Over 3 dozen Hindu brides look a touch less than enthused as they prepare for the mass marriage ceremony that was held as part of the Akshaya Tritiya festival in Bhopal, India last Monday…

(via Wall Street Journal, This Isn’t Happiness, Sanjeev Gupta/European Pressphoto Agency)

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A VW Beetle demonstrates a nifty mid-70′s invention…

(via Reddit)

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For a series of photos surely embarked upon more for the shock value than the artistry, photographer Arne Svenson took pictures out his window into the luxury apartments across the street. He has titled this series “The Neighbors” and it features residents of the nearby condos living life quite ordinarily without any sense that they are being watched.

Svenson describes his project…

The Neighbors don’t know they are being photographed; I carefully shoot from the shadows of my home into theirs. I am not unlike the birder, quietly waiting for hours, watching for the flutter of a hand or the movement of a curtain as an indication that there is life within.

Now that those photos are displayed in a NYC gallery, the neighbors have found out about his illicit photography and are — as you can imagine — indignant, to say the least.

But Svenson doesn’t care…

For my subjects there is no question of privacy; they are performing behind a transparent scrim on a stage of their own creation with the curtain raised high.

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“Onement VI” from abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman sold on Tuesday at a Sotheby’s auction for 43.8 million dollars.

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One of Rhett and Link’s ongoing gimmicks is making commercials for little companies that might not make one on their own, and who definitely couldn’t make an ad as funny or popular as one by Rhett and Link will be. In this case, we get a peek inside Ryan Lee Chiropractic Center in Los Angeles…

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