Tag: artist
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Festival in Tokyo Celebrates the Art of Japanese Manhole Covers
Japan is a country with a unique history and culture, beautiful landscapes, great architecture, bullet trains, neon signs, vending machines and fascinating toilets… they even say that it’s the place where you can find absolutely anything you want. And while your head wonders around this incredible island, make sure you look down because you might…
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Amazing Luminous Glass “Jellyfish” Sculptures Drip with Sinuous Tentacles
We’re in love with everything when it comes to artist Daniela Forti. She lives and works in Chianti, Tuscany where she produces these fantastic artworks of dripped glass. She refers to the pieces as “Jellyfish” because of their undulating tentacles that are formed by hand through a melted glass fusion process. Each piece appears to…
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The Most Awkward Metal Band Photos That Are So Bad They’re Good
Rock stars are supposed to be charismatic. The gig requires being able to a) get up in front of people and perform convincingly, b) create compelling songs that evoke emotions, c) have a sense of style your fans would want to emulate, and, of course, d) be sexy. That’s a lot of requirements, and some…
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A 19-Year-Old Student Hides Spy Camera In His Clothing To Take Secret Street Photos In The 1890s
This story is not something you would expect to hear happened in the 1890s. Today maybe, but not 130 years ago. But that's because Carl Størmer (1872-1957) wasn't your normal guy. Far from it, in fact. Carl enjoyed a hobby that was very, very unusual at the time. He walked around Oslo, Norway in the…
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This Tiny Artist Creates Miniature Paintings of Tiny Animals That Capture Every Cute Detail
Irene Malakhova identifies herself as a tiny artist. Not because of her stature, but because of the size of her paintings. She has been working for a couple of years now on a series she calls #tinycreaturesdays. They are awfully cute little things, and we would love to hang them on our walls. Her subjects…
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Artist Paints Beautiful Murals on Homes Destroyed by Californian Wildfires
An artist, moved by what was left behind of his friend's home after it was ravaged by the California wildfires last year, used the site as a canvas. Shane Grammer turned the charred remains of a fireplace at Shane Edwards' Paradise residence into a beautiful black-and-white mural of a woman. "When my buddy Shane posted…
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Artist Creates Pics Of Celebrities Hanging Out With Their Younger Selves To Show How Ageing Changes Even The Stars
Ever wanted to go back in time and tell your younger self something? To give them advice on how to do certain things or act in a certain way? Dutch artist Ard Gelinck hasn't invented the time machine just yet, but his brilliantly photoshopped images of iconic people and their younger versions might just be…
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Salvador Dalí’s Rare ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Illustrations Are Finally Reissued
On canvas and paper, Salvador Dalí created apparently nonsensical realities that nevertheless operated according to logic all their own. In writing, Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, did the very same. It thus only makes sense, despite their differences in nationality and sensibility as well as their barely overlapping life spans, that their…
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Amazing Photography Taken At The Right Time In The Right Place
If you’re like us, you love the beauty of photography when the stars align and you get that perfectly timed photo. Forget all the countless hours and thousands of photos you had to take in order to get there! The internet abounds with funny pictures shared by people who have captured images with perfect timing…
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Stunning 19th-Century Sculpture Cloaked in a “Translucent” Marble Veil
Sculpture is among the oldest of the arts. Even before painting cave walls, early humans fashioned shapes from stone. From these beginnings, artifacts have evolved to their current complexity. Among the commonly available stones, only marble has a slight translucency i.e. subsurface scattering that is comparable to that of human skin. It is this translucency…