Urine Iron Man Wins Art Competition
The title is a little misleading, so to make things clear, we’re talking about the face of Iron Man made of real urine, in a toilet bowl. This unusual artwork was actually considered better than 600 other entries in a popular art competition. You don’t often get the chance to associate Iron Man with urine, […]
Chinese Family Turn Abandoned Toilet into Cozy Home
“There’s no place like home!”, I believe the saying goes, and this modest migrant family from China proves it applies even when home is an abandoned public toilet in the city of Shenyang. Zeng Lingjun was born in a small village, in the Jilin Province of Northeastern China. As a boy, he dreamed of one […]
Plot – A Stunning Cityscape Made of Carved Potatoes
Artist Peter Root spent three weeks carving 80 kilograms of potatoes into office buildings, homes and various other structures, using only a knife and a bicycle repair kit. His unique potato city model is called Plot. Although Plot was created in Istanbul, 33-year-old Peter Root says his creation wasn’t modeled on the Turkish city, but rather influenced […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #32
The Near Annihilation of the American Buffalo (Environmental Graffiti) Chefs Create Menu for Space Tourists (Techeye) Sheep-Shearing Course Helps Businessmen Relieve Stress (Youtube) Homeless Man Poses as Woman for 13 Years for Free Medical Care (Fox News) GPS System Leads Japanese Students into Oyster Point Bay (Bayside Bulletin) Awesome Photos from Inside Musical Instruments (Behance) […]
Mind-Boggling Hand-Painted Portraits Made of Hundreds of Smaller Portraits
Korean artist Kim Dong Yoo creates amazing portraits of various icons like Audrey Hepburn or Michael Jackson, made up of hundreds of smaller painted portraits that either support or contradict the main subject of the artwork. Over the years, we’ve featured some truly interesting celebrity portraits on Oddity Central, like Jason Mecier’s pill portraits, or […]
Vaportrim Makes Cupcakes Inhalable, Cuts Calories to Zero
Don’t you ever wish you could stuff your face with all kinds of delicious treats without feeling guilty about putting on weight? I know I have, and it seems now, thanks to some simple inhalers from a company called Vaportrim, we’ll be able to do just that. Are you familiar with electronic cigarettes? They are […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #31
Cupcake ATMs Bring Sweat Treats to the Streets of New York (NY Post) The Grinning Skeletons of Peru’s 1000-Year-Old Nazca Cemetery (Environmental Graffiti) England’s Guerrilla Tree Sculptor (Treehugger) World’s Most Expensive Watch Costs $5 Million (LA Times) Common Heart Disease Drug May Also Cure Racism (Orange News) Kim Jong-Il Lookalike Has Problems Getting Dates (The Sun) Woman […]
Innovative Artist Creates Beautiful Dust Paintings
Los Angeles-based artist Allison Cortson collects dust from her art-subjects’s homes and uses it to paint the background of their portraits. She started her series of “dusty” artworks, called Dust Paintings, several years ago, but she’s only just now getting the online exposure she so rightfully deserves. Dust paintings…Now here’s something you don’t see every day, […]
Artist Twists Aluminum Wire into Beautiful Tree Sculptures
I find it fascinating how some artists can turn rigid materials into works of art that seem almost organic. Case in point, Kevin Iris, a man who creates beautiful tree sculptures exclusively from aluminum wire. A self-proclaimed “treenut” Kevin Iris has been making incredibly detailed tree sculptures from aluminum wire for the last 23 years. […]
Really Hang-Out at Tokyo’s Hammock Cafe
Who needs chairs when you can just relax and have a cup of coffee or tea in a comfortable hammock, right? That was probably the idea behind Mahika Mano, a popular Tokyo venue, better known as the Hammock Cafe. Located in the Kichijoji district of Tokyo, a place renowned for its chill-out atmosphere, Mahika Mano fits […]
Sarah Harvey’s Eerily Realistic Underwater Images
Most people love taking photos of themselves underwater, but English artist Sarah Harvey isn’t like people. She likes to take things to a whole new level by using photos of herself underwater as reference for her incredibly realistic paintings. Most often than not, Sarah likes to be both the artist and the subject of her artworks. She […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #30
Incredible Animal Treehuggers (Environmental Graffiti) Polish Ghost-Hunter Plans Census to Monitor Vanishing Ghosts (Austrian Times) 14-Year-Old Builds Working LEGO Printer (Bit Rebels) Chinese Man Builds His Own Plane Out of Junk (Metro) World’s Oldest Vacuum Cleaner Still SUcks after 108 Years (Mirror) World of Warcraft Full Back Tattoo (Geekologie) Portrait Made from 15,000 Push Pins […]
The Secret Life of Ants, Shot by Andrey Pavlov
We’ve seen insects used as art protagonists before. Mike Libby turns them into steampunk hybrids, and Ubyka creates armed insect cyborgs, but I haven’t seen anything like what Andrey Pavlov does with ants. This is the touching story of a man who found comfort in studying and immortalizing hardworking ants performing their daily routines. Andrey Pavlov wasn’t […]
Cuban Sculptor Proves Tobacco Can Be Used for Better Things than Smoking and Chewing
Janio Nunez is a talented Cuban artist who has the gift of making incredible sculptures exclusively from tobacco leaves. He creates works of art both tiny and life-size that prove there are better things to do with tobacco than smoking it. Janio’s fascination with tobacco began as a little boy, watching his grandparents roll cigars […]
The Amazing Shadow Paintings of Rashad Alakbarov
Using various everyday objects and back light, Azerbaijani artist Rashad Alakbarov creates mind-blowing shadow paintings. It always amazes me what some people can achieve by using the simplest materials and their imagination. Rashad Alakbarov is definitely one of these incredible individuals; using common items like empty plastic bottles, metal pipes or simple pieces of plastic […]