Wisdom comes with age and experience. Sometimes the elderly will pass down a snippet or two for the young to mull over. It can be helpful but also incredibly frustrating trying to wrap your mind around a bite of knowledge that comes from another life view. If you can identify with the words they can [...]
These incredible paper pictures were cut by artist Bovey Lee from Hong Kong. Cutting art into rice paper has been a tradition in Chinese crafts. The cuts are made with 11 different sizes of knife.
These odd human sculptures were made by American artist Mark Jenkins. They look real, until you summon the courage for a closer inspection. Then they still look real, and you either run away or call the police.
Bulgarian artist Plamen Ignatov devoted six years of his life to meticulously construct this replica of the Rila Monastery, one of Bulgaria’s most important monuments. It was made with 6 million matches and other kinds of wood and gems.
There’s a farm known as “Fritzler’s Maze”. It’s a field of crops that changes into new images every year. Glen and Pam Fritzler operate the maze farm in LaSalle, Colorado, where they open it to visitors for 7 weeks each autumn. If you get lost you have to live on corn husks until you find [...]
These striking statues are not only impeccably crafted, they are also very big. The tallest in the world. They must have taken many people to complete. Now they stand with their heads in the clouds, watching over the world.
Temp tats are a way to express your creativity on your body without waking up 30 years later covered in tribal ink. These are some interesting ideas for tattoos, but at the end of the day they wash off and tomorrow can be spent with a whole new set of body art. A varying approach [...]
Everyone all around the world is getting ready to celebrate the New Year and Russia is no different. They send well wishes for 2012 with these intricately drawn postcards.
This incredible chess board and pieces were hand-carved and sculpted by a team of master craftsmen. Joseph Epstein (author of the project), Alexander Konyaev (sculptor), Svyatoslav Koshtelyanchuk (jewelry artist) and Vladimir Rusinov (wood carving) have made a beautiful work of art that makes chess more than a game. This is an adventure into the imagination. [...]
There’s something special about street art. It occupies a very fragile space in time. One day you might walk by a wall covered in landscapes of painted fantasy, and the next it could be a stark white. The artwork erased forever because of someone’s inability to recognize its value. To all the business and building [...]
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