A Real-Life Mermaid Who Swims With Sharks Using Her Fish Tail And Holds Breath For 2 Minutes
In honor of our charity of the month, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, I decided to reach out to Hannah Mermaid and learn a little bit more about her and her ocean advocacy.
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Solitary Wilderness Shelter Provides Warmth to Mountain Hikers
Photo credit: Janez Martincic
The Skuta mountain, located in Slovenia’s Kamnik Alps, presents many challenges for those trying to scale it. Strong winds, heavy snowfalls, and dangerous landslides are just a few of the hazards that await climbers. To make their journey safer, the students at Harvard University School of Design and OFIS Architects have recently constructed a shelter that sits along the beautiful rocky landscape.
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Artist Crafts Incredibly Realistic Gigantic Flowers Out of Paper
San Francisco-based artist Tiffanie Turner has had a lifelong obsession with botanicals, expressing her adoration in the form of incredibly realistic paper flowers. Using delicate crepe material, she crafts soft-looking petals that have the same creases, folds, and postures to convincingly mimic nature. Continue reading »
Transparent Sculptures Explore the Depth of Human Emotion
First featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 12, Korean artist Jin Young Yu makes haunting sculptures with a mystifying use of transparency. She achieves the invisibility of her doll-like figures through a highly transparent plastic. Yu’s deeply intimate works reflect on her emotional experience of adolescence, and more recently, mirror her adult personality. Continue reading »
This Armchair Is Designed To Fold Out Into A Bed
Russian designer Elena Sidorova, has created Flop, an armchair that folds open and becomes a bed.
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A Photo Shoot That Puts Manchester United’s New Home Shirt At The Heart Of The Look
he landscape of football is one of incredible swell. A game that fuels a momentous culture, it captures music, art, design and so much more. In a new photography series, we headed to Manchester, a global capital for creativity, to bring football and fashion together in a shoot that puts United’s new home shirt at the heart of the look. Continue reading »
Me & My Other Me
Colombian graphic artist Fulvio Obregon has created a series of illustrations capturing famous artists reflected with their figures from the past. Continue reading »
Rare And Beautiful Portrait Photography Of Marilyn Monroe From The 1950s
A collection of rare and beautiful black-white portraits of Marilyn Monroe from the 1950s. Continue reading »
Rare And Awesome Behind the Scenes Photos of “Star Wars” Special Effects
Nowadays special effects are mostly done with computers. But back in 1977 look how “Star Wars” was being filmed, they didn’t have the kind of technology we have now. Continue reading »
44 Amazing Photographs That Captured Daily Life of New York City in 1983
German photographer Thomas Hoepker takes us back to New York City in 1983 through his amazing photographs below…
The Midtown Manhattan skyline seen through a misty window.
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Rare Pink Dolphin Is Spotted Near Louisiana’s Coast
Pinky the dolphin is a mythical-looking creature who is quickly capturing the hearts of people around the world. Though we’re used to dolphins typically having a blue/grey tint, Pinky is actually pink! The marine mammal’s rosy glow seems like an unbelievable impossibility, but she’s definitely not the only one. Pink dolphins are most often seen in the Amazon River, where they’re either a carnation pink or light grey. Continue reading »
September 10-11: These Days In Photos From The Past
Looters scramble in Philipsburg, St. Maarten, Sunday September 10, 1995 for goods in the Ram’s department store, which contained mostly food and liquor. No attempts are currently being made by Dutch troops on the island to stop the looting, since few relief supplies have arrived in St. Maarten, which was ravaged on Tuesday by Hurricane Luis. (Photo by John McConnico/AP Photo)
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Inseparable Terrier Duo Become Real Internet Sensation
“It started out with actual dog clothes and then to kids’ jumpers and then one thing led to another and before I knew it I was shopping in the baby section buying onesies” says Jennifer Mclean who’s the proud owner of two of the cutest Staffordshire Terriers around. Continue reading »
Fantastic Pencil Sculptures By Jasenko Đorđević
Born in Tulza, Bosnia, Jasenko Đorđević uses an X-acto knife and tiny chisel to carve detailed pencil-tip sculptures. The result resembles something made from stone or charred wood. Đorđević was first inspired to carve pencils after seeing the work of Dalton Ghetti. Continue reading »
Artist Henry Hargreaves Decided To Show What Happens After The Water In A Popular Drinks Is Boiled Away
When New Zealand-based artist Henry Hargreaves heard a health professional call soda “the cigarettes of our generation”, he wanted to find a way to represent the risk visually. Continue reading »
Nir Hod Paints Scornful Children
Israeli artist Nir Hod once told Interview Magazine, his greatest discovery was that “it’s not easy getting older.” In his painting series “Genius,” Hod pulls at the tension between childhood and adulthood and breaks open a space in between innocence and inurement. Continue reading »
Alluring And Emotive Multimedia Works By Candice Bohannon
California based artist Candice Bohannon creates alluring and emotive figurative works using a multitude of media. Her subjects are often portrayed alone and drifting into sleep, emoting solitude and tranquility in their quieter moments. Continue reading »
It’s The End Of The World: Artist Steve McGhee Creates Horrific And Tragic Photo Manipulations Of Catastrophes
The guru of photography manipulations Steve McGhee. Let him say for himself: “My work reflects a personal interest in things human beings have little or no control over. We walk through life feeling like we’re indestructible, while in reality, we’re just the opposite. In the days and weeks following a major catastrophes, people tend to reboot – we get shocked back into being human. That is to say, we react in an undeniably human way… whenever tragedy strikes in the world people come together to help those directly affected. It’s just too bad we have to be reminded that we’re human in such terrible ways.” Continue reading »
Artist Beth Cavener Creates Terrible Animal Sculptures You’ll Never Forget
The sculptures of Beth Cavener focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalisation, and articulated through animal and human forms. Cavener wants to pry at those uncomfortable, awkward edges between animal and human. Continue reading »
Street Artist Projects Fashionista Animals On Buildings In Paris
French artist Julien Nonnen, has created “Safari Urbain,” a collection of human-like fashionista animal images that have been projected on buildings throughout Paris.
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Adorable Lambs At Korean Sheep Cafe Are Anything But Baaaaashful!
Animal lovers in Seoul, Korea have been flocking to the only cafe in the city that serves up coffee with a side of woolly companionship. Continue reading »
Hang 20 Surf Dog Classic
Waldo, a 6-year-old Tibetan Terrier belonging to Susan and Mike Leverette of Sebastian, competes in the third heat of the medium dogs division at the Hang 20 Surf Dog Classic at Carlin Park in Jupiter Saturday, August 29, 2015. “The waves are a little bigger than we are used to”, said Susan. (Photo by Bruce R. Bennett/The Palm Beach Post)
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Absolutely Stunning Crocodile Photos, 65 Million Years In The Making
According to the majority of biologists, alligators and crocodiles are the least changed reptiles on the planet. Continue reading »
Cool Cartography: The Art Of Mapmaking
Mind the Map, a new collection of artwork published by Gestalten, shows the skill, humour and care involved in map design, including one depicting New York’s smells, and a meticulously hand-painted ski map.
Whistler village, Canada, by James Niehues
One of the most prolific ski-trail mapmakers at work, Niehues is known for extreme attention to detail, giving unique form, structure and shadows to trees, or adding cars to resort parking lots. He usually begins by gathering images of his subject from various angles, including archival photos and flying around the area at various elevations. A medium-size ski resort takes two to four days to sketch and seven to 10 days to paint. Larger regions have taken weeks. Continue reading »
Guinness World Records 2016 In Pictures
Guinness World Records turns 60 this year. Since first being published in 1955 it has become a publishing phenomenon, selling 132m copies across more than 100 countries.
Olga Liashchuk: fastest time to crush three watermelons with the thighs
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