Expectations Vs Reality

It's always the same, isn't it, especially during the holiday season. You build up expectations in your head about how it will be and then the cold reality of 'how it really is' slaps you in the face. Sigh

Childhood, there's no better place to impregnate fears that will stay with you, building into neuroses & eventually have a breakdown in mid-life ending up in therapy, nobody knows that better than the monsters in a child's mind :(

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 the ultimate partnership in the galaxy...far far away. A combination of the wise (but dirty-minded) Yoda from Star Wars and the unbridled humor of Tumblr. The force is stong with this one - "Said that she did!"

Stare, go on, take a good long look. Didn't quite get your fill then stare some more. Why not? There's no harm in looking, right? Just make sure there's not a camera around to catch your indiscretion.

How big is too big? It's kinda like saying how much drink is too much drink, because it all depends what mood you are in, where you are and your perspective on the situation - For me the answer is big, but not too BIG!

These are the celebrities most in demand every time you type their name into our favourite search engine (is there another one?). There are quite a few surprises as well as the token lesbian to feast your eyes on.

If the subways around here were even a fraction of how cool this is, no one would mind taking it! Even graffiti artists would probably not touch it. It is truly impressive.

A protest took place in the capital of Ukraine at the entrance of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in Kiev, protesting against sexual harassment in colleges. An unusual way to get the message across sure, but it gets your attention.

It's surprising the human race is alive and well, if not mentally stable, after looking at some of these pics. The sins of the father and of the mother too. No doubt these kid'll grow up to be well-rounded, fully developed deviants

So many memes and lots of them originate in movies and television shows—so if you needed to brush up on where the heck all those images you see all the time come from, this is the place.