Turkish Artist Recreates Iconic Movie Scenes Using Hundreds of Thousands of Tiny Colored Dots
Seen from afar, the works of Turkish artist Çağatay Odabaş look like large-scale printed movie posters, but as viewers approach them to take a closer look, they discover that they are actually made up of hundreds of thousands of tiny hand-drawn circles. 37-year-old Odabaş says that his art is largely influenced by his two most favorite activities growing […]
Russian Illustrator Turns Filthy Cars in Moscow into Mobile Works of Art
Nikita Golubev, aka ProBoyNick, is a talented illustrator from Moscow, Russia, who experiments with a variety of mediums, the most interesting of which is definitely dirt-covered cars in the Russian capital. Proving that one man’s filthy car is another’s canvas, Golubev unleashes his artistic talents on dirt-covered cars he finds around Moscow, beautifying them with detailed […]
German Artist Manipulates Plant Roots to Grow in Intricate Visually-Striking Patterns
Inspired by Charles and Francis Darwin’s theory on plant intelligence, German artist Diana Scherer managed to successfully coerce the roots of various plants to grow in specific patterns. The results of her work are simply breathtaking. In his book, The Power of Movements of Plants, Charles Darwin argued that while plants are not capable of moving […]
Artist Spends Hundreds of Hours Creating Photorealistic Pencil Drawings
Arinze Stanley is a talented young Nigerian artist whose works often leave people scratching their heads and asking themselves if they’re looking at a pencil drawing or a high-definition black and white photograph. Yes, his drawing skills are that good! Arinze’s interest in art, and drawing in particular, was sparked at a young age, primarily […]
The Amazing Story of an Indian Man Who Cycled to Europe for Love
On January 22, 1977, 24-year-old P.K. Mahanandia set out on a four-month bicycle ride from Delhi, India, to Boras, Sweden, to be with the woman he knew was his soulmate. Their amazing love story became the subject of a best-selling book by Swedish author Per J. Andersson. Mahanandia met Charlotte Von Schedvin in 1975, completely by chance. He was […]
Swedish Artist Creates Incredibly Realistic Drawings with Thousands of Tiny Dots
23-year-old Julia Koceva has taken the internet by storm with her impressive drawings created using an old technique known as stippling – creating pattern and applying varying degrees of solidity or shading to it by using small dots. A criminologist by day, Koceva spends her nights working on her amazing drawings. She takes between 40 and 100 hours […]
Ukrainian Pensioner Turns Apartment Building Staircase into Awe-Inspiring 17th Century Chateau
Vladimir Chaika, a pensioner from the Ukrainian city of Kiev, spent 15 years turning the staircase of his Communist era apartment building into an artistic masterpiece reminiscent of 17th and 18th century chateaus. Vladimir says that he had always been fascinated by the interior design style of 1600s and 1700s castles and estates, and having […]
This Artist’s Kisses Are Literally a Work of Art
Toronto-based artist Alexis Fraser, a.k.a. Lipstick Lex, is giving the phrase “makeup artist” a whole new meaning. She creates incredibly detailed portraits by kissing the canvas and leaving lipstick prints in just the right places. Fraser specializes in oil painting, but has also mastered a unique art form that she calls “kiss print pointilism”, which has […]
Chinese Barber Uses Leftover hair to Create Awe-Inspiring Artworks
Wang Xiaojiu, a 31-year-old barber from Jilin city, China, doesn’t simply sweep shorn hair off the floor of his hair salon and dump it in the trash. At least not before painstakingly arranging it to create highly detailed works of art. Seen from a far, Wang’s masterpieces look drawn with a pencil or charcoal, but […]
Self-Taught Tattoo Artist Creates Photo-Like Realistic Masterpieces on Human Skin
New Zealand-based tattoo artist Steve Butcher specializes in hyper-realistic tattoos that look like they’ve been printed on the skin instead of hand inked with a tattoo gun. Working out of Matt Jordan’s Ship Shape Tattoo studio, in West Auckland, Butcher is one of the most in demand tattoo artists at conventions all around the world, and looking […]
Multi-Talented Artist Creates Incredibly Detailed Artworks with Kitchen Salt
Croatian artist Dino Tomic usually works with conventional materials like pencils and paper, but his latest project has him spreading kitchen salt on a black background to create insanely detailed portraits and Indian mandalas. The Norway-based salt wizard, who works as an art teacher and tattoo artist, starts off with a large black canvas and uses […]
This Photo of a Potato Sold for over $1 Million
If you thought spending money on painted firewood logs was ridiculous, you’re not going to be able to wrap your head around this: a man in Paris recently spent a whopping €1,000,000 (over $1 million) on a photograph of a potato, making it one of the top 20 most expensive photos ever sold! To be […]
Would You Spend the Night at This Creepy Clown Motel?
If you’re looking for the ultimate test of courage, spending a night at the creepy Clown Motel of Tonomah, in the middle of the Nevada Desert might just qualify as a worthy challenge. Not only is the place filled with grinning clowns, but there is also an abandoned cemetery located literally right next to the motel. […]
Alleged Cancer Sufferer Wanting to Experience Wedding but Not Leave Widow Behind Marries a Love Doll
An unidentified Chinese man’s wedding pictures recently went viral because of his unusual bride – a life-size plastic love doll! The ‘bride’ was apparently treated to a make-up artist, a hair stylist, and even given a selection of dresses to pose in, to make her look like a real girl. She’s seen in a splendid […]
Chinese Man Quits Job to Work on Awe-Inspiring 500,000-Toothpick Painting
38-year-old Liu Xuedong discovered his artistic side quite late in life, during a serious mid-life crisis. He wasn’t happy with his job as a security guard in China’s Jilin Province, but instead of whining about it, he taught himself how to create art with toothpicks. Inspired by hundreds of how-to videos online, he quit his job and […]