Demotivationals

The now classic subversion of the motivational poster has been around for so long that it's hard to tell when it started. That doesn't mean that it's gotten stale though, as this gallery perfectly illustrates.

There are few feelings as awesome as knowing that everyone in the room wants a piece. These guys have all gone from big to buff and they've got the photographs to prove it. Inspiring stuff and some amazing changes.

You don't often see girls with heavy weaponry. You see them with lollipops and copies of that Shades of Gray thing and hair brushes and glasses of wine and other girls, but you rarely if ever see them with big guns. Until now.

One of the few joys of living in New York has to be the cab rides, entrusting your wellbeing to a man who has a name on his taxi license that would, in any other situation, make you laugh so hard you'd wet yourself.

For some of us it feels that it's another amazing summertime, filled with good times, lasting memories, happiness and the thought of good times shared. For the rest of us it means it's soon time to get back to work or school.

This would definitely be top of my 'things to get before someone chews off my arm' essentials. I got to get me one of these before the dead decide to rise, you can never be TOO prepared for those flesh eating unwelcome visitors!

A lot of people go under the knife of a cosmetic surgeon but few of them will change their appearance as radically as this young woman. Now complete with huge lips, pointy ears and a split tongue she has changed. A LOT.

I once had a position in a lettuce factory and it was my job to peel off the outer leaves and cut it down the middle, then pass it on. I lasted a day. And it wasn't like I was sucking the cr*p out of festival toilets either. Crap jobs, eh?

Prepare to be dazzled as you witness a collection of some of the most awesome hyper realistic street art that we have ever seen. Some is better than others but at it's pinnacle, these are almost indistinguishable from the real thing!

These distorted panoramic photographers are by Randy Scott Slavin for his Alternate Perspective series. He can take up to a hundred pictures of a scene to build up a 360 degree image before stitching them together to make a stereographic projection.

It's important that despite all the famine and suffering in the third world that us in the first world can soldier on and find interesting new ways to spend our unearned wealth on extravagant eccentricities like these.