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Captivating Black & White Photography of Elegant Dancers Caught in Motion
Ukrainien photographer Vadim Stein has released a stunning photo series of dancers in motion. The powerful images consist of solid, unadorned backgrounds and a stark, black-and-white aesthetic set on a dramatic stage and place all focus on the featured figures as they theatrically twist, bend, and contort themselves into seemingly impossible positions. Scroll down to…
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The Art of Drinking: Check Out These Creepy-Cool Wine Decanters
French designer Etienne Meneau’s hand-blown wine decanters go way beyond the basic function of aerating your vino — they’re sculptural pieces of art. Made from borosilicate (a low-melting-grade glass), the twisted, sinewy vessels in Meneau’s “Strange Carafes” series resemble tree branches, veins and even hearts (even more when they’re filled with red wine). Each carafe…
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An Eccentric Cookbook by Salvador Dalí Is Being Reissued for the First Time in Over 40 Years
Like eccentric food? Then Dali has a cookbook for you! Published only once in 1973, Les Diners de Gala was a dream fulfilled for surrealist artist Salvador Dali who claimed at the age of 6 that he wanted to be a chef. The bizarro cookbook pairs 136 recipes over 12 chapters (the 10th of which…
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Hilarious Comics That Capture A Crazy Cat Lady’s Life With Her Two Cheeky Cats
Vernessa Himmler is an illustrator and sand-artist based in Hamburg, Germany. Since early 2013 she has worked as a freelance illustrator and one of her recent illustration projects is a series of comics that show people the hilarious and crazy life of being a cat owner. Vernessa began creating cat comics on Instagram to share…
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As Gun Related Violence Rears It’s Ugly Head Again, People Try To Put Pro-Gun Activists In Their Place Using Humor and Sarcasm
It’s becoming an all too familiar pattern in the U.S. at the moment. A shooting occurs, this is followed by lots of debate about gun control, then a few day pass, then everyone goes back to ‘normal’. Except of course for the people affected by the shooting. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have…
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This Bulldog Is So Photogenic He Got Stopped on The Street to Model For A Local Police Dog Calendar
As far as dogs go, Mister Bentley, a 6-year-old, English Bulldog from Vancouver, is a pretty good looker. Hell, he’s a top dog amongst all dogs. So much so that one day when Mister Bentley and his hooman were out for a walk, Mister Bentley was invited to make his model debut in the annual…
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Artist Uses Tightly Rolled Newspapers to Create Incredibly Detailed Animal Sculptures
Remember the paper creations you used to make as a kid? They were probably limited to paper planes and some simple origami. Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama has taken paper art to a whole other level by creating textured sculptures of animals using a technique involving rolled strips of wet newspaper. The compact application of…
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Spectacular Photos Taken Inside Music Instruments By A Romanian Photographer
Adrian Borda is an artist (surrealist painter) and photographer from Reghin, Romania. Inspired by an old print campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic, Borda managed to take a fascinating series of photos from the insides of old instruments like a cello and contrabass. To achieve these shots, Borda fit a Sony NEX-6 camera equipped with a…
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Stunning Tattoos Inspired by the Majestic Beauty of Architecture
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you will have noticed that tattoos are making a strong comeback to popular culture. Some of the most popular are tattoos inspired by Gothic architecture and modernism. For instance, Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Guggenheim Museum in New York has inspired several tattoos, showing how a single building…
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Japanese Sculptor Turns Old Skateboards Into Amazing Skateboard Sculptures
Japanese skateboarder and self-taught sculptor Haroshi has creatively combined his two passions by creating striking and stylish pop-culture images out of the wood of trashed skateboards. The unique appearance of his sculptures is all thanks to the composition of the skateboards he uses, which are created from multiple layers of processed wood. These layers are…