Archives for the ‘Weird’ Category

Top 20 Weirdest Cars Ever Made

By Bored Panda • Jul 16th, 2010

If you really want to stand out of the crowd, and show not only your financial status, but also your personality – what you need is something that cannot be found in any auto store. Something crazy, strange and absolutely unique. To give you some hints, we collected these 20 Weirdest and Most Unusual Cars Ever Made.

Creepy Island of the Dolls (19 Pics)

By Bored Panda • Jun 11th, 2010

Do you know what is the safest way to travel? It’s online traveling – when you sit comfortably on a coach browsing the pictures.

So, let’s take a little virtual tour to the heart of the Xochimilco’s canals, Mexico. There we will find a strange little island called “Isla de Las Munecas” where most of the trees are decorated with old creepy dolls. According to legend, three young girls were playing in the island when one drowned. Now when you…

10 Bizzare Sculptures by David Cerny

By Bored Panda • May 18th, 2010

Meet David Cerny – an internationally famous Czech sculptor, best known for his giant space-age babies that crawl up the Zizkov TV tower a hundred meters or so above Prague. He gained notoriety in 1991 by painting a Soviet tank pink that served as a war memorial in central Prague. As the Monument to Soviet tank crews was still a national cultural monument at that time, his act of civil disobedience was considered “hooliganism” and he was briefly arrested.

20 Amazing Examples of Animal Camouflage

By Bored Panda • May 10th, 2010

Camouflage is not just about chameleons changing their colors in an instant but it’s also about polar bears being white and not brown like the grizzlies. In fact, a zebra with its striped covering is a camouflage animal. However, there are exceptions: animals which are dangerous to eat (e.g. wasps) advertise with warning colouration.

Chernobyl 20+ Years After the Accident

By Bored Panda • Apr 26th, 2010

Northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. Prypiat used to be proud for being home to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident. But something terrible happened on 26 April 1986… Today, the only residents are deer and wolves along with a solitary guard.

13 Hyper-realistic Sculptures by Ron Mueck

By Bored Panda • Apr 20th, 2010

While many artists strive to glamorize, and portray our world to be better than it actually is, others simply find art in our ordinary lives and our simple bodies. Mueck is one of those artists, and is now well known for his sculptures where he portrays humans at key stages in the life cycle, from birth through middle age, to death.

Sexual Color by Gabriel Wickbold

By Bored Panda • Mar 31st, 2010

Meet Gabriel Wickbold, a young but super talented 25 year old artist from Brazil who takes the most colorful, sensual and expressive pictures you’ve ever seen.

Judging by his pictures he is not only very creative but also cruel. He could spill a whole bucket of paint on you just to get a perfect shot.

Fake Painting Photographs by Alexa Meade

By Bored Panda • Mar 18th, 2010

What you are about to see, are not paintings on canvas! Alexa Meade paints directly on human flesh creating the illusion of painterly portraits.

Personal $157K Water Powered Flying Machine

By Bored Panda • Mar 10th, 2010

Freedom, exhilaration, adventure: The dream of personal flight is as old as mankind. In the 21st century the daring vision of Daedalus has finally come true! Depending on pilot weight, a standard JETLEV-FLYER could reach an altitude of 10 m, top speeds of 65 km/h and has a cruising duration of 1 – 2 hours. So, stop dreaming – start flying!

22 Weird and Beautiful Caterpillars

By Bored Panda • Mar 1st, 2010

The wonderful world of insects contains some of the most bizarre-looking creatures in existence and caterpillars are not an exception. Actually, a caterpillar is a young butterfly or moth that has just hatched out of its egg. Their look varies from scary to cute, but they always grab my attention when I find one in my garden.

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