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Portuguese Street Artist Wrapped Up A Giant Squirrel On The Streets Of Tallinn In Estonia

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In town for the ‘JJ-Street Baltic Session: Street Art Jam 2016’, Portuguese street artist Bordalo II created a large flying squirrel which is sitting peacefully on a pine branch and having a little snack. The Lisbon-based artist chose this creature in order to bring attention to the fact that in Estonia, this squirrel is an endangered species. The 8 meter high piece has already gained positive recognition from the Estonian Ministry of Environment, so we’ll hope it will help the squirrels! Continue reading »

Gorgeous Recipes Show Avocado Slices Arranged In Swirls, Shaped Into Roses

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Colette Dike, food artist and the founder of blog Food Deco, has found yet another way to present avocados in a beautiful manner—by slicing them up, and shaping them into lovely swirls and roses. Transforming simple but healthy recipes, such as avocado on toast, into wonderful works of food art, Dike has recently released a cookbook of avocado recipes. Continue reading »

Funny And Creative Illustrations Of Visual Puns That Will Make You Laugh

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California-based Italian designer and illustrator Mauro Gatti has created a series of fun and creative illustrated puns that would be sure to bring a smile to your face. For instance, there is a piece of bearded cheese named ‘Cheesus’, and a poop-shaped cow that is meant to represent “bullshit”. Continue reading »

An Artist Combines Famous Brands Logotypes With Classical Painting

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration + The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

According to Eisen Bernardo (previously): “I mixed popular logos with classical paintings. Each of the juxtapositions has images depicting the same object but done in different styles. They are parallel images but not communicating the same message. An examination of art and capitalism; of expression and function; of personal and corporate. Logo+Art is an offshoot of my Mag+Art Project.” Continue reading »

Street Art Puts Leonardo DiCaprio And Hillary Clinton In Money-Laundering Machine

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Sabo via The Hollywood Reporter

Provocative Los Angeles-based street artist Sabo has set his sights on Leonardo DiCaprio and Hillary Clinton, satirizing their respective charitable foundations and turning them into money-laundering enterprises in a series of new posters that have been put up in Los Angeles. Continue reading »

Skull Walker: A Creepy Scuttling Skull-Creature

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Y Nakajima’s “Skull Walker 2.0” used the skull off an older sculpture and a HEXBUG Strand Beast Toy Figure (inspired by Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest walkers) to create this brilliant piece of nightmare fuel. Continue reading »

Meet The Father Who Makes Amazing Sculptures Out Of Toast For Daughter Who Has Severe Food Allergies

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But a father-of-two is brightening the breakfasts of his youngest daughter, who suffers severe food allergies, by creating daily toast sculptures. Adam Perry said his nine-year-old daughter Scarlett could not eat dairy, eggs, nuts or shellfish, but that white bread was a safe option. His bread creations to date include the Statue of Liberty, a T-rex and – inspired by the Olympic Games – a silhouette of Mo Farah doing his trademark Mobot celebration. He uses two slices of bread, occasionally some sunflower oil spread, and to attach pieces together he either balances them, pinches them or uses a syringe of golden syrup. Continue reading »

This Guy Makes A DIY Axe Handle Out Of Gummy Bears

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Peter Brown, youtuber and craftsman took 2 pounds of sticky delicious mammals into his hands and turned it into a weapon of tree chopping destruction. Continue reading »

Arctic Expedition Discover Mysterious Hole Cut Into The Ice

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Looks uncannily like a scene from the movie “The Thing” but in fact this gigantic hole was recently been discovered by an Arctic expedition in Siberia. Continue reading »

Bizarre Apex Predator Shoes Get A Full Tooth Implant For Soles

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Dominic Young and Mariana Fantich are well known East London based artists and have been working together since 2008 as “Fantich & Young” design studio. Recently they added a line of unique Apex Predator shoes where the sole is covered with dental implants. Theses apex predator shoes were created for socks girls. The style of shoes are classic that look something like childish. Currently they are working and taking orders at their design studio “Fantich & Young”. Continue reading »

Probably, This Is The World’s Most Peaceful Toilet

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Whether you want to call it a toilet or an attraction, it actually works as both. As well as serving the purpose of a gorgeous and attractive attraction, the Serene Itabu Toilet also serves the purpose of fulfilling ones needs as a bathroom. Continue reading »

Autumn Forest Is Prettiest In Czechia Thanks To Photographer Janek Sedlář

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Another great photographer has caught our eye, it’s Janek Sedlář and he is a self-taught master of photography. He specialized into landscape photography (as he loves nature) and he ads that surreal twist into his work, this is why his photos look amazing. His nature photos are so good we actually wonder how come Microsoft didn’t ask for some of his pictures to be included in basic windows plethora of background images. Most of these captivating images are taken in Moravia and around Carpathian mountains. Continue reading »

Bioluminescent Sea Fireflies Glittering Like Diamonds On The Rocks And Sand

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Photo by Trevor Williams / Jonathan Galione / Getty Images

Those lights are actually bioluminescent shrimp, better known as sea fireflies, or, in Japan, as “umibotaru”. Visible every year from May until the end of October, they live in the sand around very shallow sea water and are often seen floating between the extremes of high and low tides. Continue reading »

Fine Art Turned Into Clothes Lets You Wear Your Favorite Paintings

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Who says famous art masterpieces are only for walls? Well, obviously not Purple Fishbowl. The Indonesia-based boutique creates beautiful clothing featuring famous pieces of art. From Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ to Claude Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ – the whole shop is like a wearable museum. You’ll find unique and elegant shirts, skirts, and even entire dresses. Perfect for anyone, whether they’re art lovers or not! Continue reading »

Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony Ends With Tokyo Prime Minister Dressed As Super Mario

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Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe stole the show on Sunday night at the Olympics closing ceremony, taking to the stage in Rio dressed as Super Mario, arguably his country’s most famous export. With the closing ceremony coming to an end, the governor of Tokyo accepted the Olympic flag as a symbol that the Games would be held there in four years. Continue reading »

Artist Creates Exploding Trash Sculptures To Remind Us How Much Stuff We Own

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Argentinian artist José Luis Torres has been taking out the trash, painting it in vibrant colors and putting it back in cities across Canada as sculptures. No, it’s not some compulsive disorder, he’s been doing this to demonstrate just how much stuff we own and the insane amount of waste we produce. Continue reading »

Amazing Cakes That Look Exactly Like Soft Drink Bottles

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Amazing soft drink cakes designed by Andres Fatso look like realistic soft drink bottles. The interesting thing about these soft drink cakes is that you can make them yourself at home too. So identical are the Coca Cola, Sprite and Fanta cakes, that it’s a struggle to tell apart the real thing and the cake, until the knife cuts in. When the icing layer of the ‘bottle’ is cut into what’s revealed is a crumbly, multi-colored cake just like any other. Continue reading »

A Flying Aquarium With A 90ft Whale… This Is Actual Size!

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After decades of pigs failing to fly, blue whales took it upon themselves to give this aviation impossibility a try and shocked the world by achieving flight. Now you can mimic this epic moment in history with these life size blue whale kites! Continue reading »

Instead Of Selfies, A Couple Draws Doodles To Document Their Journey

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They Love This Famous $1 Ice Cream In Orchard Road, Singapore

A creative couple decided to replace selfies with some adorable doodles to document their journey in a different way. She loves to doodle, he loves to take pictures. Voila! Doodledeux was created. Doodle according to free dictionary means “to draw or sketch something aimlessly”. Deux in French means “two” or it can also mean “about them”. So doodledeux is our personal project where we share our story as a couple with a little help from our caricatures, let’s just call them Abang and Neng. Continue reading »

Sign Of The Times: Protest Signs That Sum Up The Sixties

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The Sixties were a time of social upheaval and calls for change in the US and much of the Western world.

To celebrate the grassroots countercultural movements of the 1960s, we’ve hand picked some of our favorite protest signs from this decade. To mix things up, we felt we had to throw throw in a couple of very reactionary signs as well. We think these conservative views illustrate some of the mainstream thinking a lot of progressive people felt so fed up about, to the point where drugs and loud music became a perfectly reasonable responses. Continue reading »

Japanese Instagrammer Performs Bicycle Tricks On One Wheel

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A Japanese Instagrammer, Mamoru Kanai, publishes images of himself performing one-wheeled bicycle stunts in his “Riding Pop” series. The photos feature Kanai performing “wheelies” (standing on the hindwheel) and “stoppies” (standing on the front wheel) while seated as if normally riding a bicycle. Since he can’t shoot photos of himself performing tricks he asks for a help from a skilled photographer friend. Continue reading »

Bloggers Show How Their ‘Ideal’ Instagram Photographs Are Taken

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Bridie By The Sea

British Wren Kitchens asked five popular bloggers to show what is hidden behind their ‘ideal’ food photographs from Instagram, PetaPixel writes. The photographs that they published show how cropping and choosing the right angle can embellish reality and help create a beautiful picture. Continue reading »

Portraits Of Homeless People And Their Dreams Of Old

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Photo © by Horia Manolache

For his new project The Prince and the Pauper, San Francisco-based photographer Horia Manolache connected with homeless people, learned their stories, and shot two portraits of each of them: the first shows them as they are now, and the second portrait shows them in the life or career they had once dreamed about. Continue reading »

Giant Cockroach Float: Is That A Cockroach In The Pool?

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Nothing quite beats the cool water of a refreshing dip in a pool. That is unless you have to deal with the crowds at a community pool. Don’t get me wrong, I love community pools…l just do not like the crowds! There are many things you can do to clear the crowds out of a community pool. There is always the classic prank of dropping a Baby Ruth candy bar and watching people run to their cars! However, I always like to take things in a subtle way and avoid overall panic. Continue reading »

Brazil Through The Lens Of David Alan Harvey

David Alan Harvey’s shots of Rio and Bahia, taken over the course of a decade, look beyond the cliches of bikini babes, crime-ridden favelas and Christ the Redeemer.

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Photo by David Alan Harvey / Magnum Photos / The Guardian

Rio de Janeiro, Ipanema beach. David Alan Harvey, founder of Burn magazine and a member of Magnum, has spent 10 years photographing the wild vitality and natural beauty of Bahia and Rio. Continue reading »