Category: Random
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50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World
UPDATE! This post has been so popular that we’ve searched the web and posted another, even better-rer, 40 Clever Life Hacks which you can see HERE and HERE! Life hacks are little ways to make our lives easier. These low-budget tips and tricks can help you organize and de-clutter space; prolong and preserve your products; or teach…
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Jason Moad – Creating contradiction in reality
We’re stoked to see more of Jason Moad’s work back on artFido. Jason is an extremely well respected artist based in Melbourne, Australia and has previously sold art on the site. His work is recognizeable for its sharp detail and interesting juxtapositions of natural and man-made beauty. “As a realist painter I deal in contradiction.…
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36 More Perfectly Timed Photos
Last time we asked you to send in the best “perfectly timed photos” you’ve taken during your photography career or seen on the Internet. Thank you to everyone who emailed and posted their pictures in our comment section! As we said before, you may be the best photographer in the world, but sometimes all it takes…
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Morning Dew on a Beautiful Lady Beetle
One of the most popular blogs we have ever posted featured macro photos of dew-covered insects by David Chambo which you can see HERE. It didn’t take much therefore to share this amazing dew-soaked photo of a lady beetle by German artist Jens Kolk. You can check more of their work out at WORDPRESS and via…
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artFido’s featured artist – Bijan Soltani
artFido’s featured artist for this month is Bijan Soltani. Born in Kerman/Iran in 1986, Bijan now lives in Perth, Australia, working full time as an architecture visualiser and Revit modeler, and part time as a character/environment designer & animator. In his spare time he manages to put together some amazingly complex and striking pieces of art…
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Torafu’s Haunted Art Gallery for Kids at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art
In an attempt to better engage the youngest visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Torafu Architects created a special art gallery just for kids called Haunted House. On entering the exhibition a few familiar artworks appear hung in frames around a large white cube, but something is clearly amiss as everything appears to be moving. The…
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Melbourne’s Famous Street Art Lane Covered in Blue Paint in the Name of Art?
As we’ve previously written HERE, street art in Melbourne, Australia, has come a long way since the days of “zero tolerance” where street artists were considered vandals and fines and arrests for perpetrators were commonplace. As Melbourne’s street art culture has evolved and street art has become a major tourist attraction for the city, however,…
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Hot Dogs or Legs? Tumblr Blog Parodies the Internet’s Most Overused Selfie
Hot Dog Legs is a Tumblr blog featuring photos of people showing off their legs, but they occasionally switch it up by replacing the legs with hot dogs. The blog will have you continuously asking yourself, “Are they hot dogs or legs?” So which of the below shots do you think are hot dogs or legs???…
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The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever
By Internet standards, a perfectly timed photo occurs when two of the following three conditions are met: 1. Perfect Place 2. Perfect Time 3. Perfect Angle Sometimes the holy trinity of perfectness is achieved and you get an Internet classic like so many of the photos below. There are countless galleries of these images floating around. We tried our…
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An Illegal Mountain Constructed Atop a 26-Story Residential Building in China
While most property and homeowners might be lucky to erect a small fence, add a new wall, or plant a few trees without applying for a permit or checking local zoning laws, things in Bejing are apparently quite different. For the last six years an eccentric doctor built a sprawling mountain villa on the roof…