Artist Covers Walls With Cross-Stitch Floral Patterns In Street Installations
Set designer and artist Raquel Rodrigo brings the macro details of cross-stitch embroidery to building facades around Madrid. Her colorful installations are prepared beforehand with enlarged cross-stitch techniques utilizing thick string wrapped on wire mesh before each is unrolled and affixed to a surface. The decorative pieces create a fun, pixelated texture that looks completely different close up versus at a distance. Continue reading »
Polish Fashion Artists Creates Beautiful Felted Animal Scarves
Polish fashion designers Maja and Celina Debowska have cleverly crafted these felt animal scarves and stoles. While the sisters make a range of cold-weather accessories such as hats and gloves, the critter stoles really steal the show—the level of detail is pretty astounding. Continue reading »
Dragon Scale Crochet Gloves For When The Winter Comes
With lots of beautiful colors, crochet dragon scales, and a beautiful crocodile stitch pattern, the fingerless gloves look absolutely stunning. And not only will they make you look like a dragon, but keep you warm too! Well, except your fingers. They’re 100% hand crochet and made with wool, acrylic, and mohair. Are they awesome, or what?! Continue reading »
Designer Paints Alternative Posters Of Popular Movies Based On Mood In The Films
UK-based freelance artist Karl Fitzgerald draws inspiration from the mood set in famous films, including Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Kill Bill, to recreate their posters. The illustrator paints these alternative artworks and sells some of them as screen prints. Continue reading »
New Stunning Entries Of The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year Contest
The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest is accepting entries in one or all of four categories: Landscape, Environmental Issues, Action and Animal Portraits. The grand-prize winner will receive a 10-day trip for two to the Galápagos with National Geographic Expeditions and two 15-minute image portfolio reviews with National Geographic photo editors.
Empire Rising
Built in complete darkness, a complex city is being constructed. A wild swarm of Honeybees (Apis mellifera) arriving in the spring, is developing natural wax comb formations to support the colony’s future larvae, and food storage. When this colony is at it’s strongest, it will eventually divide. The majority of the bees swarming to a new location with the queen and begin the process of reproducing all over again, thus spreading their genes farther. (Photo and Caption by Sam Morris/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year) Continue reading »
An Eccentric Artist Has Collected Fifty Vintage Cars And Left Them To Rot In A Forest – And Now They’re Worth Over One Million Dollars
Former racing driver Michael Fröhlich, from Dusseldorf, Germany, has purposely crashed the cars into trees, buried them in mud and parked them on cliff faces in his estate’s garden in the middle of the German Neanderthal. His collections includes a Jaguar XK120 worth $170,000, a Porsche 356 racer and a Buick worth $17,000. Perhaps his most interesting collectable is a Rolls Royce, with a purposefully misspelt “Buckingham Palace” – replacing the B with an F – emblazoned on the side with a replica of the Queen Elizabeth at the wheel. (Photo by Christoph Hagen/Barcroft Images) Continue reading »
Fantastic Minimalist Japanese Cruiser 1989 Nissan Neo-X Concept That Was Ahead Of Its Time
According to Chicago Tribune, November 19, 1989: “Perhaps the two most intriguing designs at the show [Tokyo Motor Show, 1989] were the Nissan Neo-X and Mitsubishi HSR-II, experimental vehicles that provide a glimpse of how personal transporation may evolve in the 21st Century.” Continue reading »
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show The Dangers Of Constructing The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is an iconic office building known as “the Most Famous Skyscraper in the World.” Built during the Depression between 1930 and 1931, the Empire State Building became the world’s tallest office building until 1967. The design of the building changed 16 times during planning and construction, but 3,000 workers completed the building’s construction in record time: one year and 45 days, including Sundays and holidays. The Empire State’s construction work and its workers were a magnet for press and magazine photographers, which is how many iconic images of the construction work were created, like these.
Sep, 13. 1930. Carl Russell waves to his co-workers on the structural work of the 88th floor of the new Empire State Building. Continue reading »
Street Artist Okuda Transforms An Abandoned House Into An Universal Chapel
The Spanish street artist Okuda San Miguel (previously here, here and here) has unveiled a new creation in Arkansas, transforming an abandoned house into an universal chapel, celebrating mankind, nature and all its creatures. An explosive artwork made of colorful and geometric shapes, that Okuda San Miguel created as part as The Unexpected Art Festival. Continue reading »
Playboy Model Sara Jean Underwood Dresses Up As Your Favorite Star Wars Characters
Be prepared to be turned on in the weirdest, and best, nod to Star Wars that I’ve seen in quite some time. Playboy put together a fake audition tape for the classic franchise from one of the most beautiful women on the planet: Sara Jean Underwood. It’s definitely supposed to be a little tongue-in-cheek. Check out the video below along with professional photos of the characters she posed as. Continue reading »
These Hilarious Cats Look Like Furry Catbuses Come To Life
One cat-loving Japanese Twitter user, however, stands out for her interesting locale, with an account that’s filled with pictures of felines roaming around deserts in the Middle East. With dozens of legs, these kitties might not have the full set of hundred paws to certifiably fit the classification of a centipede, but they certainly look like the multi-legged invertebrates with their elongated bodies exploring the vast sandy environment. Continue reading »
Hyperrealistic Depictions Of A Fictional Mouse-Butterfly Species By Lisa Ericson
Lisa Ericson‘s logo is just as enchanting as her hyperrealistic paintings, a tiny mouse with butterfly wings floating between her first and last name. Ericson works as a multi-hyphenate, utilizing her visual talents as an artist, illustrator, and designer to craft meaningful images for both her client and personal practice. In her recent series Ericson skillfully depicts her invented species of mouse-butterfly while they explore environments filled with detailed mushrooms, forgotten tin jars, and forest brush while sometimes clutching found objects such as acorns and raspberries. Continue reading »
World’s Largest Slug is Bigger, Slimier, and Way Cooler Than You’d Imagine
Behold the super-slimy awesomeness that is the Black Sea Hare (Aplysia vaccaria), the world’s largest species of sea slug, weighing up to 30 lbs and measuring over 3 feet long. Black Sea Hares come to shore to lay their eggs and are apparently even slimier to the touch than they look. Continue reading »
This Is Truly Heavenly Weather As Pictures Taken From An Airplane Cockpit Reveal What Pilots See From Above
An incredible view of thunderstorms light up the insides of clouds near a beautiful sky line. It looks like at cruising altitude the weather really hots up, with the flight deck revealing some amazing scenes. Thunderstorms light up the insides of clouds, lightening streaks across the sky like cracks in a windscreen, the northern lights sweep uninterrupted across the sky and the galaxy stretches on forever. The pictures were captured by senior first officer Christiaan van Heijst, a 33-year-old from the Netherlands, and his friend Daan Krans. Continue reading »
Dark Humor Stories That’ll Make You Think
Love. There’s nothing in this world more amazing. But as these “gleefully dark and whimsical” comics remind us, there’s also nothing more painful. The artist behind them is Gypsie Raleigh, an artist, author, poet and playwright from Portland, Oregon. Continue reading »
Comics In The Kitchen: Humorous Illustrations By Massimo Fenati
Massimo Fenati is an Italian designer and illustrator, living for years in London. He was born and raised in Genoa but went to the UK in 1995 to work on 3D design projects. He later worked for international tv networks such as BBC, Sky and Channel 4 designing their graphics, he published very famous comic books both in the UK and Italy and in other countries, he works on editorial illustration and on comics for kids. As a proud Italian he’s also very interested in food, and he mixed up this passion with his job by realizing a series of comics on food, cooking and differences on Italian and British food culture. Continue reading »
The Looking Back On Sony World Photography Awards
“Bear Apartment Six” is a composite made up of 16 photographs of three sun bear cubs at Free the Bears Fund’s enclosure number six in Cambodia photographed over 90 consecutive minutes in June 2016. Each bear was rescued from the illegal wildlife trade when they were only a few months old. (Photo by Alexandra Cearns/Sony World Photography Awards) Continue reading »
How Beautiful Our World Would Look From Above If You Were A Bird
The Arlit uranium mine is located in Arlit, Niger. French nuclear power generation, as well as the French nuclear weapons programme, are both dependent on the uranium that is extracted from the mine – more than 3,400 tonnes per year. (Photo by Benjamin Grant/Penguin Random House) Continue reading »
Wildlife And Stars In Stunning Photographs By Mark Andrew Thomas
Photo by Mark Andrew Thomas
Brush fires in Everglades National Park, Florida make for a dramatic Milky Way in this panorama. A photographer set out to inspire awe in nature’s wonders through the tropical wetlands of Florida. Continue reading »
Cosplay Cats Are Taking Over The Internet
You’ve probably heard of cosplay, where fans of comics, TV shows, and movies dress up like their favorite characters. Some of the costumes are incredibly detailed and impressive. But have you ever heard of cosplay for cats? Thanks to two cooperative cats and a creative costume designer, these awesome photos are beginning to take over the internet. Nathan Smith, a plumbing-technician by day, costume designer by night, lives in Washington state with his two cats, Nak and Freyu. Smith took Nak to a Renaissance fair (in costume, of course), about five years ago, and ever since he’s been creating costumes just for his cats. Continue reading »
PaddyWagon: An Inflatable Irish Pub You Can Open Anywhere
You know what your backyard needs? An Irish pub. The PaddyWagon can make it happen with an inflatable pub that can can accommodate up to 80 people. To sweeten the deal, they can also supply drinks, food (including traditional Irish dishes sandwiches, pies and pastries) and even entertainment—ranging from traditional Irish session bands all the way to modern DJs. Continue reading »
Laze About The House Like A Piece Of Tempura With The Fried Prawn Wearable Sleeping Bag!
The creative folks from Felissimo’s humorous YOU+MORE! brand have dazzled us with a range of unusual creature bags and cute animal accessories to brighten up the home, but now they’re turning their attention to the world of food, with a brand new item that’s set to have everyone laughing around the country. Continue reading »
Artist Immortalizes Gene Wilder With Willy Wonka Candy Portrait
In the wake of Gene Wilder’s recent passing, San Francisco pop artist Jason Mecier created a fitting tribute in the form of a candy portrait depicting the actor as Willy Wonka, which is perhaps his most famous role. Although additional details are scarce, the mosaic is reportedly on display at Giddy Candy in the city’s Castro district. Continue reading »
Fly Geyser: A Collision Of Human Error And Natural Geothermal Pressure Created This Rainbow-Colored Geologic Wonder
Photo by Jeremy C. Munns
We just learned that the Black Rock Desert in Nevada is home to an actual Geyser of Awesome! Behold the colorful spouting splendor of the Fly Geyser, located near the edge of Fly Reservoir in the Hualapai Geothermal Flats. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures The Daily Lives Of Cats In Majestic Black And White Photos
In her own words Monika Małek is a ‘catographer’ who specialises in the photography of all things feline and despite having photographed more than 200 of them on various shoots and projects her black and white photographs stand out as some of her most beautiful and captivating. Continue reading »
