Unbelievable Luck: Tugboat Pulls-off an Impossible Maneuver
Sometimes all you need to have a successful sail is a bit of luck. No wonder sailors are known for their superstition and strange rituals. Looks like these sailors have done everything by the book, since they have had the enormous luck not to sink this tugboat as it “sailed” beneath the bridge. Just look at this series of sequential images and see for your selves. You won’t believe your eyes what impossible maneuver they managed to pull-off. This was definitely not just another day at the river for them!
The towboat is approaching the bridge with barges loaded with coal.
This frame gives you an idea of how fast the river is running. Obviously at or near flood stage…
Looks like trouble.The bridge didn’t open and the boat can’t stop. Notice that the tug has released the barges. He is backing as hard as possible to try and avoid a collision with the bridge.
Can’t back down enough against the current.
Uh Oh! The current has swung the boat around sideways.
The cook thinks maybe something isn’t quite right.
The boss is going to be REAL mad!
Uh… Boss? Do we have flood insurance on this boat?
Uh…. Boss? You ain’t gonna believe what we just did!
She’s low, but the flag is still flying.
The wheelhouse door and the door in the second deck are now open.
Look close at the bottom righthand side of the picture and you will see that the bridge guardrail is underwater.
Look at the water pouring out of the second deck doorway.
The working deck is still underwater, but rising.
Children’s Drawing Brought to Life
This is exactly what happens when you let children use oil crayons or pencils to express their imagination through drawing sketches. You get silliest, wackiest, the most unbelievable scenes that look like the are out of this world. But, what would happen if you tried to bring these absurd children’s drawing into life by reconstructing them.
Firstly, you would need to put a lot of effort into bringing such scenes into our realm.
But the important thing is that the results would be highly entertaining to all. The following photo gallery of 16 funniest and most humorous images proves my point. This is how children’s drawings brought to life look like. Cool isn’t it?
23 Book Covers That Will Make You Say: WTF?!
Design of a book cover is usually intended to attract readers’ attention. Book covers in this collection show some examples where designers went over the top in that direction. Or maybe it was not designers foult after all. You would have to admit that you cannot make a good cover for a book titled: “Three ways to snog an ALIEN”. Maybe the writer are to blame,too.
These covers are extremely odd and you won’t be able to believe that these books really exist. Unfortunately, they do! Unfortunately for the readers of these books, but fortunately for us who will have a great laugh browsing through these covers.
Armed America
Crazy Lady
Starship Intercourse & The Day Universe Came & The Little People
Senator Kennedy – Hero of LGBT Rights
Pin Up Girls – Coloring Book
16 Famous Photoshopped Images Throughout History
March 29, 2010 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Odd World
President Abraham Lincoln, circa 1860
This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body. Putting the date of this image into context, note that the first permanent photographic image was created in 1826 and the Eastman Dry Plate Company (later to become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1881.
Stalin, circa 1930
Stalin routinely air-brushed his enemies out of photographs. In this photograph a commissar was removed from the original photograph after falling out of favor with Stalin.
Benito Mussolini, 1942
In order to create a more heroic portrait of himself, Benito Mussolini had the horse handler removed from the original photograph.
Altered Photo
Original Photo
U.S. Olympic hockey team, 1960
In 1960 the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia to win its first Olympic gold medal in hockey. The official team photo was doctored to include the faces of Bill Cleary (front row, third from the left), Bob Cleary (middle row, far left) and John Mayasich (top row, far left), who were not present for the team photo. These players were superimposed onto the bodies of players Bob Dupuis, Larry Alm and Herb Brooks, respectively.
Fidel Castro, 1968
When in the summer of 1968 Fidel Castro (right) approves of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, Carlos Franqui (middle) cuts off relations with the regime and goes into exile in Italy. His image was removed from photographs. Franqui wrote about his feeling of being erased:
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Original Photo
The German Chancellor, September 1971
The German Chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt (far left), meets with Leonid Brezhnev (far right), First Secretary of the Communist Party. The two smoke and drink, and it is reported that the atmosphere is cordial and that they are drunk. The German press publishes a photograph that shows the champagne bottles on the table. The Soviet press, however, removed the bottles from the original photograph.
- Altered in the News Paper
Original Photo
Oprah Winfrey, August 1989
The cover of TV Guide displayed this picture of daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. This picture was created by splicing the head of Winfrey onto the body of actress Ann-Margret, taken from a 1979 publicity shot. The composite was created without permission of Winfrey or Ann-Margret, and was detected by Ann-Margret’s fashion designer, who recognized the dress.
Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, February 1994
This digital composite of Olympic ice skaters Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan appeared on the cover of New York Newsday. The picture showed the rivals practicing together, shortly after an attack on Kerrigan by an associate of Harding’s husband. The picture caption reads: “Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan, appear to skate together in this New York Newsday composite illustration. Tomorrow, they’ll really take to the ice together.”
Terrorist attack at the temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt, November 1997
After 58 tourists were killed in a terrorist attack at the temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor Egypt, the Swiss tabloid Blick digitally altered a puddle of water to appear as blood flowing from the temple.
The Funny World of Politics Part 2
These funny images show us that when caught at just the right time, our stuck up political icons such as Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmytry Medvedev, George Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John McCain,Vladimir Putin are all just human beings, that’s for sure. But whether they will get reelected that remains to be seen. I hope you will enjoy this funny collection’s second part.
The Funny World of Politics Part 1
Think These Are Photoshopped? Guess again
April 22, 2009 by admin
Filed under Art and Design
Supersized me: The Funniest Fat People Pics
Sure they might be a little overweight, but they are ridiculously unaware of how funny they are. These are the funniest fat people on Earth.
Anyway, let these funny images be a warning to all people who don’t mind their diet enough and are on the road to obesity, don’t do it. A little exercise, healthy eating and discipline of mind and body can take you a long way. Don’t let yourself become overweight. Live a healthy life. But if you fail to do so, don’t get down on yourself, you can still have lots of fun like these fatties.
