Top 10 Pictures That Look Like Someone Got Photoshop Happy
10.
Cookie Cutter Houses
The third world is striving for the American dream and one of the components of this dream
is a house in the burbs.
In true capitalist form developers across the third world cut costs by creating whole
housing suburbs with the exact same buildings, covering hundreds of acres.
This cuts down on the cost of building the houses but makes every single one look exactly
the same.
What a nightmare every time you were stumbling home after a night out on the town.
9.
Endless Libraries
Centers of learning in places such as China and Germany have taken areas of mass studies
to new heights!
Behold the open pit mines of knowledge!
Designed to be open and free some libraries end up looking like some sort of dystopian
future right out of 1984.
8.
American industrial might
Late in the game America finally entered WWII.
Once committed it began to fully utilize its incredible industrial might.
Assembly lines in factories throughout America churned out hundreds of planes, all to rain
death down upon the Axis.
These planes could be pumped out at all hours of the day and night.
Look at that last image; it was taken in October 1942 at the B-25 bomber assembly hall in Kansas
City.
It isn’t a colorization but an actual color picture taken in 1942 using color film.
What we sometimes forget is that the WWII was in color, vivid Technicolor.
7.
Lego Warehouse in heaven
Founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, LEGO is one of the most successful toy companies
in the world.
Since its birth almost 400 million pieces of lego have been created.
The company has four giant storage rooms like the one shown in this Tom Nagy picture.
The Lego pieces are stacked in bins 23m high.
In these bins and boxes there are over a billion Lego pieces.
Robots trawl the aisles getting various parts to complete an order.
6.
Where Birds go to die
In Washington D.C. lies the National Museum of Natural History.
One of its departments is the Division of Birds House.
Inside its walls, with over 625,000 specimens, is the third largest collection of birds in
the world.
Most of the specimens are preserved skins for research but there are also skeletons,
eggs and whole bodies are preserved in bottles of alcohol.
Some birds are even flash frozen in liquid nitrogen.
The bird skins are kept in wooden drawers, as shown by this photo taken by Chip Clark.
5.
Amazon Fulfillment Centers
Amazon has revolutionized the way we shop and buy things off the Internet.
Yet all that stuff doesn’t magically appear.
No, Amazon has huge warehouses scattered throughout the world where they store inventory until
it is ready to be shipped to your door.
Often a target of employee complaints the warehouses are huge and require great endurance
from their workers as they run from one end of the warehouse to the other.
4.
Tires
What to do with used tires has always been a huge problem throughout the world.
They are difficult to recycle, are breeding grounds for mosquitoes and disease as well
as an incredibly dangerous fire hazard.
When tires fires break out they release huge amounts of toxic smoke and can take years
to put out.
One fire in Socorro New Mexico has been burning for over 11 years.
This picture of a huge non burning tire pile was taken by Klaus Leidorf.
3.
Endless Shipping Docks
The world shipping industry depends on the sturdy Intermodal containers.
They are built of sturdy metal and standardized in size.
Ships, trains and trucks carry them, and the cargo inside, to every corner of the globe.
At the world’s busiest ports these crates sit in huge numbers waiting to be picked up
for the next leg of their journey.
2.
Crazy Urban Jungles
In a rush to house the masses and with little space to build, skyscrapers rapidly soar into
the sky.
Often little thought is put into aesthetics and more effort is put into pushing the boundaries
of efficiency and standardization.
1.
Endless Monks
The ceremony of Makha Bucha, or Full Moon of Tabottwal, is a religious meeting where
thousands of Buddhist monks come together at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist temple
in Thailand.
A national holiday in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, Makha Bucha is a religious celebration
centered on purification and doing no wrong.
Luke Duggleby was able to capture this picture pf praying monks for the February 2011 issue
of National Geographic.