Awesome Pictures

Every week, ESL Teacher “Pony” sends a picture to one of his students, a Japanese girl, who writes something about the picture as an exercise. The results can only be called Poetic Engrish.

Awesome People Hanging Out Together has star-studded pics and vids, some of them expected – Dylan and Cash – and others hilariously random. Col. Sanders and Alice Cooper ftw!

(NSFW) Health advisories often use disturbing images to promote their message. This one has that in spades, but it’s offset by the artist’s blunder, who needs a hand with drawing hands.

Repulsed by the false sense of order promised by charts, writer Ben Greenman made these self-aware, self-referential, self-affirming and hilarious charts and graphs. More charts here.

Mike Joos has a series of prints featuring popular characters both real and fictional riding their very own custom bikes – with a couple of exceptions. You can also order the prints as T-shirts.

The Museum of Modern Art recently began asking visitors for feedback and messages. Most of the kids who filled in the form had positive reviews, but one kid was clearly let down. Shame on you MoMA!

Here’s an awesome set of pics to rescue you from the Monday blues: BenfromSalem’s basset hounds and their gooey loose skin. This is why people have prosumer cameras. Still not smiling? Watch this.

A blog that shows how some movies, TV shows, or even moments in real life are better – or at least more fun to watch – when viewed in reverse. But there are exceptions of course.

German job hunting site jobsintown.de created ads that make it look like there’s actually someone inside these machines doing all the work. The caption says, “Life’s too short for the wrong job.”

Third-degree burns left Hachi looking like a menacing T-800, but he remains sweet and loyal. Rescued by firefighters in Torrance, California, he’s now looking for someone to adopt him.

Entertainment Weekly got Marvel to reveal what Hugo Weaving’s Red Skull will look like in Capt. America: The First Avenger. That is one bad-ass freak. We actually like him more than Chris Evans.

Pawel Kuczynski is a very prolific Polish artist who recently began making satirical illustrations. His drawings are simple yet deliver timely and powerful messages. More here and here.

(NSFW: Language) A collection of works by Dan Tague, featuring messages composed using the letters found in dollar bills. Will be shown at the VOLTA NY Art Fair from Mar 3 – Mar 6, 2011.

It all started when Redditor hannahisapalindrome posted this picture, and in typical viral fashion we now have more examples and twisted takes on the meme. It even has its own website now.

The website’s title will draw you in, but you’ll stay for the pictures. The site is filled with unusual celebrity shots. Christopher Walken as a young, handsome man definitely counts as unusual to us.

Graphic design student Luca Lago Batmanized several Star Wars characters. His conversion process was pretty simple: give a character bat ears and add “bat” to its name. It’s super-effective!

Using quick cook food is a half-assed way of cooking. They’re testaments to our laziness. In fact, we’re so lazy we’re not even willing to follow the steps it takes to make these things properly.

Australian street artist BUFFdiss uses strips of masking tape to create his art. He often makes oversized hands that interact with the environment, but he also has more complicated pieces.

Caldwell Tanner and Kevin Corrigan pit the Dark Knight against some of the Internet’s most popular memes. This makes us wish Batman was real so he could rid us of Forwarders once and for all.

Not content with having a catch-all blog about “funny things”, Mike Lacher starts off the new year with a creepy meme. You wanna know what makes muppets cute? It’s the eyes. The goddamn eyes.

These spooky drawings are the work of John Kenn. A TV show director and writer, Kenn said he draws to relieve stress and boredom, and that Post-It Notes let him “create stories” in a jiffy.

Warning: May cause dizziness or headaches. These pictures were made by Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka of Ritsumeikan University so that parts appear to move even though they are only static images.

The Kangbashi district in China has wonderful amenities and houses. But while it was designed to support a million people, it stands mostly empty, simply because people can’t afford to live there.