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Dec 6, 2013 • Portugese street artist Alexandre Farto, aka WHILS, is determined to change the way people perceive the beauty of our cities. In his series, called Scratching the Surface, WHILS uses his exquisite carving technique to reveal the multi-layered faces of our cities, which are the products of constant construction and deconstruction.
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Dec 5, 2013 • Ayako Kanda and Mayuka Hayashi, art students from Japan, showed us a new way of looking into human intimacy. The artists used CT scan and x-ray machine to make unusual images of 4 couples embracing each other in different fashions. The final imagery creates an ambivalent experience for the viewer as the beautifully intimate act...
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Dec 5, 2013 • Israeli makeup artist Tal Peleg is on a mission to broaden our traditional understanding of this peculiar art form. Peleg, aka Scarlet Moon, has a creative artistic approach to eye makeup and creates extraordinary themed pictures around the eyes using only basic makeup products such as eyeliner and multiple eyeshadow colours. The artist uses various...
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Dec 4, 2013 • Korean artist Jee Young Lee's beautiful dreamscapes are living proof that you don't need Photoshop or even a large studio space to create amazing surreal images. She creates all of these scenes by hand in a room that is only 3.6 x 4.1 x 2.4 meters and then inserts herself into the pictures. Some of...
This picture of famous actor isn't a photo (although it is based on one) - it's a finger-drawn portrait done on an iPad. Using the Procreate app on an iPad Air, talented UK-based illustrator and oil painter Kyle Lambert spent over 200 hours and made over 285,000 brushstrokes to create this hyperrealistic portrait. Lambert has...
These seemingly-otherworldly structures are actually buried many meters below ground in the Turda Salt Mines in Romania. The structures are part of a comprehensive salt mining history museum that also features a number of other underground recreational buildings. Those with certain types of allergies also like to visit the mines because, while cool and humid,...
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Dec 2, 2013 • Latvia-based artist Alex Konahin creates extraordinarily ornate, detailed and beautiful drawings like these using just pencils, pens and india ink. His distinctive and unmistakable style uses classic floral twists and other detailed design elements to create visually rich drawings. Besides these great drawings of insects, he has created equally impressive drawings of other subjects as...
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Nov 29, 2013 • In the desert near Joshua Tree, California, there stands a 70-year-old homestead cabin that isn't all there. The ethereal cabin is part of an outdoor art installation by artist Phillip K. Smith III called Lucid Homestead. To give the cabin its striking appearance, the artist replaced strips of the wall with mirrors and the windows...
When redditor Tatsputin goes on his monthly 3-hour business flights, his two children give him their drawings to color in. The results combine the unrestrained creativity of a child with the beautiful illustration of an artistically talented adult.
French photographer Sophie Gamand has created an adorable photo series depicting dogs suffering through (or perhaps secretly enjoying) baths. The cute pups' faces are full of character and, in some cases, recognizable emotions (like annoyance, misery or vengefulness). Gamand said the photos are “about grooming and the way we alter our dogs’ appearance to fit...
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Nov 26, 2013 • Muscovite photographer Alexander Khokhlov (whose previous black-and-white series we've written about) has created yet another series of striking makeup portraits, and this time, it's in color. In 2D Or Not 2D, Khokhlov tries to convince us that the models' stunningly-decorated faces are 2D works of art.
Mikael Genberg, creator of the famous floating Utter Inn (Otter Inn) in Sweden, has created another amazing floating hotel room. The Pemba Island floating hotel room, part of the Manta Resort in Zanzibar, is a floating hotel room with an underwater bedroom and a unique view. For $1,500 (couples) or $900 (single) a night, visitors...
