When users search stock photography websites, they are only sometimes looking for cookie-cutter images but, occasionally, they perform genuinely bizarre image requests. [Read More]
Even if we agree that architecture is subjective, sometimes there’s no denying the flaws people make. In fact, some home designs turned out so wrong, they’ve made their way into the "You Should Have Hired An Architect" group.
If you don't have enough time to notice and appreciate the simple joys around you, don’t worry. This subreddit is exactly the place to see something unexpected and add it to your everyday life. The post ‘Mildly Interesting’: An Online Group Exploring The Weird And Wonderful Side Of Everyday Life (120 New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.
Look through your camera roll. Find THE funniest and weirdest screenshot in your camera roll and share it in this post! The post Hey Pandas, Post Your Funniest And Weirdest Screenshot first appeared on Bored Panda.
I think photography is not just to capture what you can see (or what you cannot with the naked eye), but I also like creative photography, where the photographer creates the scene for a story told by the picture.
I think photography is not just to capture what you can see (or what you cannot with the naked eye), but I also like creative photography, where the photographer creates the scene for a story told by the picture.
Have you ever wanted to be a model? Well, if you live in New York and take the subway, you might become one. The post This Photographer Asks Unique Strangers To Pose For Him On The New York Subway (83 Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.
London-based artist Max Siedentopf is known for making unusual art pieces and photos and his latest does not break from that trend: he claims to have dug a several meters deep hole that he has then lined with images of Kim Kardashian to pay her the biggest tribute he physically could. Called “TRIBUTE,” the bizarre […]
Frontals is a series of bird photos I have been collecting for over ten years. When you get the time to take a series of pictures of one single bird, you will always have one or two frontals in between.
Russia, for many, is a very interesting country full of unique traditions, situations, and people.
Russia, for many, is a very interesting country full of unique traditions, situations, and people. The post This Photographer Captures The Peculiar, Interesting, Or Unusual Things In Everyday Russia (30 Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.
It's not pretty, but Craigslist has always been a source for photographers that need a quick paying gig or for someone looking to build their portfolio without pay. And 9/10 times it's typically pretty shady.
The folks over at COOPH have released a “Best of DIY Smartphone Rigs” video that covers some truly wacky ideas. From a DIY ‘gimbal’ to a scary looking spinning rig, there are at least a few ideas here you definitely haven’t tried yet.
Trying to get into family photography, but haven’t had any luck? If you live in New York City, there’s a family that could use your help, just as long as you don’t mind being a “Mother’s Helper” on the side when you’re not taking pictures.
If you’ve got some money to burn and you insist on keeping your film safe and stylish at the same time, design firm RAMA WORKS has something for you. It’s called, simply enough, the RAMA WORKS film canister, and it’s probably the coolest, most expensive way to carry around your rolls of film. The Film […]
Photographer Max Siedentopf has a new project that examines one of the most boring types of photography: the passport photo. The series shows that even though passport photos need to be boring, the photo shoots themselves don’t.
Mixed Signals is a series of photographs exploring the entropy of digital media. Through the manipulation and corruption of high definition television broadcast signals, I force commercials, talk shows, and infomercials to break form at specific moments, subverting their message and capturing the painterly beauty of their decay and disintegration.
No-fly zones are increasing, regulations are tightening, and the situations where you can actually fly a drone in public spaces are dwindling. No bother — just use your smartphone and a really, really long selfie stick instead.
There’s a new Twitter account called “Dark Stock Photos” that has been amassing a huge following over the past month. It’s an ever-growing collection of “f***ed up stock photography”: images designed to be sad and somber that are often simply bizarre.
This series of photos shows salt crystallisation ponds found in Western Australia. I asked the pilot to remove the doors from the tiny airplane, and within 10 minutes of flying over and around this amazing landscape, I was trying my hardest to hold it all together - the noise, the shaking, the wind, and looking through my telephoto lens. And somehow I managed a bunch of beautiful, calm images.
I photographed bird heads at the London Natural History Museum, manipulated them into monster masks and added them to portraits of kids photographed in Berlin. The photographs were then printed onto canvas and painted with oil paint. The series is titled, 'Anthopocene'.
Credit where credit is due: this is a creative workaround. If you need a way to stabilize your footage, but you don’t have any kind of gimbal or steadicam to work with, why not just shoot the thing by hand-holding your drone? That must have been the thinking behind this video by a small Brazil-based […]
Well this is… interesting. It doesn’t seem like the very public failure of Google Glass—due, in large part, to the built-in camera—has deterred Google from pursuing wearable camera tech.
Plant Your Mac is a strange, and in some ways ingenious photo series. Created by artist Christophe Guinet (aka. Monsieur Plant), each photo of an Apple computer transformed into a living terrarium is meant to remind us of the conflict between technology and nature.
If you’ve noticed people on Instagram geotagging photos from the US or Europe as being taken in “Singapore, Singapore,” we have good news: you’re not going crazy. Apparently this is some sort of ‘hack’ that helps photos reach a larger audience and potentially go viral.
A photographer traveled to California to meet some of the weird and wonderful people who call the Golden State home.
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Like any other metropolis, Berlin combines a rich history with a diverse appearance that makes each neighborhood distinctive, even if processes such as gentrification have already taken much of this richness of facets.
There is certainly no shortage of weird cameras and lenses that have been created for both the consumer and professional audiences, but one of the strangest may have been made by Fujifilm back in the 1990s.
Have you ever wanted to be a model? Well, if you live in New York and take the subway, you might become one. The post Photographer Captures The Unique And Amazing People Of The New York Subway (40 Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.
Frontals is a series of bird photos I have been collecting for over ten years. When you get the time to take a series of pictures of one single bird, you will always have one or two frontals in between.
Popular retro tech YouTube channel LGR recently pulled off something pretty awesome, if totally ridiculous. The channel’s host Clint Basinger managed to install a working copy of the original video game Doom onto a Kodak digital camera from 1998.
Lomography has released a new DIY medium format cardboard camera called the LomoMod No. 1, and it comes with a really neat “accessory” up its sleeve: a liquid-filled lens module that Lomo is calling “perhaps the wildest and most innovative lens in the world.
Venus Optics today officially announced the Laowa 24mm f/14 2x Macro Probe, one of the weirdest-looking lenses you’ll ever lay eyes on. At the same time, it also aims to be one of the most game-changing macro lenses on the market today.
In the 1850s, photography became much more affordable and accessible for consumers. This sparked a trend in the Victorian era of postmortem photography, where dead loves ones featured among the pages of family albums.
To celebrate its 100th anniversary on July 25th, 2017, Nikon decided to make one of the weirdest and wildest music videos you’ll see. The 4-minute long video above is the “Nikon Version” music video for the song Oz by the Japanese rock band Mrs.
It’s like I hit a wall. Not hit, actually… fell through. And everything on the other side was magic. This past year has been the most creatively transformative year I’ve had since I first picked up a camera.
Store mannequins are designed to do a very basic thing. However, sometimes window dressers or store owners miss the target and end up attracting customers with bizarre models that are just begging to be documented.
There is certainly no shortage of weird cameras and lenses that have been created for both the consumer and professional audiences, but one of the strangest may have been made by Fujifilm back in the 1990s.
When I started in the wedding industry, I was told that I had to shoot traditional wedding photos to be successful. For a long time, I shot the way others wanted me to shoot, and I struggled.
This quirky concept creation may be the perfect piece of furniture for the Instagram influencer or Etsy seller in your life. It’s called the Photo Table, and it’s a half-end table half-lightbox that was “designed for public influencers.
The idea behind these pictures is to tap on those small, eldritch nuances that can be delivered via a picture in a way that it gives the viewer the heebie-jeebies right away, without having to analyze or explain.
Not even Leica is sure what the Leicina VC is. Is it a directors viewfinder? A call back to the Leicina Super 8 cameras of old? A gimbal? The answer seems to be (D) All of the above… sort of. Photokina is a great place to debut a strange or crazy concept—look no further than […]