Tag: Art
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Make Your Own Fidget Spinner
The newest viral sensation around the world is the ‘fidget spinner’. We’ve had enough of seeing kids fork out their pocket money for cheap fidget spinners, so here’s how you can make your very own, DIY style. Get the kids around and have some fun! Credits: Matthew Charles (Pure Imagination) and Realmoms Instructions: Bike chain…
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Amazing Staircases Beautified by Artists From Around the World
Although we’re used to seeing street art appear on the walls and buildings of our cities, more recently artists have started colouring the stairs that we walk on every day. When painted, public stair art is a stunning and unexpected canvas for portraits, geometric patterns, and intricate mosaics. Each rise of a step is one fraction…
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Statue of a Girl Stares Down the Famous ‘Charging Bull’ on Wall St
Earlier this week, a small bronze statue of a girl, designed by artist Kristen Visbel, appeared overnight in the path of the bull statue. The young girl stares down the famous Wall Street charging bull in an act of defiance. It’s intended to highlight the gender disparity of senior level roles at US financial firms; 85…
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LEGO Tape Lets You Turn Anything Into A Lego Surface!
Imagine being able to build around corners, on curved surfaces, or even onto the sides of that sailing ship you’ve just spent hours building. You forgot to engineer a point of attachment for that sweet dinosaur-smashing cannon? No problem. Snip a length of Nimuno Loops, stick it on the hull, mount your cannon and be on yarr…
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10 Women Who Changed the World We Live In
It’s surprising to us that in this day and age we still need to have an ‘official’ day to recognise and champion women and women’s rights. Nevertheless, International Women’s Day has come and gone for another year and gave us the opportunity to reflect upon how women have changed the world we live in. Throughout history, many…
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Street Artist Rone Creates TOP SECRET Exhibition
Last week in an unidentified and soon-to-be-demolished building in Melbourne, Australia, a secret street art exhibition titled “The Alpha Project” was held by renowned street artist RONE to a lucky few. As the invitation read: “I have been working on a huge top secret project over the last few months. In fact it is still a secret…
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The Top Photos in the 2017 Birth Photography Competition (NSFW)
The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers (IAPBP) has just announced the finalists and winners for the 2017 competition, which celebrates “the beauty of birth and the skill of birth photographers”. The contest is split into three categories: labor, delivery, and postpartum. When we presented you with the 2016 finalists, it was one of our most viewed blogs for 2016. Many…
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The Art of Food: Pics That Show How Food Looks Before It’s Harvested
When walking through our local supermarket, we often stop and think “I wonder how food got invented?” We’re like: who thought about extracting the seeds from coffee fruit, dry it, toast it, ground it, and then make delicious coffee out of it? That’s crazy. And delicious. Now you’re thinking about that, have you ever wondered what your fav fruit…
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Man Tags Over Tags in a Hilarious Attempt to Make Them Legible
Tagging is one form of art that splits most art aficionados – is it art or just someone’s poor attempt at making a visual statement. Whatever your view, it is generally always the case that tagging is illegible. In an attempt to clear up this problem, French artist Mathieu Tremblin paints over tags to make…
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Amazing See-Through Prosthetics Made with 3D Printed Titanium
We especially love when art and design combine to create a functional item that can be used for something other than pure aesthetics. That’s why we were taken aback when we came across industrial designer William Root‘s innovative new take on prosthetic engineering with this futuristic structure of geometrically intersecting metal strands. Called Exo, Root’s prosthetic concept…