La Pourcailhade – Becoming a Pig in France
La Pourcailhade is a festival dedicated to one of the most popularly eaten animal around the world, the pig. I’d like to mention that the Festival isn’t dedicated to pork as much as it is to the pig. There’s the usual “eat the most… to win” contest and a few barbecues go on but they’re far […]
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi – India’s Hugging Saint
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi is a spiritual leader of a different kind. She doesn’t preach, she doesn’t ride around in a massive bullet proof Mercedes, she doesn’t sit atop a mountain and she’s really ruining the business for everybody else as she allows commoners to touch her. In fact, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi is such a spiritual person […]
Artist Uses Thousands of Letters to Create Detailed Images
Erin Smith is a young Australian artist who deconstructs entire passages of text and uses the thousands of individual letters to create beautiful detailed artworks. The 29-year-old from Queensland moved to Melbourne a few years back, to study graphic design, and has recently moved back to her home state. It turned out this wasn’t the right […]
Soccer Moms Take on Cheerleading for Their Sons
You all know the soccer mom; it is a dominant sort of individual in the suburbs and easily noticeable at any PTA meeting or sporting day of any school. This stands true pretty much everywhere, except St. Ignace, Michigan where soccer moms have managed to do something genuinely surprising. Instead of sitting around yelling at […]
Design Duo Create Mind-Blowing Thread and Nail Portraits
Pamela Campagna and husband Thomas Scheiderbauer create intricate thread and nail portraits based on old family photographs. It’s amazing how someone can recreate organic shapes so well from thousands of angles created with nails and thread. Designers Pamela Campagna and Thomas Scheiderbauer take up to a month to work on each of their complicated artworks, […]