10 Coolest Finds of the Week #13
15 Bizarrely Precarious Planking Positions (Environmental Graffiti) Meet the Real Spice Girl (Daily Mail) Thorntons Breaks Biggest Chocolate Bar World Record (Metro) P Diddy Publishes Book That Celebrates the Female Behind (Dailymotion) Mum Teaches 2-Year-Old to Smoke (Orange) The World’s Richest Beggar (New York Times) Seven Churches Devoured by Lava (Environmental Graffiti) Housewives Set-up Adoption […]
Young Vietnamese Woman Mysteriously Ages Overnight
Nguyen Thi Phuong is only 26, but judging by her wrinkled and saggy skin, you could easily mistake her for a 70-year-old. The young woman from Vietnam suffered an allergic reaction in 2008, and after taking some prescribed medication the skin her face, hands and body started to wrinkle and become saggy, giving her the […]
The Dissected Flowers of Fong Qi Wei
Singaporean photographer Fong Qi Wei likes to pick apart flowers by hand and rearrange them on blank a canvas, creating incredible works of art. In a series entitled “Exploded Flowers” 33-year-old Fong Qi Wei disassembles popular flowers like the rose, lotus or orchid, carefully rearranges their components on a blank white canvas and then takes photos of […]
Woman Commissions 9-Foot-Tall Harry Potter Cat House
A Harry Potter fan from Houston, Texas asked a local woodworker to build her a 9-foot-tall cat house inspired by The Burrow, the Weasley family’s famous home. Laura Marshall is a big fan of Harry Potter and three months ago she got this crazy idea of building a a real-life Burrow for her cats, right […]
Mind-Boggling Spiral Illustrations Are Made of a Single Line
In one of the most impressive advertising ideas I have ever seen, Singapore-based art director and designer Chan Hwee Chong uses a single long line to create spiral recreations of famous artworks. In an inspired advertising campaign for Faber-Castell, designer Chan Hwee Chong demonstrates his unbelievable talent by creating spiral illustrations inspired by some of […]