Amalgamation
Amalgamation, created by French motion graphics artist Micaël Reynaud, features black and white photos taken by Michael Jang. It's kinda cool.
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People and their fish twins
It's been commonly said that people often resemble their dogs, whether it be a good or a bad thing, but we can (pretty much) guarantee that no-one has ever likened someone to the fish that's on their…
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The most depressing theme park ever
Say you're taking a trip to North Korea. By choice. What would you expect from your holiday? Tension, violence, poverty, famine: likely. Fun: not so much.
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Banksy Donates Artwork To Occupy London
You’ve got to hand it to Banksy, he’s like the proverbial moth to a flame when controversy is in the air.
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The flying rhinos
Anyone who might have labelled rhinos as a bit too sensible (behind their massive backs obviously) will be eating their words after catching this surprising set of pictures.
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Awkward pet photos
While there are few things that pets genuinely love (food, killing things), there are plenty that they abhor.
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Unseen Steve McQueen snaps
As you’ll already be aware, unless you’ve skipped the cover and contents page, this week’s ShortList celebrates Ryan Gosling’s reinvention of masculine cool.
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Is John Travolta a vampire as well?
While we always assumed that the great pairing of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in Face/Off was down to inspired casting and a shared love of shouting and shooting, we now fear that a mutual love of…
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The giant lightsaber
We've made it pretty clear that we want a lightsaber. While we're starting to get a bit impatient about actually receiving a real, workable one, we're still not tired of any lightsaber-related news.
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Amazing Day to Night New York Photos
New York is an incredible, vibrant city, but one with two faces - the commuter bustle of the daytime, and the neon glow and buzz of the night.
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Incredible Moving Photographs
Rather like a cat or a very young child, we often find ourselves transfixed by the simplest of things. For example, the sound of rustling still causes a rapid head movement, mainly in the hope that…
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Mesmerising train journey shots
Getting bored on the train is pretty much a given. It's a long journey, devoid of entertainment and overrun with those damn members of the public. Hell, in other words.
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Floating In The City
Warning; if you’ve overdone it this week now might not be the best time to view this mind-boggling image, such is its hallucinatory effect. Or is that just us?
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The Saddest Lord Vader in all of The Empire
A Darth Vader street performer waits for tourists who want to be photographed with him, in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a thunderstorm in Berlin.
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The wonderful world of the diving face
The 14th FINA World Diving Championships in Shanghai, is off and running and we'd like to doff our caps to the incredible skills these people have. Seriously. Bravo. On a slightly less serious note…
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Millennium Falcon "Found" On Bed Of Baltic Sea
Woe is Han Solo, for his beloved Millennium Falcon has been spotted by Swiss treasure at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
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Mini Planet Photography
‘What the…?!?!’ Two words (sometimes followed by a juvenile expletive) we find ourselves blurting out with alarming regularity these days. And we’re not even talking about…
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“A supervolcano is inevitable”
Clearly not content with having hogged the headlines in 2010, volcanic ash is determined to claim its fair share of column inches this year too.
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Sh*t London
London’s streets may well be paved with gold (figuratively speaking of course), but they’re also home to a seemingly unending array of tat, ridiculous shop front puns and artefacts that…
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Moose saves drowning marmot
Thanks to Bullwinkle we've always been quietly confident that mooses (meese?) are a friendly sort.
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Breakdancing ant pops out hand freeze
It could be argued that ants don't live the happiest of lives. It's all epic marches, dodging human feet and joyless sex with the same woman as every single one of your pals.
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Star trails captured
Dedication is to be admired, whether it’s Christian Bale shedding four stone in the hunt for an Oscar or a performance ‘artist’ covering himself in silver paint and standing still…
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Brilliant new photography
It's not often that we here at Shortlist.com make grand statements (we usually prefer somewhat medium) but we're going to come right out and say that Adrian Samson is our new favourite photographer.
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Unseen Marvin Gaye shot
Looking good while getting drenched in a kids’ playground is not an easy look to pull off — but back when this photo was taken, Marvin Gaye was the coolest man on the planet.
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Surreal urban art
A tank squashed into the roof of a hotel; fighter planes taking off the side of a skyscraper; a battle ship moored upon the concrete plains of La Defense in Paris…
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Tilt-Shift Photos
Despite all looking like they're snapshots of some elaborately constructed toy world, these images are actually taken from the very world we live in. Fact.
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Floating photos
We've all tried the odd 'trick shot' on holiday. Placing our hand beneath a waterfall to make it seem like we're some all-powerful God and laughing about it for at least a minute. But French…
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Life Through A Marble
More often than not, the best ideas are the simplest. Take this impressive collection of photos for instance. Entitled, simply, Life Through a Marble, it's the work of a preternaturally talented…
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New York at night
Like all great metropolises New York comes alive at night – hey, it’s not called the city that never sleeps for nothing. That’s why we were so taken with these evocative images of…
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A Loo With A View
When standing/sitting at the toilet, your mind often drifts from the job at hand and while this may lead to disaster, for author Luke Barclay it inspired him to create a new genre of photos.
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National Geographic Photo Contest winners
There are photos and then there are photos that come endorsed by National Geographic. The above three images all fall firmly into the latter camp as they make up the winners of this year’s…
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