You probably know about tilt-shift effect that is highly popular among some photographers. It uses a special lens that gives a real-world scene the illusion of being a miniature model. You can reach quite the same effect in Photoshop by adjusting color, contrast and depth of focus of your pictures. Serena Malyon, a student of an art school, decided to try tilt-shifting using paintings to see what would happen. And she got these rather interesting manipulations of some works by Van Gogh.

The Harvest, 1888

There are some very good ideas in there.

Should you blow a building? But it’s not neat at all. There will be too much dust and too many broken bricks.

So Toronto builders came up with a more unique way on how to demolish a house. Maybe it’s not that unique, but it’s still pretty interesting. Remember to watch the video of this demolishing process!

The Spidermen and Batmen in these photos are somewhat overweight. There is just something about a person who is wearing a superhero costume with a beer gut hanging out that has the ring of insincerity to it. These folk may not have had their heart in it but they sure did have the stomachs in it.

The advertisements in this post are truly amazing. There slogans get right to the point and leave no doubt about the point they are trying to make. The people who make road signs could take a few lessons from whoever wrote these.

It would appear that it is all about pretty blondes and drinking beer. Well, that’s what Oktoberfest is all about isn’t it? Plus, it seems ike all these people are having an absolutely wonderful time. They should be with all that beer and pretty blondes. 

This beautiful graffiti artwork was done by El Mac who is a talented artist from America. It certainly does brighten up some otherwise dull and drab wall on some streets. In my opinion, it makes the whole city look better.

Some other posts with graffiti:

Fantastic Street Art (20 pics)

Animal Street Graffiti (33 pics)

Portraits in Graffiti (58 pics)

Live Graffiti (15 pics)

Nature truly is beautiful as these remarkable photos show. The number of life forms on this planer along is amazing. The different species are absolutely incredible and display certain magnificence.

An amusing example of photo manipulation was shown by the state Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram. The photo above was taken during the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington two weeks ago. On the red carpet, there are the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, American President Barack Obama, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah. But the same photo on the red carpet in the Egyptian newspaper looked a little different..

A man decided to build a bar in the basement. The result is really cool and great.

Let’s only imagine that superheroes were hipsters… It’s so funny!

Some robbers can’t be called this name, as they are real losers. I am talking about two guys you will see after the jump.

Today you will see Chinese factory producing fake automobile parts, and you will also get a chance to glance at how residents of the Philippines make forbidden and counterfeit weapons themselves.

The many years of war have left many scars on the country of Afghanistan. The people look tired and like they are ready for peace. Even the people selling their goods in the shops look like they are less than enthusiastic.

Our visitor David from Buenos Aires sent these pictures of his creations that he calls eco tabby. They are made of "recyclable plastic bags instead of fabris." Thanks a lot David for your pictures.

There are dozens of spacecraft orbiting our solar system. NASA and ESA take many photographs of Earth, Mercury, the Moon, Mars, Saturn and other planets. Inside this post you can see the most recent pictures from around our solar system. Some of them are closely scaled, others are millions of kilometers afar which makes them ever more fantastic and amazing.

These are some unique and clever business cards. You have to admit that after seeing some of these business cards you would be more inclined to listen to what the provider had to say. After all, anyone clever enough o come up with these business cards must be rather interesting.

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100 most creative business cards (100 pics)

I don’t think it is very convenient to use but nevertheless it looks great.

All the ‘making of’ process is after the jump.

These are some beautiful HDR photographs. The make you feel like you could reach out and touch the person or object in the photo. They are truly amazing.

This is some incredible street are that must be seen. It is truly amazing that these street artists who supposedly have no formal training are able to come up with such amazing artwork.

Fabrican, literally ‘fabric in an aerosol can’, is a product created by Spanish designer Dr Manel Torres who has spent 10 years working on it. The clothes made with his invention fit you like a second skin, it’s very ingenious, but how does it work?

British eco-pioneer Rishi Sowa began constructing his first Spiral Island in 1998. He used around 250,000 plastic bottles to build a 66x54ft (20x16m) island which was located in a lagoon near Puerto Aventuras, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.Unfortunately, it was completely destroyed by Hurricane Emily in 2005, but not discouraged, he decided to build a new one: Spiral Island II!