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Incredible 3D Latte Art by Kazuki Yamamoto

By • May 20th, 2013 • Category: Art, Latest Posts, Other

You don‘t even have to love coffee in order to appreciate these super creative latte foam artworks by Japanese artist Kazuki Yamamoto. And we‘re not talking about the little smiley faces or flat palm tree patterns: this 26-year old latte artist, based in Osaka, creates actual 3D foam sculptures in the coffee mugs of the Cafe10g visitors.

5-Year-Old Posing As the Most Influential Women in History

By • May 15th, 2013 • Category: Latest Posts, Photography

Photographer Jaime Moore was looking for inspirational ideas to celebrate her daughter Emma’s 5th birthday, and ended up photographing her beautiful girl posing as some of the most influential women in history. Jaime chose 5 women for Emma to impersonate, and thus her daughter became the mini version of Coco Chanel, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller and Jane Goodhall.

26 Faces in Everyday Objects

By • May 14th, 2013 • Category: Funny, Latest Posts

Have you ever noticed how various objects and constructions look as if they’ve got faces – they are smiling, being angry or amazed. However, what some may call acuteness to detail is usually attributed to a psychological phenomenon, called pareidolia – that’s when a person perceives a random stimulus as something significant, for e.g., sees faces on clouds or buildings.

Black and White Illusions by Chema Madoz

By • May 13th, 2013 • Category: Art, Latest Posts, Optical Illusions, Photography

If you love photography and and optical illusions, Spanish photographer Chema Madoz has a perfect mix for you! His unmistakable style is not burdened with unnecessary cluster and details, always in black and white and with a witty catch in every picture.

This Week’s Top 5 User Submitted Stories #31

By • May 11th, 2013 • Category: Pandas Against Boredom

If you have a story that’s interesting to more people than you and your mother – share it with everyone else! To get an idea what pandas like, just play around our magazine (hints: unique design ideas, art, photography, inspiration). It can be your own art project or you can write about someone else’s work. You can also create all kind of fun lists of creative products or photos. The best stories will be featured on BoredPanda.com home page and will have a chance to cure 10,000 people from boredom everyday.

Celebrities When They Were Young (22 pics)

By • May 9th, 2013 • Category: Latest Posts, Miscellaneous

We are so attached to certain images of some celebrities that seeing their childhood pictures leaves us surprised to find out they were once young, too. And guess what – most of them didn’t look like the most popular kids at school!

Real Life Mowgli: Girl Who Grew Up in the African Wildlife

By • May 8th, 2013 • Category: Animals, Latest Posts, Photography

Riding a five-ton elephant, whom she called ‘my brother’, chilling with a cheetah or hugging a giant bullfrog as if it were a Teddy bear. The childhood of a French girl Tippi Degre sounds more like a newer version of Mowgli, rather than something real. A white child, she was born in Namibia to French wildlife photographer parents, and grew up in Africa. Tippi spent her whole childhood playing with wild animals including lion cubs, a mongoose, a snake, a cheetah, baby zebra, giraffes and crocodiles.

Created Equal: Photographer Explores Social Inequality in America

By • May 7th, 2013 • Category: Latest Posts, Photography

Detroit-born photographer Mark Laita questions what it is in life that puts people, who were born equal, to follow completely different paths. Each of his diptychs compare two people, who have some kind of a connection that ends up being the biggest contrast between them: for example, out-laws are put next to policemen, school drop-outs next to college graduates, and Amish teens are paired with punk teenagers.

People’s Faces Recreated From the DNA Found In Chewing Gums and Cigarette Butts

By • May 6th, 2013 • Category: Latest Posts, Science

This may sound like a science fiction story, but American artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg recreates people’s faces from the DNA she finds on various objects tossed away in the streets. For Heather, an old chewing gum or a cigarette butt has the potential of turning into a 3D portrait of someone who used it and didn’t bother to look for a trash bin.

This Week’s Top 5 User Submitted Stories #30

By • May 4th, 2013 • Category: Pandas Against Boredom

If you have a story that’s interesting to more people than you and your mother – share it with everyone else! To get an idea what pandas like, just play around our magazine (hints: unique design ideas, art, photography, inspiration). It can be your own art project or you can write about someone else’s work. You can also create all kind of fun lists of creative products or photos. The best stories will be featured on BoredPanda.com home page and will have a chance to cure 10,000 people from boredom everyday.

Churchtanks: Sculptures of Churches Turned Into Tanks

By • May 3rd, 2013 • Category: Art, Latest Posts, Sculpting

Religion and war have always been mixing and closely related throughout history. Missouri-born artist Kris Kuksi took notice of this connection, repeating itself throughout history, and decided to unveil it in his Churchtanks sculpture series. By creating the juxtaposition between the classical world and the modern war gear, Kuksi transforms the houses of worship into tanks, blending the two structures smoothly and seamlessly.

4 Sisters Take Their Photo Every Year For 36 Years

By • May 1st, 2013 • Category: Photography

Back 1975, American photographer Nicholas Nixon once took a photo of his wife Bebe and her three sisters, and they came up with an idea to make it an annual tradition. Since then, the Brown sisters took a photo every year till 2010. To make the series more coherent, the four sisters – Heather, Mimi, Bebe, and Laurie – always posed in the same order.