Johanna Quaas was born Johanna Geiβler in 1925 in Hohenmölsen, Germany, and began practising gymnastics at a young age. During the Second World War, gymnastics was banned by the Allied Control Council, which forced Quaas to pursue another sport, handball. When the ban on gymnastics was lifted in 1947, Johanna Quaas quickly took up her passion […]
This emotive compilation video shows footage taken by dashcams and security cameras which have caught anonymous people performing random acts of kindness, showing how you can improve your own well-being and that of society through helping others. Like this? Watch Real Life Heroes – Couageous People Rescue Strangers for more footage of average people doing extraordinary […]
Marion Arbona is a French illustrator and animator living in Montreal, Canada. She divides her time between creating illustrations and working on animation projects, bringing her creativity and unique art style to both of these industries. Each of Arbona’s illustrations is different from the next. Some are highly detailed and filled with action, while others […]
Parkour and free runner athlete James Kingston straps a camera to his head and allows viewers to live vicariously by joining him for a run across the rooftops of Cambridge. While parkour videos are impressive when shot from a distance, the first person point of view used in this video reveals just how daring free […]
Omar Rayyan has created art for a number of different industries, from creating illustrations for children’s books to designing images for Magic: The Gathering cards. He also had an influential role in creating the fantasy world in the popular children’s movie The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Rayyan is inspired by the works of […]
Munich is a German city that is hundreds of miles away from the ocean, but determined Munich surfers haven’t allowed this fact to hold them back. Braving the icy cold waters of the river Eisbrach, the surfers show off their talents in the broiling rapids before being ripped downstream to face further dangers in the […]
A group of artists have chosen an unusual art medium, jellybeans, to express how much time a person has in life. Dividing the beans into groups to symbolize how much time we spend on daily chores vs meaningful, purposeful activities reveals just how much time a human being actually has to bring value into the […]
Susan Batori (Bátori Zsuzsa) is a designer and artist from Budapest, Hungary, whose sweet illustrations celebrate the joys and adventures of childhood. Each scene that Batori illustrates epitomizes a child’s ability to marvel at new experiences and expresses the artist’s own exceptional imagination. Batori says that she doesn’t like to talk about herself, preferring to […]
This moving compilation video shows average people becoming real life heroes by bravely rescuing strangers from life threatening situations. If you need your faith in humanity restored; this is the video for you.
This incredibly inspirational video shows how one man took himself from having an average physique to being exceptionally strong by persistently practicing calisthenics. This form of street exercise is becoming increasingly popular as body builders begin to venture further from the confines of a gym environment, exploring not only the world around them but the […]