Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

It’s not always about romantic bridges and pommes frites…on my last trip to Paris, it seemed like every time I turned a corner I discovered another kick-ass piece of street art.  Voila:

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Preview to the Zombie-pocalypse:

Photographer Edward Horsford times his camera shutter to the exact millisecond that a water balloon pops – these stunning images are some of the fruits of his painstaking labor.

-via Neatorama

Not afraid of getting a little wet?  Learn the ins-and-outs of how Edward creates these pics at DIY Photographs.

I wouldn’t mind living in the miniature, mouth-watering, and food-obsessed world of artists Akiko Lda & Pierre Javelle.  Is it lunchtime yet?

Click on the photos to make the already gigantic food even more gigantic-er.

-Artist’s website (via @Piastrom)

Depressingly, I can’t remember the last time I saw a firefly – we don’t get many cruising down Broadway in the middle of the night. Check out these amazing photos of fireflies taken with a slow shutter speed:

(Fact of the Day: ‘Fireflies are winged beetles and give off a green luminous glow from chemicals in their lower abdomen in a process called bio-luminescence. As babies – the larval stage of the insects’ lives – they use their glow to warn off predators but as adults they use the same phenomenon to attract mates.’)

- From Daily Mail via Unique Daily

Feast your peepers on these stunning extreme close-ups of human and bug eyes:

Humans:

-Link (via Buzzfeed)
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Bugs:

-Link (via @9swords)

Beat your mom to the punch and send her this photo immediately – if you don’t, you know she’ll be sending it to you as an insanely long chain-email with the subject line “God’s Smile – Forward To 15 People For Good Luck”.

-via Reddit

From the Flickr group “Tetris Tetris Everywhere”, this is what happens when everyone’s favorite Russian puzzle game invades ordinary life…I can almost hear that infamous background music drilling a hole in my brain.  Beware…Tetris is coming for you.

-From Abrinksy

-From Yoakenobang

-From DiceBourbon

-From Bladerunner82

-From Atomische

-From Sinkdd

-From Coolcatcookie

-From Kazzle101

-From Hairport_Lisbon

-via Kottke.org

OK, let’s face it…times are tough.  We’re in the middle of the Great Recession, two brutal wars are being fought simultaneously, and the iPad really kinda sucks.  Sometimes you need to just laugh at some stupid-funny ambiguous photos.  Here you go:

-via Smile Panic

Notice anything strange about Obama in each and every one of the photographs taken at the reception he held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this week? The video below is concrete proof that Obama-bot has taken over. Woah.

Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
-via Neatorama