Category: Random
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The Sweetest Photoshoot Featuring Models Covered in Honey
As there was no cane sugar in the Old World, honey was highly valued for its sweetness, but for other qualities as well. It can function as a medicine as well as a preservative, for under the right conditions does not spoil. Honey sealed in ancient tombs can remain safe to eat to this day.…
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The Winners of the 2018 Birth Photography Contest Show How Amazing Mother’s Are
When we previously featured the finalists and winners in the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers for 2016 (see here) and 2017 (see here), it created quite a stir. A lot of you thought the images were beautiful, while a lot of you thought it was just too much. If you were in the latter…
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Artist Keeps Illustrating Everyday Life With His Wife In Comics
We just love these comics by Israeli artist Yehuda Adi Devir! As a follow-on from our previous posts here and here, depicting he and his wife Maya's adorable relationship, we have more cute and oh-so-relatable snapshots of the domestic bliss this talented couple share. “My inspiration is my every day life with my wife,” Yehuda…
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Trees with “Crown Shyness” Deliberately Avoid Touching Each Other
You learn something new everyday. From Robert Macfarlane’s fascinating Twitter account we learned about crown shyness, a phenomenon where the leaves and branches of individual trees don’t touch those of other trees, forming gaps in the canopy. According to Wikipedia, there are several possible causes of this phenomenon, including the inhibition of the spread of…
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The Creepiest Pumpkin Carvings Just in Time For Halloween
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba4MJfkDQoo With Halloween fast approaching, we thought we’d look into pumpkin carving. We didn’t have to look too far before we discovered Ray and the team at Villafane Studios. Wow. These guys know how to carve a pumpkin! Some of the most amazing carvings we’ve ever seen. There were too many to show here, but…
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The Cutest Illustrations Of Idioms’ Literal Meanings
Keren Rosen has been enamored with drawing since she was 8 years old. She even built wings and tried to fly, but that didn’t pan out well. Therefore, Rosen went to Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel, where she majored in Industrial Design. After the graduation, she joined Fabrica, the Benetton Research…
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Sixteen-Year-Old Artist Wins National Art Competition with Masterful Hyper-Realistic Pencil Portrait
Amazing 16-year-old artist Shania McDonagh just won the annual Texaco Children’s Art Competition in Ireland with “Coleman,” her impressive hyperrealistic pencil drawing of an old man. The girl drew the portrait from a photograph she found in the Vanishing Ireland book. It took McDonagh around one month to create the portrait, which won her the…
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Is This The Best Way to Recognize the Artists of Famous Paintings?
If you haven’t studied art history, it can sometimes be a bit confronting walking around a museum or art gallery and trying to get your head around who painted what. So with this in mind, here’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek guide as to how YOU can easily work out which artist painted what. Though some…
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Taking Valentine’s Day To The Street In Brooklyn
A lot happens during Valentine’s Day. People fall in love. People break up. Hook up. Play up and Stay up. It’s a fun celebration that makes hearts flutter all over the world. So, while your inboxes and newsfeeds are filling up with traditional messages of love and images of strange little people with wings, we…
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The Best Perfectly Timed Photographs Ever
It’s okay. You can blink. Life is full of jaw-dropping, inspiring, and unbelievable moments. We’ve posted a few of these in blogs in the past (see HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE) and they’ve been extremely popular. So here is another one! What image is your favourite? And if you’re craving more and want your very own…