Skilled Artist DRAWS Victorian Photographs with a Pencil
You could swear these old photos were taken decades ago, and have been stored away some place collecting dust, but in fact these tiny artworks are painstakingly drawn by Paul Chiappe, with a simple pencil. Mind blown yet? 28-year-old artist Paul Chiappe, from Edinburgh, Scotland, has been drawing with pencils ever since primary school, and throughout […]
Don’t Sneeze! Beautiful Dry Tea Illustrations by Andrew Gorkovenko
Moscow-based graphic designer Andrew Gorkovenko has recently created a series of awe-inspiring dry tea illustration, as part of a series of packaging designs for Triptea. I’d definitely buy some, if only for the box artworks. Talk about an unusual and refreshing art medium. There are a few thing I imagined could be done with dry […]
Ukrainian Car Enthusiast Turns His Mitsubishi Eclipse into a Lamborghini Reventon
Alexander Stupkin, a 30-year-old car enthusiast from Odessa, Ukraine, has spent the last two years turning his old Mitsubishi Eclipse into a gorgeous Lamborghini Reventon replica. It’s barely been two weeks since we posted an article about Wang Jian, the 28-year-old Chinese farmer who built his own Lamborghini Reventon from scrap, and now we have […]
Anime-Faced Chinese Model Will Freak You Out
Meet Tina Leopard, a Chinese blogger and model who earlier this year sparked controversy among Internet users after photos showing her extremely sharp chin and large anime-like eyes went viral on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. Apparently, there’s a new fashion trend sweeping across China – the anime look. The country’s most popular social […]
Artist Creates Gigantic Snow Artworks Using Only His Feet
They look like something aliens might have created, but the large-scale snow circles spread around the Les Arcs sky resort, in the French Alps, are actually the work of one man – British artist Simon Beck. Using an orienteering compass, measuring tape and a pair of snowshoes, 54-year-old Simon Beck turns the hills and frozen […]
Guy Fakes His Own Death to Make Girlfriend See Life Would Be Empty without Him
In what may very well be the worst wedding proposal in history, a Russian man hired a whole film crew to stage a deadly car crash and see if the woman he wanted to marry really loved him to death. Most people already know, or at least think they know the person they want to […]
The Breathtaking Glass Temple of Johor Bahru – A Shining Wonder of Malaysia
In the city of Johor Bahru, close to Malaysia’s southern border with Singapore, lies one of the world’s most amazing pieces of architecture – a Hindu Temple covered almost entirely with glass. It’s called the Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman temple, and it’s one of the must see attractions of Malaysia. Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman is one of the oldest […]
CW Roelle’s Wondrous Metal Wire Artworks
CW Roelle is often referred to as the “Wire Magician” and looking at his breathtakingly intricate wire artworks, it’s easy to see why. The Rhode Island-based artist somehow manages to twist black metal wire into detailed masterpieces that resemble pencil drawings. The first time CW Roelle used wire as an art medium was in 1997, […]
Real-Life Shrek and Fiona Have Their Very Own Fairy Tale Castle
A Ukrainian couple from the village of Akimova, in the Zaporozhye region have spent 10 years building their own fairy tale castle. And because of their resemblance to the popular animation characters, they are known as Shrek and Fiona by the locals. Anatoly and Larisa Galitsky love children, so one day they decided to built a […]
Intricate Doodle Portraits Are Made with a Single Continuous Line
Pierre Emmanuel Godet is a French self-taught artist living in Barcelona who creates incredible artworks with a single continuous line. And as if that wasn’t impressive enough, the little doodles that make up his artworks tell the tale of the subjects he’s trying to depict. On his blog, Pierre Emmanuel Godet says he used to […]
Artist Creates Beautiful Mosaics from Discarded New York Metro Cards
German artist Nina Boesch uses discarded New York Metro Cards to create beautiful mosaics inspired by the Big Apple. The resourceful collage master reckons she has used about 30,000 metro cards, so far. To most New-Yorkers, the iconic metro card becomes just a useless piece of plastic after they’ve gotten on the subway, but for […]
French Designer Makes Gold-Plated Computers Fit for Royalty
George Chirita, a Romanian electronics engineer turned computer designer makes luxury computers and accessories for the world’s rich and famous. His creations are inspired by royalty like French King Louis XVI and are decorated with expensive materials like gold, marble or lapis lazuli. Prices start at $21,000. If you think your dusty old machine just isn’t worthy […]
Twin Brothers Take Doodle Art to the Next Level
Sergei and Vyacheslav Savelyv are two twin brothers with an extraordinary talent for doodling. They uses colored pens and pencils to draw what seem like endless circular doodles and create incredibly detailed portraits of world famous icons. Sergei and Vyacheslav Savelyv have so far displayed their wonderful artworks only in their home town of Petrozavodsk, in […]
Man Spends Two Years Building Exact Titanic Replica from Scrap
In what can only be described as a titanic effort, boat-model enthusiast Jason King, from England, has spent two and a half years building an exact 1:100 scale replica of the Titanic. The 40-year-old used all kinds of scrap materials, from old clockworks to broken VCRs and managed to finish his masterpiece on April 15, […]
Ukrainian Artist Creates Unique Paintings with Fish Bones Scales and Eyes
Elena Zhuravskaya, an amateur artist from Kiev, Ukraine, uses fish bones, scales and even their boiled eyes to assemble amazing paintings on velvet canvases. Although her work is virtually unknown outside her native country, I hope this article changes that. I found photos of Elena’s works on a wonderful-yet-obscure blog called Viola, and after doing some […]