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December 11, 2010

Wikileaks’ Secret Headquarters Unveiled! (10 pics + video)

The entrance to Wikileaks' Secret Headquarters. While on the run from Swedish and American authorities, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange hides 250,000 secret cables in this vast cave, drilled into granite under the White Mountains of Stockholm, Sweden. Wikileaks' secret headquarters is located 100ft below ground in a former Cold War nuclear bunker and is complete with a floating conference room, suspended glass corridors, lunar landscape flooring, designer furniture, and German U-boat engines as back-up generators.

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Art
December 8, 2010

Feeling Your Absence (8 pics)

Artist Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy asks you to reflect on the loss of a loved one with her creative sculpture series Empreinte. She cut and stitched a real pillow, and then cast it with plaster to make a mold for the ceramic piece. She also used a wool sweater and covered it with resin to make it look stiff and hollow inside. From sketch to final execution, these pieces took her a month to complete.

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Art
December 6, 2010

Vintage Cinematic Polaroids (15 photos)

It's hard not to be completely mesmerized by Neil Krug's '50s-'70s style photography. However, when you learn that the beautiful model in these shots was his girlfriend (now wife), it makes the story all the more compelling. Taken by Polaroid film, each photo tells a story filled with mystery and intrigue. When Krug first debuted his photos online, he had no idea that they would become such a sensation.

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Photography
November 30, 2010

The Story Behind “Wonderland” by Kirsty Mitchell

It's impossible not to be blown away by Kirsty Mitchell‘s Wonderland series. Picking locations that are genuinely real, Kirsty produces incredibly vivid, colorful, and beautiful fairytale-like settings. We reached out to Kirsty to ask her a few questions about the set. The answers she gave us were not only extremely thorough but also surprisingly candid.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.