failure at a massive hydro-electric dam. From what we know about urban masses in such situations of widespread confusion, people will either go crazy or come together, and [...]

Yesterday we heard the sad news that American photographer Roy DeCarava had passed away at the age of 89. One of the pioneers of a new kind of American street photography, especially between the late-40s and late-60s, DeCarava focused his lens on the desolation of the neighborhood where was spent most of his life: Harlem. [...]

We don’t always feel so optimistic on a Monday morning, but the bouncy stance and smile of this kid posing with his 7 Children’s Prosthetic Legs has us feeling in a pretty positive light about everything. If he can be happy despite the obvious difficulties his life poses, who are we not to smile?

It’s been a little while since we featured a single-image list (the famous robot T-shirt design must have been the most recent, and of course the teddy bears in wagons were the first), but fashion photographer Leonard Gren’s shot of 8 B-Boys Wearing Paper Bags seemed like a good opportunity to break the dry spell. [...]

As you may have heard, Irving Penn, the famous photographer who shot virtually every celebrity and famous designer from the late 1940s onward, died yesterday at the age of 92 at his Manhattan home. Aside from his fashion photography for Vogue, Penn was probably best known for capturing playful and intense moments with some of [...]

From acquiring some sort of chameleon-like ability to change colors and adopt patterns, to donning elaborate makeup and costumes in order to blend with our surroundings, to being straight up invisible, we’ve contemplated many ways to render ourselves imperceptible. Executing those plans, however, has proven difficult, and we’ve never done anything nearly as convincing as [...]

The Internet’s silly fascination with Lego re-enactments of, well, anything, doesn’t have to involve exclusively tacky and artless creations. For instance, the Daily Beast has a listicle of images created by British photographer Mike Stimpson to replicate some of the most iconic images of modern culture with Lego. Our favorite of his Lego Versions of [...]

As drought-prone areas experience some of the driest seasons on record ever, both the Southern and Northern hemispheres have witnessed some of the worst wildfires in years in 2009. This weekend a massive wildfire was knocking at Los Angeles’ gates, but California, the Northwest and even Alaska have been getting lit all summer, as have [...]

Funny how an image of a cat in mid-air about to hit a wall or an aquarium is actually more interesting than the video of that happening. Something about delayed gratification, anticipation, imagination and uncertainty makes such moments – when something is forever about to happen, frozen in a still image – endlessly fascinating. That’s [...]

Animals, especially domestic animals, pretty much seem to be doing cute stuff all the time. This probably has something to do with the life of leisure they live, free from the constraints of actual animal life (ie. catching food, evading predators, performing their own surgery when they swallow a plastic play toy).
Few things are cuter, [...]