Beautiful Painting On Trees By Eugeniya Dudnikova
Eugeniya Dudnikova is a Russian painter who realized a project mixing street art and painting, entitled “Painting on trees”. Inspired by the surrounding landscapes, the project was realized in different cities and suburbs, in the middle of parks and forests. Introduced directly into the trunk of the trees, the pastel-colored paintings provides a contrast to the moody and melancholy atmosphere brought by the autumn season. Continue reading »
Night Imagined As A Human-like Figure In New Black And White Illustrations By David Álvarez
Illustrator David Álvarez is fascinated by working with shadows and light, finding black and white drawings to be one of his favorite ways to solve the images he conjures in his head. His most recent series, I Dreamed I Was the Night, follows a dark figure as it stalks, sits, and sleeps throughout the countryside. The night-cloaked being is dotted with twinkling stars, and in one particular illustration pulls a bright moon away from his face like a mask. Continue reading »
Anoymous Flower Artist Make Shoe Designs You Wouldn’t Want To Wear
Mr. Flower fanstic is a New York creative sculpturer who crafts ridiculously stunning foot wears from his flower shop. Several of his works are original creation and design of his and others are cpies of known shoe brands.But don’t get too excited as they aren’t for the out doors. Mr. Flower fantastic who hides his identity behind a mask, spend several hours daily crafting individual piece by hand, all of which are intended for display purpose only. Continue reading »
Here Is A Literary Twist To The Banal Visiting Card
“As a creative company we wanted to close our meetings and engage our clients with something more than ‘just a visiting card’. This is how the idea of The Visiting Card Story came about. With ‘A sentence on each card’ all cards come together to form one story! This way each person receives a card only unique to them and we create curiosity and talking point that leads them onto our website. They can read the whole story – identifying their place in it and putting all the pieces together that belong to others.
In a simple way – now they become a part of our story.” Continue reading »
7 Dogs Before And After Japanese Grooming
According to photographer Grace Chon: “I am an animal photographer named Grace Chon and these images are from my new photo series titled HAIRY.
I’ve always found before and after photos from dog grooming to be really funny. Usually it doesn’t even look like it’s the same dog in each photo! I had the idea of shooting a photo series that highlighted this extreme transformation. Each dog went way beyond their normal grooming schedule to grow their hair long and shaggy for the shoot. There’s something so funny to me about seeing a dog so shaggy that they can’t even see! I wanted the after photos to be really extreme by showing a type of cut that’s uncommon to most of us here in the United States. Continue reading »
Australia-based Food Artist Makes Incredible Jelly Cake Art
You’ve heard of gelatinas, which are edible flowers encased in gelatin that resemble a glass paperweight. Siew Boon has taken that idea to the next level. She creates beautiful “jelly cakes,” which are an edible art form. She plants beautiful flowers inside, but also populates them with trees, fish, and even birds to make complete scenes. Continue reading »
Beautiful Wooden Bookshelf Inserts By Japanese Artist Monde
Japanese artist Monde has created a beautiful series of woodworks complete with a light switch! The Tokyo-based artist built and designed intricate, wooden bookshelf inserts that are like miniature dioramas of narrow alleyways you might find in the streets of Tokyo. Continue reading »
This Photographer Makes Hyper Realistic 3D Scene Of UFO Crash
Marc Trautmann is a creator of this project inspired by the secret areas that are protected by governments in many parts of the world. Particularly Mark was inspired by French philosopher Paul Virilio’s book ‘War and Cinema’ which is about the situation during the Cold War. Virilio described this phase of ‘the immaterial war of perception’ as the moment when the shooting area turns into the shooting location and the battlefield becomes a film set. Marc shot the landscape in Death Valley, and Mainworks turned in the UFOS using CG technology. Continue reading »
The Radical And Visionary Modernist And Brutalist Architecture Of Macedonia
The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (architect Boris Čipan, 1976).
Featuring the radical and visionary Modernist and Brutalist architecture of Skopje, by architects such as Kenzo Tange, Janko Konstantinov, Marko Mušič and many others, this two-sided bilingual guide includes a map, an introduction by Skopje-based experts, details of over forty buildings and structures, and original photography.
Modernist Skopje Map is edited by Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Vladimir Deskov, Jovan Ivanovski and Ljubica Slavkovic. Photography is by Vase Amanito. Continue reading »
Single Dad Illustrates What It’s Like To Raise A Child, And It’ll Melt Your Heart
Forgive me for the cliché, but children do grow up so fast. And parents usually document their precious moments by taking pictures or shooting video, but one single dad from Taiwan has his own method of making sure he remembers what it’s like raising his boy. Continue reading »
These Two Cats In Japan Have Been Trying To Sneak Into A Museum For Years
What do you do after you fail? Purr your disappointment away and just try harder. Meet Ken Chan and Gosaku: two devoted art lovers that have been trying to get into the Onomichi City Museum of Art for years now, but have been consistently kicked out just as they were entering it. The two have probably taken residence somewhere nearby the museum, because they keep coming back again and again. Continue reading »
Photographer Kristýna Kvapilová Captures Beautiful And Magical Portraits Of Dogs
Dreamlike dog portraits by Kristýna Kvapilová, a talented 21-years old self-taught photographer, retoucher, and dogs lover who was born in Olomouc and currently lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. Kristýna focuses mainly on dog photography. The dogs blend so naturally into the natural settings that their personalities and emotions shine through, giving the images a beautiful, timeless quality. She is a proud owner of an Australian shepherd Charlie. Continue reading »
Fascinating Photos of Chicago’s Tri-Taylor Neighborhood From 1971
These photos of the Tri-Taylor neighborhood on Chicago’s Near West Side were taken by Lou Fourcher as a graduate student while participating in the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Valley Project. Continue reading »
“Death On The Dance Floor”: Photographer Captured Stunning Photos Of Abandoned Discos Around France
Eric Tabuchi lives and works in Paris. He photographs buildings in France that are now abandoned ruins. Once the authentic venues of their age, these buildings will one day vanish. As a set, Eric’s photographs form a map of France’s vernacular and diverse architecture – we’ll be looking at his images of abandoned petrol stations and follies after these photos of former discotheques. The names of these discos spirit you away – La Tour de Londres, Le Spinx, Memphis, Palm Beach and, of course, Paradise. So ‘let’s all have a disco’, as the England football fans sang at World Cup Italia 1990. It’s where the beautiful people go to see and be seen. Continue reading »
Doug Madill: Painting Jersey City
“Painting Jersey City” offers a broad selection of new works from artist Doug Madill that focus primarily on the subject matter of day-to-day scenes within the environs of Jersey City, New Jersey. Encompassing street vistas, local landmarks, night scenes, and other recognizable haunts, the subject matter choices of painter Doug Madill are sourced primarily from his explorations of various Jersey City neighborhoods. These local perambulations are carried out on foot and when Madill finds a scene or object of interest in his travels, a painting is then executed on site, usually entirely “en plein air” which is a French term meaning “painted out of doors and from direct observation”. Continue reading »
Photographer Created A Dark Fantasy Photography Series About Mermaids Forced To Live On Land
Sabrina Nielsen is a creative fine art fantasy photographer and costumer from Denmark. She designs beautiful costumes of Mermaids to bring them into real life. She also created a short film this year. The photos combined with the film “Heirs to the Sea” tell the story of how mermaids have been driven out of the seas by a dark creature. They have lost their tails and been forced to live on land. Continue reading »
Photographer Uses Forced Perspective To Transform Ordinary Beaches Into A Land Of Giants
Fin art photographer, Moises Levy, turns ordinary beach scenes into fantastical imaginary landscapes inhabited by giants. Using forced perspective technique, he set up his camera at low vantage point—essentially placing us at the same level as the surface. The result pictures show backlit figures appear larger and confuse the viewer’s mind. Continue reading »
Russian Oligarch Exclusive Car For Sale
A unique car is for sale on one of the Russian classifieds websites. As the story goes the car was custom made for a famous rich person who died three months before the car was delivered to him.
The car was named “Amulet”. According to the owner it had to have magic power to protect him. However it didn’t happen. In fact this was a Toyota Crown, but it is so heavily modified you can’t recognize it anymore. Continue reading »
Artist Reimagines Everyday Objects As Spectacular Spaceship Designs
Software engineer by day and digital artist by night, Eric Geusz works around the clock to produce his impressive artwork. From a Potato Spaceship inspired by the shape of a potato peeler, to a Tong Crane Ship inspired by—you guessed it—a pair of kitchen tongs, the artist’s work is not only incredibly imaginative, but bursting with detail. Continue reading »
Gorgeous Fine Art Portrait Photography By Alexandra Bochkareva
Alexandra Bochkareva (previously) is a talented photographer, artist, and educator from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, who currently lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Alexandra focuses mainly on portraiture and fine art photography. She shoots a lot of beauty, street style, and fairytale portraits. Continue reading »
The Cocooned High-Rises Of Hong Kong
Cherry Street Cocoon, Hong Kong. Photograph: Peter Steinhauer
A 20+ year collection of photographs documenting Hong Kong’s hauntingly beautiful construction sites encaged (cocooned!) in bamboo scaffolding, draped in brightly hued material.
Since 1993, Peter Steinhauer has documented the many facets of Asian culture, with a keen eye for architecture, urban landscape and man-made structures and environments. On his first visit to Hong Kong in 1994, arriving at the old Kai Tak International Airport, Steinhauer noticed a very large structure encaged in bamboo and swathed in yellow material–standing out beneath a canopy of clouds, glowing against the monochromatic, urban skyline. Hong Kong is the final stronghold of the bamboo scaffolders who once practiced their trade at construction sites throughout Asia. Continue reading »
Awesome Christmas MAZ Truck Sculpture In Minsk, Belarus
In the Minsk there is a wonder to cause awe in grown ups – the New Year installation of a lighted MAZ big truck. The MAZ factory in city made a present to the crowd – they built truck of thousand LED lights to amaze and to adore! Continue reading »
As The Standard Of The World Turns: Lovely Photos Of 1965 Cadillac Coupe DeVille
Cadillac was “Standard of the World” in motoring pleasure and owner loyalty. “So new, so right, so obviously Cadillac!” This editorial is dedicated to those who regard their motorcars as prized possessions. Once one has been in the driver’s seat of a new Cadillac… it is difficult to become content with any other car.
Here is another classic DeVille encore performance… in the continuing saga of “As the Standard of the World Turns.” Continue reading »
Artist Comes Up With Genius Way To Use Puzzles, Sells The Result For Up To $650
Putting together a Jigsaw puzzle can be delightfully frustrating and Vancouver based artist Tim Klein wants to add in some extra pieces. Yes, Klein practices the obscure art of ‘puzzle montage,’ taking pieces from various jigsaw puzzle sets and re-arranging them to form a new stunning image. Continue reading »
Honeywell Kitchen Computer, The $70,000 Machine That No One Bought In The Late 1960s
Original advertisement for the Kitchen Computer: “If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute.” Why would anyone want a computer at home? Before the personal computer era and its avalanche of possible uses, the perennial answer was: “to store recipes.” Continue reading »
