That’s Top Gear – Mechanic Spends Almost $300,000 Converting Rust Bucket Into Astonishing Custom Car
JF Launier bought the car for $400 but it’s taken many man hours and financial tenacity to be able to make it into an award-winning vehicle. Continue reading »
‘The Ring’ Doughnut And ‘Game Of Thrones’ Cake: Introducing Lou Lou P And Her Incr-Edible Food Art
For the Game of Thrones fans out there, we’ve just found something to add to your list of merchandise: edible art! UK baker and food artist, Lou Lou P (previously), has recently crafted a series of cake pops depicting key Game of Thrones characters. But that’s not it! Continue reading »
French Artist Recreates A Tropical Jungle With Amazing Hand-Cut Paper Pieces
French artist and paper designer Mlle Hipolyte has recreated a ‘tropical jungle’ using pieces of vibrantly colored paper, cut entirely by hand. the mural replicates the lush and diverse assortment of botanical life and greenery found in a rainforest environment. Continue reading »
Yung Cheng Lin’s Human Art Illusions Address Female Body Modification
Taiwanese artist Yung Cheng Lin, commonly known as 3CM, visualizes themes of women’s issues, social standards, and body modification through a photographic lens. The artist interprets these subjects through simple tools and materials that interact with a human body to reveal a message and convey an idea. Red string, push pins and roses literally intersect the female figures in the photographs, creating striking and somewhat alarming visual compositions that come to life through digital manipulation. Continue reading »
Giant 3D Mixed Media Street Art Sculpture Climbs Università Bicocca In Milan
At Milan’s Università Bicocca, italian sculptor Edoardo Tresoldi has collaborated with artist Gonzalo Borondo to realize ‘chained’, a mixed media work that interacts with architecture of the site. On the red façade of the building, Borondo has painted five male figures that embrace each other in a circular configuration. Large, coarse brushstrokes and a minimal palette grant the larger-than-life sized figures an abstract sensibility. Continue reading »
3D Printing Fashion: How I 3D-Printed Clothes at Home
For her fashion graduate collection at Shenkar, Danit Peleg wanted to do something very different. She skipped the sewing machines and fabrics, and went straight towards 3D printing machines. It was a struggle, because she barely knew anything about the technology, and creating entire dresses from home scale 3D printers hasn’t really been done yet. Continue reading »
Francesca Lombardi And Giacomo Favilla Present Stunning Doily Masks Portraits
Italian multi-disciplinary designer Francesca Lombardi presents ‘Doily’. A creative series of masks, each is composed of a single crocheted doily. By re-contextualizing the commonplace object, it can be seen as the perfect adornment for the human face. Continue reading »
Inside Chernobyl’s No-Go Zone 30 Years After The Nuclear Apocalypse
The town of Pripyat, in Ukraine, sprang up just three kilometres from the ill-fated Chernobyl power plant. But on April 26 1986, one of the reactors deep within the plant exploded, causing the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
Photographer Roland Verant, 35, from Vienna, captured a series of stunning images of the Ukrainian town of Pripyat, 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that decimated the town. Continue reading »
Muslim Lolita Fashion Is A New Trend Inspired By Japan
In an awesome fashion mash-up that nobody could’ve foreseen, Muslim fans of the Japanese lolita fashion trend have begun pairing these sweet-as-candy outfits with their hijabs, creating a unique new style that Japanese lolita fans are falling in love with. Continue reading »
17-Year-Old Self-Taught Mexican Artist Creates Stunning Watercolors And Pencil Drawings
Dany Lizeth, a creative and talented 17-year-old in Mexico, creates expertly detailed and beautifully colorful drawings of animals and people using watercolors and colored pencils. What’s even more impressive than her amazing talent at such a young age, however, is that she taught herself how to draw this well! Continue reading »
SAN KAKU MADO: The “Playful Window Mosaic”, A Small Toy With Endless Possibilities
According to designer Samira Boon: “The San Kaku Mado is a toy that can be played anywhere as long as you have a window to stick it to. It consists of a single form and material and sticks without glue.” Continue reading »
This Is What Disney Princes Would Look Like As “Magic Mike” Strippers
Eight of your favorite animated heartthrobs imagined as male entertainers.
Prince Charming from Cinderella as Magic Mike (played by Channing Tatum) with club-goer Cinderella Continue reading »
Clever Redesign Of McDonald’s Takeaway Bag Lets You Eat A Big Mac Without Mess Read
Design student Jessica Stoll, from Arizona State University, has created a packaging redesign concept for McDonald’s Big Mac, which not only looks like a delightful Happy Meal for adults, but also reduces mess when eating on-the-go. Continue reading »
US Salt Flats Speed Week
In this Wednesday, July 22, 2015 photo, a couple walks on the Bonneville Salt Flats, in Utah. A small city of tents, trailers and thousands of visitors appears almost every August in the Utah desert to watch cars, motorcycles and anything with wheels rocket across gleaming white sheets of salt at speeds of 400 mph. But wet weather has forced the cancellation of Speed Week for the second straight year and revived a debate about whether nearby mining is depleting the Bonneville Salt Flats of their precious resource. (Photo by Rick Bowmer/AP Photo)
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Lithuanian Artists Creates A Tiny Urban Project With City Signs
According to artists from Clinic 212 studio, located in Vilnius, Lithuania: “#TINYROADSIGN is a small project we have created to show that we are not the only ones living in the city. All those road signs are located in Vilnius.” Continue reading »
Hope You Like Skulls
According to designer Billy Bogiatzoglou: “A series of personal print designs that started as simple experiments but ended up taking over my life. This series focuses on key patterns that influenced humanity through the millenia. We talking Aztec, Roman, Greek, Celtic, Geometric, Folk, Ornate and even Space Invaders made the cut. Everything is available on my Society6 Store for you to enjoy too. Thanks again for all the support! Hope you like them.” Continue reading »
An Artist Transforms Everyday Items In These Amazing Paper Sculptures
The items you see every day might seem dull and mundane after a while, and certainly not conducive to creating art. Yet for Cybele Young, it’s the everyday things that provide inspiration for the fantastic. Continue reading »
Stephanie Kilgast Creates A Miniature Food Sculptures That Are Adorably Realistic
Artist Stephanie Kilgast, who also goes by Petit Plat, loves her fruits and veggies. In fact, she loves them so much that she challenged herself to make a tiny model of one fruit, vegetable, or root every day for a year. She catalogues these creations on Tumblr. Continue reading »
This Artist Uses Leftover Coffee To Create Beautiful Artworks
Painting with coffee and creating other food-based art is all the rage right now. Occasionally, though, someone comes along and ups the ante a bit, pushing the trend even further. One such artist is Ghidaq al-Nizar, who creates magical little scenes using the remnants of his morning brew. Continue reading »
A Rainbow of Vegetation Consumes a 7-Story Building in a New Mural from ‘Blu’ in Rome
Street artist Blu just wrapped up work on this monumental mural on the streets of his new home in Rebibbia, Rome. The painting depicts a clump of technicolor greenery as it swallows the facade of a 7-story residential building, and is part of a series of works by a neighborhood group called “Mammut” that is trying to redevelop abandoned green spaces in throughout the city. Continue reading »
Forms of Nature Created from Thousands of Ceramic Shards by Zemer Peled
Israeli artist Zemer Peled explores both the beauty and brutality of nature with sculptures constructed from ceramic shards. Continue reading »
Pejac Paints Mesmerizing ‘Eye Trap’ Window and Keyhole Illusions on the Streets of Istanbul
Talented Spanish street artist Pejac just stopped by Istanbul where he painted three new trompe-l’œil pieces in the district of Uskudar titled Lock, Poster and Shutters. Continue reading »
Mexican Government Asked Street Artists To Paint 200 Houses To Unite Community
A youth organization that’s been known to use graffiti as a means of expression has teamed up with the government of Mexico to rehabilitate Palmitas, a town in the Pachuca district. Under the moniker “Germen Crew,” the group painted 209 houses, or twenty-thousand square meters of facade, into a single rainbow mural. Continue reading »
What Lara Croft And Mortal Kombat’s Jade Would Look Like As REAL Women
Bulimia.com, an organization supporting people struggling with eating disorders, is calling attention to unrealistic and potentially damaging body image depictions in gaming by reverse photoshopping some of its most famous characters. Continue reading »
IBM Engineer Gives Up Job To Be A Full-Time Instagram Photographer
Former IBM engineer, Eelco Roos, gave up his job to pursue his passion for photography and has Instagram to thank for his new-found success (a picture shown above that he shot at Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada). Continue reading »
