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2018 European Stone Stacking Championship


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The European Stone Stacking Championships are Europe’s largest championships for all Stone Stacking and Rock Balancing artists and practitioners. The overall winner of the European Stone Stacking Championship will receive financial support for flights to the World Stone Balance Championship in Llano, Texas the following year. Continue reading »

Artist Mari Roldan Recreates Famous Paintings On European Banknotes

When the young artist Mari Roldan is having fun reproducing famous paintings on banknotes, a nice series that brings a touch of poetry in the very cartesian world of money. From Vincent Van Gogh to Pablo Picasso via Magritte, Hokusai or Botticelli, Mari Roldan offers us an alternative version of our European banknotes, paying tribute to the masterpieces of painting. Continue reading »

MINI Roadtrip Doodle: 7 Day Road Trip Across 5 Countries, 12 European Cities, 2,452km, 1 Plane, 2 Cars, 3 Boats, 5 People

According to the artist Steve Simpson: “The idea of road trip with a classic white mini and a bag of sharpies sounded like the trip of a lifetime and it was. But there was a huge amount of prep work involved too. We had the car covered in a matt white vinyl so it was possible to rough out in pencil.” Continue reading »

What Peaceful Borders Between European Countries Look Like

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Since the Schengen Agreement of 1985, restrictions on moving between countries in Europe have slowly been erased. Netherlands-based photographer Valerio Vincenzo decided to document this change in his series “Borderline, the Frontiers of Peace,” a project which is especially poignant today, as the EU struggles with the immigrant crisis. Continue reading »

GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

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Highly commended birds : Crested guan by Tim Hunt (UK). ‘This photo shows a crested guan in the cloud forests of Costa Rica as it pauses while foraging on a lone branch. Due to the clouds that are so typical for this habitat, I could often only photograph the bird’s silhouette against a grey sky. But then, for a short moment only, the sun broke through the clouds, and I overexposed the image by over two stops in order to blow out the background and allow this beautifully marked bird to stand out’. (Photo by Tim Hunt/GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015)
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European Communities by Immo Klink

As devotees of Cabin Porn, we have spent many an idle moment daydreaming about fleeing our noisy, stressful urban life for the isolated pleasures of a rustic shack. So we were immediately intrigued by German photographer Immo Klink’s beautiful images of remote dwellings, which we spotted at Feature Shoot. The photos are part of a series called ‘European Communities’, which documents the off-the-grid lives of people around the continent who have chosen to retreat from society and forge more environmentally sustainable existences. Continue reading »

Eastern European Sushi

Want to have some crazy kitchen fusion at home? Check “Eastern European Sushi” – a brand new food design project by CLINIC 212, agency from Luthuania. The goal was to show that creative, innovative and sometimes insane insights can generate superlative outcome. That is how they ended up taking most popular dishes some time ago in Soviet Lithuania and applying them to inimitable sushi. Continue reading »