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Infographic is one of the most challenging types of graphic design because the creation process alone is pretty intensive. Researching data is a very lengthy procedure of getting information that takes both your time and dedication for obtaining resourceful and correct data. After that, the designer must be able to create a strong visual impact that precisely displays the information in way that is rational and blend with the overall design.

We are truly delighted to show you these brilliant and informative infographics created by various talented individuals. Here’s a collection of 50 infographics that are creatively designed, colorful, lively, shocking and educational. Let’s have some visual feast!

50 Years of Space Exploration. A huge infograph that show the last 50 years of space exploration. This incredible infographic was created by Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco for National Geographic. (via Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco)

Disney vs Marvel. A collage assignment made by Curseofthemoon. An infographic about Disney buying Marvel. (via Curse of the Moon)

Grand Mosque. This is an infographic press release that came from the Gulf News (Dubai). it came with the actual graphic and an explanation about the architecture of the great mosque. (via Douglas Okasaki)

High Rise. Out of the 191 countries that are counted by the United Nations only 81 (42%) to have a building that is higher than 100 meter. (via Theo Deutinger, Johannes Pointl, Beatriz Ramo)

Relief Wells & Subsea Containment. BP intends to drill two wells designed to intersect the original wellbore above the oil reservoir. (via Hollywoodbackstage)

Prism Social Media 2010. This infographic display online conversations between the people that populate communities as well as the networks that connect the Social Web. (via Serge Esteves)

Genes and Society: Cloning. This informative infographic can help you learn to distinguish between research cloning and reproductive cloning. (via DNAPolicy)

Flickr User Model. Bryce Glass has developed a wonderful Flickr user model diagrams where one can simply understand the Flickr ecosystem. (via Bryce Glass)

Burning Fuel: The Average Car vs. The Average Human. An infographic comparison on how cars use gas to power themselves, just as people use food. (via Good)

Choose Your Weapon: The Global Arm Trade. World military spending has now reached one trillion dollars. (via Princeton)

Crude Awakening. The impact of oil spill in the gulf of Mexico (via Infographicworld)

Geological Time Spiral. A diagram of geological time scale. (viaEthan Hein)

Most Targeted Books. Every year, libraries are asked to remove books from their shelves, because they are found to be inappropriate. But the list of the 10 most challenged books in 2009 does show which books some parents find objectionable, and why they feel their kids shouldn’t be reading them. (via Good)

Red Tape: The Government Grind. US government average salaries and positions illustrated (via Princeton)

Twitter Users Profile. The different types of twitter users (via Infographics showcase)

Goodbye, Lenin. This well-made infographic is a 2nd-place winner of the international NewspaperDesigning contest. (via Lech Mazurczyk)

The Kulula Airlines. African airline Kulula undergo an entire fleet redesign. They made one big infographic on the exterior of their aircrafts. (via Shanairpic)

CarLand: A Century of Motoring in America. US automobile history. (viaGood)

Battle of the Plastic: Debit Vs Credit. A breakdown between a debit card and a credit card. (viaLoans and Credit)

Tallest Buildings. Here’s a look of the world’s tallest buildings. (viaJoelertola)

The Pyramid of Internet Piracy. MPAA provides a visual explanation with the pyramid of online piracy. (viaNIXON*NOW)

Digg Frontpage: Infographic vs Non-Infographic. Popular digg submissions that uses infographics against non-infographics. (via10e20)

The Slowest Loading Websites in the Fortune 500. This infograph details the load times of all Fortune 500 companies (via Heinley)

Ancient Hebrew Cosmology. The ancient hebrew conception of the universe (via Michæl Paukner)

The American Dream. This infographic depicts the true American dream (via Spidercam)

Periodic Table of the Internet. A periodic table of popular websites (via Wellington Grey)

Rocket-Proof Obamamobile. A cutaway illustration by John Lawson showing how tough Obama’s new Cadillac One. (via John Lawson)

Pet Obsessed: Cost of Cute. Let’s take a look at the true cost of raising(and pampering) our beloved pets. (via Mint)

The D-Day. A detailed visual on what happen on D-Day (via Metrobest)

Cost of Ownership. The estimated cost of constructing a house. (via Digital Monkey)

Pikes Peak Course. A beautiful illustration for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (via Davvi Chrzastek)

No More Fish In The Sea . This infographic show the looming eradication of marine life would be the result of a lack of diversity in ocean ecosystems that comes from the overfishing of particular types of fish. (via Good)

The Big Questions of Climate Change. The true impact of climate change (via Adolfo Arranz)

Celebrity Body Insurance. List of some popular celebrity and the body part they insured (via Infographics Blog)

Glass Half Empty: The Coming Water Wars. This infographic explain why we need to save water now. (via Princeton)

Bicentenary Timeline . Illustration and Design for Fernández Editores (via Icarograf)

The Future Farm. a clever perspective at corporate farming (via Posterous)

The Killing of Puerto Hurraco. Infographic made for the Spain of Democracy (via Julian Develascot)

This is Where We Live. Take a look at America by the numbers with this interactive infographic. (via Time)

Map of USA. Visualizing a USA map (via MakemyMood)

Six Seasons of ABC’s ‘Lost’ – By the Numbers. Funny stuffs about the American live-action television series. (via MediaFreakBlog)

Pyramid of Capitalist System. Capitalist explained on this simple but visually appealing infographic. (via NEDELJKOVICH, BRASHICH and KUMARICH)

LEGO Brick Timeline: 50 Years of Building Frenzy. LEGO, through the years (via Jesus Diaz)

Humans vs Animals. This interesting infographic show that some purely human traits are found on animals. (via Metrobest)

On Words. An alphabetical list of the most frequently occurring words in a book, excluding common words such as “of” and “it.” (via Amun Levy)

Why do Freeways Come to a Stop. This cool infographic provides 4 reasons on why do freeways come to stop. (via Infographics showcase)

The Giant Panda. A creative infographic displaying a portrait of panda through typography. (via Lish-55)

Figurinhas da Copa. A special magazine series for star players going to the World Cup. (via Renata Steffen)

Transito 3 final . Infographic about what causes more traffic accidents (via Gerson Mora)

The Story (so far) of Twitter. The rise and rise of Twitter (via Infoshot)

The Biggest Shift. Assuming these statistics are logically accurate , it highlight the significance and magnitude of social media. (via Derri Hasmi)

The Descent into Credit Card Debt. Mint.com has a funny, but educational, infographic about just how easy it is to become plagued by credit card debt. (via Mint)

More about Wikileaks : WikiLeaks (sometimes Wikileaks) is an international organization that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of otherwise unavailable documents while preserving the anonymity of sources. Its website, launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press. Within a year of its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.

The organization has described itself as having been founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the U.S., Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Newspaper articles and The New Yorker magazine (June 7, 2010) describe Julian Assange, an Australian journalist and Internet activist, as its director.

Born in 1863 in Crewe, Hope started his working life as a carpenter. In about 1905 he became interested in spirit photography after capturing the supposed image of a ghost while photographing a friend.

He went on to found the Crewe Circle – a group of six spirit photographers led by Hope. When Archbishop Thomas Colley joined the group they began to publicize their work.

Following World War I support for the Crewe Circle grew as the grieving relatives of those lost to the war sought a means of contacting their loved ones. (watch out for pictures after the break)

1. Couple with a young female spirit

By 1922 Hope had moved to London where he became a professional medium. The work of the Crew Circle was investigated on various occasions. The most famous of these took place in 1922, when the Society for Psychical Research sent Harry Price to investigate the group. Price collected evidence that Hope was substituting glass plates bearing ghostly images in order to produce his spirit photographs.

Later the same year Price published his findings, exposing Hope as a fraudster. However, many of Hope’s most ardent supporters spoke out on his behalf, the most famous being Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Hope continued to practice, despite his exposure. He died in London on 7 March 1933.

2. Joe and Will Thomas & their grandmother’s spirit

A photograph of Welsh mediums – and brothers – Joe and Will Thomas, taken in about 1920. The Thomas family claimed that the image superimposed over the sitters was the only photograph of their deceased grandmother in existence. Hope, however, would have used an existing photograph of a woman to create the illusion.

3. Joe Thomas and unidentified spirit

A photograph of the Welsh medium Joe Thomas, taken in about 1920. The shrouded woman’s face appearing in the photograph was not identified by Thomas – but it may indicate some form of collaboration between him and Hope.

4. A Seance

A photograph of a group gathered at a seance, taken by William Hope (1863-1933) in about 1920. The information accompanying the spirit album states that the table is levitating. In reality, the image of a ghostly arm has been superimposed over the table using a double exposure.

5. Mourning scene

A photograph of a mourning scene, probably taken by William Hope (1863-1933) in about 1920. A woman mourns for her husband in a Chapel of Rest, standing by his body which is wrapped in sheets and laden with flowers. The woman’s son stands beside her. The image of a man’s face has been superimposed over the original photograph. The spirit album notes that the family were Roman Catholics and believed in life after death.

6. Two women with a spirit

The face of a young woman appears over the woman on the right of the photograph. The reverse of the photograph reads: ‘Why is the child always pushing to the front?’ and ‘Do we get messages from the higher spirits?’; perhaps questions the women wanted answering. One of the sitters, at Hope’s request, has signed the plate for authentication.

7. Three people with two spirits

8. Family group with two spirits

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In a nutshell, the idea is that you create a new Blog on WordPress. Upload new media on WordPress and then hotlink those images back to your own blog. See recent posts on this blog. All the images are either hotlinked from original source or they are all uploaded on WordPress blog.

So, What are the benefits ? Well the benefits that you get by hosting your images on WordPress blog are :

1. Unlimited Bandwidth so no need to panic while posting those big images post.
2. You get a control panel of your own to manage your images
3. Can be used for any purpose i.e. with any file type that is supported on WordPress.com
4. You get 3GB space to be used.
5. And I heard Google likes if you link something to other reputed websites, I mean its good for SEO purpose.
6. Your images never ever get expired.
7. Saves you from embarrassment.

If you are really new to WordPress then please leave comments and I shall get you started.

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“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” – Michael Jackson

“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.” – Michael Jackson

“I wake up from dreams and go “Wow, put this down on paper.” The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face . . .” – Michael Jackson

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.” – Michael Jackson

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” - Michael Jackson

“’Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.’” – Michael Jackson

“And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.” – Michael Jackson

“I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.” – Michael Jackson

“Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. It’s what the whole world should do.” – Michael Jackson

“I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.” – Michael Jackson

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