Precious Metal by Yoav Kotik
Jewelry from packaging: Yoav Kotik’s rings, bracelets, necklaces and pendents are made from metal bottle caps. Yoav Kotik, the designer of “Precious metal” jewellery line, is a graduate of the “Bezalel academy of art and design” in Jerusalem. Yoav is a member of the Zik group. He frequently leads Master classes in the field of sculpture and design in recycled materials in academic institutes such as the “Shenkar academy of design” the “Bezalel academy” and the “Wizo academy”. His works were presented in galleries across Israel, the UK, the Netherland and Japan. Continue reading »
Mikhail Kalashnikov: The Man and Machine Gun
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the father of the world’s most popular assault rifle, is handed an AK-74 November 23, 2002 in Izhevsk,1000 East km. from Moscow. November 23 marked the 55th anniversary of the release of the first Kalashnikov gun. According to the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategic and Technologies some 70 million to 100 million Kalashnikovs have been built worldwide since 1947, compared about 7 million to Kalashnikov’s Western rival the M-16 assault rifles. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Bullets Precisely Split in Half
1. 5.56×45 loaded with a steel projectile in a copper half-jacket to protect the bore
2. 5.56mm XM216 SPIW Flechette
3. 7.62/.220 Salvo Squeezebore
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Memory Suitcase By Yuval Yairi
Memory Suitcases is a thought-provoking series by Israeli artist Yuval Yairi that uses old, worn suitcases as canvases for nostalgic landscapes. Like scenes out of one’s memory, the propped up traveling cases feature a range of sepia-toned settings. The series presents the objects as though they are relics of a civilization from yesteryear, each with their own story to tell.
There’s something both heartbreaking and sentimental about the images. It appears to tell a number of stories of leaving one lifestyle for another. The suitcases hold within them a picture show of memories from a life-altering journey. Like a number of his other works, Memory Suitcases “mimics the natural process of memory.” Continue reading »
‘Folded’ by Ariel Zuckerman
The “folded” series by Israeli designer Ariel Zuckerman deals with the physical tension applied on a two dimensional sheet. Using techniques such as folding, stretching and twisting, borrowed from the discipline of paper, and applying them to wooden sheets, led to a novel three dimensional appearance. Continue reading »
The Right Book Will Always Keep You Company
Fresh adverising campaign for the Israeli bookstore chain Steimatzky wonders what it would be like to take your favorite literary character to bed with you. Continue reading »
The First Hebrew Edition of Playboy Magazine
An Israeli man looks at the first Hebrew edition of the men’s magazine Playboy in Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Beit Shemesh Yoga Studio for Ultra-Orthodox
Yoga Studio for ultra-Orthodox located at Ramat Beit Shemesh Nachal zohar 4/8, Israel. Separate classes for men, women and children. Occupations look quite funny. In photographs by Michal Fattal. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: New Hope
One of four 3-week-old newborn sand cats, peers from a cave in the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv. The Safari spokeswoman reported a total of 7 sand cats currently living in captivity in Israel, and said the country’s sand cat population had been completely extinct, mostly due to habitat destruction. (AP)
The Cocoon Light Structures
The “cocoon light structures” that Israeli-born designer Ayala Serfaty creates don’t look like anything you plug into a wall. They look more like organisms that glow. Using thin, transparently tinted lamp filaments as “glass veins” that create both depth and surface, the tubes are then sprayed with a clear polymer in thin strands, connected like a spiderweb around the tubes, to generate “a skin-like crust,” or what Serfaty has called “a membrane of sorts” that feels like a soft cocoon. (In fact, the process was developed in the late 1940s by the U.S. military for cocooning ships.)
Award-Winning Shots From The 2012 Underwater Photo Contest
Intrepid photographers submitted over 700 underwater images for the 2012 Underwater Photography Contest and an adorable red sea slug grinning for the camera was awarded the contest’s star. The annual contest, put on by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, showcases the colorful creatures typically beneath reach and awards prizes in three categories: macro, fish or marine animal portrait, and wide angle.
Fan Favorite: Todd Aki Sea nettle Chrysaora quinquecirrh taken on an early morning shore dive off the Breakwater — Monterey, California, USA Continue reading »
Boynton Beach Peacocks: When is Beauty Bad?
Anybody want a peacock? How about 200?
The Fox Hollow community in Boynton Beach is considering paying a trapper $6,000 to round up half the neighborhood population of peafowl and kill them.
“I want every one of them out of here,” said resident Dorothy Laswell. “They bang on my French doors, throw themselves at my windows, and wake me up every morning, jumping on my roof at 6 o’clock. And during mating season, they scream and holler.”
Similar complaints have led Fox Hollow to invite a trapper to spend weeks in the neighborhood assessing the population and figuring out what can be done. There are an estimated 400 peafowl living in Fox Hollow, and they have their defenders. So the homeowner’s association is considering a compromise of sorts: eliminating half the bird population.
Story by Frank Cerabino.
Photography by Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post.
The Fox Hollow community in Boynton Beach is proposing to remove a couple of hundred peacocks that live on the gated community’s property. They apparently escaped years ago from nearby Knollwood Groves, where they were an attraction until the groves were torn down for another housing development. Continue reading »
Kids Reacts on Exhibitions. Very Funny
West University Elementary third graders, Lauren Aguilar, 8, left, and Ava Janczak, 8, react during a close look at a replica of the remains of Tutankhamun while touring the Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs exhibit at MFAH with her class Tuesday, Nov. 1, in Houston. (Johnny Hanson / Houston Chronicle via AP) Continue reading »
Facebook Campaign to Heal Ariel, the Paralyzed Lion
Ariel, the three-year-old, 140-kilogram lion is the focus of an Internet campaign to raise money needed to treat the paralysis that struck him a year ago, depriving him of the use of his four legs.
Veterinarian Livia Pereira kisses paralyzed lion Ariel who she is caring for in her home in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Andre Penner/AP)
Veterinarian Livia Pereira and Ariel’s owner, Raquel Borges, said the $11,500 needed every month to pay for Ariel’s treatment comes from donations from nearly 35,000 people who have clicked the “like” button on Ariel’s Facebook page. Continue reading »
Portfolio of Ben Nathan
Packaging for 100gr Sunflower Seeds. Click image!
Ben Nathan, designer from Israel. Continue reading »
Arik Mergi
Very nice portfolio of Arik Mergi, designer and Art Director from Israel.
AMD Game: The Ultimate Gamers PC. Action Inside.
AMD’s Ultimate Gamers PC print advertisements. Click pictures for full size prints.
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