If your Instagram game has been pretty average lately, it might be time for a trip to where to grass is a little greener, or at least worthy of more followers and likes.

If you’re looking for a spot to get your Instagram on that doesn’t require a million filters but will guarantee you adoring Insta-fans, then look no further than below.

Sydney-based photographer Mitch Green recently revealed to Mashable his favourite spots around Australia to get the perfect Instagram photo, and here’s his top 9 picks.

#1 Centre Place, Melbourne

Lined with graffiti and bustling with hipsters and tourists alike, Melbourne’s Centre Place is the perfect laneway to appear #cultured.

#2 Allora, Queensland

Flowers are a magnet for likes on Instagram and the sunflower fields of Queensland’s Allora are no exception. Green described Allora as “one of those scenes where it’s actually impossible to take a bad photo.”

#3 Lucky Bay, Western Australia

If you’ve always wanted to get up-close-and-personal with a kangaroo, or at least let your followers know you have, then Lucky Bay in Western Australia is the Instagram worthy spot for you.

#4 Mrs Macquarie’s Point, Sydney

Okay, okay, so it’s a bit of a cliche cheesy wedding photo spot, but there’s no denying the views from Mrs Macquarie’s Point in Sydney. You can Instagram the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and the entire city skyline in one fell swoop.

#5 Liffey Point, Tasmania

Don’t go chasing waterfalls, or maybe do if you’re keen on growing your Insta-fan base. Nestled in Tasmania’s extensive rainforest, Liffey Point is an idyllic natural reserve which is also home to the stunning Liffey Falls.

#6 Honour Avenue, Macedon

Like a scene out of a Hollywood film, Macedon’s Honour Avenue is a breathtaking tree-lined street west of Melbourne that makes for some pretty incredible Instagram photos.

#7 Cape du Couedic Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island

Lighthouses always look good in a photo and the Cape du Couedic Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island is the perfect rugged, yet natural landmark to add to your Instagram newsfeed.

#8 Sugar Pine Forest, Laurel Hill, NSW

If you get up early enough for your next Instagram adventure, the sunrise that peers through Laurel Hill’s Sugar Pine Forest is pretty darn spectacular, and it’s only a 2.5 drive from Canberra.

#9 Mount Gillen, Alice Springs

The outback is another Aussie gem when it comes to taking an Instagram photo that turns heads. That’s why Mount Gillen in Alice Springs makes Mitch Green’s list of Instagram worthy spots. Just remember to pack your hiking boots.

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Are you still rocking that threadbare messenger bag from a few years ago? If so, stop everything you’re doing and get stuck into this. Kiwi label Deadly Ponies is back with a new season accessories edit of essential leather accessories for men.

This season, Deadly Ponies introduces premium crocodile embossed leather throughout the collection, as well as two new styles – the structured Morpho Tote and sporty Ninja Backpack. Built from supple leather with brass fastenings, Deadly Ponies men’s gear is designed to endure anything while looking devastatingly cool and in two words: effortlessly chic.

The collection features classic backpacks, totes, compendiums, satchels and briefcases perfect for day-to-day use, whether you’re curating a versatile travel wardrobe or office look. There are even two stylish notebook styles in a purple and gold marble print, perfect for those lightbulb moments.

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Australia’s fun police are reeling over the Ford Motor Company’s latest hot hatch which comes standard with a ‘Drift Mode’.

The driver setting is designed to allow the car to go sideways in a controlled manner much easier.

The local authorities and safety lobby groups however aren’t having a bar of it. As the first car manufacturer to ever feature this mode in a production car, Australian police are convinced that the new 2016 Ford Focus RS will encourage hoons to try this feature on public roads whilst endangering other motorists.

The rally-inspired technology in Ford’s new car works by modifying the torque distribution in the all-wheel-drive system to send more power to the rear wheels. More specifically, extra torque is sent to the outer-rear wheel to cause the car to lose traction and slide.

The Focus RS is currently on sale in Australia and comes with a driver warning that such a feat should only be tried on the race track. A further statement from Ford reiterated that: “Drift mode is targeted for track use only – a disclaimer appears on (the instrument) cluster when switching modes. We believe the drift and track modes are appropriate for racetracks, and that typical Focus RS customers will understand the need to deploy these features under controlled and safe conditions such as during a track day.”

Harold Scruby who is a road safety campaigner for the Pedestrian Council of Australia disagrees. He told news.com that he was “absolutely stunned” that the technology was approved for use in Australia.

“A disclaimer is not going to stop an idiot from trying this on public roads,” said Scruby. “We urge Ford to reconsider its decision, recall these vehicles and disable this driving mode. Ford cannot absolve itself from its duty of care to road users and its customers with a disclaimer in the dashboard.”

Australia currently boasts some of the world’s strictest road rules and speed limits are heavily governed by massive fines and loss of license. Those caught drifting in most states can have their cars confiscated along with a 12-month ban for drivers.

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While the weather in Australia continues to be more unpredictable than Donald Trump’s hair, there is little to do but anticipate rain and steadily procrastinate at your desk. This, my friend, is something we can help with.

Whether you want to avoid getting sick on your next overseas business trip, wondering if you should grow a beard or what your signature Emoji should be, we have the Pointless & Awesome facts to get you through this Tuesday.

#1 The Most Germ-Infested Spots On An Airplane

When you and 350 other passengers are crammed into a little aluminium tin can 40,000 feet in the sky, things are bound to get messy. No surprise really, then, that the airplanes are some of the most germy places around.

Drezel Medicine compiled a list of the 6 most germ-infested places on a plane, and here’s the low-down, via Refinery 29.

• Seat Pockets: Some passengers use seat-back pockets as a trash bin and they can full of everything from napkins to nail trimmings and dirty diapers. Nice.
• Airplane Bathrooms: Go to the bathroom before getting on a plane, since plane bathrooms breed bacteria like E. Coli. Guess that means joining the Mile High Club is out of the question.
• Tray Tables: Flight attendants have reported seeing everything from passengers changing dirty diapers to using tray tables to high chewed gum. Put your laptop on your lap, or if you have to use the tray table, wipe it down with disinfectant.
• Pillows & Blankets: They’re often recycled from other drowsy, drooling passengers. Bring your own.
• Touchscreen: Nearly everyone who sat in your seat before you has touched that screen, and who knows where their hands have been.
• In-Flight Magazines: They only get cleaned when a new issue comes out, once a quarter, which means 3-months worth of dirty hands have been thumbing through those pages.

#2 Things You Didn’t Know About Blood

Blood. You know…that red stuff coursing through your veins and essentially keeping you alive? Well, it’s pretty important. So, for the sake of procrastination, here are a few things you probably didn’t know about the essential bodily fluid, via Gizmodo.

1. Is blood blue in your veins? Blood is never blue. While your veins may appear to run blue with blood, this actually has to do with the way light interacts with blood and skin.
2. Are bears actually attracted to menstrual blood? It’s a hilarious and age-old question, but it actually depends on the kind of bear. One study concluded that while black bears don’t care for period blood, polar bears definitely do.
3. Pope Innocent VIII is occasionally said to have been history’s first recipient of a bloody transfusion.
4. Some scientists feared infusing a human’s blood with an animal’s in early blood transfusions would create abominable human-animal hybrids.
5. Shakespeare loved blood: Not only did Shakespeare used the word blood 673 times in 571 speeches in 41 of his plays and poems, but he would commonly use buckets of animal blood for his own plays.

#3 Why Men’s & Women’s Shirt Buttons Are Opposite

If your girlfriend has ever thrown on one of your business shirts, she may have noticed that the buttons are on opposite sides to women’s. But why? Huffington Post has all the answers.

#4 The Cultural Significance Of Beards

Beards have carried great meaning and provided astonishing function throughout human history. From serving as political and fashion statements, to piety and wisdom, and today’s hairy and fashionable hipsters, Advanced Dermatology explored how beards have changed over time. Here are some highlights.

• In ancient Egypt, upper class men maintained elaborate beards, often dyeing them and entwining them with gold thread. Compare this with ancient Egypt’s dynastic period, hair was actually seen as a low-class sign of animal tendencies, so many men removed all their hair from their bodies. Even their eyelashes.
• In the U.S., members of congress avoid beards because they believe it suggests they’re opposed to women’s issues.
• Because of the current trend in facial hair, many New York hipsters pay upwards of $8,000 for facial hair transplants to correct patchy beards.

#5 What World Emoji Day Revealed About The World

In today’s crazy world of Hiddleswifts and political blunders a-plenty, Emojis have become a form of communication just as acceptable as a phone call. In fact, Saturday marked World Emoji Day and the world’s top tweeted emojis were revealed. Here’s the low-down, via Gizmodo.

• Australia & Germany: thumbs-up
• Indonesia & Philippines: grimacing face
• Japan: beating heart
• Italy: sparkling heart
• France: heart with arrow
• Spain: flexed biceps
• U.K., Canada & U.S.A: tired face
• Colombia, Brazil & Argentina: multiple musical notes
• Mexico & India: prayer hands

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If today’s fashion isn’t quite authentic enough for you, we may have just discovered the real deal in leather bags and jackets made from human skin. The late Alexander McQueen‘s, to be precise.

Yes, that’s right. Tina Gorjanc, a student who is just finishing the material futures program at London’s famous fashion school Central Saint Martins, is working on a project that uses Alexander McQueen’s DNA to grow skin, which she plans to tan and turn into leather jackets and bags that will even feature tattoos, freckles and moles based on the exact “locations, size, and design” of McQueen’s.

“With the tattoos and manipulation of freckles and sunburning, I wanted to showcase the material,” Gorjanc explains. “I think that was really important in terms of getting this connection between the jacket and McQueen.” For Gorjanc’s project, the DNA would come from McQueen’s own hair that was used in his 1992 collection ‘Jack The Ripper Stalks His Victims’, which is apparently totally legal.

“The standard rule in the UK is that there’s no ownership property right of human tissue,” says Dr. Jeff Skopek, a lecturer in medical law, ethics, and policy at University of Cambridge. “So McQueen didn’t own his hair, technically. That’s what’s called the ‘common law property rule.”

While it does seem a little reminiscent of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Leatherface, Gorjanc’s project aims to raise questions about how corporations might one day exploit genetic information for luxury goods, and to showcase how little protection exists for a person’s DNA.

You won’t be finding McQueen’s skin in any ordinary boutique, though. Gorjanc’s says her finished products, which also demonstrate that one day leather could be grown in a lab without slaughtering animals, would more likely be displayed in a gallery, or sold to a collector.

Apparently, Gorjanc has already gotten positive feedback from a McQueen representative and people who knew the late designer. “People that were really close to him or that worked for his institution said that he might actually like the idea,” she says. “He was always pushing the boundaries and always trying to break laws in fashion.”

Creepy, or cool?

[via Quartz]

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Antonio Banderas is set to star as legendary fashion designer Gianni Versace in an upcoming biopic detailing the Italian’s illustrious life up until the time of his murder.The film will be directed by the Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning Dane Billie August, who will trace the designer’s life from Milan before heading to Versace’s birthplace of Reggio Calabria and then Miami where his final moments were spent.Banderas himself should make for a good Versace as the 55-year-old Spanish actor also studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins in London. He then took this learning further by releasing his own collection in collaboration with Scandinavian street wear brand, Selected.The script is still under wraps but there already appears to be some controversy from the fashion house’s current stakeholders who are less than impressed with a Versace biopic. The group told WWD that the film is not officially authorised and doesn’t have any involvement with the label whatsoever.“The movie should only be seen as a work of fiction,” the statement read.The Versace biopic will see Banderas reunite with August since their 1994 film, The House of Spirits, which also starred Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Winona Ryder.Gianni Versace was shot and murdered in Miami back in July 1997 when he stepped outside of his beachside mansion for a morning coffee run. The killer, Andrew Cunanan, would eventually use the same gun to commit suicide on a boat eight days later. Police still don’t know the motive for Versace’s murder until this day. The Versace empire is now headed by his sister and two brothers as well as his niece and nephew.

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While everyone’s freaking out about the leaked phone call between Kanye and Taylor, there’s another leak setting the internet alight.

A video posted on Weibo, China’s largest social media platform, purports to show the upcoming iPhone 7 next to the existing iPhone 6s. The video compares the hardware design between the two generations, along with a number of photos that further illustrate the differences.

The alleged iPhone 7 model confirms what many previous rumours have said: the headphone jack is missing, the camera is larger and protruding, and the antenna lines have been redesigned. It appears Apple will incorporate an additional speaker grille in place of the absent headphone jack.

Beyond those changes, the rest of the device looks much like the iPhone 6s, in keeping with an earlier rumour from The Wall Street Journal. In June, the Journal reported that Apple planned to break its pattern of overhauling the smartphone’s design every two years. Instead the 2016 models would undergo only subtle changes, and any larger developments would be saved for 2017, when the iPhone will celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 7 in September, leaving plenty of time for more leaks before anything is confirmed. In the meantime, check out the leaked photos above and the video below.

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This story was originally published on GizmodoA new study suggests that compounds found in marijuana can stave off the brain damaging effects of Alzheimer’s disease. It’s a promising discovery, but claims that pot can prevent this age-related brain disorder are premature.Researchers from the Salk Institute have shown that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other compounds found in marijuana can contribute to the removal of toxic proteins, known as amyloid beta, which have been linked to Alzheimer’s disease. This research offers new insight into the role that inflammation plays in this neurological disorder, which could point the way to new drugs.But this research should be taken with a grain of salt. The protective effects of marijuana were observed in neurons grown in the lab, so it’s not immediately clear if the same process is applicable to living human beings. What’s more, this study doesn’t speak to the potential negative effects of marijuana on the ageing brain. It’s far too early to be making claims about pot being some kind of miracle cure for Alzheimer’s, or even as something that can be used as a protective measure. Only time — and further research — will truly tell.Previous research has shown that compounds in marijuana, called cannabinoids, protect the brain from the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. This new study is unique in that it’s “the first to demonstrate that cannabinoids affect both inflammation and amyloid beta accumulation in nerve cells,” as the study’s lead author David Schubert put it in a statement.Scientists are fairly certain that these toxins contribute to the growth of damaging plaque deposits in the brain, but they’re not entirely sure about the precise role that’s played by amyloid beta in the process. To learn more, Schubert’s team studied nerve cells that were modified to produce high levels of amyloid beta. Left untreated, these cells were subject to inflammation and higher rates of death. But when the researchers exposed these cells to cannabinoids, the levels of the amyloid beta proteins were reduced. The inflammation disappeared, and the neurons were able to survive. The compounds found within marijuana appeared to be protecting the cells from dying.As noted, this research was conducted on neurons in a petri dish, so it’s not clear if an actual brain would respond to cannabinoids in the same way. Scientists will need to perform clinical trials to find out.They’re also going to have to consider the potential tradeoffs of using marijuana as a drug to stave of neurodegeneration. Previous studies have shown that pot can screw around with our memories — which is clearly a bad thing in a disease that already ravages memories. Recent research also shows that marijuana alters the brain reward system, and that that long-term use makes it more difficult to recall memories during middle age.Pot may very well help with Alzheimer’s, but we’re clearly going to have to be mindful of its negative effects as well. [Ageing and Mechanisms of Disease]Gizmodo explores the smart design, breakthrough science and awe-inspiring tech shaping your future.Follow Gizmodo on Facebook and Twitter.By George Dvorsky – Gizmodo

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Brace yourselves dog lovers. Man’s best friend could potentially be replaced with an even better friend according to new findings from animal welfare experts in the Netherlands’ Wageningen University.

The study was tasked with evaluating which animals were suitable as domestic pets and covered a range of 90 different wild species from around the world. The most startling result however was the fact that dogs didn’t make the cut for the top 25 animals suitable as pets.

Researchers rated animals based on their biological make up, needs, threat to humans and general well-being when kept in captivity. The analytical framework used to determine these results were also based on the the short phrases which best describe each animal via expert knowledge and information obtained from numerous encyclopedias.

On the top of the domestic pets list? The East Asian Sika deer, or better known as the male variant, the Stag. Coming in at a close second is the Agile wallaby followed by the Tammar wallaby, llama and the Asian palm civet.

The researchers hope that these startling results will be used to further understand and raise awareness for keeping wild animals in captivity. If you’re still in denial you can check out our ten best dog breeds for men here.

See the list of the top 25 animals above. And a massive shout out to the Screaming Hairy Armadillo for lobbing in at number 25.

[via GOOD]

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