The Amazing Stuff

Selfies are a staple on social media. Although they’re extremely common, people who take too many selfies are often subject to endless ridicule. The selfies taken by these people are the ones that garner the most negative attention.

You honestly won’t believe how stupid they are.

1. Check your reflection before you post those selfies.

2. The framed selfie is truly horrifying.

3. That’s how I feel about selfie sticks, too.

4. Okay, that’s kind of funny.

5. Flush! Just flush before you selfie!

6. When you can’t afford a selfie stick.

7. Pretty bad timing.

8. That’s just wrong.

9. Because this is what your parents are paying for.

10. Inception selfie.

11. Why? Just why?

12. No respect. None.

13. What a waste of food.

14. That can’t be sanitary.

15. Clever.

16. What a romantic dinner!

17. This seems unnecessary.

18. I feel like the amount of effort that went into this is a little ridiculous.

19. That’s old school.

20. What is the connection between taking selfies and pooping?

21. You’re not using it right.

22. Showing off that new selfie stick…by taking a selfie with it.

23. Even former President Clinton gets in on the action.

(via Diply)

If these selfies aren’t enough to make you hate humanity, then you are a better person than I am. Why would people take photos like those? I guess all we can do is laugh.

Taking photos at sunset is nothing new. After all, with all the gorgeous colors and textures in the sky, it’s the perfect backdrop for any picture. The only thing you have to worry about getting lost in the back light.

But if you’re John Marshall, back light is your best friend. Marshall, a TV producer and author, was living alone on an island in Maine for 30 days. He decided to use his free time to start a project, and to do so, all he needed was some cardboard and a few beautiful Maine sunsets.

Mars House of Pizza

“When Mars House of Pizza says ‘WE DELIVER ANYWHERE,’ they mean it.”

Marshall made three rules for himself when he started this undertaking:

1. He couldn’t have help, and had only the 10 seconds of the camera’s self-timer to compose the shot.


2. He could only make props from materials found in his cabin.


3. He could only use tools available in the cabin to do so.

So nothing fancy ever came anywhere near this project. He found reference material on the Internet, and then he simply cut out some shapes and headed to the beach. We’ve included Marshall’s own captions under each photo, because he’s funnier than we are.

The Chameleon

“While I was watching the sunset tonight, I couldn’t stop blinking. ‘Hey. Do I have something in my eye?’ I asked Keith, my chameleon friend. ‘Yeah,’ Keith said. ‘It’s a bug.’ ‘Can you get it out?’ I asked.”

The Flamingo

“‘In the yoga world, we call this the Standing Tree Pose,’ I said. ‘Oh, in the flamingo world, we call this standing,’ the flamingo replied.”

The Frog Date

“I was about to tell the waiter about the big fly in my soup when my date cleared her throat. ‘Are you gonna eat that?’ she asked.”

The Gorilla

“Today, I was enjoying a sunset banana down by the lake when the most amazing thing happened. All of a sudden, this warm breeze started blowing across my neck, and it smelled just like bananas, too.”

The Grizzly Bear

“When the grizzly bear said he had a frog in his throat, I didn’t know I’d need to reach in and rescue it.”

The Kayak Horse

“For anyone who has ever wondered if their horse would make a good kayak partner…I wouldn’t count on it. Mine didn’t pick up his paddle once.”

The Mermaid

“When I finally got up the nerve to approach the beautiful mermaid down on the beach, a friend suggested I bring her a bouquet of roses. But I had a better idea.”

The Ring Toss

“I can’t think of a better way to wind down at the end of the day than with a little Rhino Ring Toss. For anyone interested, all you need is a rhinoceros and a ring, and you’re good to go.”

The Shark

“Enough with the begging. This is why you do not feed pets at the table.”

Troll Haircut

“The problem with Troll Haircut Day is the brutal monotony of it all. ‘Tapered to a point?’ I asked for the 74th time.”

And here’s the reverse angle!

Not as epic, but totally adorable.

(via BoredPanda)

You can see many more of Marshall’s images on his website, along with some of his other creative endeavors.They’re also on Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr.

But Marshall does more than take hilarious shadow pictures. He’s also the author of a new book, Wide-Open World, which tells of his family’s adventures as they travel the world volunteering. You can purchase it on his website, too.

When you think of a young woman creating self portraits, maybe you immediately start picturing selfies snapped with a phone. There’s nothing wrong with that, but the self portraits of Hungarian artist Noell Oszvald are a little bit different. Instead of simply capturing what’s on the outside, these images capture an interior landscape using stark black-and-white and stylized geometry.

The results are strikingly surreal images that immediately evoke complex moods.

They’re at once classic and modern.

Oszvald incorporates the surrounding geometry of her setting with her own body, creating strange blends of human and architectural forms.

In the images, Oszvald’s body becomes less a human form and more a series of abstract shapes.

Although they look it, these images are not actually single photographs.

Rather, they are composites of several photos, which Oszvald assembles “like a jigsaw puzzle.” Because of this, she doesn’t consider herself a photographer, and says that she simply uses photographs as the basis for her compiled pieces.

The images are all created in post-processing, and are rarely, if ever, planned out beforehand. Most of them are created spontaneously.

Though they’re created on the fly, they still managed to have a staid, contemplative feeling.

Unlike many self-portraits, few of the images actually show Oszvald’s face.

Instead, she captures her interior self through subtle poses, gestures, and the setting.

(via Colossal)

You can see more of Oszvald’s work on her website, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr.

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