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Delicate Leaf Bowls Made From Leaf Skeletons Bowls out of leaves? Doesn’t sound possible, but Japanese American artist Kay Sekimachi has made them a reality. Using the skeletal structure of a leaf, she added Kozo paper (a type of thin Japanese paper made from kozo trees), watercolor and Krylon coating to create these delicate, wafer-thin bowls. The materials used make it look extremely light, fragile, and natural. Just the sort of thing one would expect elves, fairies and sprites to use....

Disturbing Animal Sculptures Inspired By The Darkest Human Emotions Beth Cavener encases human emotions in forest animal forms. These sculpture are made from stoneware on various metal frames. Cavener creates these animals in forms all too human, to “embody the consequences of human fear, apathy, aggression, and misunderstanding” . She strips human psychological expression of context and shows them in uncanny detail. “I want to pry at those uncomfortable, awkward edges between animal and human....

Dozens of Websites Get Google Penalties over the Weekend for Breaking SEO Rules ​Google was on a roll over the weekend as the search giant issued many manual actions against websites for breaking its ​SEO rules. The penalty, which penalises websites for “unnatural outbound links,” was issued by the Google manual actions team. Many of the sites that received the penalty are those that were reportedly linking out to other sites in order to manipulate Google search results....

Drift Away: 30 Soft, Soulful Paintings By Mulgil Kim Inviting Rest In a world that’s always rushing, Korean artist Mulgil Kim invites us to slow down, breathe, and drift away . Through delicate brushwork and serene compositions, Kim creates paintings that feel like a lullaby — soft, slow, and safe. Her work is defined by simplicity and stillness. No sharp lines, no loud colors — just quiet moments bathed in muted tones and gentle textures....

Eye-Catching Fleet of ‘Trucks and Tuks’ Spotted While Motoring Throughout Southeast Asia For decades, humble vehicles across South Asia have served as mobile canvases for local artists, layering every inch with bursts of colour and imagination. The facades of the tired and dusty automobiles are often decorated with vibrant scenes of exotic birds, animals and scenery. Over four years and 10,000 kilometres, photographer Christopher Herwig – known for capturing Soviet Bus Stops and Metro Stations – documented this unique tradition in his latest project titled Trucks and Tuks ....

Famous Artist Gets Hilariously Trolled For Buying A Black Pigment So No One Else Could Use It It doesn’t matter if you’ve ever been to Chicago or not – you probably know the famous ‘Bean’ sculpture. Well, to be honest, it is actually called Cloud Gate and its creator, sculptor Anish Kapoor, seems to hate the nickname. There were many hilarious Facebook events organized around the sculpture and it’s probably one of the most widely recognized landmarks of Chicago....

Father Of Six Captures Heartwarming Childhood Moments In B&W Photographs French photographer and father of six Alain Laboile has dedicated his artistic energy to documenting the everyday life of his beautiful family. Even though many parents photograph their children as they grow up and become familiar with the world around them, there‘s something peculiar and deeply gripping about Laboile‘s black and white photographs. They remind us of our own childhood and evoke bittersweet longing for our past....

Finalists Of The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2016 This one is for you, nature lovers, the 52nd annual ‘ Wildlife Photographer of the Year ‘ (WPY) competition has released a list of finalists and with 11 examples of their incredible works. Again we get to witness photographs that will keep us wondering how they were even possible to make. From perfectly timed shots to almost staged-like compositions, these will get your inner photographer brewing with new ideas....

Four Girls Capture Famous Movie Locations In Real Life When a movie isn’t filmed entirely on greenscreen, fans get to visit the same places their favorite characters did. And none are more dedicated than the Finnish ladies of Fangirl Quest. Their project is about “sceneframing”: taking a still shot of a movie, displaying it on an iPad and taking a picture of it with the original filming location in the background....

Funny Anti-Valentine’s Cards To Surprise Your Loved One With Valentine’s day is coming and you can’t get away! Even if you’re alone, you’re stuck on this ride with us! And if you’re in a relationship… maybe you could use a Valentine’s card! And not just any card – an anti-Valentine’s card by Julie Ann! Just for this year, be a well-ish meaning spoilsport with an irreverent card that would give Valentine’s the stink eye, if it had eyes, that is!...

Funny Pendants With Tiny Figurines Diving Straight Into Women’s Breasts Japanese designer Takayuki Fukusawa, who leads Japanese design firm EkoD Works, has a simple concept behind his work – ”Making a world full of humorous art and design.” His newest whimsical pendant series, called “Tanama Diver,” does just that. These pendants are little human and animal figurines that seem to be diving down into their wearers’ breasts. Pretty provocative and definitely eye-catching!...

Get Better Results with These 5 Google AdWords Management Practices If you want your PPC campaign to succeed, you must observe excellent ​Google AdWords management practices. Each and every PPC ad you post online must be created and managed carefully to ensure that you’ll get the most out of them. By using the best AdWords management strategies, you can generate more web traffic and create more conversions. But what exactly is considered a good AdWords management strategy?...

Greta Thunberg Delivers A Powerful Speech At The UN Climate Summit And Gives Trump A Death Stare If you don’t know who Greta Thunberg is yet, she’s a 16-year-old Climate activist from Sweden whose actions of raising awareness of global warming has made her known around the world. On Monday, the young activist gave a powerful speech at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York and it – and her death stare directed at Trump – quickly went viral....

hand drawings My drawings are all hand-drawn with a black ink pen. When I draw I don’t really have an end “design” in mind. None of the drawings are manipulated in Photoshop; some are only reversed to create the mirror effect. Gianluigi Carelli graphic designer, illustrator, writer IG- the_gianluigi_carelli @gianluigi88

Here’s How 20 Famous Historical And Fictional Figures ‘Really’ Looked Like Bas Uterwijk is a Dutch photographer and digital artist who likes to show how famous historical and fictional figures ‘really’ looked like in his realistic digital portraits. The man started experimenting with the idea back in 2019 and has created numerous portraits since. Bas says that it all started with a photograph of infamous outlaw Billy the Kid and after seeing positive results, he continued by doing Napoleon....

Hieroglyphics: A Collection Of Composite Portraitures By Fores Before AI and Photoshop became the dominant art generators, one artist from the 16th century spurred a whimsical trend dubbed composite portraiture amongst art aficionados. This rather idiosyncratic style was inspired by the Italian Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo whose unique idea was to compose the form of human portraits using animals, fruits and tools that are rife with symbolism. This unusual approach inspired a few European artists to embody Arcimboldo’s work in their own artistic efforts....

How to bring home a perfect new Bed? No other furniture item can overpower the importance of bed, that accepts you in any condition, takes you far away from the anxieties and cuddles you to sleep. We, sleep for more than 6 hours on an average in our bed, so it has to be the most comfortable and the most supportive one. Many times you feel sleepless and do not anymore find your bed comforting your back....

If You Need A Christmas Tree But Don’t Have The Space, This ‘Half Christmas Tree’ Might Be Exactly What You’re Looking For If you live in a small apartment or simply have limited space in your home, every Christmas becomes a little nightmare. You want to decorate a Christmas tree in your living room but it ends up taking so much space, you hardly have any room left to walk around....

Influencer Proves There’s No Such Thing As ‘Perfect’ In Her Honest Side-By-Side Pictures (30 Pics) Every great Instagram picture requires nice lighting, a good angle, and a patient friend who’s willing to take a hundred pictures so you can choose the perfect one. As perfect as the end result may look like, in the end, it’s just a perfectly timed picture and in many cases, the reality is quite different ....

It’s The Leaf Falling Season In Japan And People Are Turning Them Into Incredible Art Sweeping the fallen leaves and just throwing them into dumpsters? That wouldn’t fly in the Land of the Rising Sun, where locals are turning foliage into pieces of art. Japanese have taken it to Instagram to share their awesome pieces of contemporary leaf art. The new trend is called “ochiba art” or “fallen leaf art”, and it’s actually a very cool idea to bring life to those boring sidewalks at no cost at all....