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Air — Amos Chapple Photography. A Picture To Show You Clearly The Effects of Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO On Images. One Direction Topknot. Nude Photography by Matt Blum. Self-portraits done to a different drug every day. Follow Bob on Tapiture Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders conducted a bizarre experiment.

Self-portraits done to a different drug every day

For several weeks, he took a different drug every day and made a portrait of himself under the influence. Mind you, we don’t support using drugs here at theCHIVE (except alcohol, of course, let’s not be crazy) but this is just too interesting of a story to pass up. Ambien Nicotine Gum Abilify / Xanax / Ativan Klonopin Cocaine Dilaudid Adderall Risperdal Trazodone Hydrocodone / Oxycodone/ Xanax Absinth Abilify Ativan / Haloperidol Buspar Butalbitals Cephalexin Butane Honey Oil Computer duster Cough syrup Crystal Meth Dilaudid / Morphine Morphine IV G13 Marijuana Geodon Hash Huffing Gas Marijuana Huffing Lighter Fluid Loritab Nitrous Oxide / Valium Psilocybin mushrooms Nitrous Oxide Percocet Pruno Marijuana resin Ritalin Seroquel Valium Salvia Divinorum Valium I.V. Valium I.V. / Albuterol Xanax.

Incredible colorized historical photos. Selfiexploratory. The upper part shows charts that you can use as , while the lower part displays the .

Selfiexploratory

Click on any of the circles to see only selfies taken in that city. Clicking on the map background will remove the filter. You can navigate through the results grid using the on the left and right. Note how the other charts react when you filter the data! Click and drag the mouse to create a filter. The works the same as the map: Just click on a circle to filter. Is location (captured by Instagram app) and gender and age (tagged and guesses by Mechanical Turk workers.) is the direction a person is facing (up/down, left/right, head tilt).

Is an estimate of facial attributes by Rekognition, such as the presence of glasses, or if mouth or eyes are open. Is the estimated mood of a person - again automatically extracted by Rekognition. A closer look at communities thriving in unexpected places. In Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, nearly 70 percent of the population lives in slums that appear to drape like silk over every hill of the city. Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected placesIwan Baan is not as interested in what architects build as he is in the beautiful ways that people appropriate the spaces once the planners are gone. In today’s talk, Baan — whose breathtaking image of lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy hangs on at least one of our walls — shows incredible images from communities thriving in ways that seem quite opposite to the uniformity of suburbs. First, Baan takes us to Chandigarh, India, where people inhabit buildings created by modernist architects Le Corbusier in very different ways than expected.

Then, Baan takes us to Caracas, Venezuela, where an abandoned 45-story building has become a miniature city. Baan’s talk will have you marveling at human ingenuity. With no lifts or escalators, the tower is essentially a forty-five-story walk up. Philographics. Philographics Philographics is a series of posters that explain big ideas in simple shapes.

Philographics

They are the result of combining the world of philosophy with graphic design. You can get the entire set of 95 designs as a book or a selection of them as posters. Cart - 0 items. Confessions. 2012 Las Vegas, NV Interactive gallery installation in The Cosmopolitan that invites people to anonymously share their confessions and see the confessions of the people around them in the heart of the Las Vegas strip.

Confessions

Amidst casinos, restaurants and bars, Chang invited passersby to write confessions on wooden plaques in the privacy of confession booths. Chang arranged the anonymous plaques on the gallery walls like a Shinto shrine prayer wall, painted select responses on 4’x4’ canvases, and orchestrated the space with an original score by Oliver Blank. The project explored the design of safe spaces for anonymity, vulnerability, understanding, and consolation. Inspired by Japanese Shinto shrines, Post Secret, and Catholicism. 2012, Las Vegas, NV. - StumbleUpon. 100 Iconic Photos That Forever Define The 21st Century So Far. Everyone Needs To See This. The 60 Most Powerful Photos Ever Taken That Perfectly Capture The Human Experience. This incredible collection of moments represents the joy, innocence, despair, curiosity, and undying perseverance within all of us.

The 60 Most Powerful Photos Ever Taken That Perfectly Capture The Human Experience

No matter where we’re from, these are the emotions that unite us – it’s what makes us human. We set out to capture this spirit in 60 incredible photographs, and I truly hope you enjoy. Creating this list out of thousands of potential photos was a daunting, yet rewarding experience for me. I hope you loved it too (and if you did, share it with others below). Thanks for visiting us today!