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This is What the Average Person Looks Like in Each Country

The website faceresearch.org allows you to participate in short online psychology experiments looking at the traits people find attractive in faces and voices. They just released a fascinating study which aligns many pictures of individuals from every country and created composite images of what the average face would look like. It’s a complicated process that isn’t 100%...
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Paintings That Will Make You Question Everything Wrong in This World

Pawel Kuczynski is a Polish artist who specialises in images that make you think hard about the world we live in. While some of these may be hard to decipher, the message in all of them should be all too clear. These are some seriously intelligent and thought provoking works of art. And to mix...
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Artist Creates Horror Stories That Will Terrify You Without Saying A Single Word

We featured Malaysian artist Darkbox last week (see HERE) and you loved it so much that we thought we’d give you some more! As you will see when you scroll down, each of these dark and creepy comics has a frightening surprise at the end, with the added twist of no dialogue. Scroll down below...
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Photographer Captures the Diverse Range of Body Types of Olympic Athletes

As we’re well aware, women and men come in all shapes and sizes. This saying has never been so apparent than in New York photographer Howard Schatz’s latest series of photographs, which documents the amazing diversity of body types of USA Olympic athletes. Short and tall, muscular and slim, big and small – almost all body...
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Student Shares Images From His Former Christian College Art Book To Show How Censorship Has Changed

Art students at Pensacola Christian College are, according to the college’s website, “equipped to share Christ through the visual arts, music, or dramatic performance.” Fair enough. A rather niche area of study, but each to their own, right? [zombify_post]
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An Illustrated Periodic Table Helps Show You How Elements Are Part of Everyday Life

If you struggled through Science Class like we did, one of your biggest problems was understanding the periodic table. Created to give an order to chemical elements according to their atomic number, chemical properties, and electron configurations, the scheme has been in use since the mid-1800s. And now, the table has gotten an update to...
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Art Through the Eyes and Minds of People With Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is an intense and unforgiving mental disorder whose symptoms can include everything from abnormal social behaviors, to hearing voices, and not knowing what’s real. It often accompanies other, less severe mental conditions like depression and anxiety. Needless to say, the sum of these disorders can be hard to deal with. 50 percent of those diagnosed with...
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Girl From Belgium ‘Escapes’ to Ethiopia to Spend a Week With the Surma Tribe

Photographer and Travel blogger Marisa Papen recently wanted to experience a new culture. Something radically different from her cosy life in the heart of Belgium. So along with photographer Jesse Walker, Marisa caught a plane to the Omo Valley in Ethiopia and spent a week living with the Surma Tribe. Marisa tried to integrate herself...
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Using the empty beaches as a huge canvas with the only help of a rake

I’m a 42 old french artist living in Biarritz, where I practice an uncommon art , by definition land art, but also what I call “beach art”, a bit compared to street art which is part of my influences. Using a rake, I draw at low tide huge frescos on the beach.It is a way for...
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Artist Hilariously Illustrates The Differences Between Different Countries And Languages

Traveling is the perfect medium for experiencing different cultures complete with all sorts of art, music, crafts, and traditions. But visiting other countries is usually not just all roses. With that idea in mind, artist Malachi Ray Rempen decided to share his traveling experience and situations in the form of fun comics dubbed "Itchy Feet...
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A Vagina From the 19th Century Sparks French Lawsuit Against Facebook

A 149-year-old vagina is at the center of a legal dispute involving France, Facebook, and online censorship. If you’ve been an avid follower of artFido’s arty posts, you’ll recall that we posted an article mid last year about Luxembourgian artist Deborah de Roberti who transformed Gustave Courbet’s famous painting, l’Origine du Monde, into performance, by revealing her own...
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A Sickly-Sweet Photoshoot Featuring Nude Models Covered in Honey

In his sticky new photo series, LA photographer Blake Little covers his subject in honey and then captures the results. Although it doesn’t look like the most comfortable photoshoot ever, the pictures produced from the series are rather impressive, with the gooey, dribbling honey cascading to the floor and elongating the subjects body parts. You...
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20 Modern Remakes Of Famous Paintings

You’re probably familiar with a lot of these famous Western art masterpieces, but probably not like this! It started when booooom.com partnered with Adobe to create the Remake project, which asked art students to recreate classic paintings into something else using photography. Here’s our favourite 20 of the remakes, including a couple of extras that we found...

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This is What the Average Person Looks Like in Each Country

Paintings That Will Make You Question Everything Wrong in This World

Artist Creates Horror Stories That Will Terrify You Without Saying A Single Word

Photographer Captures the Diverse Range of Body Types of Olympic Athletes

Student Shares Images From His Former Christian College Art Book To Show How Censorship Has Changed

An Illustrated Periodic Table Helps Show You How Elements Are Part of Everyday Life

Art Through the Eyes and Minds of People With Schizophrenia

Girl From Belgium ‘Escapes’ to Ethiopia to Spend a Week With the Surma Tribe

Using the empty beaches as a huge canvas with the only help of a rake

Artist Hilariously Illustrates The Differences Between Different Countries And Languages

A Vagina From the 19th Century Sparks French Lawsuit Against Facebook

A Sickly-Sweet Photoshoot Featuring Nude Models Covered in Honey

20 Modern Remakes Of Famous Paintings

I Combine Thousands Of Photos To Create One Image Of A Mineral

Sports Illustrated Makes History By Featuring A Model Wearing A Burkini And Hijab

Italian Photographer Captures The Magical Beauty of The Forest From The Bottom Looking Up

Victims Who Were Told That Their Clothing Got Them Sexually Assaulted Display What They Were Wearing

Designer Creates Indoor Fake Tree For A Cat, And The Master Approves Of It