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Beautiful Black And White Portrait Photography By Daria Pitak

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Black and white portraits easily succeed in reflecting the true emotion of the subject. In this post, we have compiled a beautiful black and white portrait photography by Daria Pitak. She is a Poland based photographer specialized in fashion and portrait photography. Continue reading »

Have A Nice Life Asshole: Breakup Stress Reliever Adult Coloring Book

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Revenge is a dish best served cold, but sometimes you can’t wait that long. Tried nearly everything to get over your ex? A new adult coloring book called ‘Have a Nice Life Asshole‘ just might do the trick. Continue reading »

Evolution & Degeneration: Stunning Illustrations By The Young Korean Artist Abubu

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Abubu is a talented illustrator from South Korea. He is very creative and has a great imagination. No information has been given to us about this artist. But his art is perfect. Continue reading »

Glorious Photos Of Cuban Ballet Dancers Taking To The Streets

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Over the last two years, Omar Robles has dedicated his work to photographing ballet dancers in creative urban settings. He’s shot portraits all over the world, but something about the possibilities of shooting the world of Cuban ballet dancers fascinated him. Continue reading »

“Childhood In The Raw Photos”: New Zealand Photographer Captured Her Children, Who Are Growing Up With Limited Electronics

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Niki Boon began taking photos as a hobby while she was working as a physiotherapist in Scotland. However, the New Zealand native found her interest in the art waning while she travelled, and it wasn’t until she had returned home and started raising a family that her passion was rekindled. “Childhood in the Raw”, an ongoing photo series of her four children’s technology-free life on her 10-acre property in New Zealand, is the perennial fruit of this passion. Continue reading »

Barista Uses Food Dye To Create Colorful Latte Art

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Instead of wasting expensive espresso, Las Vegas-based barista Mason Salisbury practices with colored food dye to create mesmerizing latte art. Just like regular latte foam, he first steams the milk before adding food dye in. He then pours the foam into a mug to create intricate and colorful leaf patterns. You might also want to check out fantastic Lumberjack and Chameleon cakes. Continue reading »

So Super Awesome Funny Greeting Cards By Mudsplash Studios

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Mudsplash Studios offers greeting cards and art prints that feature fun characters, vivid colors, and a humorous twist. Owner and designer Kacey Schwartz has been an illustrator for the last 7 years, working with clients to develop original characters, packaging illustration, and children’s art for games and books. Creating holiday greeting cards for family and friends, she fell in love with the medium, and Mudsplash Studios was born! Continue reading »

Unbelievably Precise Hand Lettered Quotes That Are Almost As Small As Coins

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Indonesian artist Dexa Muamar creates tiny hand lettered works of art with pencil. Muamar’s pieces are precise and incredibly proportionate, and it would be hard to guess that they are usually 3-4cm small. His Instagram posts usually feature his works with his hand or coins for scale, but it’s still hard to accept the fact that he is able to obtain such precision with a pencil. Continue reading »

Designer Turns Ridiculous Sketches Of Bicycles Into Realistic Designs

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Designer Gianluca Gimini went around with a pen and paper, asking strangers, friends, and family to draw him a normal bicycle from memory. Hundreds of drawings and more than five years later, Gimini renders the collected drawings as real bicycles in a project called ‘Velocipedia’. Continue reading »

France, Often Late To U.S. Culture, Had A Great Reaction To Getting “Game Of Thrones” On Time

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To promote French cable provider Canal+ airing the Game of Thrones Season 6 premiere at the exact same moment it debuts in America on HBO (that’s 3 a.m. on April 25 for those en France), agency BETC created a clever outdoor campaign. Continue reading »

Artist Envisions Futuristic Fort-Like Homes Designed To Withstand Hurricanes

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Spanish designer Dionisio Gonzales creates surreal forts meant to endure natural disasters such as hurricanes. These fictional structures made of iron and concrete are hybrids of beach houses, bunkers and space ships, and are part of the artist’s latest series of designs entitled “Dauphin Island”. Continue reading »

This Chair Was Designed Specifically For Cigar Aficionados

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Chilean architect, Rodrigo Gonzalez, together with German lawyer, Alexander Sauer, conceived the idea of creating a smoker’s armchair for El Purista. The armchair is made of molded beech and walnut wood, and offers the cigar aficionado a personal retreat to relax, smoke, and enjoy. Continue reading »

Man Takes Hilarious Face Swap Photos With Sculptures At The Museum

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Face swap is becoming the new craze, where you swap faces with your friends or pet for a good laugh. Redditor Jake Marshall recently took it up to the next level by taking face swap photos with sculptures in the British Museum in London. Continue reading »

This Artist Creates Beautiful Figures Of Olympic Athletes Out Of Layered Paper

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According to the Spanish artist Raya Sader Bujana: “The concept of this design was to express movement using paper. The added texture, light and volume that the serial planes technique provides reinforces the fluidity of the pieces. All the sculptures are entirely hand cut and assembled, some of the figures have around 150 pieces and up to 500 separators. The project required many, many hours of work, but the end result was very satisfying for me.” Continue reading »

A Photographer Has Captured Hundreds Of Leaves To Show The Beauty Of Diversity And Imperfection

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According to the photographer: “Last Autumn I photographed hundreds of leaves to show that the nature manufactures unique and incredibly beautiful structures. I think they look that interesting because they are not perfect and differ so much.” Continue reading »

IKEA-Inspired Manuals Will Teach You How To Get Over A Breakup

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Designer Caisa Nilaseca has produced a series of IKEA-inspired instruction manuals on how to get over a breakup. Just like the Swedish furniture brand’s iconic manuals, these illustrations provide a step-by-step guide that includes the materials you will need and how to start moving on from a breakup. With seven different ways to get over a breakup, such as traveling or simply taking your time to grieve, we are sure there is something for everyone. Continue reading »

An Artist Has Designed Attractive Anti-Social Media Banners To Fight Social Media Addiction

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According to Slovak artist Slavo Glinsky: “Using social media nowadays is so addictive it can be compared to smoking 50 years ago. My aim is to show, how it steal our attention and make us more engaged, but less joyful – even depressed.” Continue reading »

Monochrome Bodypainting Project “Exoskeleton”: Brilliantly Textured Body Paintings Turn The Human Form Into A Walking Work Of Art

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Artist Yusk Imai has a long-held fascination with human anatomy, and he displays this reverence for the body in an unconventional painting project called Exoskeleton. The skin is his canvas as hands, arms, legs, and shoulders are covered in intricate textures that mimic reptile scales, brushed metal, and feathers. Imai’s meticulous handling and solid black painting is reminiscent of the blackout-style tattoo trend we’ve recently admired. Unlike those tattoos, however, his work is created with acrylic ink and water-based markers, making its existence fleeting. Continue reading »

Be Fearless. Be Seated. A ‘Dangerously Safe’ Stool Series For The Fearless

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This project merges stools with popular weapons, but with a twist. The stools are made of strong glass and one can see clearly through them. While the weapon will not pierce the furniture when seated, it creates an illusion to do so. In return, only the fearless will dare to take a tour of this stool. Continue reading »

A Fascinating Photo Project About The Reflection We Want To See In The Mirror

It’s human nature to desire and, at the same time, be afraid of change. But as technology becomes more advanced, we now have a great opportunity to contemplate changes in our appearance without worrying that the consequences will be permanent. With the help of a retouch artist’s capable hands, you can experiment with your appearance: create an incredible hairstyle or even change your skin tone. Sometimes, this impartial perspective can help you understand that when one of your personal traits disappears, you can lose your individuality. Maybe you’ll even become a different person.

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Polly: ‘I’ve always wanted to have narrower cheekbones, full lips, and a darker skin tone. And thick hair. I think I would be a real beauty!’

Bright Side offered a group of brave people the chance to take part in a photo project that highlights these issues. They explained their ideas for their ideal appearance to a retouch artist and asked them to make them happen. We suggest you take a look at the result and try to find ten differences. Continue reading »

Traveller T-Shirt With 40 Icons Lets You Communicate In Any Country Even If You Don’t Speak Its Language

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George, Steven and Florian, are three friends that got together to create a t-shirt that makes it easier to communicate in a foreign language when you are traveling. It all started when one of the friends was traveling by motorbike in rural Vietnam, and their motorbike broke down. Continue reading »

This Couple Made The Most Epic Star Wars Engagement Shoot Ever

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This “Finn and Rey” photo shoot is the most epic engagement we’ve seen yet! Shot in the Little Sahara Dunes in Utah, these beautiful photos are both incredibly well done and genuinely heart warming. The shoot features real-life couple Victor and Julianne and their little daughter dressed as BB-8 droid. The series was shot by photographer Robert Lance who also plans to shoot their wedding this May. Continue reading »

Daredevil Photographer Attaches LED To Drone For Hauntingly Beautiful Photos

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Photographer Reuben Wu transforms the vast desert landscape into otherworldly scenes with his stunning series Lux Noctis. The dramatic images feature solitary rock formations surrounded by nearly pitch-black darkness, only illuminated by a selective spotlight. This approach both highlights their incredible characteristics and visually creates the feeling that an alien ship is about to land on the curious grounds. Continue reading »

Cats Can Finally Destroy Priceless Artwork With These Masterpiece Scratching Posts

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Cats like to scratch stuff. It’s what cats do. Sometimes it’s your sofa. Other times it’s your face. You just never know with cats. But if it’s expensive or important, chances are that your cat will want to scratch it. This rule also applies to priceless paintings. Continue reading »

Extremely Rare White Giraffe With Ginger Mane Spotted In Tanzania

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Omo the giraffe is fifteen months old. She has survived her first year despite being born with leucism – a condition which means only some of her skin cells can make pigment, which gives her almost white skin. She was photographed by Dr Derek Lee, founder and scientist at the Wild Nature Institute, whilst she was roaming the Tarangire National Park, in Tanzania. Continue reading »