Ah, celebrity doppelgängers: There are the freakishly similar (like Kesha and Taylor Momsen), the ones with the same facial features (check out Fergie and Ellen Pompeo), and even the somewhat odd (who knew Lady Gaga could resemble shredded cheese?) And then there are those whose look-alikes were created by the Walt Disney Company. We’ve rounded up the best 15 celebrity/Disney doppelgängers for your viewing pleasure. Check them out below!
Justin Bieber: Peter Pan (‘Peter Pan’)
Craig Barritt, Getty Images/YouTube
Amanda Seyfried: Rapunzel (‘Tangled’)
Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images/YouTube
Zayn Malik: Aladdin (‘Aladdin’)
Kevin Winter, Getty Images/YouTube
Nicki Minaj: Cruella de Vil (’101 Dalmations’)
Neilson Barnard, Getty Images/YouTube
Shay Mitchell: Pocahontas (‘Pocahontas’)
David Becker, Getty Images/YouTube
Kelly Osbourne: Mad Madam Mim (‘The Sword in the Stone’)
Frazer Harrison, Getty Images/YouTube
Russell Brand: Captian Hook (‘Peter Pan’)
Chris Jackson, Getty Images/YouTube
Ashley Benson: Alice (‘Alice in Wonderland’)
John Sciulli, Getty Images/YouTube
Wilford Brimley: The King (‘Cinderella’)
Bryan Bedder, Getty Images/YouTube
Michelle Williams: Tinkerbell (‘Peter Pan’)
Ian Gavan, Getty Images/YouTube
Vanessa Williams: Esmerelda (‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’)
Jemal Countess, Getty Images/YouTube
Danny DeVito: Phil (‘Hercules’)
Bryan Bedder, Getty Images/YouTube
It’s no surprise that Danny DeVito looks so much like Phil — he voiced the character, whose looks were modeled after his own.
Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice: Anastasia and Drizella (‘Cinderella’)
Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images/YouTube
Sebastian Bach: Prince Adam (‘Beauty and the Beast’)
Let’s face it, window seat beats aisle all the days of the week: first of all you don’t have to deal with annoying passengers or beverage carts bumping your knees, you can lean to the window if you want to rest a bit, and most important you have a very special place to observe all the wonders that our world has to offer.
If you still think that your beloved aisle seat is the best you can have on an airplane, take a look at these unbelievable pictures taken from the window seat of an airplane.
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Though many of the world’s most impressive churches feature high ceilings and soaring spires, sometimes you have to go underground to find the real gems. Jesus called the apostle Peter, the rock on which “I will build my church,” but these churches are built inside the rock or carved into it.
Cave churches and monasteries have been around since the beginning of the church, often as a way to seek out spiritual succor in a remote and solitary place. Carved into the rock, or located inside caves, they have a raw appeal that often contrasts with urban cathedrals with stained glass windows.
Explore them here:
A general view of St Samaans (Simon) Church also known as the Cave Church in the Mokattam village, nicknamed as ‘Garbage City,’ is seen on July 26, 2012 in Cairo. Once a week hundreds gather at the Cave Church in Moqattam, after the prayer, a coptic priest performs exorcism or healing blessing to some of the believers. With a cross and holy water he fights spiritual entities and demons. The Monastery of St. Simon the Tanner is the largest and it has an amphitheater with a seating capacity of 20,000 making it the largest church in the Middle East. It is named after the Coptic Saint, Simon the Tanner, who lived at the end of the 10th century, when Egypt was ruled by the Muslim Fatimid Caliph Al-Muizz Lideenillah. Simon the Tanner is the Coptic Saint who is associated with the legend of the moving of the Mokattam Mountain. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA
A general view of the Underground Serbian Orthodox Church on May 5, 2009 in Coober Pedy, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
Panoramic shot taken in small chapel built in cave, in Western Syros, Cyclades. (V. Paravas / Getty)
The interior of the Panagria Hrysospiliotissa (Chapel of Our Lady of the Cavern) in a grotto under the Temple of Dionyso, in Greece.
The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a Halite mountain near the town of Zipaquirá, in Cundinamarca, Colombia.
France, Provence, Sainte-Baume Mountain: woman burning candle at Troglodyte Sainte-Marie Madeleine Holy Cave.
The Cave Churches of Goreme, Turkey
Italy, Calabria, Pizzo, Piedigrotta church
Callao Cave Chapel, Philippines
The Hermitage Saint Antoine and his troglodyte chapel, located at the bottom of the Gorges Galamus. The gorge is the border between the Aude and Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Europe (P. Eoche / Getty)
Cave Church of St. Peter, Hatay, Turkey
Agioi Saranta, a cave church near Protaras, Cyprus.
Tomb at back of Geghard Monastery complex in Armenia.
A man gets out of a chapel built on the rock inside the Orthodox Christian monastery of the Temptation near the West Bank city of Jericho, on February 22, 2014. The monastery of the Temptation was built during the 6th century CE above the cave traditionally said to be that where Jesus spent forty days and forty nights fasting and meditating during the temptation of Satan. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
Mihalich Cave Church, Bulgaria
Chapel Of the Blessed King, Wieliczka Salt Mine, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Krakow, Poland
St. Stephen’s Cave Church, Budapest, Hungary
Jonas caves, Auvergne, Frace
Small underground chapel carved into the rock of the Barranco de Guayadeque valley.
Man praying at Cave Chapel at Modderpoort Prior, near Ladybrand, Free State, South Africa
Prague typically isn’t at the top of travelers’ bucket lists but we’re here today to tell you that it should be. Seriously, the place is stunning. Not to mention the beer is delicious and conveniently cheaper than water.
But back to the city being breathtaking…
It looks like it’s been plucked right out of a fairytale.
All those red roofs.
And beautiful bridges.
They have cobblestones everywhere
And the skyline is pretty spectacular.
It even looks good in black and white!
And covered in snow.
European pink ladies
Don’t you want to be sitting on that patio drinking a cold Czech beer right now?
Famed aerial photographer Kacper Kowalski, featured previously on our website, has taken to the skies again, this time to document the complex relationship between humans and nature. From high up the air, paragliding over the Polish landscape, Kowalski captured where nature and civilization interact in aesthetic, abstract colors and shapes. His aerial photographs are now available, for the first time, in the form of a book entitled “Side Effect”.
In 80 highly aesthetic images, Kowalski depicts landfills and waste spills, snow-covered orchards and autumn leaves. Many of the objects or scenes photographed need some amount of interpretation to understand what it is exactly that’s being portrayed. “Sometimes the pictures resemble drawings,” Kowalski said. “Sometimes they are like maps with traces of human presence on the Earth.”
Kowalski said. “Sometimes they are like maps with traces of human presence on the Earth.”
An aerial view of a Polish forest, with trees changing color.
Kowalski doesn’t seem to be averse to human encroachment on nature. “Even forests, meadows and lakes are modified by people,” he said. “On the one hand, it is caused of course by the development of the civilization, economy, etc. But on the other, I think it is an atavism — a need to leave a trace, a visible sign, to immortalize oneself.”
Born in 1977, Kacper Kowalski is a graduate of the Technical University of Gdańsk, where he studied architecture. After having worked in architecture for four years, he devoted himself entirely to flying and photography. Both as a pilot and a photographer, he takes aerial pictures of natural and urban environments of his native Poland.
Vehicles travel on a road past the ice-covered Vistula River near Kiezmark, Poland.
A snow-covered industrial site at the port of Gdynia
An aerial view of woodcutters in the forest near Gdynia.
A garbage dump in Gdynia, as seen from above.
Blades of a wind turbine are set to be loaded onto a ship in Gdynia, Poland.
A snow-covered orchard near Tczew, Poland.
Wastewater is pumped out from the gas-fired Zeran power plant operated by Vattenfall Heat Poland at Bialoleka.
An aerial view over fields of grain shows white chamomile, blue cornflower and other weeds growing amongst the grain sprouts.
A view over a lake, surrounded by trees changing color in Kashubia, Poland.
#1.When you first meet people try to notice their eye color while also smiling at them. It might be because you look for a second or two longer, but all I can tell you is that people really respond to it.
#2. Pay attention to people’s feet. If you approach two people in the middle of a conversation, and they only turn their torsos and not their feet, they don’t want you to join in the conversation. Similarly if you are in a conversation with a coworker who you think is paying attention to you and their torso is turned towards you but their feet are facing in another direction, they want the conversation to end. You should check outCarol Kinsey Goman’s research on these types of things in the workplace.
#3. Foot-in-the-door phenomenon. People are more likely to agree to do a task for you if you ask them to do something simpler first. (Gradual Commitment… makes people them think you like them)
#4. Alternatively you ask them to do an unreasonable task, and they’ll say no, so then you ask for what you wanted, a much more reasonable task, and they’re more likely to agree that way.
#5. If you ask someone to do you a small favor, cognitive dissonance will make them believe that because they did that favor, they therefore must like you. (Ben Franklin)
#6. If you ask someone a question and they only partially answer just wait. If you stay silent and keep eye contact they will usually continue talking.
#7. Chew gum when you’re approaching a situation that would make you nervous like public speaking or bungee jumping. I can’t remember where I heard it but apparently if we are ‘eating’ something in our brains trip and it reasons ‘I would not be eating if I were danger. So I’m not in danger’. Has helped calm me a few times.
#8. Avoid the sidewalk shuffle by looking intently over the person’s shoulder, or between people’s heads in a group. Your gaze shows them where you’re going. They’ll drift toward the opposing side / create a gap to avoid you.
#9. When you’re studying/learning something new, teach a friend how/about it. Let them ask questions. If you’re able to teach something well, you understand it.
#10. People will remember not what you said but how you made them feel.
#11. For interviews I recommend altering your psychological state beforehand. Tell yourself “I’ve known these people all my life. We’re old friends catching up. I can’t wait to see them”. Visualize the experience, shaking hands, making eye contact, having conversation. What things can you not to wait to tell them? Hold an open pose…stand with your legs apart, hands on your hips, and shoulders back while doing this and SMILE. This may sound cliche but you are in charge of your own psychological state and the power of suggestion is strong.
#12. If you get yourself to be really happy and excited to see other people, they will react the same to you. It doesn’t always happen the first time, but it will definitely happen next time.
#13. My personal favorite is when people are angry at me; if I stay calm it’ll get them even angrier, and be ashamed about it after.
#14. If you have a warm hand when you shake somebody’s hand, you immediately become a more desirable person to get along with.
#15. People have a certain image of themselves and will fight tooth and nail to cling to it. Use this information wisely. You can make people dislike you by attacking their self-image.
#16. False attribution of arousal. When you take somebody out on a first date, take them somewhere exciting that will get their heart beating. e.g. roller coaster or horror film. This gets their adrenaline up. It makes them think they enjoy spending time with you rather than the activity.
#17. The key to confidence is walking into a room, and assuming everyone already likes you.
#18. The physical effects of stress (increased breathing rate, heart rate ect.) mirror identically the physical effects of courage. So when you’re feeling stress from any situation immediately reframe it: your body is getting ready to do courage, it’s not feeling stress. A great example of cognitive reframing, researchers found that you do better when you appraise a stressful situation as a challenge, not a threat
#19. Refer to people you’ve just met by their name. People loving being referred to by their name, and it will establish a sense of trust and friendship right away…
#20. If you make the biggest smile you can, you will automatically feel happier
#21. The moment your alarm wakes you up, immediately react by sitting up, pump your fists and shout “YEAH!”
#22. Always give your kid a choice that makes them think they are in control. For instance when I want him to put his shoes on I will say ,”do you want to put your star wars shoes on or your shark shoes on?”
#23. People are extraordinarily aware of their sense of touch. If someone (a member of the opposite sex?) ‘Accidentally’ rests their knee on yours, let’s say, they know it’s there.
You can practice #20 right now. It works, it really does. If you found these tips helpful, share them with other.
Mike Salway is an amateur Australian photographer who also loves astronomy.
Mike Salway
His work seamlessly combines landscapes and nightscapes, perfectly capturing the beauty of the Australian Outback.
Mike Salway
He creates vivid images using long exposure, like this photo of the Bungle Bungles.
Mike Salway
His work brings together the wonders of the night sky with a striking foreground.
Mike Salway
Mike said: “I want to inspire and motivate people with my photography. I want to evoke emotion and to hear people say ‘Wow!’ when they look at my work”.
Mike Salway
This photo, taken on the NSW Central Coast, shows the the moon as well as Jupiter and Venus.
Mike Salway
Here, a shooting star can be seen over Cape Leveque.
Mike Salway
“It’s better than just a picture of the sky alone, because it gives it a time and place – it puts the night sky in contex and helps to show people what’s out there”, Mike told Buzzfeed.
Mike Salway
“Unfortunately our night sky is getting harder and harder to see because of light pollution, and people just don’t head outside and look up any more.”
Mike Salway
“By heading out to dark skies and capturing these scenes, I can show people what they’re missing out on and hopefully inspire others to think about it more or to try it themselves.”
Mike Salway
Doesn’t it just make you want to go camping in the Outback?
If you thought weather was either cold, warm, wet or dry, rainy or sunny or that nature has limits, you were wrong. There are some amazing weather phenomena you probably didn’t know existed, and even if you did, you probably have never seen them this beautiful.
Here are some of the most amazing images captured around the world.
17.Canada’s saline endorheic alkali Spotted Lake: contains some of the highest quantities of magnesium sulfate, calcium and sodium sulphates in the world.
