
Subscribe The Brazilian Carnival, properly spelled Carnaval, is an annual festival in Brazil that started at the beginning of this week. Brazilian Carnival exhibits some differences from its European counterparts, having mixed African, Native and Euro elements. The photos below are from Rio de Janeiro, where parades are led by samba schools.

Subscribe There are lots of different professions and each and every one is important. Below is a big and exciting selection of photos where people do their jobs in different corners of the world, such as China, Japan, Russia and the US .

Subscribe These prints, made for the Animaster Animation School, emphasize materiality of thought and promote drawing skills, which you can presumably gain from studying there. The idea of drawing-reality fusion is not original, but nevertheless quite exciting and performed professionally!

Subscribe In the south-western part of Bolivia, near the famous salt flats of Uyuni, a unique hotel Hotel de Sal Playa was built entirely of salt back in 1993. Noting that people who wish to work in the area are often looking for a place to stay overnight and that salt is almost the only material, which is readily available in the region one entrepreneur came up with an idea of this hotel. Quite a successful idea, it has to be said!

Subscribe Not only human beings enjoy the festive season. Animals in the zoo have also celebrated Christmas and are now preparing for the New Year! The pictures are below!

Subscribe A family in Dorset, UK has fitted a monster 35ft Christmas tree which extends several feet above the roof of their house. The huge tree was cut into three parts to fit into the house. One part was put in the living room, one in the bedroom and one on the roof. From the outside it looks like one whole tree that takes up the entire house. The tree is decked out in 160 big baubles, 2,000 LED lights and has a star on the top.

Subscribe The best way to make unexpected guests drop the habit of visiting you? Simply put this cutlery set on the table and note down the time of them staying with you!

Subscribe Inside you’ll find a selection of photos depicting extraordinary winter weather in Western Europe (Italy, France, Austria, Germany, England, Switzerland, Spain) and some other corners of the world (USA, Canada, Kenya, Jordan). Most of the pictures are very beautiful and it’s always great to see happy faces of people playing in snow (for the first time at least in some of these places), but storms and floods are also a real side effect of this year unusual winter!
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Subscribe 42-year-old Norwegian freeride veteran Fred Roar Syvertsen confused the jumping place while filming the ski movie. At a speed exceeding 50 mph (80 km/h) Fred fell from a rock higher than 330 feet (100 metres). It’s hard to imagine what the athlete felt during his 5-second flight. After landing, he was buried under a thick layer of snow. Examination at the hospital, however, revealed that the patient is absolutely healthy! Pictures from the accident can be found inside!

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