Tag: Art
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Photographer Discovers That There’s A Type Of Bee That Falls Asleep In Flowers And It’s As Cute As It Sounds
We need bees. They’re the world’s most important pollinator of food crops. In fact, it is estimated that one third of the food that we consume each day relies on pollination mainly by bees. But as much as we are used to seeing them buzzing with work, they need their beauty sleep as well. Recently,…
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Encouraging Facts To Give You Hope About The Future Of Notre Dame
Paris was burning quite literally on Monday after the attic of Notre-Dame cathedral caught on fire. Billowing Smoke and tall blazes were seen from around the city as citizens watched the famous landmark in horror. The fire is said to have spread from the attic, causing the cathedral’s spire, one of Paris’s most iconic architectural…
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Designer Creates 3D-Printed Press That Allows Anyone to Print Art From Home
Printmaking has been making a bit of a comeback in recent times, as it allows a contemporary artist the ability to achieve a traditional, embossed aesthetic. However, printing presses are expensive and extremely heavy, making them inaccessible to a lot of people. That’s why Martin Schneider is on a mission to make basic printmaking machinery…
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Reimagined “Game of Thrones” Characters All Played by Nicolas Cage
Who does the internet love more… Nicolas Cage or Game of Thrones? What about Nicolas Cage IN Game of Thrones?! Now you can have both as Redditor CarlosDanger100 has reimagined Games of Thrones’ iconic characters by Photoshopping their faces for that of the Internet’s favorite actor, Nicolas Cage, and the resulting collection is hilariously captivating.…
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Creative Artist Turns Unwanted Scrap Metal into Magnificent Bird Sculptures
Some people see a pile of junk and see a mess, while other people see art. The latter is the case for South Carolina-based upcycling artist Matt Wilson (aka Airtight Artwork), who is a talented craftsman that transforms scrap metal, drift wood, and found objects into magnificent bird sculptures that look like they could come…
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Artist Freezes Vintage Dresses into an Enchanting Bouquet of Icy Flowers
Bouquet by Nicole Dextras is a composition of 15 frozen garments reminiscent of a floral arrangement, however the beauty is intended to be both enchanting and foreboding. The alluring collection of Victorian dresses was created to appear more like Venus flytraps rather than to reference romance, and speaks to mythical man-eating trees described in science…
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Adorable “Leaf Sheep” Sea Slugs Look like Cartoon Lambs
It’s a sheep! It’s a cow! No, it’s Costasiella kuroshimae (or ‘Leaf Sheep’ for short). This adorable little sea slug, whose beady eyes and cute feelers make it look like a cartoon sheep, feeds on algae – just like the real thing! What’s fascinating about the tiny ‘leaf sheep,’ which can grow up to 5mm…
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Artist Restores Broken Vases Using Gold Thread
It’s the stuff of nightmares… accidentally knocking over your mum’s prized vase and watching it smash into a million pieces on the floor below. Well we’ve got a beautiful solution for you. Embroidery artist Charlotte Bailey will reconstruct your vase for you by sewing the fragmented porcelain back together, using patterned fabric and metallic thread. Her creations…
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Playful Paper Masks by Lobulo Studio for Barcelona’s Grec Festival
For the 2018 marketing of Barcelona’s long-running Grec Festival, which includes dance, theater, circus, and music, the London-based Lobulo Studio was tapped to create a series of unusual paper masks. Using the prompt “new species,” Lobulo explains on their website that they were “playing with the concept of new rare species that nobody has seen before” in order…
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Designer Documents Ugly Houses He Sees And They’re So Bad, It’s Hilarious
Thanks to designer Hannes Coudenys and, of course, the architects themselves, Belgium has become notorious for its quirky buildings. In 2012, Coudenys decided to begin documenting the peculiarities of Belgian architecture on an Instagram account called 'Ugly Belgian Houses,' and it has drawn the attention of architecture enthusiasts from all over the world. But really,…