Trick or treat

Probably the weirdest Halloween themed ad I have ever seen. Dating back to the thirties, this pumpkinhead and scarcily clad witch were used to try to sell......... boot polish. First seen here.

Thriller - Lenny Henry style

At the occasion of Halloween, one of the funniest parodies of all time. Lenny Henry spoofs Michael Jackson shortly after the king of pop released the extravagant Thriller video. First seen here.

Good performance of poultry

More lyrics snippets of one of my favourite songs, transfigured into something surreal by a sequence of 50 on-line translations. This one is especially for Halloween, taken from The Eagles classic Witchy woman. Produced here.

Pumpkins - but not as we know them

With Halloween almost upon us, a fitting post. Ray Villafane is probably the most talented and artistic of all pumpkin carvers. Fascinating creations. First seen here.

Only 3398 USD

Seeing old adverisements like this makes you realize just how far computer technology has advanced in a few decades. I still keep the 64MB flash card that came with our first digital camera.... First seen here.

Sushi Mosaic

A team of Norwegian chefs created the world’s largest sushi mosaic, at their country’s pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. As China celebrated its ten millionth imported Norwegian salmon, last week, Norway decided the creation of a giant sushi mosaic would be a great way to recognize the milestone. Norwegian chefs arranged 8,734 sushi pieces into a beautiful mosaic depicting the intertwined Norwegian and Chinese flags. First seen here.

Say Nuts!

From a series of great photographs of animals interacting with the camera. First seen here.

Simpsons in 3 pixels

Amazing that our mind can readily see the Simpson family even when reduced to three pixels each (two for Maggie). First seen here.

Black Monopoly

Politically correct? No. Funny? Yes. YMMV. First seen on Fukung, a site too unsafe for work to link to.

Grind it all

Ewwwww. Granted, tastes differed two centuries ago, but still.... enough to make you turn vegetarian. First seen here.

Lazyness

If the fotopedia needs a picture to illustrate laziness, look no further. First seen here.

Mirror lake

Kudos to whoever came up with the idea of placing this sign. First seen here.

Googled: goat silhouette

Flickr gives you a statistics option that shows you from which link people access your shots. I am always curious, so I usually check, especially when it is from Google images. I will be posting some of the Google image searches where one or more of my shots actually ended up on the front page. For this post, I take the search term goat silhouette, which shows one of mine (You looking at me?) on page one. Makes you wonder sometimes why people do some searches. First seen here.

Body art

Another one of those entries on the fence between Art for Art's Sake and Potpourri - but eventually falling into this blog. Thanks to Jenny Downing for a buzz on this one. Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector are artists out of New York City currently living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Using bodies as their canvas, they sure get amazing results. First seen here.

He could not hear anything

More lyrics snippets of one of my favourite songs, transfigured into something surreal by a sequence of 50 on-line translations. This one is from Kate Bush' The man with the child in his eyes. Produced here.

Here be dragons

A masterpiece of origami art, which took Satoshi Kamiya 40 hours of folding. The result is an eight-inch-tall Eastern dragon with a thousand overlapping scales. First seen here.

Inside: Soviet women!

A fascinating brochure used for the Soviet pavilion at the World Expo in Brussels 1958. Main attractions: sputniks, rockets and Soviet women. First seen here.

Crockery couture

Fascinating idea, excellent execution. Li Xiaofeng is a Chinese artist who makes sculptural clothing from broken crockery. And apparently one can even wear them. First seen here.

Happy Birthday Dad!

A special birthday cake for my father who turns 83 today. As the former correspondence chess champion of the Netherlands, I am sure he would love the real thing. Sourced from here.

My lips are for blowing

The cover design by itself is already bad, but the choice of the album title is really mind blowing. First seen here.

Cruise Missiles

The painting itself has been a favourite since my childhood - I had a reproduction of this Constable hanging in my room as a teenager. The conversion of the hayswain to a cruise missiles launcher is fun - encountered in a YouTube video of the Fischer Z song of that name. First seen here.

Shisheido WTF?

This entry in the great blog Photoshop Disasters must be one of the worst pieces of photoshop ever to get into printed advertisements..... First seen here.

Googled: xin tian di fountain

Flickr gives you a statistics option that shows you from which link people access your shots. I am always curious, so I usually check, especially when it is from Google images. I will be posting some of the Google image searches where one or more of my shots actually ended up on the front page. For this post, I take the search term xin tian di fountain, which shows two of mine on page one (one from my Flickr stream, from my main blog). Xin tian di by the way is the name of the most popular expat hub in Shanghai. First seen here.

Multiple orgasmus

As a photograph it is nothing special, but it is kind of fun. Especially thanks to the title. First seen here.

Organization

A perfect rendition of the typical company structure. All too recognizable. Don't know where I found this, it has been on my hard disk for a while.

And me so horny

Taken form a great list of unusual photographs, realized by pressing at just the right moment (more often than not without pre-arranging the set-up). A fascinating mix of well-known and new shots. First seen here.

Scratching the surface

Alexandra Forte is a Portuguese street artist, currently living in London. This is his art project called Walls – Scratching the surface. He makes impressive portraits by simply scratching the surface of old walls in Moscow, Rome, London, New York and Lisbon. First seen here.

Heineken

Here's a poster I created myself using a picture I shot in Rotterdam. Original version here.

Marie Antoinette Ming

More lyrics snippets of one of my favourite songs, transfigured into something surreal by a sequence of 50 on-line translations. This one is from Queen's Killer queen. Produced here.

Thailand soap flowers

Nothing extraordinary about these flower-shaped soaps from Thailand, but they sure are pretty. First seen here.

Blueberry flavoured chips

Taken from an interesting list of popular potato chips flavours in China, this is one that I would actually really like to try. Apparently the sweetness of the fruit and the saltiness of the chips complement eachother very well. First seen here.

Fixed that for you

I have seen this done before, but never with such a cuteness overdose. "What do you mean no dogs allowed? There, it's fixed." First seen here.

Mayans

Whatever your political orientation, you should be able to smile about this one. Don't know where I found this, it has been on my hard disk for a while.

Sherwin Williams

Perhaps not a household name everywhere, but the Sherwin-Williams Company is an American Fortune 500 company in the general building materials industry. For a company of that status, you would expects something better in terms of their logo. The colour pattern is far from impressive, the shapes are childish, and worst of all the message that they want to cover the earth in (probably poisonous) paint is so fifties. First seen here.

Walking the wall

Sometimes you come across really great images on the web, but without information attached to them. I decided to start a new subject for these, titled A is for anonymous. I will usually include the link where I found the shot, and anybody who can provide more information on these pictures, please leave a comment or mail me. This one is such a fun shot, several bus loads of Chinese tourists walking the Great Wall in the rain. Found it on Fukung, a site so unsafe for work that I will not link to it.

Googled: shanghai restaurant decoration

Flickr gives you a statistics option that shows you from which link people access your shots. I am always curious, so I usually check, especially when it is from Google images. I will be posting some of the Google image searches where one or more of my shots actually ended up on the front page. For this post, I take the search term shanghai restaurant decoration, which shows two of mine on page one - and indeed, this particular search accounts for a large number of views on these pics. First seen here.

Just give them cocaine if their teeth hurt....

Granted, we're talking 1885, but still.... toothache drops for the young ones with cocaine as the active ingredient. Oh my. First seen here.

SF cartridge sculptures

Amazing indeed, what some people can created from thrown away items - in this case empty ink cartridges. Compliments to Faith Pearson. First seen here.

Breast cancer awareness

Now here is a fitting and noble use of one of my shots. I actually re-made this version of an older shot, applying the pink colour in photoshop, for a breast cancer awareness group on Flickr. The vague resemblance of the shape to the female breast is a coincidence, but a nice one. A website dedicated to the same subject has meanwhile used this image to great effect - and as October is breast cancer awareness month, it makes a fitting post. First seen here.