Dante’s Beach Inferno
As the two-time winner of the Food Network’s Challenge: Outrageous Pumpkins, Ray Villafane is best known for his expert artistry in food carving. However, he’s now recognized for more after accepting to take on a sand sculpting project in Jesolo, Italy. Despite not having any experience in creating sand sculptures, Villafane challenged himself and took part in the annual holiday project. He did such an exceptional job in November 2008, that he was invited the next summer to masterfully sculpt a giant “Dante’s Inferno” on the beach. Incredible!
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Couple Celebrate Pending Nuptials by Recreating Famous Scenes from ‘The Notebook’
Cindy Gauthier, 31, and Jean-Nicola Barile, 33, a couple from Quebec, left, recreate the famous ‘kissing in the rain after 7 years apart’ scene from the film The Notebook, right, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. In photos by Blushing Bride Studio. Enjoy!
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Homeless Fonts: Typefaces Based on Handwriting of People Living on the Streets of Barcelona
A Spanish NGO and an advertising agency have teamed up to create typefaces based on the handwriting of homeless people. The handwritten carboard signs that help desperate people to beg on the street may be the very thing that helps them leave it.
Samples of handwriting are photographed and cleaned up in a studio and then transformed into commercially available fonts. Individuals and companies can buy the different fonts through Homelessfonts.org. The proceeds will be used to finance the work of the Arrels foundation for homeless people in Barcelona.
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Couple Holds Harry Potter-themed Wedding in Los Angeles
The perfect white wedding is a dream for millions of women but for Meredith Fahey having her vows read by Severus Snape from Harry Potter was a must.
Meredith, 30 and husband Josh, 29, wanted their magical day to be based on her literary hero Harry Potter at a spellbinding ceremony in their native Los Angeles. The couple and around 100 guests descended on Lawrys Prime Rib in Beverley Hills to find the interior had been transformed into Hogwarts, the young wizards’ school.
In an undated photo, 30-year-old Meredith Fahey (L) and her 29-year-old husband Joshua Votaw hold magic wands in their Harry Potter-themed wedding in Los Angeles. The bride and groom are big fans of Harry Potter series films, so they held a magical wedding to show their love for the films.
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Paper Pandas Displayed in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui
Paper pandas are placed during an exhibition in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, June 14, 2014. A total of 1,600 paper pandas were displayed in the area on Saturday. The project is the work of French artist Paulo Grangeon and represents the amount of pandas alive on earth today. (Photo: Xinhua) Continue reading »
Rangoli – Amazing Folk Art from India
Rangoli, also known as kolam or Muggu, is a folk art from India in which patterns are created on the floor in living rooms or courtyards using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals. It is usually made during Diwali, Onam, Pongal and other Indian festivals. They are meant to be sacred welcoming areas for the Hindu deities. Continue reading »
Miniature Architecture by Takanori Aiba
The Japanese art of raising bonsai trees is a beautiful way to infuse greenery into indoor spaces. But artist Takanori Aiba takes the art to a new level with his incredibly intricate series of bonsai castles. The Japanese artist carves miniature masterpieces that weave in and out of the miniature trees, creating cohesive architectural marvels that burst forth with life! Continue reading »
House After The Attack Of Woodpeckers
It looked like some gang members spewed buckshot at his doorstep during a drive-by. These holes were made by acorn woodpeckers. The little birds created their own granaries or “acorn trees” to store their food. They do so by drilling holes into whatever they can, sometimes resulting in this kind of damage.
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Weston Homes Create “Lego Children’s Room” to Assist with Marketing Houses to Families
Developer Weston Homes have used standard and bespoke Lego bricks, mini-figures and themed accessories to create a magnificent children’s bedroom that is dressed in Lego products. Continue reading »
Plus-Size Models Re-Creates ‘Sports Illustrated’ Cover
You don’t have to be stick thin to land a Sports Illustrated cover as these plus-size models show.
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Eye Heart Spleen: Human Organs Made from Flowers and Plants by Camila Carlow
“Lungs”
This delicate series of sculpted plants is part of a project by artist Camila Carlow titled Eye Heart Spleen. The photographic project is comprised of 13 images representing human organs constructed from plants and flowers.
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DIY Build a Bar!
Step 1. Buy wood
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8-Bit Inspired Paintings of Iconic Images
Artist Adam Lister makes geometric 8-Bit inspired watercolor paintings based on iconic images from art history and pop culture. Continue reading »
Sydney Vivid Festival
Vivid Sydney is a unique annual event of light, music and ideas, featuring an outdoor ‘gallery’ of extraordinary lighting sculptures, a cutting-edge contemporary music program, some of the world’s most important creative industry forums and, of course, the spectacular illumination of the Sydney Opera House sails. It positions Sydney as the creative hub of Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, and delivers both innovative live entertainment and creative inspiration on a grand scale.
The creative people of the world – from industry professionals to aspiring practitioners to the merely curious – are invited to Sydney annually to watch the city transform into a breathtaking canvas of creative expression. For 18 days, creative practitioners, corporate professionals, families and people of all generations take advantage of Sydney’s mild winter weather and engage with a truly spectacular event.
Sydney’s Vivid winter festival has lit up many of the city’s iconic buildings, bringing light and music to the harbour city. The Opera House is lit up as part of Sydney’s Vivid winter festival.
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Fantastic Anamorphic Sculptures by Jonty Hurwitz
Jonty Hurwitz creates anamorphic sculptures – or “pieces of mathematics” that can only be seen when facing a reflective cylinder. His artworks have algorithms as their essence, and are the result of a mass of technology and human ingenuity. According to Hurwitz, we live in an age where computational power has overtaken the capability of the human brain, and these anamorphic sculptures are a welcoming message to the “Generation Pi”. Continue reading »
‘Face-Kini’ Swimwear Trend Sweeps China: Will The Face Bikini Catch On Around The World?
One way to avoid the dangerous rays of the sun is to stay indoors, another is to apply a healthy layer of sun cream and slap on a wide-brimmed hat. If you’re in China, however, there is a third option – a ‘Face-Kini’ complete with a body suit. The name describes a protective head mask that is being used in Shandong province’s East China Sea coast by beach-goers who want to protect their skin from the sun.
A women wearing “face bikini” walks on a beach in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong province, May 26, 2014.
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Pixel Chair By Vivian Chiu
RISD furniture student Vivian Chiu has completed a new project called ‘pixel chair.’ Creating a trompe l’oeil effect, this seating unit is made up of 1/2″ x 1/2″ cubes,placed individually by hand in a brick-laid formation then laminated together.
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The Great British Tattoo Show at Alexandra Palace
A woman gets tattooed at The Great British Tattoo Show at Alexandra Palace on May 24, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Alexandra Palace)
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Sprout A Pencil That Grows
Sprout A Pencil That Grows is a very simple but excellent concept. We all know that as soon as a pencil gets down to the point where there’s only an inch or so left it’s pretty much useless. Continue reading »
A Man With a Very Big Heart Repurposes Trash to Make Tiny Homes for the Homeless
In Oakland, one compassionate artist named Gregory Kloehn, with the help of many others in the community, is turning trash into treasure for the homeless. He gathers various materials from dumpsters, curbs, and commercial waste to create tiny mobile shelters. Continue reading »
Elegant Henna Tattoo Crowns Help Cancer Patients Cope With Their Hair Loss
The art and tradition of using all-natural paste from the henna plant to create temporary henna tattoos goes back to ancient Asian and Middle-Eastern history, but there’s one group that has taken this ancient art form and given it a new, modern purpose. Henna Heals is a community of henna artists based in Canada that creates beautiful flowering henna crown tattoos for women who have lost their hair to cancer and chemotherapy. Continue reading »
Outdoor Exhibition Shows Latest from Zeng Mi
Visitors enjoy paintings outside at Quyuanfenghe Park in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, May 19, 2014. 42 new paintings created by renowned artist Zeng Mi are on display attached to trees at Quyuanfenghe Park in Hangzhou, The outdoor art exhibition “Stories of Some Other Day” is meant to inspire conversations on art and memory with visitors and nature. (Photos: Xinhua, Shi Jianxue/Asianewsphoto) Continue reading »
Magnetic Wallpaper By Sian Zeng
Magnetic Woodlands Wallpaper by Sian Zeng. This magnetic wallpaper will bring fairy tales to life in a child’s room. Magical woodlands wallpaper in toile style printed in England with eco friendly inks on paper from sustainable forests.
Roll dimensions : 52cm X 10 M Length. Repeat size: 53cm half drop. Magnet receptive liner: 61cm width (no pattern repeat) 2x5m roll a total of 10m. The magnet receptive liner is pasted onto the wall first with pre-mixed wallpaper paste. Once it has dried the Woodlands Wallpaper is pasted on top to create this magnetic woodlands wall. Continue reading »
Tiny Star Wars Terrariums Bring Far Away Galaxies Into Your Home
In a workshop far, far away, artist Tony Larson recreates amazing Star Wars landscapes complete with our favorite iconic characters! Yoda, R2D2, and Ewoks strike action poses in glass enclosures filled with rocks, moss, and sand. George Lucas would be proud of the tiny globes, jars, and bowls from from Larson’s “The Wonder Room“. The tiny living sci-fi worlds are available through his Etsy Store, starting at around $100.00 for each realistic miniature scene.
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‘Blu Tack’ Sculpture by Elizabeth Thompson
Artist Elizabeth Thompson poses next to her Blu-tack Spider sculpture at London Zoo on October 25, 2007 in London, England. The sculpture, known as ‘Blu-ey’, is a model of a common house spider and is completely made out of blu-tack. It is on show at BUGS! at ZSL London Zoo. The sculpture is made from around four thousand packets of Blu-tack and weighs over 200kg. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
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