A Look Inside This Starbucks Modeled After A Japanese Teahouse
Starbucks’ latest venture in Kyoto, Japan, includes a new location in a traditional teahouse. Continue reading »
Japan Marks 10th Anniversary Of Rice Field Art
A huge painting on a rice field was seen in the city of Gyodashi, Saitama in Japan on July 9. The field, composed of nine different kinds of colored rice plant and crops, was designed by local people with their never exhausting creativity. Continue reading »
Twin Skulls Transform The Facade Of This 19th Century French Castle
Okuda San Miguel’s (previously featured) recently transformed 19th-century castle in Château, France is perhaps my favorite work by the artist to date. Continue reading »
Street Artists Cut The Abandoned Car Out Of Reality
Yekaterinburg (Russia) based street art team Stenograffia ain’t happy with abandoned Soviet cars left by their owners all around the city. Having no regrets but spray cans and spare hands they decided to “cut off” old clutters from the streets in the way every designer will approve. Continue reading »
Mugshot Models: A Selection Of Images Showcase The Most Glamorous Mugshots Found Online
If we are to believe what we see on TV, arrests are a messy business with many suspects left at least a little disheveled. However, this appears not to be the case for these glamorous female felons whose mugshots wouldn’t look out of place in a modelling agency. Continue reading »
This Royal Navy Sea King Helicopter Transformed Into Glamping Pod
A retired helicopter, which was bought at an Ministry of Defence auction, has been transformed into a glamping pod. The 17m (56ft) Royal Navy Sea King was bought by Stirling farmer Martyn Steedman for £7,000 ($9,000). Continue reading »
Sketches Of Summer
Grant Snider gives us a charming series of sketches using watercolor shapes and imagination to illustrate the things we enjoy in the summertime. How to turn a watermelon into a sunset is just the beginning. Other simple shapes show us what he can make of picnics, fireflies, ice cream, swimming pools, and more. Continue reading »
Flashing Falsies: Will LED Eyelashes Be The New Beauty Trend?
Tired of your usual fake eyelashes that just gives you length and volume? A new invention designed by two Swedish, Tien Pham and Davey Taylor, will make beauty lovers spark and glow. Continue reading »
Smells Like The 70s: Vintage Deodorant Advertising
Women’s deodorant and antiperspirant ads came in three varieties: (1) a demonstration of how well the product performs across a busy day (as below), (2) a confident gal giving her testimonial (above), or (3) straight-up shaming (i.e. you will be humiliated by your gross personal stench if you don’t use our product). The best of the best somehow incorporated all three. Let’s have a look at some examples from the 1970s and a few more from other decades. Continue reading »
Candid Snapshots Capture Everyday Life Of Vancouver Youth In The 1970s
Many changes, events, and attitudes defined the 1970s. In fact, 70s culture was – by the end of the decade – far different than that of the previous decade, when the hippie culture dominated the scene. Continue reading »
“Tales From The Woods”: Beauty And Surreal Fine Art Portraits By Grace Almera
Grace Almera is a talented self-taught photographer and filmmaker currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Grace focuses on portraiture, she shoots gorgeous beauty, fashion and fine art portrait photography. Her photography style is best described as “emotional” and “atmospheric”. She loves creating dreamy images that appear to resemble paintings and spice it up with alternative fashion clothing and accessories. Continue reading »
Recent Entries For The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2017
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are in full swing, so check out some of the fierce competitors jostling for the top prize this year. Photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam founded the awards to spotlight wildlife conservation efforts and to inject some humour into the world of wildlife photography.
A young elephant seals looks shocked at his friends revelation in George Cathcart’s “WTF?!”, taken on December 13, 2016 in San Simeon, California. (Photo by George Cathcart/CWPA/Barcroft Images) Continue reading »
Stuttgart Municipal Library In Photographs By Skander Khlif
Skander Khlif is a 34-year-old Tunisian-German engineer and contemporary street and documentary photographer currently based in Munich, Germany. Skander studied High Frequency Technology and human machine interface. Attended the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nurnberg and earned his master’s degree in Engineering. Continue reading »
Beautiful Parisian Pin-Up Paintings By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was born in Bordeaux, France on March 4th, 1889.
An extremely talented and precocious painter, Domergue exhibited works at the Salon Des Artistes Français (the French Artists Exhibition) in 1906 at the young age of seventeen. In 1913, he was awarded the Second Prize of Rome and went on to win the gold medal award in the 1920 show. He then began showing outside the exhibition. Continue reading »
“Build The Future” – Lego’s Brilliant Print Ads From The Cannes Festival
Lego makes some of the most delightful advertising around, and this series of print ads from Ogilvy Bangkok are just about perfect, from concept to execution. Continue reading »
This Is What Happens When You Peel Off 30 Years Of Graffiti
Paul De Graaf recently shared an amazing photo album that shows the layers of paint that have formed on a famous Dutch graffiti wall over the last 30 years. Continue reading »
Sig Waller’s Kitsch Gothic Invades Suburbia’s Comfort Zone
Sig Waller (“S.I.G.” – “Spectrum is Green” from Captain Scarlett and the Mysterions) injects smultzy, kitsch happy homes of the type seen in 1950s illustrations of the American dreams with a sinister and darkly humorous Gothic twist. Waller disturbs conformist visions of post-Christian, Formica-faced domestic bliss with a huge demonic creature made of shadow that’s slunk into suburbia. Continue reading »
This Curvaceous Wooden House Sits Among The Trees
Architecture and interior design firm Malan Vorster, have designed the House Paarman Tree House in Cape Town, South Africa. The small one bedroom home in the trees was built from materials that when left untreated, would allow the materials to weather naturally with the surrounding forest. Continue reading »
Spirited Away: A Miyazaki Fan Recreated The Bathing House With An Impressive Model
The Japanese Sorakio, a big fan of the universe of Chihiro, Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, had fun recreating the famous bath house of the cult movie Spirited Away in an impressive ultra-detailed model! An amazing work created using hundreds of pieces from other models, but also pieces of plastic or wood. Continue reading »
A Not-For-Children Children’s Book Based On Tragic Stories From Inner-City Youth
The violence and desperation that inner-city youth experience regularly isn’t relatable to Americans who live more privileged lives. So, to shine a light on the problem, VML in Kansas City chose an eminently relatable medium—the children’s book—to tell inner-city children’s real-life experiences of drug abuse, violence and hunger. Continue reading »
These ‘Game of Thrones’ Photos From Time Magazine Are Colorful To Say The Least
Allow me to put on my curmudgeon hat for a moment, but do you ever feel like photographers shooting for big publications will sometimes go for wild off-the-wall creative concepts that seem to just fall flat? That’s how I feel about these portraits of “Game of Thrones” actors for Time magazine from British Photographer Miles Aldridge. Continue reading »
The Apocalypse Of Pop Culture By Filip Hodas
Filip Hodas, AKA Hoodass, is a freelance 3D artist from Prague, Czech Republic, who does surreal and mind-bending renderings that are truly out of this world. Continue reading »
Julianne Moore As Famous Works Of Art
Hollywood, fashion, and art history collide in the photographs of Peter Linderbergh of Julianne Moore for a 2008 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Linderbergh photographs the talented actress side-by-side some of the most iconic and famous images of women pulled from art history. Continue reading »
German Company Fritz-Kola Starts Campaign Related To G20 Meetings
The German beverage producer Fritz-Kola just started a really amazing campaign. As some of you may know, from 7-8 July the G20 meeting is taking place in the German city Hamburg. Continue reading »
A Little Girl And Her Mother Imagine Creative Dresses On Instagram
The little Stefani, only 3 years old, imagines with her mother some pretty creative and imaginary dresses with flowers, fruits or vegetables! Continue reading »
