Welders In China Cover Up Despite Summer Heat
Welder Xie Wentao wears a protective mask and gloves in Jinan, East China’s Shandong province. The 42-year-old and his colleagues build reinforcement cages, part of a building’s foundation. Continue reading »
Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken: The World Of Daniel Lismore
Daniel Lismore is known for elaborate and extravagant ensembles that brilliantly combine haute couture with charity-shop finds, yards of vintage fabrics and tartans, found objects, ribbons, feathers, chain mail, shells, ethnic jewelry, retro accessories, millinery and more in an expression of eccentric, creative energy. Continue reading »
HBO Releases Limited Edition ‘Game Of Thrones’ Pixelated Pins Of Main Characters
HBO partners with NYC-based designer twins Dee & Ricky to produce seven pixelated pins modeled after the show’s main characters. Continue reading »
Cradling Hyper-Realistic Babies In Uncanny Valley
“What you lose as you age are witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared,” wrote John Updike.
But what if your existence is anchored constancy, where the watchers and watched over are rendered static, unchanging icons? Continue reading »
Coffee Served In A Cone? Enjoy This Unique Drink At A Specialty Cafes Around The World!
#coffeeinacone is a concept developed by Dayne Levinrad to bring some much needed innovation and excitement into the coffee industry worldwide. Dayne mastered his Coffee skill in Australia for 4 years and has consulted in Brazil and America helping various Coffee shops develop products. Continue reading »
Vintage Images Of People & Their Beloved Volkswagen Buses
Sure, it looks like a giant loaf of bread, but the Volkswagen Bus, almost seventy years since it was first introduced, still remains one of the most beloved and recognizable vehicles ever to hit the road. Continue reading »
Wood Sculptor Creates Sculpture Of A Submerged Man With A Pixelated Glitch
Taiwanese artist Hsu Tung Han recently unveiled his latest sculptural work, a 5-foot snorkeler that appears partially pixelated. Han often incorporates digital glitches into has carved figurative works. Continue reading »
There’s A Genius Street Artist Running Loose In New York, And Let’s Hope Nobody Catches Him
American artist Tom Bob is running loose in the streets of New York, and let’s hope nobody catches him. Continue reading »
Natura Insects: The Delicate Floral Compositions Of Raku Inoue
Natura Insects is a beautiful series from the Japanese artist and designer Raku Inoue, currently based in Montreal, who imagines delicate floral compositions by recreating insects with leaves and flower petals. Continue reading »
This Illustrator Turns The Berlin Wall Into Art In A Way You’ve Never Seen Before
There is a remaining part of the Berlin Wall in the Mauer Park, in the Prenzlauerberg district. For decades, graffiti artists have painted this historic piece of concrete, trying to turn something terrible into beauty. And they succeeded. Continue reading »
Fallen Leaves Transform Into Works Of Art
Folk art master Liu Changgui cuts a picture in a leaf in Southwest China’s Chongqing. He has the special skill of cutting leaves. It usually takes two months to finish one piece, from picking fallen leaves, cleaning, soaking, painting, sculpting and drying. Continue reading »
Sculptor Spends 2 Years To Build Knife Angel Out Of 100,000 Weapons, However Government Rejects It
There’s a giant 26-foot-tall Knife Angel sculpture in the UK, constructed entirely out of 100,000 knives that were donated. But besides the remarkable numbers, it’s also a monument constructed out of dire necessity to remember the victims fallen to the rising knife violence in the United Kingdom and also to finally admit that there’s really a problem. Continue reading »
Project “New Etno” By Makeup Artist And Stylist Beata Bojda -The Artist Used Traditional Polish Flower Crowns
Project ‘New Etno’ is a continuation of a art series made by makeup artist and stylist Beata Bojda and a photographer Ewa Żylińska. Continue reading »
Barber Abandons Plans For Expensive New Flooring… And Covers His Shop With 70,000 Pennies
A barber came up with a clever way to cut costs by laying the floor of his new shop with 70,000 1p pieces. Rich Holtham, owner of BS4 Barbers in Dudley, West Midlands, came up with the idea after he was given an estimate of £1,000 to arrange the flooring. Continue reading »
Hong-Kong Artist Chuchu Creates Outrageously Gorgeous Sculptural Hats
Originally from Hong Kong, artist Chuchu’s creations will leave you nothing short of breathless. Her organically flowing sculptural hats adorn the heads of models in fashion shows and in magazines, over and over again. Continue reading »
Artist Turns Stretch Marks And Other Body “Flaws” Into Stunning Art, But Not Everyone Finds It Beautiful
Stretch marks, scars, and even menstruation are all things women are routinely told to hide, but one Barcelona-based artist is turning these supposed flaws into beautiful new ways to appreciate the female body. Continue reading »
Sushi Chef Yujia Hu Creates Edible Sneaker ‘Shoe-Shi’
We’ve seen birthday cakes disguised as favorite Air Jordan retros and collaborations paying tribute to particular cities’ favorite cuisine, but we’ve never seen something quite like this. Milan-based sushi chef Yujia Hu has taken his love of sneaker culture to a new level, creating bite-sized arrangements of fresh fish in the form of his favorite must-have models of the moment. From the Supreme x Nike Air More Uptempo to the Air Jordan 1, he’s created an eclectic range of sneakers as art with Swoosh branding made from black strands of seaweed. Continue reading »
Amazing ‘Before’ And ‘After’ Photos: Make-Up Artist Transforms A Face Without The Use Of Photoshop
There has been much debate about the gratuitous use of Photoshop to drastically alter the look of a fresh faced model. A makeup artist in Russia though, transforms a face with nothing more than the tools in his make-up kit. Vadim Andreev’s work is so flawless, you’ll be shocked that some of these images were not retouched on the computer. Continue reading »
The Hyperreal Whale Beached The Banks Of The Seine River To Raise Environmental Awareness
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This beached whale — although very realistic — is a replica installed by the Belgian Captain Boomer Collective with the aim of raising awareness of how our society and the way we live is affecting the environment. the metaphor has generated a game between fiction and reality, reinforcing a feeling of disturbance. Continue reading »
McDonald’s Launches New Clothing Line
McDonald’s is getting into the fashion game. Seriously. Continue reading »
Toilet Timer: The Anatomically Significant Sand Timer For Procrastinators
Adam Stephey and Elliot Worth from Normal, IL have one helpful tip to improve your life: spend less time doing your (ahem) “business” in the bathroom. That’s why they created a product called the Toilet Timer. Continue reading »
Japanese Artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi Creates Fantastic Layered Drawings
The passage of time affects everybody but rarely do we reflect on what this means. Japanese artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi created a series of artwork which does exactly that. Continue reading »
Artist Gianluca Gimini Reinterprets Vintage Italian Brands As Sneakers
How do you preserve historical visual culture in an endless sea of new imagery? How can you interest newer generations in older design? Italian designer Gianluca Gimini believes the solution is footwear. Yes, you read that right: Gimini’s project Sneakered is an effort to preserve and promote Italian designs by transposing vintage product packaging onto contemporary shoes. Continue reading »
Here Is What ‘Star Wars’ Land Will Look Like, According To Disney’s Model At The D23 Expo
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Are you itching to be Han Solo’s shipmate and hop aboard the Millennium Falcon? Or take part in a battle between the First Order and the Resistance? Continue reading »
Former Porn Star Sasha Grey Is Selling Official Merchandise For A Good Cause
Adult film star turned music DJ and author Sasha Grey has released a limited edition range of merchandise for her fans. Continue reading »
