Fox Village In Japan Is Probably The Cutest Place On Earth
This magical oasis of foxiness is called Zao Fox Village, and it’s located in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture. For 100 yen (or about 85 US cents), visitors are provided with food, but because the foxes are not domesticated, they are cautioned against hand-feeding them or bringing small children. Continue reading »
If You Are A Bunny Contemplating Suicide – This Is The Book For You
Featured below are some of the best examples from Andy Riley’s hilariously dark and twisted cartoon series about suicidal bunnies. Enjoy! Continue reading »
Awkward Metal Band Photos
Rock stars are supposed to be charismatic. The gig requires being able to a) get up in front of people and perform convincingly, b) create compelling songs that evoke emotions, c) have a sense of style your fans would want to emulate, and, of course, d) be sexy. That’s a lot of requirements, and some bands understandably fall a bit short. Today we’re celebrating metal band awkwardness. Get ready to bang your head…against the wall in disbelief that someone thought these photos were a good idea. Continue reading »
These Trippy Collages Got Phillip Kremer Kicked Off Of Social Media
Endlessly entertaining, often hilarious collages of celebrities, politicians, and ordinary people are at the crux of artist Phillip Kremer’s infamy. He makes art that is as interesting as the stories behind his creations. After hosting his first art show in the bathroom of a dive bar 20 years after his final art class in high school, Kremer found new excitement in making art once again. The series of collages started from Google searches of “blank face” when Kremer couldn’t find anything. Continue reading »
A Minimal, Multi-Colored Keyboard That Would Brighten Up Your Work Day
Considering that many of us use our computer keyboards all day, every day, it seems that we do not pay very much attention to them—however, if they look as awesome as these rainbow-colored ones from CandyKeys, clicking away at the work desk would be so much more pleasant. Created in partnership with Reddit user u/PVgummiand—who posted an image of the multi-colored onto the website a while ago—the ‘DSA Candy’ is actually a set of keycaps that are meant to be used with a mechanical keyboard. Continue reading »
Glass Memorials That Contain The Ashes Of The Dead
Artful Ashes is a company that’s found a new and creative way to store the ashes of your loved ones. They don’t just places the ashes in an urn, they turn them into art. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures Unique Photos Of Horses From The Underbelly
Majestic, charming and at times, aggressive; horses are the subject of Andrius Burba’s newest project ‘Under-Horse’. The Lithuanian photographer and his team described it as a back-breaking process. It involved digging a hole of three meters into the ground, placing a huge pane of ultra-strong glass on top of the camera and setting up heavy equipment surrounding the makeshift studio. The four-legged models even had to wear rubber horseshoes to avoid scratching the glass. Continue reading »
Drone Distortions: Manipulated Landscapes Warp And Bend Upon Themselves
Gazing at any one of these stretched-out, gravity-defying landscape photos, you feel like you’re at the pinnacle of a rollercoaster, about to zoom down to ground level. Except instead of being elevated on an artificial track, you’re on flat ground, positioned at the high end of a nearly 90-degree angle with no care for gravity. Turkish artist Aydin Büyüktas (previously featured) warps American landscapes, nearly doubling them in half to show multiple perspectives at once. Continue reading »
Book Of Shadows: 2D Shape Cutouts Cast Silhouettes On Pages
A children’s book with an interactive twist, Motion Silhouette engages readers through pop-up pieces that require lighting to animate shadow pictures on each page. The idea is to add elements of manual animation that are necessarily subjective – each person will hold, turn and highlight the cutouts in different ways. Continue reading »
Before The Dirt: The Cars Of Mad Max Fury Road
A selection of the seventy five cars, trucks and bikes photographed over three weeks prior to the filming of Mad Max Fury Road. Continue reading »
Artist Tries To Paint The Life Inside The Stone
To most people stones are nothing special. But this artist claims that they can sense the life inside of a stone and they try to bring it out by painting it. Continue reading »
DIY Steampunk Trailer Fit For Travelling The World In 80 Days
For some of us, DIY means hanging up a few picture frames at the weekend, or giving the garden shed a new lick of paint. For Dave Moult of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, DIY means building a teardrop trailer from scratch that Jules Verne would have been jealous of… Continue reading »
Abushe, An African Child With Plastic Eyes
Abushe lives in southern Ethiopia. No one would pay any attention to him, but if you catch a glimpse of his eyes, their incredible magnetic colour will stop you in your tracks. Abushe suffers from the Waardenburg syndrome. One of the characteristics of this syndrome is an abnormal spacing between the eyes but mainly a special pigmentation of the irises. This phenomenon is rare. Its effects are obviously striking on a child with black skin like the little Ethiopian. Continue reading »
Before Smartphones And Computers Kids Had Real Fun
Kids nowadays will just never understand. Continue reading »
3D-Printed Solar Systems That Fit On Your Table
Little Planet Factory is a company created by George Ioannidis. One day this London-based artist searched for a Mars globe, and after failing to find one he liked, he decided to make his own. George grew up watching Cosmos and reading Douglas Adams, and he also happened to be experienced in 3D printing so mashing space and 3D models was an idea close to his heart. Continue reading »
This Pin-up Calendar Is Not What You Expect
The Eizo: Pin-up Calendar offers you more than the usual nude – it shows everything. Eizo is a manufacturer of medical imaging high precision displays for the examination and diagnosis of radiographs. Whereas craftsmen are showered with pin-up-calendars at the end of every year, this kind of present is less popular among medics. EIZO breaks this taboo. This brilliant advertising campaign of pin-up calendar of X-rayed girls was created by a German advertising agency named Butter. Continue reading »
This Wall Clock Is Covered In Icelandic Moss
German designer Tobias Mittmann, of design studio HerrMittmann, has created a modern wall clock covered in Icelandic moss, that makes it easy to display both the time and your love for nature. Lush, soft, and with a range of natural greens in it, this moss wall clock brings a touch of nature to your interior and creates a functional piece of decor. Continue reading »
Galaxy Inspired Ceramics That Allow You To Drink From The Stars
Thanks to artist Amanda Joy Wells everyone can have a drink with the stars. Continue reading »
Vibrant Photos Capture Spirit Of 1980s New York City
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Jamel Shabazz first took up photography at the age of 15, and went on to create a peerlessly vibrant record of the city in the 1980s.
c. 1980. A boy does a backflip on a mattress in a lot in Brooklyn.
Jamel Shabazz/Getty Images
Drawing inspiration from the works of socially concerned photographers such as Gordon Parks and Leonard Freed, Shabazz roamed the streets and subways of New York, making both candid and effortlessly posed images of the city’s diverse denizens, especially black and Hispanic communities. Continue reading »
These Geometric Pet Beds Are An Ideal Resting Spot For Modern Cats And Dogs
As much as we all love our pets, sometimes we don’t want them right on us or on the furniture. But when that’s the case, our pets need a comfortable alternative. This is where the three geometric pet beds, from Natural Slow’s PET HOUSE series come in. Each pet house is made from Paulownia wood, a traditional Japanese wood favored for it’s insulation, humidity control, and pest repellent properties. Paulownia wood is also a lightweight material which allows the pet houses to be moved easily whenever you feel like it. Continue reading »
Lennu Is Finland’s Most Adorable Dog
President Sauli Niinistö’s dog Lennu is known for constantly having a smile on its face and people have dubbed the pup “Finland’s most adorable dog.” Continue reading »
The Future Is Now: Cyberpunk Illustrations Of A Dystopian Future
“The future is now,” might be a true statement: we live in a present that’s in constant flux—maybe it even means we’ve entered the future as a state of mind, if not the literal definition of a fixed point in time. As fun as it is to debate, Josan Gonzalez’s art books of the same name are decidedly set in a future we have not yet set foot in. His cyberpunk illustrations create a chaotic, densely urban world populated by cyborgs and outlaws outfitted with advanced prosthetics. Continue reading »
The Finalists Of The 14th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest
Winter Is Coming
The Arctic wolf is a sub-species of the grey wolf and lives in the Arctic regions of North America. (© Pedro Jarque Krebs/Smithsonian Photo Contest) Continue reading »
Artist Shows How To Repackage Junk Food So That Hipsters Would Buy It
You’ll never find a box of Cap’n Crunch or a pack of Slim Jims in a hipster’s house. Why? Well, aside from the fact that neither are organic, the colors of the packaging would simply clash too much with all of the other artfully designed products in their food cupboard. Continue reading »
Stunning Photos Of American Women At Work During World War II
Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation Inc, plant in California, 1942. (Photo by Alfred T. Palmer/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) Continue reading »
