The Festina Lente Bridge
Festina lente (Latin for “make haste slowly”) is a pedestrian bridge over the Miljacka River in Sarajevo. The bridge is 38 meters long and features an unusual looping in the middle, suggesting slowing down and enjoying the view. Conceptual design for the bridge was created by three students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo: Adnan Alagic, Amila Hrustić and Bojana Kanlic. The bridge connects the Mak Dizdar embankment (close to the Academy) with Radic street. It was officially opened on 22 August 2012. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Call Me Panda
Kai Kai, a male Giant Panda sniffs at his custom-made birthday cake of bamboo, flowers and vegetables at the River Safari, part of the Wildlife Reserves and the Singapore Zoo in Singapore. Week-long celebrations were held to mark the first year anniversary of the arrival of two Giant Pandas from China, Kai Kai, and Jia Jia, who incidentally are celebrating their 6th and 5th birthdays, respectively this month. These Giant Pandas are on loan for 10-years as part of a collaboration between China and Singapore to raise awareness for the conservation of these critically endangered species. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)
Surreal Floating Room Sculptures by Leandro Erlich
Like a scene from a fantasy movie, a dilapidated room that appears to have been literally ripped out of a building remains suspended in mid air above Nantes, France. Its walls were torn apart, revealing bricks below the plaster, and wood floors reveal the joists inside. The floating room is accessible via a ladder. The gravity defying surreal installation is the work of Argentinean artist Leandro Erlich. The large-scale piece, called “Monte-meubles – L’ultime déménagement” (literally – The Furniture Lift – The Ultimate Moving Out), was created for the biannual Le Voyage a Nantes, an art festival which turns the entire French city into an art gallery.
Erlich’s piece is held up over 30 feet high by the mock ladder that appeared to lean against one of the typically French-styled windows. Although it can clearly seen that the ladder is the only thing supporting the sculpture, the room appears to float on its own accord. Continue reading »
United States Map Made from Thousands of Wood Matches by Claire Fontaine
U.S.A. (burnt/unburnt) is a 2011 installation by Paris-based artist Claire Fontaine constructed from thousands of green matches that were inserted into a wall at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as part art of “Evidence of Bricks” at the 2011 Time-Based Art Festival. Fontaine has made somewhat of a name for herself with her match installations and flaming geography, most recently completing a similar U.S.A. map at Queens Nails Gallery in San Francisco. Unlike the installation in Portland above, the Queens Nails artwork was actually set on fire, and while it may not have gone exactly as intended, the final post-flame artwork is impressive nonetheless. Photographs for PICA by Dan Kvitka. Continue reading »
Raica Oliveira – “Bluebeach”
Brazilian model Raica Oliveira in “Bluebeach” bikini photoshoot. Continue reading »
The Uniface Mask: A New Alternative to Make-up or Plastic Surgery?
Uniface mask is a dream fulfilling face that satisfies today’s beauty standards. Giant anime eyes, long lashes, a high nose bridge, and narrow chin and cheeks are all in one product for a lifetime’s worth of confidence.
It’s time to be free from painful and dangerous plastic surgeries or tiring make up, gadgets and circle lenses. With Uniface mask, it’s only one step to become an ideal beauty. Simply spraying on our cell-blending glue, and put on the mask. Your beautiful life will start from here! Price: $ 399.99.
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Thousands of Birds Take Flight for the “Snettisham Spectacular”
“The RSPB’s Snettisham Nature Reserve lies on the edge of The Wash, one of the most important bird estuaries in the United Kingdom. The Wash, on England’s east coast, supports over 300,000 birds, and Snettisham sometimes holds more than a third of them.
A few times every year, higher than average tides force thousands of waders, including Knot, Oystercatchers, Sanderlings, Pink-footed Geese, Black and Bar tailed Godwit and Plover, to take flight, and advance up the mud flats in search of food. Dan Kitwood, a photographer for Getty Images, photographed what is one of the most incredible wildlife spectacles in the UK on September 9, 2013”. – The Palm Beach Post
Pink-footed geese fly over the reserve at sunrise. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images via The Palm Beach Post) Continue reading »
Terrible TV Art
The ‘Terrible TV Art‘ blog is dedicating to photoshopping the faces of TV and movie characters to cartoonish proportions. Continue reading »
Watertower By Tom Fruin
Brooklyn-based artist Tom Fruin installed a beautiful steel and plexiglas water tower in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. As sunlight streamed through the colorful structure, photographer Robert Banat snapped the incredible photo below. Continue reading »
Bryan Cranston’s Green Beach House
The star of Breaking Bad opens the doors to his family’s recently completed beach house located just outside of Los Angeles. Photos by Art Streiber. Continue reading »
Animal Sculptures Made from Recycled Materials
Japanese artist Natsumi Tomita uses materials collected from garbages to create these creative animal sculptures.
Equipped with a sharp eye for detail, Tomita Natsumi, a young, gifted artist from Japan, was born in Tokyo in 1986. She enrolled in an oil painting course at Tama Art University, which is located in her hometown.. Since 2007, she has held several solo exhibitions participated in Asian art fairs, and had her works under the collection of renowned Japanese art institutions such as the Hamada Children’s Museum of Art. On par with her witty, atypical perspectives, she uses a variety of quirky, unlikely mediums – materials that are elementary to everyday life, and are no doubt far less employed in the artistic realm. Continue reading »
Daily Life of a Gamer’s Girlfriend
Would you like to be a girlfriend of a gamer? A photo story inside.
The original story is called “Gấu là gấu mà game là game :D ” – sorry, I don’t speak Vietnamesy. Continue reading »
Three-legged Cat in Tiny Hats
Comic artist Adam Ellis recently adopted Maxwell, a 3-legged kitten. Here is a series of shots Ellis regularly posts to his Instagram account showing his kitten wearing tiny paper hats. Continue reading »
Forgiato Fest 2013
Forgiato Wheels will grace some of the most exotic cars in the world as their owners proudly gather from all over the country and beyond to display their rolling works of art while making new friends and enjoying a concert featuring some of the hottest names in hip hop. Continue reading »
Bethlehem’s Mermaid Avalon
Rebecca West, 31, of Bethlehem, a.k.a. Mermaid Avalon, is a professional mermaid. Here she is posed at Memorial Pool on Illick’s Mill Road in Bethlehem Wednesday. — Photos by EMILY ROBSON / THE MORNING CALL, Jun. 12, 2013 Continue reading »
Nine-Year-Old Wingwalkers
Nine-year-old cousins Rose Brewer and Flame Brewer wingwalk over Rendcomb airfield in Gloucestershire, to become the world’s youngest formation wingwalkers on August 21, 2013 in Cirencester, England. The two girls who flew on vintage Boeing Stearman biplanes, were inspired to do so by the plight of Eli Crossley who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. His parents have set up the Duchenne Children’s Trust to raise money to research a treatment or cure in time to save Eli’s life. — Matt Cardy / Getty Images, Aug. 21, 2013 Continue reading »
Flower Dying in France
Horticulturists work in a field of dyed heather on September 6, 2013 in the eastern French town of Bischoffsheim. — FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP/Getty Images. Continue reading »
ParaFest 2013
ParaFest 2013 is held at the Sands Bethlehem Events Center. It will run from Friday, September 6 through Sunday, September 8, 2013.
Patty Myer, plays Abra Cadabra at the Hotel of Horror in Saylorsburg. She attends ParaFest 2013 held at the Sands Bethlehem Events Center. It will run from Friday, September 6 through Sunday, September 8, 2013. — DENISE SANCHEZ / THE MORNING CALL, Sep. 6, 2013 Continue reading »
Stunning 3D Art Piece in Medellin
People pose around the work of British artist Julian Beever, specialized in pavement drawings, wall murals and realistic paintings, made in a shopping center in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on September 5, 2013. Beever made the painting using colour chalks. — Photos by RAUL ARBOLEDA / AFP/Getty Images, Sep. 5, 2013 Continue reading »
SuperHero Window Cleaning
Window washers from the American National Skyline company (from left to right in the image below: Jordan Emerson, Steve Oszaniec and Danny Oszaniec) suit up as Marvel Comics superheroes to pleasantly surprise the children (who are patients) and their families inside as the dressed up crew cleans the outside of the windows at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis. Photo credits: Brandon Dill. Continue reading »
Rainbow Pencils by Duncan Shotton
Rainbow Pencils are made from recycled paper and let you create beautiful paper rainbows every time you sharpen them. Rainbow Pencils function like regular wooden pencils, and are the same size and weight, but they’re not made from wood, they’re made from layers of recycled waste paper.
Each pencil has a 6-layer rainbow core and comes finished in either black or white. Each pencil is printed with logo on one side and “rainbow pencil by duncan shotton” on the other, in grey. Project on Kickstarter. Continue reading »
This is the End… Bitch!
This is the best ‘Breaking Bad’ photoshoot ever. Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston photographed on March, 4, 2013 in Albuquerque. Photographer Alexei Hay. Continue reading »
Mercedes-Benz Announces New Sprinter Concept Campervan in Düsseldorf
Mercedes-Benz has moved into the Caravan Salon 2013 held in Düsseldorf, Germany with several new live-in showcases, starting with the Sprinter Caravan Concept. The tall-boy cargo van has been turned into a cut-away model with a kitchen with gloss-white fixtures, a living area, a bathroom with integrated wardrobe, front seats that can swivel all the way around, laminate flooring and walls and ceiling covered in Alcantara, plus LED lighting throughout. Mercedes says it ships 4,000 Sprinters to North America that get outfitted into high-luxe mobile dwellings, and the Caravan Concept is a symbol of how far that can go. Continue reading »
Goodnight, World
Australian “plus-size” model Robyn Lawley for Cosmopolitan Australia, October 2013.
Photographer Marnie White. Continue reading »
Agent Provocateur Collection Autumn/Winter 2013
Melissa George, Chloe Hayward and Elettra Wiedemann star as trussed up and put down models backstage at a catwalk show. The three women re-assert their place in the world and take control of their destinies, with a little help from their Agent Provocateurs.
The new collection sees the return of powerful feminine silhouettes and a luxuriously sensual attitude. Every piece is designed to worship the female form. Continue reading »
