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If there is one thing that has become abundantly clear to me after more than two hours perusing AwkwardFamilyPetPhotos.com, it’s that a good 90% of the time it’s the “family” part of the equation that makes the photo awkward. The pets? Well, they’re just victims.
After creating AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com Mike Bender and Doug Chernack quickly realized the pet photos were fan favorites. So the guys created an entire site (and now, a book) dedicated to pets and the people who love them a little too much.
Just in time for the holiday season, the book is filled with never-before-seen photos, essays, and graphics. If you’ve ever read the captions below the photos on the site, you know those essays are bound to be hilarious. Purchase for a friend, relative, or just set this bad boy on your coffee table for hours of entertainment for you or anyone else who happens to stop by and get a gander at this gem.
To whet your appetite, I spent the last hour culling through hundreds of photos on the site and have whittled it down to the 30 images you’re about to see. I’m willing to wager there is more than one serial killer in the group below, but oh my lands, this was, perhaps, the funnest thing I’ve ever compiled for Babble, I kid you not. Do you know how hard it was to choose a mere 30? I laughed out loud at every single photo you’re about to see, and you will too, I promise. Continue reading »
Just when you thought he couldn't possibly get any creepier...
Polygamist leader and longtime child molester Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison this week for sexually assaulting two underage followers he took as brides.
Now, more photos of the 55-year-old and his dozens of child brides have been released. Many of the photos you are about to see were used as evidence during his trial.
I worked at Fox 13 News in Salt Lake City for several years. They have dozens of the photos on their website and have generously allowed me to use a few of them to show you exactly what these disgusting old polygamist men are doing to thousands of girls often young enough to be their granddaughters.
The photos are seemingly everyday photos of life as a polygamist, but they are fascinating. And disturbing.
A note: the faces in these pictures have been blurred to protect the identities of any crime victims.
See the photos after the jump.
In German artist Paul Ripke’s photo series, kids are the parents and parents are the kids. The resulting effect—beards in onesies and pacifiers in business suits— is completely bizarre, slightly disturbing, and quite amusing.
Aside from being amazingly cool to look at, these images ask some bigger questions.In this child-centered age, parents are often judged for letting their lives revolve around their children.Where previous generations of children were given a finite place in a world defined by adults, this generation of kids is being raised in a world increasingly designed around kids’ needs, both physical and emotional. Whether or not this style of parenting benefits kids…or parents, is up for debate.
Ripke’s work seems to address this question, asking:
Just who is the parent here?
A naturally beautiful new mom.
Somewhere in a box in the attic, there’s a photo of me taken shortly after giving birth. My face is puffy and shiny with sweat, my eyes are tired and my hair is damp and stringy. Cradling my newborn baby girl in my arms, I look like I just ran a marathon in the Texas heat. While it is certainly not the most flattering photo ever taken of me, it is one of my favorites because it truly captures one of the most important moments of my life.
Now, I suppose that moment could have been captured just as well a few minutes later after I had given some attention to my appearance. I could have combed my hair, powdered my face and put a little color on my lips. But I gave birth before Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Nobody outside my immediate family was ever going to see that picture and besides, I was really tired and couldn’t have cared less how I looked.
But times have changed. With the advent of the Internet and social networking sites, it’s not enough to come through labor and delivery with a weary smile on your face. These days, modern moms know they will be facing an Internet-ready camera immediately after giving birth and are arriving at the hospital prepared for their close-up. Continue reading »
We all love our kids, but let’s be honest: they can really mess things up. Before they are even born, they stretch out your body and kill your social life. And once they become mobile, their path of destruction grows much wider. They pop off the keys to your laptop and flush them down the toilet. Or scribble works of art on your freshly painted walls. Or feed marshmallows to the dog (which may not ruin the dog, but will do a number on your carpet).
We’ve all been there and now we can prove it. Billed as the “strongest visual birth control on the market today,” Shit My Kids Ruined is a hilarious site dedicated to documenting the havoc our children have wreaked on our collective personal property. Featuring user-submitted photos and captions of permanent markered faces, un-stuffed couch cushions and baby powdered everything, the site proves that misery loves company. And photographic evidence.
So, whether you’ve got kids and want to commiserate or don’t have kids and need reason to keep it that way, go check out the Tumblr site or the Shit My Kids Ruined Facebook page. And the next time Junior puts a hole in the wall or gives his little sister a haircut, take a picture!
Image: lindaaslund/Flickr
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Apparently it was Elvis’s 75th birthday recently (because he’s still alive, okay). And since babies and get enough of the King, here are a multitude of babies doing their best Elvis impressions.
Kids are good at a lot of stuff. Reaching the bottom grocery shelf for you; hoisting onto your shoulders to clean the ceiling fan and they rock at photobombing, as these pictures illustrate.
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Wendy Michaels 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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