A 15-year-old German girl could not have a horse, so she trained one of her family’s cows to become a show jumper. Luna the cow has come to navigate the pasture with equine ease.

Pandas play in snow at Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Southwest China’s Sichuan province. Heavy snowfall hit the area on Tuesday, disrupting the water and power supply at the research center. Photos tanken Jan 17, 2011 by Li Wei, a staff member at Wolong Panda Club, in Sichuan.

We all love pancakes, in the morning, during the day, in the evening, we could eat pancakes all the time it seems. There is this guy Jim that obviously agrees with this statement because he is making a lot of pancakes, and not just regular ones, but in all kinds of shapes and colors. He is also making themed ones for the holidays, like Halloween and Thanksgiving. Other examples are dinosaur pancakes, jewelry pancakes, and Unicorn pancakes.

One of the things young people wonder about a lot is how they are going to look when they get older, and older people are looking at photos of themselves when they were young wishing they could turn back time. Artist Bobby Neel Adams has mixed these two aspects by making photo montages of two pictures of the same person, only one half of the photo is the face of the person when they were a child, and the other [...]

Looking at the paintings on these photos, the first thing you will realize is that they are not painted on the wall but on a human body. Only that little fact draws attention because it is done in such an interesting way. Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector are the brains behind this project that they call “Museum Anatomy”, where they simply mix up fine art and body painting.

Scott Wade – a talented artist, who like every creative and curious person can’t resist a dirty rear car window. Wade started to produce simple hearts or phrases such as “Wash me, you dirty fellow” on the windshields and windows of cars. Later on, he improved his skills and now he can make a Mona Lisa or a Rembrandt by using the ‘dust extraction’ technique.

It is difficult to find any examples in the natural-world that can be considered ugly. The colors, are perfectly matched and blended; the shapes are perfect, even if non-symmetrical; the composition is perfect. The combination of color where the river meets the low hills, the curves and reflections produced off of the ocean or the power of the waves may be what is needed to inspire us and take us in a new direction.

Leonid Afremov, the artist, was born in city of Vitebsk in 1955. Amazingly enough Leonid was born in the same town as Marc Chagall, the famous artist who also founded the Vitebsk Art School along with Malevich & Kandinsky. Leonid Afremov graduated from Vitebsk Art School in 1978 and is one of the elite members.

“Letchik Lekha” is a Russian commercial pilot who also happens to be an avid photographer. On his site and blog you can find many rare shots of airplanes, the land below and the sky above, so here is just a small sample (click to enlarge photos):

German media reported on June 10, last month, Central America, Guatemala’s Pacaya volcanic erupted. Although the main road leading to Pacaya volcano had long been closed, but many tourists still risked their lives to watch the magnificent natural landscape in disregard of the warnings of disaster relief organizations.