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

Lets face it, when it comes to photography, the difference between a yawn-tastic photo & a sublime work of pure awesomeness is all about the right angle - Witness everyday normality transformed into total abstract wonder.

So the Olympics and the paralympics are over. The races have all been run, the medals have all been handed out and the politicians have all received their rightful booing. Time to admire the subversive street artists take on the proceedings.

The nine Best Picture Oscar nominees have been given a LEGO makeover. Posters for Gravity, Philomena, Her, Captain Phillips, Nebraska, Dallas Buyers Club, 12 Years a Slave, American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street have all been recreated.

We love looking at them on the big screen but we love them even more when they are out of their clothes and splashing about in the water - Even without make-up and digital-enhancement they still look awesomely hawt!

An awesome artistic tribute to the greatest fighting game that ever existed! If you love Street Fighter, and who doesn't, then you'll love this collection!

The wife, her indoors, the trouble & strife, the ball & chain, your significant other, your better half, your other half, the little lady, the boss, the missus. Anyway I'm off for some beers, make sure dinner's ready when I get back.

These enterprising drug smugglers have decided to make a run for the border disguised as a 'Department of Transportation' car with enough contraband for one HELL of a party! - Cheech & Chong couldn't have done it better!

From the looks on these kids faces you'd think their hair has feeling & they are about to be subjected to extreme torture! I guess the first time you have one it could be scary? Why do kids hate the barber so much?

More hotties from Comic-Con. Because I just can't get enough of these awesome babes!

The Simpsons has been on our TV sets since the mid 1800s so it's quite a surprise that nobody has thought of doing a gallery like this until now. There's probably loads of similar ones you could do as well...