Then and Now is a powerful collection of mash-ups by photographer and graphic designer Marc Ghali. In the series, the Canada-based photographer creatively blends old black and white photographs with sections of colorful, modern images. He perfectly arranges the new and old fragments so that, upon quick glance, viewers might believe they are looking at just one subject. However, each compilation features two faces representing the past and the present. The subjects are often related in regards to professions, ranging from singers and actors to historical leaders. Some of the mash-ups include Rihanna and Diana Ross, Brad Pitt and James Dean, and two British princesses, Kate and Diana. It appears that Ghali really has an eye for matching faces as the many similarities are quite striking. The artist says, "I wanted to do something fun creatively. I was inspired by a series [by George Chamoun] called Iconatomy, and wanted to draw on parallels between influential figures pasts and present in an interpretative way." It's certainly fascinating to see how the world really hasn't changed much across so many decades of time.

Taking a picture usually involves capturing a single moment, a motionless fragment of time. However, New York-based photographer Stephan Wilkes has managed to capture the passage of time in a single photograph. His “Day to Night” photo series explores the many changes that take place in Stehphan’s beloved city of New York as it transitions from day to night. Completing this project took great dedication on Wilkes’ part. He had to actually stakeout the city in one spot for approximately 15 hours for each composite photograph. He had to take hundreds of pictures of the Big Apple and its most famous places and then spend 4 months picking out 30 to 50 suitable ones. The selected photos then had to be blended into one composite image that reflected the changes that took place in that location between sunrise and sunset. By creating this photography project, the artist expressed his fondness and love for his hometown. Thanks to his dedication, the photographer brought seemingly surreal photographs to life and filled them with movement, vitality and the passage of time. Wilkes’ “Day to Night” series proves, once again, that New York City is the city that never sleeps. Also, be sure to check out the time lapse series by Fong Qi Wei. Singapore-based photographer captures the passage of time in visually beautiful layered collages.

If you feel bad about being being single and not having a girlfriend, Japanese photographer Keisuke Jinushi has a quick fix for you! The young artist, who studied at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, shows how to use your own palm and Instagram to make the impression that you have a wonderful girlfriend. To get the heartwarming selfies, Keisuke first bleached his right hand with a lot of light makeup. To make the illusion more convincing, he then applied red nail polish and put on a scrunchie. The final step was capturing a selfie with an Instagram-like filter that made everything look really genuine. Voilà! This is how you can make a very caring girlfriend that would not only feed you, but also wipe the ketchup from the corners of your mouth.

This is Kanna. Her dad, Nagano Toyokazu took these photos of her on the same road in different situations. The result is too cute for words!

Aevin Dugas is a 37 year old is an American social worker from Napoleanville, Louisiana. Her remarkable natural afro, which she has been growing since she was 14 years old, has been entered into the Guinness Book of World Records. Her hair big that it often gets caught in trees, doors and earrings and she cannot drive with it loose as she can’t see out from under it.

We all know that Instagram is a great place to post photos of the food. But there are also a lot of girls who post the photos of their butts. And such photos are way better than the photos of food.

One guy builds a soft vinyl anime robot doll that has big breasts and looks kind of sexy.

27-year-old Nick Newell is an American lightweight MMA fighter. Nick Newell is a one-armed fighter, with his left arm ending just after the elbow. As of August 2013 Newell remains undefeated.

This is - a real Russian mouse... painted in khokhloma style.

A thief may have taken off with an Arizona man’s Amazon delivery, but his sense of humor is clearly intact. Tim Lake has a surveillance camera stationed outside his home, which caught a woman making off with a package he received from Amazon. He created a very lighthearted poster in the hopes of finding a woman and sat down for an interview with a local TV station, in which he sheds fake tears.

“Lost” posters are usually pretty sad, because an adorable little puppy ran away or a kitten went missing. Ughh, it’s awful. But the good news is we’re not talking about that sort of stuff. In fact, we’ve scoped out lost notices that are really clever and don’t make us think about a child crying somewhere because his parakeet, Corporal Jenkins, has gone missing. While these posts are all jokes, you’ve gotta give it to the makers. Like, if your Nutella went missing, wouldn’t you want it back asap?? Duh. Here are some clever lost posters that will make you chuckle:

Reality TV has made it acceptable to put shows on the air focusing on just about anything. And PBS has decided to have some fun with this sad fact. After launching an amusing photo campaign promoting fake reality programs to get people to watch the public service channel, PBS has taken it a step further with clever videos parodying the reality TV trend. So, sit back and take a look at these faux commercials for fake lowbrow series ‘Long Island Landscapers,’ ‘Clam Kings’ and ‘The Tanners.’ The sad thing is you get the feeling any one of these shows could actually be real. Well done, PBS. Well done. Maybe you guys can do a reality show taking viewers behind the scenes of this humorous ad campaign.

The triumphant (and final) return of ‘Breaking Bad‘ this Sunday, August 11, has gotten people all jazzed up and doing strange things. Some of our friends are throwing parties. Others refuse to let anyone into their homes. People without cable have sworn off Facebook from Sunday until they get a chance to watch the show. It’s insanity. Here’s how people are preparing themselves.

So Beyonce chopped off all her hair, took a selfie and put it on Instagram — we think there’s something a little funny about it. Although Beyonce looks great with short hair (of course she does), we couldn’t help thinking that maybe … just maybe … if she loses her temper her family better watch out. See what we mean below.

Does Domino’s suffer from low self-esteem? It would seem so, if the Facebook posting below that has been going around the Web is any indication. It seems that a customer who actually purchased and enjoyed one of Domino’s lukewarm bread and cheese creations decided to, as everyone does once they’ve consumed foodstuffs nowadays, register their enjoyment on Facebook. The customer in question posted a missive about her love for Domino’s pan pizza on the company’s Facebook page which, if the kneejerk apology above is any indication, seems to be used solely to field consumer complaints. Does Domino’s have a spambot ready to reply to any messages, tags or likes with a swift apology for the gastrointestinal distress their product no doubt caused? After years of people calling their pizza “hot circles of garbage,” are they like an abused child who responds to anything — be it a compliment or a criticism — with beaten down remorse? That said, we don’t feel sorry for Domino’s. If anything, this is a good start. The fast food chain has done a few other things over the years that they should apologize for. Here are five things we’d like the Dominos ApologyBot5000 to answer for. 1. Recycling the same dough and cheese they use for pizza for everything from Cheesy Bread to those volcano shaped mounds of noodles and goo they call Pasta Bowls. 2. Releasing those ads a while back where they admitted their pizza is terrible and needed to be changed. You were fine serving slop for decades and we were fine with guiltily devouring it in college when we were hungover and couldn’t be bothered to walk down to the cafeteria for a bagel. That was the agreement, Domino’s.

The English term ‘Gypsy’ encompasses a number of ethnic groups, in Europe they are predominantly known as the ‘Romani’ people, in India the Banjara, in Armenia the ‘Lom’ people and across Germany, Switzerland and France these nomadic families are sometimes called the ‘Yeniche’ people. Interestingly enough the term ‘Gypsy’ was originally spelt gypcian, short for Egipcien, many believe its roots lie somewhere amongst the rubbles of Middle English, French and Latin. Regardless of country or even origin, the one trait that binds this ethnic group together is their steadfast refusal to identify themselves with a particular territory or country. They have few traditions and no place to literally call home – a result of their ancestors also being nomadic. Their history is one of constant movement and change, tempered with a fierce belief in being free from any country and indeed its institutions. In America they are used as cheap entertainment in shows such as ‘My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’ whereby the very worst elements of their culture have been provoked, exaggerated, edited and broadcast onto reality TV – but to stereotype the actions of a few, as representative of a much wider community would be incredibly narrow-minded.

The majority of the artworks we feature on the site are either hanging from gallery walls or spray painted onto city walls. One of the last places you’d expect to find works of art is amongst the flora and fora in your garden. But that’s precisely what you’ll find on display in the Montreal Botanical Garden’s right now. As part of the Mosaïcultures Internationales Montréal 2013 – Land of Hope (MIM2013) 50 mind-blowing artworks from around 20 countries are on display – all of which are comprised from natural materials. Hundreds of leaves, branches, flowers, vines, roots and meters of foliage are twisted and styled into some of the most stunning creations you’re every likely to see. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, the entire exhibition is 100% sustainable having received green certification from the city itself. You’ll be pleased to know the exhibition still has a few weeks to run, it ends on September 29 2013. Tickets range between $10.25 and $29.50, incredibly reasonable for a day that will surely take your breath away don’t you think?

One of the key considerations in getting a tattoo, besides your motive and its symbolism is how it looks on your body. Both Arabic and more importantly Chinese characters are beautiful examples of typography, so it’s not that surprisingly that millions of people around the world choose to ink themselves with sequences of each. The trouble comes when you start using words in the wrong context. If you’re Russian and you get “BAG OF CHIPS” tattooed on your arm, simply because you like the way it looks, you can be sure that anyone who reads English will laugh at you incessantly and constantly ask you “Were you drunk when you got that?” Which brings us nicely onto the following collection of Chinese character tattoos. As aesthetically pleasing as they may be, to anyone who is able to read Chinese they are completely and utterly non-sensical. Take a walk around your local Chinatown and you can expect a serious case of WTF. So our advice, next time you’re thinking of getting a tattoo, go beyond the surface and make an effort to find out the context of what it means. If not, you could end up like these unfortunate souls….

Whilst you use ink in your stationary, oil for your bike and soap to wash yourself everyday, its rare that all three liquids come into contact with one another. What would happen if they did? Would blending ink, soap and oil produce something similar? Or would they just cancel each other out into a soapy sludge? That’s precisely what Russian visual artist Ruslan Khasanov was compelled to find out and so he decided to embark on a series of fun experiments to test his theory. His inspirations came whilst cooking one night, when he noticed the mixture of soy sauce and oil separating out into small black beads in his dish. Taking the same logic, he mixed different quantities of soap, oil and ink together and filmed the results. Amazingly, his unique concoction produced a vivid blend of yellows, magenta, whites and blues – all completely experimental and all mesmerising to look at. You can experience more from the project via his official Behance profile

These days we take Wi-Fi for granted, this invisible energy field that keeps us all constantly connected wherever we are in the world. But do you know how it was initially created? It was actually the by-product of a fail research project conducted by one John O’Sullivan an Australian radioastronomer. At the time he was trying to detect exploding mini black holes the size of an atomic particle, but instead found a solution that made wireless LAN fast and reliable. Not a bad days work in the office I’m sure you’ll agree. But if we could see it, what would Wi-Fi actually look like? Thankfully Dr. Vogel a professor and former NASA employee teamed up with visual artist Nickolay Lamm to answer just that question. Dr. Vogel adds: Wi-Fi is an energy field that is transmitted as waves. The waves have a certain height, distance between them and travel at a certain speed. The distance between Wi-fFi waves is shorter than that of radio waves and longer than that of microwaves, giving wifi a unique transmission band that can’t be interrupted by other signals. Wi-Fi waves are about 3 to 5 inches from crest to crest. Below is the result of their unique collaboration, was it what you were expecting?

Mexico-based artist Monarobot has created Pokemayans, a series of Pokémon illustrations in the style of Mayan art. You can find more of the stylized illustrations and even commission other Pokémon at Monarobot’s Tumblr.

Russian artist and photographer Dina Belenko has created “8-Bit Teatime,” a collection of photos featuring sugar cube art of classic video games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Tetris.

This is Montjiro, the alleged best dressed dog on Instagram. Now to be honest, I don’t know who dubbed this dog as such, but you know what? I agree with them. And trust me, I’ve seen a lot of well dressed pups on that app. My dogs? They’ll never be named best dressed — they prefer to be in the nude. They take after their mom!

In 1952, a few weeks before Charlotte’s Web came out, E. B. White’s editor asked him to share his inspiration for the book with the publisher’s marketing department. Here is his thoughtful and intriguing response…

After noticing that “bass players who use their fingers as opposed to a pick look like they’re tickling hairy dogs,” blogger Michael M began the “completely pointless hobby” of badly photoshopping dogs into the hands of bass players. And thus was born Bass Dogs. Here are some highlights…

Boring, white plastic silverware is old news to artist Qiyun Deng. Recently, the innovative product designer developed a collection of environmentally-friendly, but still disposable, silverware and serving bowl concepts that look just like everyday plants and vegetables. The series, entitled Graft, features objects constructed out of bioplastic PLA, a material pulled from renewable sources like vegetable fats and oils. Graft was produced as part of Deng's diploma project at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne in Switzerland and it is strongly inspired by nature. The artist crafted forks, spoons, and knives that blend nature together with manmade objects that we use everyday. Although the shapes mimic vegetables, they are designed to properly function as utensils. The handle of the fork looks just like a stalk of celery and the handle of the spoon looks just like a carrot. Deng asks, "By waking both visual and haptic sensation it brings along a question: Will you throw them away easily?"

Hey LOLJammers! First week of August has come and gone. How was everyone's week? Check out some of the most recent trending posts to start the month off!

When judging a possible hotel or resort destination online, it is important to realise that sometimes things are made to look better than they are. Here are some examples of a Mexican holiday resort in Puerto Vallarta where the pictures told a different story to the reality.

Firefighters had to smash a hole in the wall to save a 882-pound man (400 kg). Michael Lehberger Riegelsberg, Germany, called emergency services when he had heart failure. Firefighters used a cat digger and an ambulance built for four people to take him to a hospital.