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Seconds to Years: 2 Scales of Time-Lapse Photography

With the rise of digital technologies, photographers are finding increasingly fascinating ways to capture minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and even entire years. Here are just three ...

Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch

Altering most of today's cities to eliminate cars altogether would be a daunting, if not impossible, proposition - which is why China is starting from scratch. Great City will be built around a ...

Sub(limb)inal Criminals: Faux Legs, Arms & Heads as Art

Whether they're just the arms of a mannequin attached to inanimate urban objects or gory, all-too-realistic hands clutching violent video games, severed limbs are definitely one way to grab the ...

Into Abyss: World’s Largest Deserted Underwater Film Set

The psychological stress and real-life danger of being stuck on an experimental underwater oil platform, teetering on the edge of a deep-water trench, was captured with eerie perfection in James ...

Hidden Inner Beauty of Abandoned Hospitals & Theaters

What is it about abandoned places that draws our interest and opens our imaginations? An empty, disused building simply seems to beckon passers-by, tempting us to step inside and take a look at ...

Locks of Love: Urban Padlock Monuments to Commitment

All around the world, lovers have unique ways of showing their affection for one another. But few are as sweet and enduring as the act of locking a couple's love with a padlock and throwing away ...

Mad Marketing: 15 Crazy & Controversial Advertisements

From severed arms to crosses made from marijuana, shocking imagery in ads aims to get our attention – and that they do. Advertisers are using bold and bizarre visuals to draw eyes in an ...

22 Global Tales of Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities

What in the world could cause an entire city to be abandoned? Some become unlivable due to environmental disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis to nuclear meltdowns (as with Pripyat, shown ...

Shipwrecked: 12 Historic Abandoned Boats, Ships & Docks

(images via: divenorway, hyperfish, vigidal and sanjuan) Like trains, ships once played a much larger part in the worldwide economy than they do now.  Their reach has been significantly reduced ...

Jason Hackenwerth: Weird & Whimsical Balloon Sculptures

(Part Two in an Eight-Part Series on Brilliant and Unusual Artists of the World) Being an artist, of course, necessitates a certain amount of creativity. There are some artists who are able to ...

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