Tag: Art
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Don Felder From The Eagles Plays “Hotel California” at the Met Museum
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is filled with masterpieces by giants like Picasso and Rembrandt. This week, Don Felder's Gibson double-necked guitar will join them. It's the instrument Felder has used for 40 years to play "Hotel California," the masterpiece he co-wrote for The Eagles. Of all the tools for making music, the guitar…
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Three Large Crocheted Urchins Decorated Singapore For The iLight Marina Bay Festival
As part of the i Light Marina Bay Festival in Singapore, Choi+Shine Architects have designed The Urchins, which were created in response to the festivals theme of biomimicry and sustainability. The three large Urchins were designed to interact with natural light during the day, and glow when illuminated at night. Viewers can enter the Urchins and…
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These Spectacular Night Sky Petunias Look Like They Hold the Galaxy in Their Petals
In recent years, there's been a big trend in the gardening world to purchase plants that are multi purpose (eg: grafted fruit trees that fruit several different types of fruit on the same tree) or downright beautiful. One such example of this latter category is the Night Sky Petunia, which has an iridescent purple bloom…
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Photographer Creates Series of Hilariously Adorable Goldendoodles
What happens when you mix the good-natured personality of a golden retriever and the luscious curls of a poodle? You get a goldendoodle! This adorable mix is a relatively new designer breed, first introduced to America in the 1990s. As a mix they are not officially registered as a breed of their own, but as…
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Listen To This 230 Foot Organ That Uses The Sea To Make Haunting Music In Croatia
In a mesmerizing collaboration between mankind and the elements, this 230-foot sea-organ in Croatia harnesses the energy of the winds and waters of the Adriatic sea to create random but soothing and harmonized notes. The sea-organ, or “morske orgulje” as it’s know in Croatian, was designed by Croatian architect Nikola Basic and opened to the…
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30 Thrilling Instagram Shots That Conquered National Geographic
Nature is always spectacular but in the photos selected by National Geographic, we see nature from another level. Launching the #natgeo100contest hashtag, the famous magazine with 100 million subscribers collected Instagram’s most beautiful photos from its followers around the world. We’ve brought together 30 memorable images for you that were hand-picked by National Geographic. Scroll…
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This Tattoo Artist Can’t Draw And That’s Precisely Why Her Clients Choose Her
When you decide to get a tattoo, choosing the right artist is nearly as important as picking the design and spot. If someone is to ink you, they better have the experience and skill required to produce something nothing short of amazing, right? After all, this is going to be on your body forever. Well,…
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Artist Creates A Painting Series of Melting Masterpieces
In a world where a lot of contemporary art is the same, multidisciplinary artist Alper Dostal has come up with something pretty different. While at the same time being the same! Alper has developed series of excruciatingly realistic, 3D visualizations sees famous paintings—including Edvard Munch’s The Scream and Van Gogh’s Starry Night — turn into melting masterpieces. …
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This 30-Year-Old Just Discovered How Ridiculous The Imperial System Is, And Can’t Believe Not Everyone Is Using The Metric System
Every time US citizens dare to complain about their weather, people who live outside the states usually mock them for their use of Fahrenheit, since pretty much no one else knows exactly what temperature it is they’re describing. But the temperature scale is not the only measurement that has people around the globe confused. Why?…
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Photographer Shows The Contrast Between The Two Worlds That We Currently Live In By Combining Photos
Hello, I'm Uğur and I live in Istanbul, Turkey. I'm trying to show the important issues the world is facing, such as social injustice and war, by putting two pictures side-by-side within a single frame. By doing this, I want to demonstrate the contrasts between the two different worlds we live in. I started my…