There is such a rare and terrible disease Progeria - premature aging at an early age.

One gene mutates and affects the whole organism. Those born with progeria typically live about thirteen years, although many have been known to live into their late teens and early twenties and rare individuals may even reach their forties.

The disorder has a very low incidence and occurs in one per eight million live births.

Here’s Leon Botha, a guy who has progeria and who’s already 24 years old.

No one knows how many years he will live.

It’s not funny, but he really has this alien look…

Do you have a web camera? It’s everything you need to turn someone’s life into hell. What should you do?

Step # 1. Make a video record or a sexy screenshot.

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This flying-sailing “monster” was built by Russians in the former USSR. At those times Russians seemed to know how to make water planes look like huge iron “pterosaurs”. I wonder how safe this tank-ship-bird must have been. See more pictures after the break.

This is an apartment of a single guy who did such a mess in just 3 days…

I just let the pictures speak…

This is a series of photos taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry. It is sad to see children whose destiny was to take guns and fight instead of playing with toys. These children are robbed of the most wonderful time in their lives – their childhood…

When I read an interesting fantasy or science fiction book I always try to imagine in what atmosphere it was created. Have you seen American writers’ interiors? Can you imagine their life style? I thought that writers were surrounded by silence and locked in an empty room until I saw these photos. Take a look!

Melting photo camera, dancing paints, cyborgs and fantastic landscapes are just a few examples of amazing picture manipulations. If you have pictures and Photoshop, you can use your fantasy to create unreal and beautiful scenes. Take a look at these new examples of mysterious worlds and check out our previous manipulation collections. Enjoy!

Excellent picture manipulations (40 pics)

Photo manipulation is just great (52 pics)

Photo manipulation is just great. Part 2 (64pics)

Can you imagine famous classic Mario Brothers, Sonic or Metroid games repainted in a new creative style? I couldn’t believe my eyes that someone would find a way to refresh these well known scenes! I’d love to play these video games like this!

This ship model (scale 1:200) is built according to drafts and different photos found in books and at online resources (it took 2 years and 2 months to build it). The main efforts were aimed at ship functionality. Punch cards, whatman paper and other materials were used in building this model. All ship details were covered with water-resistant varnish due to what this paper model isn’t soaked in water (you can notice this on the photos). You can distantly navigate ship steering wheel and screw propellers. This model is illuminated by bulbs and light-emitting diodes. All electric equipment feeds from 6-volt accumulators set below waterline. Smoke generators are set in flues (nichrome wire is soldered in rosin). Technical problems didn’t allow taking quality pictures of the smoke, but you can still see it on some photos. All windows and portholes are covered by varnish tape in the soap-bubbles style. Jackstays and other similar ropes were made from threads; sometimes fishing lines and wire were used. The ship has 16 compartments and 11 decks. Faucets, boats and anchors are operating. I just hope it won’t drown like his “big brother”…

These pictures of psychiatric institutions in Serbia and Kosovo were made by photographer George Georgiou as a part of project “Between the Lines.” This project talks about the aftermath of the NATO conflict with Serbia. 
The author says that he was surprised to see apart from mentally ill people, people with physical disabilities who have nothing to do in these mental hospitals. The pictures also show the lack of medical care and rehabilitation for these people. In short, the photos are very sad and difficult to look at… 

Oh Gosh, there are so many funny and humorous signs and labels in different countries of the world, that it seems to me I will never stop laughing. I don't know who has made these signs, but he/she had a great sense of humor even if it was not intentional. Anyway, if your mood is down, take a look at the collection of photos under the break.

The Easter Bunnies in these photos are hilarious. Many of the children don’t seem to notice or care how funny the bunnies are as they are just happy to get their picture taken with them. Some of these costumes, however, are a laugh a minute.

Positive emotions are always in time and in the right place. When you think about making a cute and optimistic present yourself, here is a hint what you can do. I guarantee that you and a person who gets your present will smile.

Can you imagine giant houses breaking the clouds? It might sound unreal, but these photos weren’t made in Photoshop! They were created by real photographers who shot usual cities at remarkable moments. You can enjoy many photos of sky towers gazing out at you from the fog in this post.