Tag: Fido
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Macro Photography of a Little-Known Poodle Moth That Looks Like a Fairy
We all know that nature gives us some of the most weird and wonderful flora and fauna. However this little guy – known as the mysterious Venezuelan Poodle Moth – may take the cake as one of the most unusual. Looking like a Pokemon/Furby/Fairy mix, this creature was first discovered in 2009 by zoologist Arthur Anker of…
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Realistic Goldfish Painted Using Layers of Watercolor and Resin
Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori never ceases to amaze us with what he can do with layers of resin and watercolor paint. He returns to Joshua Liner Gallery this week for his second solo show, Goldfish Salvation. Since we last featured Riusuke, he has become internationally known for his depiction of aquatic life painted with acrylic within layers of resin, most frequently the…
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Artist Draws an Amazing Blue Octopus Using Discarded Ballpoint Pens
Artist Ray Cincin has created a giant, beautifully illustrated bright blue Octopus from donated ballpoint pens that would have been otherwise discarded. The illustration, per Cincin, is his own “interpretation of an Ernst Von Haeckel octopus lithograph” and took him over a year to complete: “This drawing was in progress for over a year. A week here, a few days there, up…
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Artist Creates Puns So Terrible They’re Pun-ishable
When is a pun is a pun is a pun? That’s what illustrator Monika asks herself every day, in her ongoing series where she draws cute illustrations to accompany terrible puns that will make your eyes roll. Some of them strictly aren’t puns, but they’re nonetheless fun. See what we did there? You can follow Monika’s funny…
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A chicken lover knits jumpers for her hens
Meet Nicola and her mother Ann from Cornwall, England. In one of the more touching stories we’ve encountered recently, these ladies rescue retired battery chickens by giving them a new home. They own around 60 hens and half of them are former battery chickens, who, unfortunately, having spent all their lives in cages, are not able to acclimatize…
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Artist Folds a New Paper Crane to Describe Each Day of the Year
Some people like to have a coffee everyday. Some people like to go for a run everyday. Well artist Cristian Mariancius is a little different. Following a bit of a quarter life crisis in 2014, he decided to create an origami paper crane every day as a unique personal journal. According to Cristian, “As a…
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Stunning Photography Documents the Macro Details of Colorful Hummingbirds
Photographer Chris Morgan loves Hummingbirds and photography. However as Hummingbirds are notorious for flapping their wings so incredibly fast that they create an audible hum and appear as a blur of feathers right before your eyes, they can be incredibly difficult to capture using photography. Not to be deterred, during a trip to Costa Rica, the…
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LEGO Creates Slippers to End 66 Years of Stepping on LEGO Pain!
Let’s face it, unless you’ve lived under a rock all your life, you are well aware of the searing pain associated with standing on a piece of LEGO. Fortunately, there is now a way to protect yourself from these domestic minefields: LEGO, working together with French advertising agency Brand Station, has invented anti-LEGO slippers! It…
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A Man Plays Smooth Criminal on a Barrel Organ in a Wood Pile
Running the biggest art sales and blog site in the world, we get sent A LOT of content from artists all around the globe who ask us to share their work to our millions of followers. Sometimes, something truly amazing drops into our inbox which simply stops us in our tracks. This is one such item…
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Mother Illustrates Her Everyday Pregnancy Problems
We all know that being an expecting mother isn’t easy, but it doesn’t mean you can’t look at it with humor. Line Severinsen of Kos og Kaos (Cuddles and Chaos) comics illustrates what to expect while expecting. Drinking alcohol? Gone! Shaving, picking up stuff, and putting on shoes? Heroic struggles! These and many more adventure await…