Auto Aerobics: Hyperrealistic Images of Outrageously Weird Cars

Auto Aerobics: Hyperrealistic Images of Outrageously Weird Cars

Sure, CGI is responsible for making us all visually cynical. But it’s also enabled projects like this one: a weird—and weirdly poetic—ode to the Pontiac by digital artist Chris LaBrooy.

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How Squinching Will Make You Look Good in Photos

If you—or the people you take photographs of—always look bad in images, then help is at hand. Professional portrait photographer Peter Hurley suggests you squinch next time you have your picture taken.

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Tears of joy and tears of sadness look different under the microscope

Tears of joy and tears of sadness look different under the microscope

We can cry because we’re happy. We can cry because we’re sad. We can cry because we’re cutting onions. We can cry just because we need to cry. They’re all completely different emotions… but are they different tears? Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher wanted to find out in her series The Topography of Tears. She put dried tears from all different kinds of situations under the microscope to see what’s different between them all.

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Shooting Challenge: Real World Photoshop

Shooting Challenge: Real World Photoshop

Photoshop allows you to insert anything you’d like into an image. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we want you to do it analog style. Print a photo and hold it within a scene—then take a photo of that.

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Adobe’s Photography Program, which gives you access to Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 for $10 a month,

Adobe’s Photography Program, which gives you access to Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 for $10 a month, is now available to anyone signing up between November 20th and December 2nd. Previously, you had to be an owner of CS3 or after to qualify. Hurry!

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9 Glorious Shots of Last Night’s Rocket Launch, Taken By You

9 Glorious Shots of Last Night's Rocket Launch, Taken By You

The Sequester-delayed satellite-toting rocket, Minotaur 1, soared off into space at around 8pm last night, giving much of the East Coast a brief-but-awesome light show. We asked you to upload your best shots, and there were a few gems to be found by the end of the night.

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Recreating pictures from your childhood as an adult is always great

Recreating pictures from your childhood as an adult is always great

Two thoughtful sons came up with a wonderful gift for their mom: they would recreate old childhood photographs of themselves, from 20 years ago, as adults. They would visit the same spots as the pictures, wear similar clothes as their kid self once did, pose the same way as they did two decades ago, and basically capture the same feeling they had when they were kids. It’s a photo trick that’s been done before, but is always lovely to see.

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Construction workers use custom-cut wood paneling as a mold for pouring concrete as they re-side an

Construction workers use custom-cut wood paneling as a mold for pouring concrete as they re-side an underpass of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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What your favorite rock stars would look like if they were alive today

What your favorite rock stars would look like if they were alive today

Rock stars don’t age, at least our memories of them don’t. Sure, some of them get the harsh lines of life imprinted onto their face and others pass away as a shell of themselves much too early but our memories of rock stars never change. They stay forever young through iconic pictures, through the emotions of their music and through nostalgic memories of their reckless life.

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Photographer Felix Meyer captured this shot of the sun setting behind Dresden’s Centre for Energy Te

Photographer Felix Meyer captured this shot of the sun setting behind Dresden’s Centre for Energy Technology, an experimental power plant where researchers focus on the future of sustainable energy—from biomass, to thermal, to photovoltaic. While primarily a research facility, the plant generates electricity for the surrounding campus. [Felix Meyer on Flickr/Creative Commons]

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