Phaal Curry Challenge – Curry with a Side of Pain
Brick Lane Curry House, a restaurant in New York city, challenges people to try and down a whole bowl of the world’s hottest curry, in their now famous Phaal Curry Challenge. Phaal curry is reputed as the world’s spiciest curry, and the restaurant’s website describes it as an excruciatingly hot curry, more pain and sweat […]
Quilling – The Art of Turning Paper Strips into Intricate Artworks
Quilling has been around for hundreds of years, but it’s still as impressive and popular now as it was during the Renaissance. The art of quilling first became popular during the Renaissance, when nuns and monks would use it to roll gold-gilded paper and decorate religious objects, as an alternative to the expensive gold filigree. […]
50,000 Milk Cartons Make a Great Castle
Built back in May, during an event that took place in Granada, Spain, this recycled castle was made of 50,000 empty milk cartons. Designed by the students of the Facultad de Arquitectura de Granada (Granada’s Architectural College), the milk carton castle of Granada was built exclusively out of tens of thousands of empty milk cartons, […]
The Collage Paintings of Megan Coyle
Using only paper and magazine strips, artist Megan Coyle manages to create unique collages that look and feel like real paintings. Washington-based Megan Coyle is a college artist and designer who creates beautiful artworks with magazine strips. Using her experience as a painter and writing, Megan managed to “become a storyteller with images where I […]