Tag: Art
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Designer Crochets Seafood So Well You Can Almost Taste It
Knitwear designer Kate Jenkins loves to keep busy and push herself to grow and be better every day. So when she realised she was getting to cozy with her career, she started looking for new ways to express her love for wool, textile, and color. “I have always crocheted since being taught as a small…
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Man Seamlessly Photoshops Himself into His Old Childhood Photos
Ever wanted to go back in time and hang out with your younger self? While looking through some old family photos, photographer Conor Nickerson wondered what it would it look like if tried to photoshop himself today into them. He gathered all the old hats and t-shirts that he could find and did his best…
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Foreign Student Hospitalized In China Gets Note From Artistic Nurse Who Doesn’t Speak English, And The Comments Are Hilarious
‘Lost in translation’ language mix-ups and misunderstandings can make for hilarious travel anecdotes – but not when they happen at a hospital. An international student was hospitalized in China and fell under the care of a nurse that didn’t speak English. Understanding the importance of getting the proper medical information across to her patient, the…
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Artist Shows Us How to Make Your Kid a Cardboard Knight in Armor
Don’t throw away your cardboard boxes just yet. Warren King shared this amazing process on Flickr of fashioning a full suit of cardboard armor for his 6-year-old son. With creativity and ingenuity, King created each body part out of smaller cardboard cutout pieces creating arms, legs, a breastplate and a helmet. His 15th-century inspiration required…
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Father Turns His 6-Year-Old Son’s Drawings Into Reality
Dom and his dad have the art thing worked out. Dom is six and he, as most of the kids, likes to draw. He creates his little masterpieces, and when he’s done, his dad then recreates their real-world counterparts with a dose of digital magic and a little bit of humor. From lions, lemurs and…
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Museum in Amsterdam Features Street Art From Around The World
A new art museum is making big waves in Amsterdam. Called the Modern Contemporary Museum Amsterdam – or Moco Museum for short – Moco is a museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art. It is housed in a beautiful villa from the early 1900’s, designed by the Dutch architect Eduard Cuypers, located in the middle of…
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Life-Size Crochet Skeletons That Are So Intricate, The Stomach Even Has Half-Digested Food In It
If you’re an artist, there are so many mediums to have fun with. So when Shanell Papp from Lethbridge, Canada decided to explore the human body she picked a method that excited her just as much as the theme. Crochet. [zombify_post]
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35 Of The Funniest Memes That Mock The ‘10 Year Challenge’
The #10YearChallenge that has been doing the rounds lately had a pretty simple premise – show a picture of yourself 10 years ago compared with a picture of yourself today to see the difference. And although it inspired people to share hilarious throwbacks of themselves, it also inspired some equally, if not funnier, memes. We’ve…
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Japanese Artist Turns Found Stones Into Animals You Can Hold in the Palm of Your Hand
To me, stones are not simple materials or canvases for painting pictures on. Among all those numerous stones on a river bank, one stone, looking like an animal, catches my eye. When I find a stone, I feel that stone has found me too. Stones have their own intentions, and I consider my encounters with…
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Japanese Artist Illustrates The Typical Life Of His Pet Hamster
Japanese artist Gotte loves their pet hamster Sukeroku so much that they decided to focus an entire series of light-hearted watercolor paintings on him. What’s most charming about these works is that it depicts Sukeroku going about a typical day in its life, participating in activities that are inherently ‘human’. From fixing a meal to making…