Tag: fun
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His Wife Left Him & Took Everything Except His Dog
What do you get when you put together an illustrator, his Bull Terrier, and some white walls? An imaginative series of portraits starring the adorable pup, of course! Rafael Mantesso has turned to Instagram to document his doodling adventures with his dog, Jimmy Choo (named by his ex-wife, who was a stylist). After his divorce, Mantesso was…
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A 365 Miniature Painting a Day For a Year Project by Lorraine Loots
Postcards for Ants is an ongoing painting project by Cape Town artist Lorraine Loots who has been creating a miniature painting every single day since January 1, 2013. The artist works with paint brushes, pencils, and bare eyes to render superbly detailed paintings scarcely larger than a small coin. After the first year, Loots relaunched the…
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Google Street View Images That Will Have You Asking “What The?”
As you’re probably aware, over the past few years Google Maps cars have been driving around the streets of the world taking photographs to create Google Street View. Thousands upon thousands of photos have been taken, documenting the world around us. Some of them contain more than just street scenery, however, as the below list hilariously illustrates……
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An Edible CAKE Library That Will Stop You in Your Tracks!
Kathy Knaus has recently been discovered for her creative capabilities with cakes. She designs everything from sugary sushi rolls to a scaled-down fashion studio, but her most exceptional work is her multi-tiered library cake. In this fabulous creation, Knaus has hand-designed the interior section of a public library. The miniature display features a tiny table,…
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Artist Creates Fun Miniature Dioramas Every Day For 4 Years
When children let their imagination run wild, even their food can become a plaything (much to their parents’ dismay). Tanaka Tatsuya, an artist in Japan, never lost that wild imagination – he has created a playful tiny diorama every day for the past 4 years out of food and other everyday items and put them…
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Adorable Tiny Animals Embroidered By Chloe Giordano
Chloe Giordano, a talented illustrator and embroiderer in Oxford, England, creates tiny embroidered animals that are full of texture and life. What’s striking about her embroidered pieces, besides her painstaking attention to these animals’ rich colors, is their size. Most of these animals are not much larger than a thimble, which puts the amazing detail…
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These aren’t real animals! Wildlife Painted in Layers of Resin by Keng Lye
With the exception of the repurposed containers, almost every aspect of these artworks by Singapore-based artist Keng Lye (previously) has been rendered in acrylic paint, carefully applied within layers of clear resin. A fish in a plastic bag, a tin can of tadpoles swirling under a frog on a lilypad, and even a completely convincing betta constructed…
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Yummy Edible Chocolate LEGOs by Akihiro Mizuuchi!
Illustrator and designer Akihiro Mizuuchi designed a modular system for creating edible chocolate LEGO bricks. Chocolate is first poured into precisely designed moulds that after cooling can be popped out and used as regular LEGOs. It’s hard to determine exactly how functional they are, it seems like he had success in building a number of…
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Redditor Makes Statues Take Selfies By Cleverly Positioning His Camera
On a recent visit to the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, one Reddit user had the clever idea of photographing the museum’s collection of plaster Greco-Roman statues to make it look as though they’ve taken a series of statue selfies. The “models” in these selfies are plaster copies of original statues in the Vatican museum.…
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The Most Perfectly Timed Photos That Will Make You Smile
One of our most visited Friday Funnies posts of all time gave you a collection of perfectly timed photos (see HERE), so as we haven’t done one for a while we searched the interwebs to find a new collection for you. So grab a skinny latte, mocha, chai latte, green tea or whatever other beverage…