Category: STORIES

November 16, 2013 at 3:16 pm

BATKID Saves Gotham, Unites Community, Restores Faith in Humanity

BATKID Saves Gotham, Unites Community, Restores Faith in Humanity

5-year-old Miles Scott lives with his younger brother and parents in Tulelake, California. Miles has leukemia (currently in remission) and was told by his parents that they were all making a trip to San Francisco so he could get his very own Batkid costume. What he arrived to instead was a city transformed into…

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November 15, 2013 at 3:59 pm

10 Outstanding Highlights from the 2013 Nat Geo Photo Contest

10 Outstanding Highlights from the 2013 Nat Geo Photo Contest

National Geographic invites photographers from around the world to enter the 2013 National Geographic Photography Contest. The grand-prize winner will receive $10,000 (USD) and a trip to National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., to participate in the annual National Geographic Photography Seminar in January 2014. Eligible contestants can visit http://www.ngphotocontest.com to submit photographs in…

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November 14, 2013 at 12:32 pm

Highlights from Burkina Faso’s Festival of Masks

Highlights from Burkina Faso's Festival of Masks

Photographer Anthony Pappone specializes in travel, portrait and photojournalism. Since a child he has had a fascination with history, far away places and tribes with ancient cultures. Over the years Pappone has documented ceremonies and festivals around the world with many recent journeys around the continent of Africa. On Flickr and Behance you will…

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November 11, 2013 at 1:38 pm

Picture of the Day: Always Remembered

Picture of the Day: Always Remembered

In this powerful photograph by Kevin Wolf, we see a lone figure knelt at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C.

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November 6, 2013 at 2:12 pm

This 240-year-old Machine is an Ancestor to the Modern Computer

This 240-year-old Machine is an Ancestor to the Modern Computer

An automaton (plural: automata or automatons) is a self-operating machine or robot. Seen above is the Writer, an automaton built in the 1770s by world-renowned Swiss watchmaker, Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790). Made from nearly 6000 parts, the Writer is a self-operating, programmable machine, capable of writing letters and words with a quill pen. The 240-year-old…

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November 4, 2013 at 12:22 pm

Portraits of Lovingly Worn Stuffed Animals

Portraits of Lovingly Worn Stuffed Animals

Award-winning photographer Mark Nixon has created a trove of quirky and nostalgic portraits of teddy bears and other stuffed animals that have been lovingly abused after years of play. Much Loved, which launched just last week, collects 60 of these images along with their accompanying background tales. In a recent interview with Slate, Nixon…

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November 1, 2013 at 1:31 pm

21 Epic Ways Reddit Celebrated Halloween This Year

21 Epic Ways Reddit Celebrated Halloween This Year

With over 70 million unique visitors and roughly 5 billion pageviews a month (source), reddit is unequivocally massive. When it comes to big celebrations like Halloween, you can be sure to find an amazing recap of the day’s events. Whether it’s homemade costumes, awesome things their neighbours or friends did, or just something they…

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October 30, 2013 at 12:46 pm

Eating Breakfast with Giraffes in Kenya

Eating Breakfast with Giraffes in Kenya

Guests of Giraffe Manor can expect visits from the resident Rothschild Giraffes that drop by for snacks from their 140 acre sanctuary.

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October 24, 2013 at 1:50 pm

Grandmothers Posing with their Signature Dish

Grandmothers Posing with their Signature Dish

Italian artist Gabriele Galimberti is a commercial photographer (featured previously here and here) whose human-interest photo series’ have garnered critical acclaim. During a recent 18-month ‘couch surfing’ trip around the world, Galimberti pursued a number of personal photo projects including Delicatessen with love, where he asked grandmothers to prepare their signature dishes. In a…

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October 21, 2013 at 12:41 pm

Exploring Our Changing World Through Photography

Exploring Our Changing World Through Photography

Earlier this month, National Geographic launched their photo-sharing platform, Your Shot (NGYourShot.com), which allows photography fans to connect with photographers and editors around virtual assignments and get direct feedback on their work. The platform’s first assignment invites photographers to share three images that convey, ‘how photography can help us explore our changing world’. At…

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