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Artist Illustrates Their Darkest Thoughts To Help People Understand What It’s Like To Suffer From Mental Illness

I've been living with mental illness for as long as I can remember. And mental illness brings many weird and dark thoughts in my head. I started these drawings because I'm really bad at explaining those thoughts, and explaining by drawing has always been a lot easier for me. For the French people around here,...
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Gerardo Chierchia Paints Three-Dimensional Goldfish Embedded in Layers of Resin!

Italian artist now based in Australia Gerardo Chierchia paints three-dimensional goldfish using a complex process of poured resin. The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer. We really love the rich depth of the pieces and the optical illusion...
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Owner Dumps Their Wolfdog At A Kill Shelter When He Got Too Much To Handle, Luckily This Sanctuary Saved Him

The strength, incredible instincts, sharp intelligence, and social abilities of the wolf is what has made them one of the most respected animals in the world. The stunning animal has been featured in legends, books, movies, paintings and other products of culture for centuries which slowly taught us to appreciate them even more. So it’s...
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Famed Portraits and Paintings Recreated with Found Objects

UK-based artist Jane Perkins produces incredible pieces that recreate classic works of art and portraits of iconic figures using thousands of multicolored found objects. Each of the artist’s creations is a compilation of numerous objects that range in color, size, and texture. She works with anything from buttons and beads to LEGO pieces, shells, plastic...
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Photo Series Documents The Best and Worst of Man’s Best Friend

As you know, we love dogs. So much so that we used a dog as the mascot for our brand. We figured that dogs are trustworthy and loyal, and so are we, so we just go perfectly together. Just like ham and cheese, gin and tonic, and Sam and Frodo. To celebrate our love of...
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Artist Creates The Coincidence Project That Will Make You Look Twice

Photographer Denis Cherim‘s latest project titled The Coincidence Project was created so that viewers could look at the world from a different perspective. This is done through the capture of harmoniously aligned elements that highlight the balance on our planet. Denis’ eye-pleasing compositions stretch the gambit of visual media, from street photography to nature and...
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Frustrated By Autism, A Father Turns To Photos Capturing The Unique Habits of His Autistic Son

“I don’t care about autism,” says San Francisco-based photographer Timothy Archibald, who has a way of being refreshingly candid about kids who have it. “They can frustrate you to no end,” he says. Archibald’s son, Eli, is autistic. And really, he clarifies on the phone, he doesn’t care about the diagnosis. What matters, he says,...
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Amazing dance photographer

Sport Dance, a fascinating yet little known world. Azzura Balistreri, a Genoese photographer, travels around Italy, following the many competitions, which take place every weekend in Italy. She produces photos which are full of energy, movement, colour, emotion; everything that emanates from dance caught in one shot. Less than five minutes to shoot and not...
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Photo Series Highlights the Beauty of Breastfeeding in Public

It’s been a hotly-debated topic for many years: breast feeding in public. Some argue that breast feeding is perfectly natural and there should be no issue with breastfeeding in public. Others argue that it should only be done in private. In response to the debate, photographer Ivette Ivens just released a series of highly stylized...
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Remember That Massive Coffin In Egypt That Hasn’t Been Opened In 2000 Years? They Just Opened It

Remember that ominous-looking sarcophagus that was unearthed in Alexandria, Egypt recently? The huge black coffin, unopened for over 2,000 years, kicked off a wild internet debate with people divided between wanting to know what was inside, and fearing a ‘Mummy’ style unleashing of dark forces beyond our control. Well we have news for you folks....
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Photographer Captures Candid Images of Squirrels That Showcase Their Curiosity

They say you shouldn’t work with babies or animals. Swedish photographer Geert Weggen has gone against this trend, however, as the subject for his latest series are some of the trickiest animals to capture: red squirrels. Despite the difficulties, Weggen makes it look easy by offering the squirrels tiny props to play with including balloons,...
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Rare and Mesmerizing Photographs of Iran’s Mosques

Mohammad Domiri, a talented architectural photographer from northern Iran, takes stunning photos of grandiose mosque architecture throughout the Middle East. Middle Eastern architecture is often recognized by its elegantly curved arches and spiraling columns, which feature heavily throughout Domiri’s photos. Many of the historic sites Domiri shoots are decorated with colorful stained-glass windows, geometric decorations...
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Photographer Takes The Most Adorable Selfies With Animals!

Alan Dixon seems to have a pretty fun job. And when you enjoy your job, it rubs off on everyone and everything around you. So despite the saying “you shouldn’t work with kids or animals”, Alan’s infectious personality gets the animals on side too. This enables him to take some of the best and most playful...
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New Series of Nude Body Paintings by Emma Hack Depicting Beautiful Women

Not many young artists can say their work has been seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. Emma Hack can. The South Australian painter is the creator of the body art featured in the video clip for Gotye and Kimbra’s worldwide hit Somebody that I Used to Know. As at the...
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Artist Creates Flowing Hair In Her Beautiful Hand-Embroidery

The concept of embroidery art perhaps brings to mind an image of a grandma sitting on a comfy sofa chair with a cup of tea in front of the television, carefully creating perfect cross stitches. This image is totally thrown out the window when you discover international model Sheena Liam. Recognised as the winner of...
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Savvy Seniors Are Buying Tiny Homes to Live Their Golden Years Off the Grid

There’s no rule that says tiny home living has to be just for the young. In fact, seniors are starting a new trend by investing in smaller spaces so they can live out their golden years off-grid and burden-free. Take a look after the jump at some fearless retirees who are making the most out of...
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Artist Creates Miniature Tree Houses Meticulously Sculpted Around Potted Plants

Artist Jedediah Corwyn Voltz constructs miniature treehouses wrapped around common houseplants or bonsai trees in his new sculptural series titled Somewhere Small. He relies on over a decade of commercial prop making for film and other projects to craft each structure from scratch using small bits of wood, silk fabric, miniature artworks, and semi precious...
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Artist Creates Eerily Beautiful GIFs Even Though He’s Legally Blind

Artist George Redhawk has put together a series of stunning GIFs, perfectly looped and beautifully haunting. Even more incredible is that Redhawk is legally blind. “With the use of visual aides and computer softwares that aide the visually impaired, [Redhawk] began to explore the realm of photo manipulation with a desire to show the world as...
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The Recently Discovered Street Photography of Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier was an amazing photographer whose talents went unrecognized during her lifetime. Back in 2011, a box filled with Maier’s negatives was discovered at a local thrift auction house in Chicago. Since that time, the American street photographer has become quite the recognizable name in the history of photography. During her forty years working as...
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Architectural Columns at the Palais de Tokyo Explode into Organic Forms

Recently installed at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, this gigantic Gordian Knot of architectural columns was constructed by Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira who is known for his near complete organic transformations of interior and exterior spaces. Titled Baitogogo, the work depicts an architectural grid of columns and support beams that seem to morph into a chaotic tangle of branches or roots....

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Artist Illustrates Their Darkest Thoughts To Help People Understand What It’s Like To Suffer From Mental Illness

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Famed Portraits and Paintings Recreated with Found Objects

Photo Series Documents The Best and Worst of Man’s Best Friend

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Amazing dance photographer

Photo Series Highlights the Beauty of Breastfeeding in Public

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New Series of Nude Body Paintings by Emma Hack Depicting Beautiful Women

Artist Creates Flowing Hair In Her Beautiful Hand-Embroidery

Savvy Seniors Are Buying Tiny Homes to Live Their Golden Years Off the Grid

Artist Creates Miniature Tree Houses Meticulously Sculpted Around Potted Plants

Artist Creates Eerily Beautiful GIFs Even Though He’s Legally Blind

The Recently Discovered Street Photography of Vivian Maier

Architectural Columns at the Palais de Tokyo Explode into Organic Forms

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