Pixel-like avocados, stacks of wood, a truck with carrots, or registration stickers on a car — these ordinary things that we see in everyday life can be so visually pleasant that they’ll make you feel warm and tingly inside. We weren’t able to stop staring at them!
1. Cross-section of a painter’s one-year old stir stick
2. Ice that perfectly separated from a leaf
3. How these clam shells fit together
4. This perfectly cut spring onion gradient
5. Looks like it’s been glazed!
6. A truck filled with carrots
7. The way this is cut
8. Perfect breakfast!
9. The precise rate of snow melting off the roof
10. Only the leaf skeleton remains
11. Excellent ratatouille from Ratatouille
12. Impeccable produce display
13. I made a perfect swirl when I squeezed my moisturizer out of the tube.
14. The way this test receipt was printed
15. This rubber band stuck in my shoe
16. Stacks of wood you can’t stop staring at
17. The way this pasta fits inside this spoon
18. Someone sculpted this polygon out of snow and it’s weirdly mesmerizing.
19. Water can be quite aesthetically pleasing.
20. 500 old singles vs 500 brand new ones
21. This is how modern ninjas merge with the environment.
22. Perfect fit
23. The way these watermelon pieces fit in this bag
24. “My KitKat wrapper broke the bar perfectly in half.”
25. Hypnotizing ice blossoms
26. The registration stickers on this car
27. Whoever did this should never unload this truck!
28. Frosted fence
29. The water droplet formation around these leaves is pure magic.
30. The way this snow peeled off of the bricks
31. Really cool welding job
32. “Making the best of a slow day at work”
33. “The matrix just gave me a headache.”
34. “Years of paint came loose from the ice cube tray I’d been using as a palette.”
35. The moon and Venus move behind the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, giving Jesus angelic wings.
36. You’d better not eat them!
37. The way this car fits into the building’s shadow
38. A pixelated avocado!
Have you ever captured everyday things like this that are oddly pleasant? We’d be happy to see your stories and pictures below!
Please note: This article was updated in January 2023 to correct source material and factual inaccuracies.