Vintage Photos Of Lumberjacks Who Felled Big Trees Using Only Hand Tools In The Early 20th Century
It is difficult to imagine what the first loggers felt when they first saw the coastal redwoods. It takes a lot of moxie and muscle to down a three hundred foot high tree. Continue reading »
Malaysian Artist Perfectly Creates Fluffy Cats Using Just Ink
Artist Kamwei Fong painstakingly creates these textured, fluffy black cats, using only fine-line pen. The illustrations, a series called The Furry Thing, are the gorgeous end product of a technique that requires a great deal of skill and patience. Continue reading »
This 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Her Beautiful Artworks Using Microsoft Paint
Here are the creations of Concha Garcia Zaera, an 87-year-old grandmother who creates her artworks using Microsoft Paint! In line with the illustrations of artist Patrick Hines, who also uses the famous drawing software from Microsoft, this grandmother decided to spend time drawing colorful creations pixel by pixel, using her mouse! Continue reading »
Makeup Artist Creates Incredible Drawings Using Her Own Body As Canvas
Georgina Ryland is a makeup artist from Brisbane, Australia. She won over thousands of people with her intricate body paintings. The artist uses her own skin as the canvas and draws detailed images, inspired by popular movies, TV shows and paintings. Continue reading »
12-Year-Old Boy Creates Creepy Sculptures Using Found Materials, And They’re Surprisingly Awesome
Most people don’t know what they want to do with their lives when they’re 20, but Callum Donovan Grujicich isn’t most people. This kid is only 12 years old, and he looks like he has already found his biggest passion – sculpture. Continue reading »
Shocking Photographs Show Japanese Drinkers Using Pavements, Doorways And A Plant Pot As Impromptu Pillows After Succumbing To The Effects Of Alcohol
Japan has a relatively tolerant approach to public drunkenness and people are often just left to sleep it off. However, in this case an official is seen attempting to rouse someone who has passed out. Continue reading »
Amateur Food Artist Decorates Smoothie Bowls Using Only Natural Ingredients
Vegetable smoothies are not exactly everyone’s favourite treat, but one amateur artist has come up with a way to make them more appealing – by decorating them with intricate designs, using only natural ingredients. Continue reading »
Artist Transforms Boring City Life Into Fun Scenes Using Magazine Cutouts
Kalen Hollomon has been gaining prominence in the arts for his work that blends photography and collage. In order to question the rules and behavior of society, sexual stereotypes and the fashion world, the young man mixes magazine clippings with old campaigns and superimposes real people and situations with curious images to create montages. Continue reading »
Audi Campaign Illustrates How Using Your Phone Warps Your Perception Of The Road
Saatchi & Saatchi Bulgaria has launched a powerful print campaign for Audi to encourage people to “leave your phone while you drive.” The advertisements aim to pinpoint how using your phone can warp your perception of distances while you’re on the road. Continue reading »
This Guy Creates Mystical Sculptures Using Wire, Rocks And Crystals
A guy from Kraków, Poland is a musician, in band called Gadabit and he creates sculptures using wire, rocks and crystals in his free time. Recently he made music video in stop motion using some of his wire creatures. Continue reading »
Actor Tom Lenk Recreates Celebrity Outfits Using Stuff He Finds At Home
Just because you’re not an A-list celebrity doesn’t mean you can’t look like one.
Former “Buffy the Vampire” star, Tom Lenk has taken to Instagram to prove just that… kind of. The 39-year-old actor and comedian, who played bad boy Andrew Wells in the teen drama, in the 10-plus years since wrapping “Buffy” has developed a new hobby, namely a photo series he’s titled “Lenk Lewks For Less.” Tom shares his spot-on-creations almost daily and keeps on proving that anyone can rock red carpet style. Continue reading »
Real Ice Carousel Made On A Frozen Lake Using A Chainsaw In Finland
Janne Käpylehto took a chainsaw to a frozen lake in southern Finland and carved out his own ice carousel! He cut a near-perfect 40-foot circle, and then used a solar-powered outboard boat motor to power the spinning circle of ice. Continue reading »
Artist Spends 9 Years Using FedEx To Ship Glass Boxes To Create Shattered Sculptures
If you’re wondering how much carriers care about the safety of your shipment, then you have to see this brilliant experiment by LA-based Walead Beshty. During a 9 year period, Beshty has been creating laminate glass objects which perfectly fit inside FedEx boxes and shipping them to various galleries and exhibitions in order to explore how works of art gather “fingerprints”. Continue reading »
Jogger Creates Festive Shapes Using GPS Running App
A keen jogger has used an activity-tracking app to create festive art while keeping fit by running in Christmas shapes. Owen Delaney has mapped out Father Christmas, a snowflake and a Christmas tree using running app Strava, which maps out shareable routes using GPS technology. Continue reading »
An Artist Brings Animals To Life Using Body Paint And Contorted Models
Gesine Marwedel/Barcroft Images
Using body paint and a woodland like location, Gesine appears to have created a model to look just like a red panda. At first glance, these images could be mistaken for portraits of wildlife in their natural habitat were created with paper and paint. However, they are actually the incredible works of illusion by talented body painter Gesine Marwedel, who paints models to creates realistic animals. Marwedel, from Dortmund, Germany has always been fascinated by the concept of transferring her designs to human bodies and her latest project features models posing in contorted positions. One image appears to show an elegant swan in a park pond, whilst another picture shows a mother penguin and its chick in a snowy landscape. Continue reading »
Asian Drivers Are Using Terrifying Reflective Decals On Rear Windows To Fight Against High-Beam Users
Some Chinese drivers are declaring war on tailgating vehicles with their high-beams on. The newest weapons in this road conflict are freakishly scary reflective decals, that are only visible when the driver behind activates his blinding headlamps. Continue reading »
This Organiser Will Reveal A Collection Of The Most Frequent Searches Made Using The Google Search
For each week of 2017, this personal organiser will reveal a collection of some of the most frequent searches made using the world’s most popular search engine. Often silly or surprising, these searches offer insight into other people’s lives, reflecting the concerns of our society. Continue reading »
Artist Transforms Herself Into Different Characters Using Only Makeup
Although you would be correct in assuming she made a pact with the many-faced god and that she has no name, her real identity is Florea Flavia, a Bucharest-based makeup artist. She does these amazing transformations using nothing but makeup. She spends at least a couple of hours on each piece and the results are stunning. She draws her inspiration from comic books, anime, video-games and anything in between. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Impressive Paintings By Using His Boxing Gloves
Photo by Antonio Calanni/AP Photo
When he creates art work, Omar Hassan doesn’t get out paint brushes. He gets out his boxing gloves. Hassan, a 29-year-old artist and boxer, has combined his two passions, with the goal to bring the disciplines closer. Hassan, born in Milan to an Italian mother and Egyptian father, creates the works by dipping his glove in paint, and punching the canvas stretched over cardboard to keep it from breaking. He calls the series “Breaking Through Milano.” His paintings sell from 8,000 to 40,000 euros, which he calls “a great satisfaction, but not the goal”. Continue reading »
Using Digital Editing, Designer Places Manhattan Buildings In Desolate Landscapes
United Nations headquarters (Photo by Anton Repponen/The Guardian)
Using digital editing, designer Anton Repponen places Manhattan buildings in desolate landscapes, “inviting viewers to see them as if for the first time”. Continue reading »
Thinner Beauty Is Using Photoshop To “Help” Plus-Size Women Lose Weight
Thinner Beauty endeavors to “help” plus-size women lose weight. It does this by offering Photoshopped images of what they could look like if they were thinner. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Impressive Portraits Using The Humble Kitchen Salt
Norway-based Croatian tattoo artist Dino Tomic creates beautiful drawings on large canvasses with salt, only to erase his works that takes hours, sometimes days to bring to life. Continue reading »
An Artist Has Created A Series Using Professional Make Up That Would React To The UV Light Of A Black Light
According to an artist Adriano Rodrigues: “For my final project for Photography, I created a series using professional make up that would react to the UV light of a black light. First off, I want to thank Sarah Luke for her patience as a model and Breeanna Nichols for her stellar work at applying professional grade make up on Sarah. This and formost was a group effort, we simply intended to make something that capured our imaginations and to shake up the concrete “boring” world. This was a one day process, took roughly 7 hours to create and photograph and an additional 6 hours of editing images. Nikon D600 was the DSLR used for this project and Adobe Photoshop.” Continue reading »
Malaysian Artist ‘Red’ Hong Yi Creates Jackie Chan Portrait Using Thousands Chopsticks
Hong Yi, also known by her nickname, ‘Red’, is an artist known for creating pieces using everyday, unconventional materials. After graduating with Master in Architecture from the University of Melbourne, Red moved to Shanghai for a career in architecture. She fell in love with the city’s chaotic charm, once home to her father and grandparents. Inspired by her surroundings and the range of affordable materials available from wholesale markets, it was here Red completed her first unconventional work, a portrait of Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei made entirely out of sunflower seeds. Continue reading »
3-Year-Old Little Girl Creates Paintings Of Galaxies Using Paint, Glitter And A Fork
Cassandra Gee is a 3-year-old little artist. She loves going to the beach, elephants, fairies and painting. On canvas she uses acrylic paint and manipulates it with a fork or a skewer, and then adds a touch of glitter (toddlers and glitter… need we say more?). And her paintings look like real galaxies! Continue reading »
