Housing Estate N – An Eccentric World Built of Cardboard
“Abandoned Housing Estate Number N” is a unique miniature city, made entirely from corrugated cardboard. So far I’ve seen a city made of toothpicks, another one made of staples, but this is the first cardboard city, for me. Created by a Japanese artist whose name eludes me, Housing Estate Number N is an ever-growing project […]
The Matchstick Art of David Mach
Using tens of thousands of matchsticks, David Mach creates detailed models of animals, symbols or historical figures. 53-year-old David Mach, from Scotland, has a passion for art and matchsticks, so he decided to combine them and create unique masterpieces. Using a clay mold he creates a plastic or fiberglass model of whatever he wants to […]
Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Museum
Barney Smith, a former plumber, from Texas, has spent the last 30 years decorating toilet seats and setting up his unique toilet seat art museum. It all began over 30 years ago, when Barney Smith was looking for a mounting for a set of antlers. Considering his profession, he found a wooden toilet seat worked […]
The Rusty Creatures of Jurustic Park
Jurustic Park is the brainchild of Clyde and Nancy Wynia, a couple of artists who create unique creatures, out of various metals, and scatter them through their yard, for the world to see. This wondrous place was born in 1993, when Clyde decided to sculpt a giant iron bird, and hang it from one of […]
Australian Artist Builds His Very Own Hubble Telescope
Peter Hennessey, an artist fascinated with science and astronomy, has created a life-size model of the famous Hubble space telescope. Judging by the artworks featured on his official website, Peter Hennessey has a thing for satellites, Mars rovers and other NASA equipment, but his latest creation, a model of the Hubble telescope, is his most […]
The Incredible Dice Mosaics of Ari Krupnik
Ari Krupnik uses dice and various other materials to create intricate pixelated mosaics of celebrities and historical figures. A Software Engineer, in Silicon Valley, California, Krupnik says he uses dice as an art medium because they offer six different shades of gray, depending on which facet is up. He uses a computer to calculate the […]
Famous Artworks Made with Thousands of Thread Spools
Fascinated by art, science, technology, and the link between the three, Devorah Sperber uses thousands of spools of thread to recreate pixelated, inverted images of masterpieces, which look like colorful abstractions, from up close. You must be wondering why the New York based artist uses inverted images, in her art. As I said before, she […]
Trash Army Takes Over the World
Created by German artist H.A. Schult, the Trash People, or Schrottarmee, are human figures made of different kinds of trash. You probably didn’t know this, but there’s an army out there, hell-bent on conquering the world. Each year, it travels to a different location and makes its existence known to the world. But you mustn’t […]
Tanys Pullin Creates World’s Largest Cheese Sculpture
Tanys Pullin, a British chef, well versed in the art of cheese cakes, has broken the record for the world’s largest cheese sculpture. 46-year-old Tanys, who claims to be the Nigella Lawson of the cheese world, had to work her magic on a 600 kg piece of cheddar cheese, in a fridge. Although she enjoys […]
Ju Duoqi – The Queen of Vegetable Art
Using vegetables of all shapes and sizes, Chinese artist, Ju Duoqi, recreates famous masterpieces, like The Last Supper, or Mona Lisa. Ju Duoqi first started working with vegetables in the summer of 2006, when she spent two days peeling a few kilograms of peas, before stringing them on a wire and transforming them in a […]
The Wind-Powered Kinetic Sculptures of Theo Jansen
Called ‘Strandbeest’ (beach animals), the kinetic sculptures of Theo Jansen actually walk, using the power of the wind. A former physicist, Theo Jansen has used all of his knowledge to create a new strain of life, creatures made of artificial matter that are able to use the power of the elements to move, store this […]
Motherboard Stained Glass Window Is Fit for a Geek Church
Remember those cool Transformer stained glass windows we featured, a while back? Well, the idea of unusual stained glass seems to have caught on pretty well, as people are coming up with the most interesting ideas. The latest example is a stonemason, named Dan, who used some old motherboards, donated by a friend, to create […]
Embroidered Bread – The Latest Trend in Food Art
It may seem strange, but embroidered Wonder Bread can be used as regular paintings, as it can last for years. Catherine McEver is well known in the odd art world, particularly for her Wonder Bread creations. Her latest artworks are embroidered slices of Wonder Bread that look like famous paintings (Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’, for […]
The Adorable Adoptabots of Brian Marshall
Adoptabots are cute little sculptress, created by Delaware-based artist, Brian Marshall, using various discarded objects. Brian Marshall is a middle-school teacher, from Delaware, who creates these lovely Adoptabots, in his spare time. The fact that he’s not even a full-time artist makes his work even more impressive. Instead of leaving old kitchen utensils, cameras, and […]
The Unique Wood-Chip Sculptures of Sergei Bobkov
53-year-old Sergei Bobkov has patented a unique technique of creating amazing sculptures out of Siberian cedar wood-chips. “It’s not very interesting to do what others can. To create something out of nothing in a completely new way is far more inspiring”. This is how Sergei Bobkov explains the unique form of art that he created. […]