Coolest Finds of the Week #29
17 Spectacular Pictures of Siberia’s Altai Mountains (Environmental Graffiti) Couple Makes Lovely Art Out of Beach’s Plastic Trash (Laughing Squid) Write a Bike – Conceptual Bikes Made Incorporate Names (Behance Network) Wold’s Shortest Man Measures 55cm (Metro.co.uk) Slovaks to Name Bridge After Chuck Norris, making It Indestructible (AFP) Supermanning Is the New Planking (YouTube) White English Teacher […]
16-Year-Old Girl Is a Real-Life Barbie
Everyone meet Dakota (at least I think that’s her real name), she’s a 16-year-old girl who goes by KotaKoti and looks a lot like a Barbie doll. Recently, photos of her have gone viral on several Asia and Arabic social sites because of her incredible resemblance to Barbie. I stumbled upon some photos of KotaKoti […]
Seo Young Deok’s Bicycle Chain Sculptures Are Off the Chain
You’ve probably sculptures made from bicycle chains, but I bet they’re nothing like the ones created by South Korean artist, Seo Young Deok. The incredible ‘works of Seo Young Deok are clearly inspired by the shapes of the human body, but artists have been sculpting masterpieces based on our natural curves for hundreds of years. […]
Renowned Artist Creates Jesus Portrait from 24,790 Push Pins
World renowned artist Rob Surette has recently completed a mind-blowing portrait of Jesus Christ made out of 24,790 colored push pins. The amazing work of art measures 5.5 feet x 4 feet, and took the artist six months to finish. Rob Surette has been fascinated by pointillism ever since he discovered the art of Georges Seurat, who invented […]
Mind-Blowing Portrait Created from Thousands of Coffee Stains
Just weeks after she took the Internet by storm with her incredible portrait of Yao Ming, created only with a basketball and red paint, Malaysian artist Hong Yi strikes again, this time with a realistic rendition of Taiwanese singer Jay Chou made with coffee stains. The young artist begins her unusual creative process by taking […]
Ukrainian Artist Creates Fantastic Religious Icons from Millions of Knots
Using a special knot weaving technique called macrame, Ukrainian artist Vladimir Denshchikov creates mind-blowing religious icons made almost entirely of linen thread. Born on July 1, 1952 in Kiev, Vladimir Denshchikov graduated the Kiev Theater University and went on to become and actor. He worked his way up to director and artistic director of the Simferopol Crimea Maxim Gorky Academic […]
Artist Makes Stunning Sculptures from Shattered CDs
Instead of throwing away old CDs, like most of us do, Sean Avery transforms them into incredible sculptures he classifies as sustainable art. Sure, you’ve seen CDs used as decorations before, but I assure you, they’re nothing like what this man makes. Pieces of shattered CDs are pretty hard to work with when you’re trying […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #28
Sand Art -Giant’s Footprints Spotted on Beach (Daily Mail) Woman Pulls 2 Jeeps with Hair (Orange) World’s 7 Most Impressive Tank Graveyards (Environmental Graffiti) Most Innovative Yacht of 2011 Sinks (Powerboat-World) Food on My Dog Blog (Tumblr) Man Balances 23 Chairs on Teeth (Mirror.co.uk) Chinese Restaurant Serves Sheep Placenta AIDS Soup (Asia Obscura) St. Kitts […]
World’s Hottest Vodka Rates 100,000 on the Scoville Scale
The Naga Jolokia chilli is dangerously hot and can cause serious damage if ingested raw, but that didn’t stop a spirits company from mixing 18 kilograms of the fiery peppers with vodka, and creating one of the hottest drinks known to man – the Naga Chilli Vodka. The chilli used in the making of this […]
Mind-Blowing Animal Artworks Painted with Heat
Self-taught artist Julie Bender is a master of pyrography – the art of drawing with heat. She combines this artistic talent with her love for animals and nature to create incredibly detailed sepia works of art. Pyrography, the art of burning or scorching a natural surface like wood or leather with a heated tip or wire […]
Russian Tattoo Artist Has His Pet Cat Tattooed
Timur, a 24-year-old tattoo artist from Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, caused a lot of controversy after he posted photos and a video of him tattooing his pet cat, a hairless Sphynx, on the Internet. Apparently, Timur wanted his beloved cat, Coco, to have a similar tattoo as the one he had done on his chest. […]
Hauntingly Realistic Human Figures Carved by Real-Life Geppetto
Whether painted or sculpted, I’ve always found hyper-realist artworks fascinating, but Bruno Walpoth’s masterpieces are particularly impressive simply because they are carved from large pieces of wood. I’m not saying working with other materials to create realistic shapes is easy, but turning something as rigid as wood into works of art that seem almost alive takes something truly special. […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #27
10 Incredible Airplane Graveyards (Environmental Graffiti) Eagle Dad Makes 10-Year-Old Boy Run through Snow Naked (CNN) Judge Sentences Man to Date with His Wife (MSN) Identical Twins Are Totally Different (The Sun) Dad Shoots Daughter’s Laptop to Teach Her a Lesson (Bit Rebels) Sewage Plant Offers Valentine’s Day Tours (Huffington Post) Teenagers Rob Hotel to […]
The Bottled Smoke Artworks of Jim Dingilian
Jim Dingilian is one of those rare artists who stretch the limits of creativity with their amazing creations. He uses candle smoke to paint picture-perfect images on the inside of empty bottles. “The miniature scenes I depict are of locations on the edge of suburbia which seem mysterious or even slightly menacing despite their commonplace […]
Japan’s New Creepy Anti-Aging Mouthpiece
Throughout the years, we’ve seen some pretty genius inventions from Japan, but every once in a while they come up with something so strange, so bizarre, you can’t help but ask yourself “what were they thinking?” The new Face Slimmer anti-aging mouthpiece is one of those things… The so-called face Slimmer was launched in Japan, late […]