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Fashionably Dressed Flowers By Miguel Vallinas Display Their Budding Personalities

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Artist Miguel Vallinas continues to reflect on identity, existence and personal choice through his latest collection called ‘Roots’. The photographs show fashionably dressed figures bearing ‘faces’ of seasonal plants and floral bouquets instead of human heads. Continue reading »

McDonald’s Introduces Chocolate-Covered French Fries To Japan

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Photo: Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku

McDonald’s is attempting to reverse its sagging fortunes in Japan with the launch this week of a new menu item: french fries smothered in chocolate sauce. Continue reading »

Quadcopter Crash, The Scary Part Is After The Crash

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According to Greg Johnson: “Once again I was able to lose my copter in the wind and crash it. The scary part is what happened after I crashed. GoPro was still running and look what happened while I was running around trying to find my copter.” Continue reading »

What Your Cat Really Thinks?

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Have you ever wondered what your kitty would say if he could speak? Catsass is here to tell you. Don’t be fooled by its cute looks, this mean feline will tell you his deepest thoughts. And it hurts. Continue reading »

Things We Tend To Forget

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Sticky notes left to their fate in public places each day… Continue reading »

Thsi Artist Projects A Digital Street Art Safari Across Orlando Architecture

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Following the wild popularity of his ‘urban safari’ in Paris, french artist Julien Nonnon continues the series the other side of the Atlantic, bringing digital street art to sunny Florida. During two nights in November, Nonnon projected new characters and creatures around downtown Orlando, allowing the collection of smartly-dressed figures to interact with the urban landscape, the architecture of the city and the night light. Continue reading »

You’ll Love These Photos Of An Underwater Wedding In The 50s

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If you thought weddings these day are over the top, just take a look at this incredible wedding from 1954. The couple actually planned a full wedding ceremony to take place underwater, complete with an underwater observation center for all their guests! Continue reading »

Intimate Home In Tokyo Resembles A Kangaroo Pouch

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Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura designed House SH located in Tokyo. Completed in 2005, this contemporary intimate home has a total floor area of 86.97 square meters. Continue reading »

Capturing The Beauty Of The First Day Of Motherhood Through Photo

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Whether you’ve experienced becoming a new mother, or even witnessed it happening, everybody knows that it’s a life-changing, moving, and intense experience (to different degrees, of course). In order to capture this phenomenon, photographer Jenny Lewis has spent the past 5 years documenting images of new mothers with their 1-day-old babies. Continue reading »

Craziest Client Requests Become Amusing Art

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Designers, ever heard of that line coming from a clueless client? Leaves you speechless doesn’t it? It’s very difficult to answer these type of requests and not sound the least bit sarcastic. But you try your nicest. They say kids say the darknest things, well, clients too. Sometimes, even more so.

Seeing the bright side of this situation are Ireland based designers Mark Shanley and Paddy Treacy. The duo crowd sourced some of the weirdest and real client request from different ad agencies and creative types and asked them to make it into fun posters. Continue reading »

This Artist Created The Most Unreal Pokémon Fan Art

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Swedish artist Lisa-Marie Melin began posting her incredible fan art online to become an online sensation by blowing away Pokémon lovers around the globe. Her colorful style and original spin on classic Pokémon characters will have geeks looking at their favorite characters in a brand new way. Continue reading »

Digital Artist Remixes Famous Faces To Create Seamless Celebrity Hybrids

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What began as a playful premise in 2002 has developed into an internet sensation for digital artist @gesichtermix, who remixes some of the world’s most famous faces into hybrid celebrity portraits. The digital artist seamlessly brings together two photographs of different actors, singers and political figures, and merges them into a single composite being. Continue reading »

Chinese Artist Paints Rock And Roll Stars As Deities In “Revels Of The Rock Gods”

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Beijing based artist DU Kun incorporates his passion for rock music into his new oil painting series titled “Revels of the Rock Gods”. His works, which just debuted at Mizuma Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, are monumental portraits of rock musicians that appear carved out of mountains, cliffs, oceans, stones, trees and waterfalls. Continue reading »

Emotional Celebrity Portraits By Marc Hom

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Marc Hom is a Danish fashion photographer whose work consists of celebrity, portrait, fashion, and advertising photography. He was born in 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Marc Hom has shot advertising campaigns for fashion brands such as Gucci, Max Mara, and Genny. His work has appeared in various publications such as W Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, British Vogue, Men’s Vogue and many others. Continue reading »

11 Motivational Posters By Busy Building Things

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Busy Building Things is an inspiration shop for community of doers, go getters, and sleepless dreamers. They make beautiful motivational prints like the ones you’ll see below! Continue reading »

“Star Wars” Characters Brilliantly Reimagined As “Calvin And Hobbes”

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Story artist Brian Kesinger is back with even more adorable images of characters from The Force Awakens depicted as characters from ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. Continue reading »

This Artist Combines Human And Animal Features Into A Single Self-Portrait

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Forming a likeness between the animal kingdom and the human form, hungarian artist Flora Borsi has formed the series ‘animeyed’, which creates curious hybrid beings from two different species. The collection of self-portraits sees Borsi situated side-by-side six separate creatures: a cat, dove, blowfish, goldfish, snake and hare. The effect forms hybrid entities that play with the perception of the viewer and cleverly display the physical similarities between the human and animal features. Continue reading »

These Humorous Illustrations Perfectly Sum Up The Reality Of Living With Anxiety And Depression

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British illustrator Gemma Correll has created comical illustrations to help her cope with the everyday struggles of living with clinical anxiety and depression. Correll — a graduate of the Norwich School of Art and Design — penned the comic-book style illustrations to raise awareness of the condition and to encourage people to speak more freely about the condition. Continue reading »

Funny Greeting Cards Featuring The Thoughts Of An Angry Cat

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Based in Portland, Oregon, artist KJaye has created an amusing series of greeting cards that feature funny illustrations about the thoughts that an angry cat may have. Continue reading »

Channel Your Inner Geek With This Cute And Chic Pair Of 8-Bit Panties

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Portugal-based brand Maison Pixel has created a pair of chic panties that are inspired by pixelated computer graphics. Designers Cesaria and Sebastiao call their pixel panties the “world’s first 8-bit underwear”. Continue reading »

Extraordinary Images Of The Costa Concordia Cruise Ship By Jonathan Danko Kielkowski

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Photo by Jonathan Danko Kielkowski

Extraordinary images of the cruise ship by Jonathan Danko Kielkowski from his book Concordia, published by White Press. The German photographer swam out to where the ship – which ran aground off Tuscany in 2012 with the loss of 32 lives – is moored. Francesco Schettino, the ship’s captain, was jailed for 16 years over the accident. Continue reading »

Riikka Hyvönen Captures The Beauty Of Bruises In Giant Artworks

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“Fresh Meat in Fishnets!,” 2015

Finland born, Helsinki based artist Riikka Hyvönen sees an inspiring myriad of colors that tell a story. Her art combines hyperrealism painting with sculptural elements, pop and kitsch styles, taking the pain that we have all experienced at some point and making it strangely alluring. She calls bruises “kisses”, specifically worn by roller derby girls, of which she collects photographs and then reinterprets into large-scale artworks. In roller derby, players wear their bruises like a badge of honor, which are then posted and shared online. Continue reading »

Artist Creates Inspiring Typography On Landscapes

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Don’t you just love quotes that still the mind? If so, you’ll enjoy this series by Julian Bialowas. This is a collection of inspiring snippets (that will make you think about life) set on beautiful photos of landscapes and mountains taken by Julian himself. Julian Bialowas is a Canadian freelance Designer & Photographer currently living in Calgary, Alberta. Creator of 365q and a co-creator of 16HOURS Magazine. Continue reading »

Artist Janet Echelman Installed A Voluminous Sculpture Floating Above The Streets Of London

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More specifically, the temporary art installation was hung above Oxford Circus, one of the busiest areas in the city. Handmade from 77 miles of twine and half a million knots, the lightweight artwork changes its lights according to the local weather. Continue reading »

This Artist Designs A Bench Inspired By Glaciers And Natural Earth Formations

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Brooklyn-based designer Fernando Mastrangelo, has designed this unique and sculptural bench as part of his “Drift” collection. Inspired by glaciers and natural earth formations, the designer used hand-dyed sand with cement to create the bench that represents different layers of earth. Continue reading »