Daniel Lawlor from Los Angeles poses after winning first place in the freestyle moustache category at the third annual national beard and moustache championships in Las Vegas.
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Chameleons aren’t easy to spot, but Wilma Hurskainen found a couple!
Mmmmmm what’s better than edible dioramas?! Eszter Burghardt creates these beautiful food landscapes out of cake mix and other foods! Check out the entire delicious series below:
Landscape of Iceland Built Out of Cake
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Here’s a beautiful collection of photos by Simon Davidson shot at Bonneville, a 36,650 acre flat where car fans gather once a year for Speedweek.
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Esten and I went there this summer! It was pretty awesome!
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Happy birthday, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
To honor her 65th birthday, we present a series of portraits of Hillary as a young graduate in 1969 — these photos ran in LIFE in an article titled, simply, “The Class of ’69.”
Ross Ching used Photoshop to digitally remove all of the pedestrians and moving cars from these time-lapses! Gizmodo writes:
His short, the first of a series called Empty America, shows every landmark from the Golden Gate Bridge to Fisherman’s Wharf to Lombard Street to Ghirardelli Square to the Bay Bridge, ‘wiped empty of tourists and traffic.
Empty America - Time-Lapses with Humans Edited Out
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Sasha Kurmaz sure knows how to take a portrait of a flower.
Way before we started selling the coolest photo gadgets around, Dr Julius Neubronner invented a miniature pigeon camera!
Miniature Pigeon Camera Photographs World From Above - In 1908!
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Caption from March, 1958, issue of LIFE. “On desk George Romney keeps prehistoric animals to remind him of favorite ‘big-car’ analogy. ‘Some dinosaurs had a 70-foot wheelbase and huge fuel consumption. The principal factor in their extinction was the fact that they got so big they were unable to live.’”
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Interesting…
Andy Ellison is an “MRI technologist at Boston University Medical School and has been posting these images on his blog, Inside Insides, he manually acquires from a research only Philips 3 Tesla MRI he runs.”
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Edward Turner was the first man to produce color moving pictures back in 1902!
Reasearchers from the National Media Museum have discovered and restored these rare images.
Video - First Color Film Discovered and Restored
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Nikon D7000 (Yes, I do still own and use a digital camera though it would seem otherwise from this tumblr!)
Boston Museum of Science. August 2012.
Fusing art and science, Zachary Copfer grows portraits using bacteria!
The process is somewhat similar to darkroom photography, except instead of photographic paper, Zachary uses a living bacterial colony.
Fusing Art and Science - Biologist Grows Living Portraits
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THIS IS AWESOME
