Think These Are Photoshopped? Guess again

I know you’ll think that these amazing images are photoshopped. It happens for time to time that life is even stranger than anything you can photoshop.

Look again at these REAL images, and read about the most amazing things from around the world!
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A Glitch in the Matrix

That car rendered from what looks like vector graphics from an old-school arcade game is a wire-frame sculpture by artist Benedict Radcliffe. And we mean an actual frame made of wires.

Reportedly, it received a ticket for being illegally parked, though if we had been there we’d have quickly gotten another ticket for climbing inside, picking it up and running down the street making engine sounds.

And in Season 6 of Lost, They Reveal That the Island is Actually an Ocean

What appears to be the background for a cheesy 80s album cover is actually an untouched photo from Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the largest salt flat in the world.

It frequently floods with a shallow layer of water, allowing that dude pull off the Jesus move in the picture. Apparently it’s a popular tourist site for the natural beauty, leading to construction of a salt hotel, which we suppose makes it the worst vacation destination in the world if you’re a slug.

God’s Sand Art

Take the people out of this photo, and it looks like a bad painting. It’s the wave rock formation in Arizona, formed out of ancient sand dunes and creating that crazy depth perception-destroying optical illusion.

We’re not kidding, every damned picture of this thing looks fake. Including some that look like freaking finger paint.

“But This Store Goes to 11…�

There are marketing geniuses, and then there are the kind of visionaries who look at the ugly security fence on their storefront and decide it sort of looks like a guitar amp. Thus the Guitar Store in Southampton just went all the way with that idea, complete with big knobs and everything. We want to hire that guy to decorate our adult book store.

The Large Hadron Collider’s First Victim

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The lady whose midsection appears to be in the process of getting sucked into a black hole is Cathie Jung, who, as you can see, has an entire website based around the fact that her body is terrifying to look at.

Thanks to a lifetime of wearing increasingly smaller and more ridiculous corsets, she has a 15-inch waist and presumably a liver that’s been flattened to the thickness of a Fruit Roll-up.

And Its Second Victim…

If you’re not clear what’s so remarkable about this triangle sculpture thing, look closer and follow the surfaces from one angle to the next. That’s right, it’s utterly impossible, with its MC Escher design that seems to break all laws of the known universe.

When this sculpture–located in Perth, Australia–is viewed from another angle you can see the complicated way it manipulates perspective to get the effect…

…but what we love about it is there’s no plaque explaining what the sculpture is all about either, so nobody knows what the f**k it’s supposed to be unless they’re standing in exactly the right spot.

If There’s One Sport You Just Have to Try In Your Life…

Once more we are presented with a photo that not only appear to be a Photoshop, but a bad one.

But, no, Ostrich racing is an all too real sport in several countries, though we admit these photos seem to portray frat guys enjoying the sport ironically.

Ostriches have a reputation for being ornery sons of bitches, so we’re guessing that half of the excitement is watching to see which jockey gets his eyes pecked out mid-race.

Scientists Combine Human and Slinky DNA

No need to avert your eyes, you are not in fact witnessing the world’s largest up-skirt. These bizarre, lens shaped lenticular clouds form in upward gusts of wind that naturally occur around mountains. These winds, known as “wave lifts,� are so powerful that sail plane pilots have used them to glide 1,864 miles without a motor.

Venticular clouds are often mistaken for UFOs, which sounds retarded until you see one of these hovering over your town …

‘Lovely’ Innuendo Bridge

So … how long after construction did it take for the public to notice the shafts of sunlight through the railing of this bridge forms dongs on the street? You can’t tell us nobody noticed this, either. This is Westminster Bridge in London…

…and we’re going to assume that the architect figured this out at the planning stages. They were making dick jokes in 1750, right?

If you think about it, those shadows are just going to get longer and longer as the sun goes down. So if you’re an insecure dude, stay away from Westminster Bridge at sunset.

Unless you’re not one of those people who just see dongs everywhere.

Unfortunately, we are.

Night of the Lepus

We couldn’t tell if this was the most horrifying or most adorable thing we’d ever seen, until we learned the backstory. First terrifying detail: it is real. This species of giant gray bunnies are bred by a guy in Germany … for food.

Look people, we’re going to say it extra slow this time, and we’re going to link every word to evidence: Germany. Is. Freaking. Weird. If you choose to travel there, please don’t return with photographs.

Hannah Montana Gummi C*cks

Speaking of disturbing food, what is clearly a gummi dong to our eyes is supposedly a guitar. But yes, the candy is real!

Miners from Lilliput Explore the Interior of a Geode

Okay, that doesn’t even look like a good Photoshop. Yet, it’s a real photo, taken in the Cave of Crystals in Mexico.

It’s believed that the combination of mineral rich water and high temperatures resulted in super charged growth of the crystals. So Lex Luthor’s plan in Superman Returns wasn’t retarded after all.

The Streets As Seen by Salvador Dali

This melting building is actually just a regular building covered in a huge tarp with the Dali-esque design painted on it. It’s covering an apartment building undergoing renovation in Paris.

Hats off to the French. In a single stroke they hide unsightly construction and fool all passersby into thinking someone spiked their espresso. Now if they could only figure out why people keep plowing their cars into buildings undergoing renovation in Paris.

Swiss Army Knife

While this looks like a pretty ingenious photoshop mocking the Swiss Army Knife manufacturers, the reality is far, far stupider: it’s an actual Swiss Army Knife so huge as to be utterly useless for any task. It features a whopping 85 tools, including something that looks like it’s for circumcising a baby.

On whole, the knife is nine inches wide and weighs two pounds. Here’s an important outdoorsmen tip: When your knife has a handle three times wider than the blade is long, you’re not carrying a knife, you’re carrying a paperweight. One that’s far more likely to stab you than anyone else.

Recommended by Four out of Five Dentists to Ward off Attacks by Giant Asian Men

This billboard from Indonesia is a creative effort by the Formula Toothcare company to illustrate the fact that their toothpaste builds strong teeth, though there’s a special bonus message for very young children: people in pictures can only come alive if they’re very big and hungry enough to eat you.

A Water Park Designed by MC Escher

What sucks about magic is the tricks are always incredibly lame once you know how they’re done. This one is no different: it’s supported by a pipe running up through the water.

Home of the 404 Burger

Something this groan-worthy can only be real. A photo of this restaurant in China made the rounds over the summer during the Olympics.

Apparently restaurants there made a big push to get English on their signs to cater to tourists, but at least one business didn’t have a single English-speaking friend they could ask. So they plugged it into Babelfish and … you can imagine the rest of the story, which must involve at least one sign company who just didn’t give a s**t.

Actually, a Translation Error Would Have Improved This One

Man, just imagine all of the uses. Wait, do dogs even sweat? We smell bu**s**t here. This is actually a spinoff of a popular Japanese drink called Pocari Sweat. We don’t know who Pocari is either, but we’re going to go ahead and assume he’s a Sumo wrestler.

“Our Top Notch Security Will Find the C*ck in Your Luggage”

If you’re not sure what’s so funny about the above image taken from a public Birmingham International Airport report, look in the lower left hand part of the suitcase.

The Machine Apparently Made to Saw the World in Half

What appears to be some normal-sized machine cropped and pasted onto a skyline is actually a gigantic machinized monstrosity designed for excavation by some Germans. Those things that look like saw teeth big enough to cut down the Empire State Building are actually buckets, each of which could pretty much scoop up your whole house.

If this thing’s secretly a transformer, we’re screwed.

Macaroni Push-Pop

Yes, this push-pop made of “Macaroni & Cheese in Chili Sauce With Beef” is very real, part of a “convenience meets nausea” movement to provide your favorite foods on the go in a microwaveable, cardboard tube. Scrambled eggs are also available.

Here’s a tip for all you potential consumers: if you want macaroni and cheese so badly that you’re willing to eat it in a push pop, you have an illness and need to reach out to a professional.

“AAAAARRGGHH! EDDIE MURPHY HEAD!”

This giant, terrifying Eddie Murphy head that looks like a badly photoshopped and probably racist 4chan meme, was actually part of an enormous bust they were building to promote the movie, Meet Dave.

Incidentally, the only thing that would scare us more than driving next to Axl Foley’s humongous noggin on the highway is being forced to see the movie.

Giant Table or Tiny Bicyclist?

This humongous table and chair is a sculpture in England. The artist wanted to build a monument to the privacy and loneliness of writing. And by that we assume he means the loneliness of being a writer who is also a giant that eats passing bicyclists.

“Do You See Those Letters, Uh, Floating There?”

Yes, if you stand in this spot in the parking garage shown in the photo, the word “DOWN” is just floating there. The sign was designed by an artist who won an award for it, because there are apparently awards for making innovative signage in parking garages.

He created the effect of continuous letters by adjusting the angles for appropriate perspective as they reached walls, just like in those incredible chalk sidewalk drawings that are all over the web.

These sorts of illusions are great when they appear on sidewalks, and probably much less entertaining when you ram straight into the wall of this Wile E. Coyote-inspired parking garage after swerving to avoid the giant DOWN sign that materialized in midair in front of your car.

If You Look Past The Unsettlingly Tiny Speedo, You’ll See a Huge Freaking Airliner

This apparent disaster-waiting-to-happen is on the Island of St. Maarten. The airport has a particularly short runway that ends just 40 feet from beach, leaving large planes just barely enough room to land. So they have to come in low, directly over the beach, making it a prime destination for an afternoon of quiet, relaxing sunbathing.

We’re Moving. It’s the Crab’s House, Now.”

Holy crap, look at that thing. We were hoping that was just a tiny trash can but, no, it’s a coconut crab, which is the biggest arthropod that lives on land.

We like how they chose the innocuous name “coconut crab” to describe something that can only be killed with a flamethrower. If these things were called “Skull Crabs” or “Under Your Bed Crabs” mankind would have declared war on them long ago.

A Splotch From God’s Paintbrush

This Mark Rothko-looking blotch of color is the Grand Prismatic Spring, which supposedly gets its colors from bacteria that grow around the water.

Since this explanation seems far too simple for something so brilliant, we’ll go ahead and assume it’s really an alien spacecraft landing site being covered up by the government.

If Dogs Played Major League Baseball

This cartoonish muscle-dog is Wendy, a whippet with a genetic disorder causing ridiculous muscular growth.

While Wendy’s condition is sure to have many medical applications to various muscle development disorders, we’re still hoping Disney casts her as the bad guy in Air Bud 4.

“Damn Kids!”

At first sight, this appears to be a home improvement project that accidentally tapped into Stephen Hawkings’ most abstract theories on space and time. But then you notice that the kid who is right next to the portal to another dimension isn’t disintegrating into millions of pieces, or even looking up from his goddamn cellphone.

So it must be a photoshop right? Wrong again. The Inversion House is an art project that answers the pressing question: what would your neighbor’s place look like if it was sucked through a straw in the Looney Tunes universe? The answer is pretty cool, though apparently not nearly as cool as whatever 13 year-olds are texting each other these days.

Body Builder, With Flesh Puppet

Yes, the proportions are correct. The tiny man is Aditya “Romeo” Dev, the world’s smallest bodybuilder. He stands a towering 2 feet 9 inches tall and weighing in at a whopping 20 pounds.

We’d love to see him and Vern Troyer go at it in a no holds barred cage match. Or, see two huge men get into a cage match using this guy and Vern Troyer as weapons.

Freudian Gummy Candy

As you can see from the package, these are supposed to be lighthouses but may in fact be the most unfortunately shaped product of all time.

“Looks Like Another Neighborhood Got Sucked Into the Vortex Yesterday.”

It looks like a city about to get drained out of a giant’s bath tub, but it’s actually a picture of the world’s largest diamond mine outside of Mirny, Russia.

This mine is actually so large that air currents prevent helicopters from flying over it. By the way, the title of World’s Second Largest Hole still belongs to your mom.

The “Everything We Could Find” Pizza

This seems to be a Photoshop with some Japanese text thrown on, to mock a culture whose major export seems to be insanity. But the product is real and oh by the way, it’s from Pizza Hut.

It’s the Double Roll Pizza and comes with a pigs-in-blankets crust. The only thing it’s missing is some pork rinds. Maybe sprinkle some tiny cans of beer on there.

A Scene From a Michael Bay Movie About Tennis?

This mile-high tennis match looks like some cheesy special effect from a Nike commercial. But no, it’s just Dubai, whose entire economy seems to be based on building enormous things that exist only for the purpose of not making any goddamn sense. In that spirit they hosted this tennis match between Andre Agassi and Roger Federer on a helipad located on top of the Burj Al Arab skyscraper.

Hopefully they brought more than just that one ball.
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