Man Builds Replica of the «Nautilus»
Danny McWilliams, 56, works on his 36-foot-long replica of Walt Disney movie version of the Nautilus submarine from Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” at his rural home in Ellijay, Georgia, USA, 04 December 2013. McWilliams, a disabled eccentric and long-time enthusiast of the Disney movie, plans on giving the non-seaworthy submarine to a museum in Florida. McWilliams has been working on the project for more than a year and nearly finished. (Photos by Erik S. Lesser/EPA) Continue reading »
Paper Craft Castle by Wataru Itou
A paper craft art installation by Wataru Itou, a young student of a major art university in Tokyo. The installation is hand made over four years of hard work, complete with electrical lights and a moving train, all made of paper! Clearly, this man must have created one of the most stunning examples of Paper Craft in the world. The exhibition where this masterpiece was exposed was entiteled A Castle On the Ocean. It was exhibited at Umihotaru, a place which in itself is a major attraction: a service area in the middle of the ocean, right between Tokyo City and Chiba Prefecture. Continue reading »
“Girl Games”
Photographer Ellen von Unwerth for V Magazine. Starring Hailey Clauson, Luma Grothe, Ashley Smith, Emma Stern, Jennifer Pugh, Lindsey Byard, Rebecca Fourteau. Continue reading »
Nicole Kidman Plays Sixties Siren for Jimmy Choo’s Cruise 2014 Campaign
Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman reveals she has been known to be the party girl of all party girls while filming her Brigitte Bardot inspired Cruise 2014 campaign for Jimmy Choo. Continue reading »
Candice Swanepoel by Matt Jones for i-D Magazine, Winter 2013
Publication: i-D Magazine, Winter 2013
Model: Candice Swanepoel
Photographer: Matt Jones
Hair: Leon Gorman
Make-up: Leanne Hirsh Continue reading »
A Design Award Winner DIY Calendar
A calendar with no rules and a playful usage for users to personalize. Continue reading »
ShotShell Limited Edition by Made by Ammo
Certain to be the last shot glass you will ever need, the ShotShell Limited is turned from brass. Loosely based on a shotgun shell, this perfect 1.5 fluid ounce vessel will not rust or break. While brass is a much softer material than stainless steel, it will develop character through slight dis-coloration and wear over time.
100% USA made. Ever. Period. End of Story. Continue reading »
Pocket Cats by Hiroko Kubota
How stunning and adorable are these embroidered pocket cats by Japanese artist Hiroko Kubota! Continue reading »
The Wood Art Of Mark Doolittle
Decorative Vessel “The Beauty Within”
This sculptural vessel was carved from a gourd. The relief carving contains a centrally inset orchid carved from wood (Basswood). The non-carved surfaces were covered by handmade paper and then wood-burned to create a stained-glass appearance.
Wood sculptures by Mark Doolittle Studio. Continue reading »
Memory Suitcase By Yuval Yairi
Memory Suitcases is a thought-provoking series by Israeli artist Yuval Yairi that uses old, worn suitcases as canvases for nostalgic landscapes. Like scenes out of one’s memory, the propped up traveling cases feature a range of sepia-toned settings. The series presents the objects as though they are relics of a civilization from yesteryear, each with their own story to tell.
There’s something both heartbreaking and sentimental about the images. It appears to tell a number of stories of leaving one lifestyle for another. The suitcases hold within them a picture show of memories from a life-altering journey. Like a number of his other works, Memory Suitcases “mimics the natural process of memory.” Continue reading »
Couple’s Creative Outfits for Wedding: World of Warcraft Costumes
A couple who got married in Taiwan made their wedding an all-out World of Warcraft extravaganza by forgoing the standard suit and white wedding dress for cosplay outfits. According to an article in Kotaku, the man, Craig, dressed up as King Varien Wrynn, while his wife, Zoe, cosplayed as Tyrande Whisperwind.
They reportedly tied the knot in these costumes and had some post-wedding shots taken in these outfits as well. Continue reading »
The Kelpies: Mythological Horses Power Again through Scotland
An extraordinary work of art has just been completed in Scotland. The Kelpies by figurative sculptor Andy Scott surge upwards in steel, whinnying and snorting alongside the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal near the town of Falkirk. These fantastic beasts from Gaelic mythology have risen again as monuments to the horse-powered industrial heritage of Scotland. Continue reading »
Photographer Builds World’s Largest Camera
A woman poses for her husband alongside a giant camera Thursday, November 7, 2013 outside the Historic Green County Courthouse in Monroe, Wis. Chicago photographer Dennis Manarchy created what’s being called the world’s largest camera. It’s 35-feet long and 12-feet tall it’s a working replica of a vintage accordion-style camera that produces 16- by 24-foot prints, the equivalent of a two-story building. The giant camera is on display in Monroe through November 17 because a Monroe company manufactured the specially-built trailer. Manarchy plans to tow the camera around the country to shoot photos of indigenous cultures. (Photo by Mark Hoffman) Continue reading »
Italian Restauranteur Spends 40 years Hand-building His Own Amusement Park
An Italian has created his very own theme park – built in his spare time over 40 years in the woods near his restaurant. The restauranteur, known only as Bruno, has hand-built the amusement park filled with swings, seesaws, a ferris wheel and even a roller coaster, in Montello, northern Italy.
Bruno started in 1969 shortly after setting up grill restaurant Ai Pioppi in northern Italy. He was looking for hooks to join chairs together in his restaurant when a local welder suggest he do the work himself. Since then, as well as building his restaurant to seat 500 people, he has also built increasingly bigger rides as part of his nearby hand-made amusement park.
The amusement park now attracts hundreds of fun-loving visitors, including Oriol Ferrer Mesia, who took pictures and video of his recent visit. Continue reading »
Hamburger Harry
Harry Sperl from Daytona Beach, Florida, has collected thousands of items, including this bed, to create a museum dedicated to hamburgers. The enthusiast’s collection has transformed his Daytona Beach home in Florida into a shrine which is dubbed Burgerbilla.
The 57-year-old has a custom-made bed in the form of the world’s largest cheeseburger, complete with a sesame seed cover and matching pillows. Mr Sperl’s collection includes a burger mobile phone, hamburger money banks, biscuit jars, clocks, hats, trays, erasers, badges, magnets, music boxes and salt and pepper shakers.
He said: ‘They taste good, they look good and the hamburger is an icon of the United States of America.’ Continue reading »
Oaks Day Fashions on the Field 2013
Fairfax photographer Simon Schluter captures the Fashions on the Field at the 2013 Oaks Day.
(L) Charli Bromley in a Catherine Kelly Hat. (R) Esther Warren in a Tamara Jade Bradshaw outfit. Continue reading »
Models Prepare for the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
Models Jessica Hart and Elsa Hosk prepare at the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show hair and makeup room at Lexington Avenue Armory on November 13, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Foods Out of Wax
These foods seem like a tasty and tantalizing all who see it. But, do you know all this food can not be eaten? Why?
Because all food is made of wax by Shiri 100 Project group after one charity project in Tokyo, Japan. Continue reading »
Homeless Veteran Timelapse Transformation Fundraiser
Veterans Day is right around the corner, so it’s nice to see that one of the time-lapses making the most impact online over the past couple of days is one showing a homeless US Army veteran being given a makeover and, in some ways, a new lease on life. In the video above, you can watch Jim Wolf be transformed by the kind folks at Dégagé Ministries and Design 1 Salon & Spa while Rob Bliss Creative captures the entire thing on time-lapse for the world to see. Continue reading »
Healing Eco House
Gohei Hayashi of Kyoto University is seen in side his movable eco and healing house, “Kujira (Whale) House” July 21, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. The house is made from Japanese paper, bamboo and tatami mat. Hayashi has travelled 500 km from Japan’s ancient city, Kyoto to Tokyo with his eco house to promote his house which can be placed both out inside and outside to provide a private space. The Kujira house is available at the price of 800,000 yen (roughly US$6600). (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Lucetta: Magnetic Bike Lights
Lucetta is an innovative set of two small magnetic bicycle lights. Easily attached to several different parts of a bicycle, the two small lights – white for the front, red for the rear – are switched on and off with just one click.
Designed to stay securely in place on even the bumpiest of roads, the lights give the option of a steady, slow or fast flashing beam, also selected with a ‘magic’ interaction.
Once a destination is reached, the lights are easily removed and may be linked together and slip in your pocket. The range of the beam is wide enough to reach vehicles, even if the light is tilted down. Lucetta embodies maximum utility and versatility.
The object is simple; it doesn’t have a technical look but a friendly feature, ‘clean’ and yet a bit mysterious. It is designed to take as little space as possible and to stay with other small personal things of everyday usage – keys, mobile phone, loose change – that ‘inhabit’ our pockets.
Design by Pizzolorusso for Palomar. Continue reading »
Collages from US Dollars
These amazing pieces of artwork from a series called “TaxCut” have been created entirely out of money. Chad Person an artist from California created these collages from hundreds of tiny pieces of American dollar bills.
Ursas sister. Continue reading »
Murakami’s Monster Magic: The Shoot
Murakami’s Monster Magic: The Shoot
The famed artist and the characters from his fantastical film, Jellyfish Eyes, join Angela Lindvall for a big day out in L.A.
Photo Credit: Artwork©Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved; Photography by Jason Schmidt. Continue reading »
Incredible Makeup by Sandra Holmbom
Sandra Holmbom is a girl from Sweden, who loves makeup and is very good at it! Some of her mind twisting work will make you look twice, other will make you cringe – or simply just smile. Here are some of her incredible work. Continue reading »
Heidi Klum’s Halloween Costumes
Model Heidi Klum attends her 8th Annual Halloween Party at The Green Door on October 31, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images) Continue reading »
