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Artist Paints Fantastic Dragons Onto Agate Stones To Create Beautiful Necklaces Multi-talented Russia-based artist Alvia Alcedo has been practicing the traditional fantasy style with her beautiful hand-painted agate necklaces and pendants. Alcedo uses oil paint to create miniature fantasy paintings of fantastic dragons on small agate stones (no bigger than 5.5 cm) and then finishes up the necklaces with glass pendants, beads and feathers. Along with her other works, such as fantasy drawings and miniature polymer sculptures, her necklaces are very popular on DeviantArt – her main public platform....

Artist Places Realistic Mannequins In Cities All Over The World To Mess With People (30 Pics) Mark Jenkins is an American artist who has come up with an artistic way to creep people out by placing realistic looking mannequins in cities all over the world. The artist calls these installations The Urban Theater . He arranges the mannequins in lifelike and provocative poses often making the viewer question reality....

Artist Spends Hours Painting Otherworldly Vehicles Modestas Malinauskas is a well known Lithuanian painter who is a real inspiration to me, so I want to share some of his paintings. Canvases created by Modestas are professional and painted in oil on canvas using a difficult and original technique. Modestas spends hundreds of hours smoking his pipe and perfecting his magic world in his cosy studio. Modestas Malinauskas Modestas Malinauskas Modestas Malinauskas...

Artist Turns His Morning Coffee Leftovers Into Beautiful Leaf Paintings If making coffee is an art, can making art out of coffee be considered meta-art? Ghidaq al-Nizar keeps painting on leaves with coffee. Dipping the brush in a cup of joe, he draws landscapes and animals and fantasy scenarios. Painting on leaves makes it unique – however, he also makes art on plates and paper. Basically, al-Nizar goes anywhere where coffee does....

Artist Turns National Geographic Pictures Into Adorable Illustrations Most of us love National Geographic photography – it’s always interesting to see exotic animals or places we may never get to visit. And it appears they inspire many people to not only travel but create art too. A Chinese illustrator going by the name of JN Crazy decided to do an interesting take on some of his favorite National Geographic photographs by turning them into colorful illustrations and they look like something straight out of a Disney movie....

Artist Uses Balloons To Make Daily Minimalist Scenes Balloons are great and you know it. At least Peechaya Burroughs knows it! Her tiny, minimalist compositions feature balloons in all sorts of whacky situations. Whether imitating water spray from a bottle (and scaring a balloon cat off picture) or standing in for trees, they’re playful and wonderful. “I have developed a special interest in photography,” Burroughs writes on her website. “My photographs mainly consist of things that I create or manipulate by hand....

Ballet Dancers Show Their Skills On The Streets Of Cuba Over the last year, photographer Omar Robles has spent most of his time capturing ballet dancers in rather unusual urban environments, with his latest project taking us to the streets of Cuba. “Their [ballet companies’] dancers are just some of the best dancers in the world,” says Robles. “Perhaps it is because movement and rhythm runs in their afro-caribbean blood, but most likely it is due to the Russian school of training which is part of their heritage....

Blind Woman Shares How People Described Colors To Her When She Was Young Have you ever though about how you would describe a color? You’d most likely try to think of a fruit or vegetable with a similar color and just go from there. But what if the person you’re describing the color to has never actually seen colors? That’s where the real challenge comes. Someone on Twitter recently pondered the question of how would one would describe colors to a blind person and after a bit of digging, found some interesting descriptions shared by a woman named Ashley....

Boston Home Inspection Insta Page Shares 20 Of The Craziest Violations They’ve Come Across If you have ever built a home or bought one, you may know that many rules and regulations must be followed during construction. Even when purchasing a home, the prospective buyer gets a home inspector brought in to make sure that everything is up to standard and meets the safety precautions. While one would imagine this may be a boring or tedious job, turns out it’s more like a detective or crime analyst’s job....

Butt It’s For A Good Cause: Cheeky Bus Ads Promote Colon Cancer Awareness Sitting down carries the risk of exposing one’s butt-crack to the world. However, this bus ad by Meredith’s Miracles and FCB ad agency suggests that you show your butt to at least one person: a doctor. You see, this is a clever ad that is meant to raise colon cancer awareness. It’s the second deadliest cancer, and over 130,000 Americans are diagnosed with it every year....

Cat Photographer Creates A Series Of Portraits With Funny, Grumpy, And Adorable Cats (20 Pics) Cats are fascinating beings who are capable of creating various human-like expressions. Thus, photographer Nils Jacobi has dedicated himself to capturing the best feline photos. His fun and creative portraits feature different types of cats being cute, derpy, goofy, mischievous, funny, and whatnot! The Germany-based photographer started taking photos in 2011 after he graduated in industrial design....

Chinese Have Built A 350ft Waterfall On A Skyscraper And It Looks Straight Out Of A Sci-Fi Movie A Chinese construction company called Guizhou Ludiya Property Management have recently created something that looks like it’s straight out of a sci-fi movie. The company built a 350ft tall waterfall on the side of a skyscraper. The waterfall is located in Guiyang, the capital of the Guizhou province in Southwest China. This giant requires 4 massive pumps to lift the water all the way up to the top and costs approximately $100 an hour to run....

CSS Puns Are The Highest Form Of Web Designer Humor NEEERDS! What will they do next?! How about making some programming language-based puns? Seijo George, a Melbourne-based web designer, created some clever puns and illustrations based on some he had seen created with the CSS language, which is used to make websites look pretty. The result is very neat: the minimalistic design and images make the tiny strings of code much easier and more fun to parse....

Dad Colors His Children’s Drawings To Connect With Them While He Travels Fred Giovannitti is what you could call a “Renaissance dad”: he’s an artist and an entrepreneur, he spends a third of the month doing tattoos in Vegas, he works on marine ecology projects… and to top it all off, he collaborates with his children to spruce up their drawings. The kids give him their drawings and Giovannitti spends his travelling time coloring them in....

Designercise: Creative Problem Solving though Professional Play New York based Design Agency, Disrupt Design is taking a unique approach to energizing creative problem solving with their new gamified innovation toolkit. They just launched a Kickstarter for Designercise, an active ideation toolkit for creative and flexible thinking, which combines techniques from design thinking with current discoveries from the fields of sociology, behavioural and cognitive sciences. Contributing to the growing movement of using gamification in professional settings, Designercise makes a case for offline ‘analog’ play that engages physicality and humor to stimulate creative problem solving, collaboration and ideation....

Dijo – food styling and photography of…..not food I have have been told that I must have been bored to conceptualize this project. Well, partly yes and no. Dijo (say dee-jo – is a Sepedi word for food). With the saying “children in Africa are starving”, I turned inward to get some sort of perspective. Yes, (not just in Africa) “visual” starvation is real! The mundane everyday has become invisible, God’s creativity has become a nuisance as Saturdays are relegated to trimming and sweeping away nature’s bounty into neat little piles for destruction....

Doctors Reveal 25 Shocking Things Discovered Inside The Human Body When it comes to strange medical cases, few people have seen it all like doctors. From bizarre foreign objects to unexplainable medical anomalies, they’ve encountered things that would make anyone’s jaw drop. Recently, someone on Reddit asked , “Doctors of Reddit, what was the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen in someone’s body?” The responses did not disappoint. Here are some of the strangest, funniest, and most disturbing answers shared by medical professionals....

Exploding Books, Incredible Resin Sculptures Stopped In Time Italian sculptor Annaluigia Boerettohas managed to freeze time in Liquidity , a series of one-of-a-kind resin sculptures that look like frozen watery explosions. The Venice-based artist also known as Annalù, captures that chaotic moment when her pieces seem to violently explode, which allows you to see through the chaos and find the fine details hidden inside. Stationary, yet full of life, her sculptures give a new perspective of how inanimate objects can also portray motion and action....

Extraordinary Mud Paintings Decorate An Entire Classroom To Bring Art Into Indian Village Children’s Lives Japanese artist Yusuke Asai used 8 different types of local mud, dirt, and dust to cover all the walls and the ceiling of a classroom of a village school in east India. The overwhelming murals with beautifully organic and tribal-like patterns and images were part of the continuing collaboration between the Niranja School in Bahar and the Japanese students that helped found it....

Flip Tales: Cute Notebook Animations Turn Names Into Animals If you want to see what kind of animal your name can be turned into, you may find a visualization on Flip Tales. The artist behind this website writes a name in capital letters and draws a sequence showing that name transforming into an animal of their choice. The artist works on a digital tablet and prints out the final product....