Japan’s High-Tech Cemetery Uses Electronic ID Cards To Identify The Dead
Space is rare in Japan, making city planners come up with innovative ways to cram as much as possible into small spaces. This is even true with graveyard plots, which cost as much as $100,000 apiece, so architect Kiyoshi Takeyama created a neat solution for storing the dead. Continue reading »
Inspired By The Pop Culture: The Explosive And Colorful Paintings Of James Rawson
The paintings of the British artist James Rawson, defined as a postmodern pop artist, who mixes painting and collage to create explosive and colorful compositions, filled with references to movies, brands, comics or iconic objects. James Rawson revisits the pop culture of the last 50 years, but also the societal problems like over-consumption, poverty, junk food or the omnipresence of advertising. Continue reading »
Then and Now: 31 Amazing Pictures Show The Change Of Madrid Over Time
Here is an amazing collection of pictures that shows then and now of Madrid, created by Ramon Oria. Continue reading »
Surreal Photos Of Russia That Look Like A Strange Fairytale
Frank Herfort captures surreal moments in Russia. His series “Time In Between – Fairy Tale Of Russia” document the bizarre and beautiful contradictions of daily life in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other areas in Russia. Each image is layered with mystery, melancholy, and the absurd. Herfort’s photos seem to document a fairytale land forgotten by time. Continue reading »
This Bag Makes It Look Like You’re Carrying A Giant Goldfish
Called the ‘Nubuck Goldfish Purse’ from Japanese shop Atelier Iwakiri, it’s made to resemble the popular fish pet, from the scales, to the fins, to even the dense expression they all seem to have. The bag is made of leather and cleverly conceals its zipper line along its dorsal fin. It comes in a small and large version, and is available in red, black, brown, and dark brown. Continue reading »
Guy Without A Date Does Epic Photoshoot With His Pug Instead
When New York-based ‘BarkPost’ writer Jonathan Graziano found himself without a date on Valentine’s Day, he went out with his best friend instead. His best friend, by the way, is a seven-year-old pug named Noodle. Continue reading »
This Is What Disney Princesses Look Like In Their Old Age
Brazilian artist Isaque Arêas has reimagined eight beloved female leads as they would look now if they had continued to age after the film was made. Continue reading »
See How This Illuminated Portrait Of Nikola Tesla Was Made
Ambience Lighting, together with artist Duro Cubrilo, have created a portrait of Nikola Tesla, one of the world’s greatest visionaries, by using a grid of light bulbs. Lets have a look at how it all came together… Continue reading »
Kid’s Dream Came True When He Received A Signed Jersey From Lionel Messi
After this photo of an Afghan boy playing in a ‘Messi’ t-shirt made out of a plastic bag became an internet hit, Lionel Messi decided to arrange something for him. Continue reading »
The Custom Shelving In This Home Keeps The Cat Happy
When Taiwanese design firm Thinking Design were tasked with designing a home for their client with a cat, they decided to include a ‘catwalk’ for the family feline. By combining the bookshelf with the catwalk, they were able to make the catwalk appear seamless in its design, and include some storage for the homeowners at the same time. Continue reading »
This 200-Year-Old Unremarkable House Will Surely Surprise You
This shabby looking house in New Orleans will make your jaw drop when you walk inside. If you like modern and old combined together, this house is for you. Continue reading »
The MacBook Selfie Stick Is The Art Project Apple Lovers Deserve
First there was the selfie. Then there was the Selfie Stick. Now we have the MacBook Selfie Stick. The device—a selfie stick outfitted with a full-size MacBook—is the product of an art project by Moises, John Yuyi and Tom Galle, who were behind the real-world Netflix and Chill Room. The device could, say, be used for FaceTime conversations or taking photos, much like a Selfie Stick kitted with an iPhone. Continue reading »
This Artist Decided To Paint On Used Tea Bags And It’s Incredible
While the most of us throw away used tea bags, Ruby Silvious, a visual artist and graphic designer have other things on her mind… Early this year, Ms. Silvious started a visual diary, 363 Days of Tea, to push her creative practice, share it on social media hoping to spark a different kind of inspiration… Continue reading »
A Girl Who Is Deaf In One Ear Gets A Tattoo To Inform Strangers
Your tattoo can not only be meaningful or simply aesthetic, it can also be functional. Imgurer raingoose has recently uploaded a photo of her minimalist tattoo of a muted speaker to show that she’s deaf in her left ear. Continue reading »
A Fire Pole Is A Fun Way To Travel Between Floors
Photography by Lucas Henning
When Designs Northwest Architects were designing this home in Stanwood, Washington, they included a fire pole as a fun way to get between floors. Continue reading »
Freight Truck Exteriors Are Being Transformed Into Mobile Art Galleries
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The side of a freight truck, with its expansive surface space, has great potential for massive artistic expression. This becomes all the more clear as the Truck Art Project transforms these large vehicles into mobile galleries whose exteriors display contemporary paintings. The open road hosts these unconventional artworks, utilizing a network of trade transportation routes that roll across Spain and bring art to places where this type of unexpected work is rarely seen. Continue reading »
The Monster Engine: Children’s Drawings Painted Realistically
Dave Devries takes sketches of monsters drawn by children purely from their imagination and renders them realistically giving them a truly devilish look. His collection of drawings and paintings form a 48-page book “The Monster Engine”. Continue reading »
The Happiest Tail-Waggers: Adorable Dogs And Puppies Enjoying Nature
If you are a dog-person, these incredible photographs, made by photographer Alicja Zmyslowska, are a must-see for you. Alicja’s doggie models are very diverse and all equally cute. There are big ones and small ones, older ones and puppies, labradors, pitbulls, Australian shepherds, Border Collies and many others. Continue reading »
“Orcs Of New York” Is The Brilliant Facebook Parody You Need To Be Following
Harry Aspinwall cleverly created ‘Orcs of New York’, a parody of the popular “Humans of New York” series.
The hilarious series tells the stories of Orcs who have ended up in the big apple and documents their struggle to fit in. Or as the Facebook page puts it, the series covers “Mordor diaspora in New York, one orc at a time”. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll never see Orcs the same way again. Believe it or not, Orcs struggle with all the same issues we face. You’ll hear stories of Orcs who work weird hours and have recently turned to dating apps. Or actor hopefuls who move to New York to try to give young Orcs back home role models to look up to in popular media. Continue reading »
Beautiful Monica Bellucci And Her Never-Before-Seen Pictures
Following a successful modelling career, Monica Bellucci decides to turn herself towards acting and stars in her first Italian film, in 1990. Having travelled throughout the world and mastering foreign languages, she rapidly participates to American and French productions alternating blockbusters and independent, often dark, films. Incarnating Mediterranean beauty, the actress revives the spirit of 1950s Italian divas with her dark hair, feline eyes and curvaceous forms and perfectly combines the multiple identities of women, from sensual lover to la mamma: roles she has been portraying for 20 years for Dolce & Gabbana. Some kind of contemporary Roman she-wolf. Continue reading »
16 Classic Photos That Capture Nylon Stockings’ Allure In The 1940s And 1950s
Before the 1920s, stockings, if worn, were worn for warmth. In the 1920s, as hemlines of dresses rose, people began to wear stockings to cover the exposed legs. These stockings were sheer, first made of silk or rayon (then known as “artificial silk”), and after 1940 of nylon. Continue reading »
Innovative Bike Doubles As Washing Machine To Clean Your Clothes As You Exercise
For anyone that loathes laundry but loves biking, the design students at Dalian Nationalities University in China have a compromise to make the chore more enjoyable. Their creation, aptly-called the Bike Washing Machine (or BiWa for short), combines the two activities into one stationary device. A washing machine drum is ingeniously integrated into the wheel of a bike that cleans your clothes as you pedal. Continue reading »
John Salminen’s Watercolor Paintings Of Urban Landscapes
John Salminen is one of America’s most highly recognized watercolorists. He is a prolific painter who paints six to ten hours a day in a basement studio when he’s not out of town jurying exhibitions or teaching workshops. He captures his subjects – usually urban landscapes – with his camera and then paints them realistically with water color. Ranging from San Francisco to the Chicago Loop to Greenwich Village to rainy Paris to Shanghai, his subjects are consistently presented in dynamic compositions and his ability to set a mood with color, light and tone is unsurpassed. Continue reading »
Bizarre Cameras Used Before GoPros Existed – This Is How People Filmed Their Stuff
What did we do before GoPro? When it comes to capturing speed, back in the day, photogs tied themselves to the back of cars, hung off of trucks and then when that wasn’t enough, they jury-rigged point-of-view (POV) cameras on racer’s their helmets with metal brackets, cordes and special made contraptions. Continue reading »
Shelter Dog Photobooth Pics Helps More Pups Find Forever Homes
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We’ve previously covered the Humane Society of Utah, an animal rescue and adoption organization in the U.S that famously takes “photo booth” pictures of dogs to get them adopted. Now, pet photographer Guinnevere Shuster is back again, with another series of whimsical dog photos that are looking for a home. Continue reading »
