Category: Art
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Nature Contained in Resin Makes For Some Spectacular Handcrafted Jewelry
Nothing can stop you in your tracks as promptly as an amazing piece of jewelry. If it is hand made, even better. This happened to us when we came across the original creations by Sarah Smith who designs jewelry that allows anyone to carry a bit of nature with them at all times. Sarah produces each piece…
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The 100 Most Amazing Photographs Ever Taken Without Using Photoshop
As we know, nature and humankind are both great artists, and when they join forces, amazing masterpieces can be produced. We’ve seen how clever artists utilise image altering technology such as Photoshop to ‘improve’ a captured image, but like most things there is no substitute for the real thing. As such, we’ve collected the 100 most amazing…
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Artist Creates Eerily Beautiful GIFs Even Though He’s Legally Blind
Artist George Redhawk has put together a series of stunning GIFs, perfectly looped and beautifully haunting. Even more incredible is that Redhawk is legally blind. “With the use of visual aides and computer softwares that aide the visually impaired, [Redhawk] began to explore the realm of photo manipulation with a desire to show the world as…
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A 1400 Year Old Chinese Gingko Tree Creates a Spectacular Sea of Leaves
As the Northern Hemisphere transitions into Winter and the Southern Hemisphere transitions into Summer, we’re left with the beautiful season known as Fall (in some countries) or Autumn (in others). No matter what you call it, this season produces some of the most spectacular flora going around. Once such example is this amazing ginkgo tree located within the walls…
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Macro Photography of a Little-Known Poodle Moth That Looks Like a Fairy
We all know that nature gives us some of the most weird and wonderful flora and fauna. However this little guy – known as the mysterious Venezuelan Poodle Moth – may take the cake as one of the most unusual. Looking like a Pokemon/Furby/Fairy mix, this creature was first discovered in 2009 by zoologist Arthur Anker of…
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Realistic Goldfish Painted Using Layers of Watercolor and Resin
Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori never ceases to amaze us with what he can do with layers of resin and watercolor paint. He returns to Joshua Liner Gallery this week for his second solo show, Goldfish Salvation. Since we last featured Riusuke, he has become internationally known for his depiction of aquatic life painted with acrylic within layers of resin, most frequently the…
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Artist Draws an Amazing Blue Octopus Using Discarded Ballpoint Pens
Artist Ray Cincin has created a giant, beautifully illustrated bright blue Octopus from donated ballpoint pens that would have been otherwise discarded. The illustration, per Cincin, is his own “interpretation of an Ernst Von Haeckel octopus lithograph” and took him over a year to complete: “This drawing was in progress for over a year. A week here, a few days there, up…
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Artist Creates Puns So Terrible They’re Pun-ishable
When is a pun is a pun is a pun? That’s what illustrator Monika asks herself every day, in her ongoing series where she draws cute illustrations to accompany terrible puns that will make your eyes roll. Some of them strictly aren’t puns, but they’re nonetheless fun. See what we did there? You can follow Monika’s funny…
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A chicken lover knits jumpers for her hens
Meet Nicola and her mother Ann from Cornwall, England. In one of the more touching stories we’ve encountered recently, these ladies rescue retired battery chickens by giving them a new home. They own around 60 hens and half of them are former battery chickens, who, unfortunately, having spent all their lives in cages, are not able to acclimatize…
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Photographer Imagines What Darth Vader Would Do if He Was Just Like the Rest of Us
“We never think of movie characters like they were regular people. And they are. With different life goals, obviously, but they’re just people.” That was photographer Pawel Kadysz‘s initial thoughts when he embarked on his latest photo series called Daily Life of Darth Vader. In it, Kadysz shows that the infamous Sith Lord performs many of…