Winners Showcasing Funny Animal Antics from the 2024 Nature’s Best Photography Awards
Winner: “Kit Foxes” by Brian Clopp, USA
The 2024 Nature’s Best Photography Awards (NBP International Awards) celebrated 11 remarkable winners in the “Funny Animal Antics” category, showcasing wildlife’s humor and charm in candid moments. From a tortoise interacting with a butterfly and bee to a penguin curiously engaging with a camera, these delightful images reveal the playful side of nature while highlighting the photographers’ impeccable timing and technical skill. Continue reading »
A Whisper in the Eye of the Storm: Artist Duo Creates An Immersive Optical Art Installation
In the cedar forests of Omachi, Japan, *A Whisper in the Eye of the Storm* transforms 14,000 prescription lenses into a shimmering “rainstorm” of cascading optics. Continue reading »
Beautiful Lettering Murals by Emmy Star Brown
Emmy Star Brown, a talented artist based in Chicago, has spent the last decade creating dynamic and vast pieces that bring life to walls and urban environments. Continue reading »
Macabre Hat Belonged to a Traveling “Dentist” in London in the Early 19th Century
This cap belonged to a street “dentist” or tooth puller. It is made of brown velvet and felt, and decorated with approximately 88 decayed human teeth, once belonging to his patients. Continue reading »
Jenn Brown Captures Amazing Photos Of Abandoned Places Across The USA
Jenn Brown is a multi-talented self-taught photographer, artist and designer currently based in Ridge, NY. Jenn is obsessed with abandoned places, she captures urbex spaces of all sorts: crumbling paper mills, factories, synagogues, theatres, rooms and farms. Continue reading »
Artist Carson Davis Brown Creates In-Store Installations Without Permission
Carson Davis Brown’s “Mass” project puts site-specific, color-based installations in big box stores and other “places of mass” without permission. These visual disruptions take otherwise disparate objects and groups them into temporary sculptures. The project has taken the artist to stores across the U.S. A primary charge for the project is to make passers-by more aware of their environment by recontextualizing the items around them. Continue reading »
This Couple Invites Brown Bear Along To Their Very Special Ceremony
Photo by Olga Barantseva
Denis and Nelya, both 30, from Moscow, Russia invited brown bear Stepan (previously) along to their very special ceremony. As well as witnessing the couple exchange vows, the bear also played the role of registrar at one point. Continue reading »
The World’s Only Brown Panda Is Becoming A Celebrity
Qizai is the world’s only brown panda, and he was abandoned by his mother at only two months old. The neglected cub was taken to a nature reserve in the Qingling Mountains in China, and people are quickly falling in love with the bear. Continue reading »
Real Life Teddy Bear’s Picnic: Model and Her Daughter Pose in Cute Snaps with Huge Brown Bear
A MUM and daughter enjoy a quiet picnic in the countryside with a real-life teddy bear. Continue reading »
A Unique Shelter for Brown Bears in Croatia
In this photo taken on Saturday, April, 4, 2015, a bear chews on a corncob at a shelter that attracts hundreds of visitors and volunteers from around the world every year, in Kutarevo, Croatia. Over a decade ago, Ivan Crnkovic-Pavenka, a retired Croatian social worker decided to help bears become “ambassadors of the wilderness” among people and set up a unique shelter for brown bears in the idyllic mountain village of Kutarevo in central Croatia, where eight bears currently live in two huge enclosures. (Photo by Amel Emric/AP Photo)
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Pop Pop Bang By Thomas Brown & Anna Burns
A collaboration between creative director Anna Burns and the photographer Thomas Brown. Through the use of various mediums the pair have curated an exhibition that explores the masculine world of B-Movies and juxtaposed it with the traditional British landscape. Continue reading »
Pop Pop Bang By Thomas Brown & Anna Burns
A collaboration between creative director Anna Burns and the photographer Thomas Brown. Through the use of various mediums the pair have curated an exhibition that explores the masculine world of B-Movies and juxtaposed it with the traditional British landscape.
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Nina Brown
Lovesculpture
Wool, wadding, doll-eyes, cap, tape, button, wire, wood, 70 x 40 x 42 cm, 2007.
Sneak Like A Panther – Puschen* For The Cosy Generation
20 textile objects (wool and felt) on wooden display, 140 x 200 cm, 2005.
*Puschen – german word meaning slippers.
Toast
Original charcter by Stefan Marx, mascot for Cleptomanicx‘ jubilee.
Fabric, foam, paint, millions of handmade stitches, 105 x 120 cm, 2006
Nina Braun is immersed in an analogue world, where the obsession with material and her devotion to each individual object emerges from her very personal imagery.
Her approach to materials like wool and fabric are the base for her sometimes child-like and naive objects that result from an intensive working process. Considering that we are living in a digital era where economical aspects of the working process prevail and thoughts and images can be infinitely reproduced, Nina Braun’s approach to work is quite revolutionary.
