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Parents Turn Their Child’s Drawing On The Wall Into A Framed Work Of Art At Home

When Eric Massicotte and his wife came home, they found their son had decided to ‘creatively’ express himself on one of the walls in their family home. Every parent knows you can’t win every battle. ‘Kids will be kids’ no matter how hard you try. With a shrug of their collective shoulders, Massicotte tweeted: “Your...
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Artist Installs Emoji Sculptures On A Building As A Tribute To Modern Day ‘Gargoyles’

What is the modern day equivalent of Michelangelo’s famous statues and marble reliefs? Architect Changiz Tehrani thinks they’re emojis. And he’s so sure of it, that he has just put 22 of them on a building in the Netherlands. [zombify_post]
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The Absolute Best of the Signs From The Anti-Brexit March

As you are probably aware, on 23rd of June 2016, the United Kingdom held a referendum, asking its citizens "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?" 51.9% were in favor of separating from the EU, and thus Brexit (the exit of Britain) began. As the date...
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Stunning Poses By Dancers in Surreal Gravity-Defying Photos of the Human Body

Rob Woodcox is an art and fashion photographer born in Houston who has made a series of images challenging gravity force. Halfway between dance and an installation made of human bodies, Rob’s photographic project is a game made of harmonies. The body is multiplied, bent, digitally manipulated to achieve the desired result: cancel gravity, cancel...
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‘Succulent Cakes’ Turn Prickly Plants into Delicious Desserts That Look Too Good To Eat

When you first look at these amazing creations, you could be excused for not releasing that they are actually cakes and cupcakes. The talent behind these artful sweets comes from Ivenoven, who is based in Jakarta, Indonesia. “My baking passion and journey started one fine day when I was sneaking around in my godma’s house...
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Willie Nelson Drawing

It’s always a pleasure seeing Willie Nelson or his sons, Lukas and Micah, cruising around Maui. I’ve been fortunate enough to watch Lukas play a bunch of times and also to meet them all in person. I’ve read an autobiography that was superb called “It’s A Long Story” which inspired me to create this...
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Hilarious Photos From the National Beard & Mustache Championships

Facial hair is everywhere at the moment. Take a look around and you will see many a well-groomed Tash and unruly Beard. But did you know that there was such a thing as the National Beard and Mustache Championships? Yes there is! Earlier this month, the 4th Annual Championship was held in New Orleans and Las Vegas-based...
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Planning A Trip To Japan? Photos That Prove That Japan Is Unlike Any Other Country

Japan: it’s on everyone’s Bucket List. Why exactly? We can think of lots of reasons, but the main one is simply that the place just seems so mysterious. Japan has always had a reputation for its distinctive culture and unique traditions. As an island nation with a long history of isolation, many aspects of the...
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Dam Rice Served at a Japanese Restaurant!

When we were little, our mother would frequently tell us not to play with our food. This might be difficult in Japan, however, where restaurants have started offering visitors ‘damukare,’ a special Japanese rice and curry dish. In damukare, the rice is shaped into a mighty dam that protects the diner’s dry food from a devastating...
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Ceramist Anna Whitehouse Created 100 Unique Clay Vessels in 100 Days

Anna Whitehouse is a ceramic artist based in United Kingdom who set a goal on January 1, 2018 to create a new bottle each day for 100 days. By limiting herself to a single form, Whitehouse was able to stretch her creativity to formulate new designs previously unexplored in her practice. Each white ceramic bottle was...
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The Most Perfectly Timed Photos That Will Make You Smile

One of our most visited Friday Funnies posts of all time gave you a collection of perfectly timed photos (see HERE), so as we haven’t done one for a while we searched the interwebs to find a new collection for you. So grab a skinny latte, mocha, chai latte, green tea or whatever other beverage...
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Photographer Discovers That There’s A Type Of Bee That Falls Asleep In Flowers And It’s As Cute As It Sounds

We need bees. They’re the world’s most important pollinator of food crops. In fact, it is estimated that one third of the food that we consume each day relies on pollination mainly by bees. But as much as we are used to seeing them buzzing with work, they need their beauty sleep as well. Recently,...
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Rainbow Toy Car Installation Made from 2500 Cars

OK toy car collectors, kids, everyone else, maintain yourself. The Toy Atlas Rainbow is a wonderful installation of 2500 old toy cars by UK artist David T. Waller. The piece won the People’s Award at the Arts Depot Open in 2010. As absurdly beautiful as this thing is, don’t you just want to take a running slide into it and start playing with...
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Distorted Skies Made from Hundreds of Stacked Photographs by Matt Molloy

Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been taking photographs of for over three years. One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy...
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People Suddenly Realize They Have Astigmatism After This Comparison Photo Goes Viral

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the internet provides weird and interesting facts that you never knew. How much do you know about the eye? We know some people have perfect 20/20 vision, while others are blind as a bat, but what about all the eye conditions that come between. A photo from the...
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The Problem With the World Today According to Illustrator

With the amount of bad things happening in the world today, we can’t blame people for being a little bit ‘glass half empty’ sometimes. Illustrator John Holcroft has taken this to the next level, with his series of illustrations based on 1950s advertisements. In these illustrations, Hallcroft depicts the many issues with the world today in a...
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Spectacular Industrial Flying Machines Made From Cardboard by Daniel Agdag

If you want to create detailed and imaginative flying machine sculptures that look like they’re about to take flight, cardboard is hardly the material to use. Unless of course you’re Australian artist Daniel Agdag, who has been toiling away creating a series of new works each more detailed and fascinating than the next. Agdag doesn’t...
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3 Artists Draw Celebrity Portraits Based Only On Oral Descriptions And Produce Surprising Results

Drawfee is a Youtube channel created by two illustrators that combine humor with art. They describe it as a “interactive comedy drawing experience where viewers can watch their dumb ideas become even dumber drawings before their very eyes.” Drawfee has over 1 million subscribers from all around the world which proves that the creators are...
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Photographer Tracks Down People He Shot in the Street 30 Years Ago to Recreate Their Pictures

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, paramedic and part time photographer Chris Porsz spent all of his free time walking around the streets of Peterborough, England, taking photos of passersby. 40 years later, Chris tracked down the subjects of his photos all of those years ago, convincing them to strike the same pose for a...
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Amazing Photography Taken At The Right Time In The Right Place

If you’re like us, you love the beauty of photography when the stars align and you get that perfectly timed photo. Forget all the countless hours and thousands of photos you had to take in order to get there! The internet abounds with funny pictures shared by people who have captured images with perfect timing...

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Parents Turn Their Child’s Drawing On The Wall Into A Framed Work Of Art At Home

Artist Installs Emoji Sculptures On A Building As A Tribute To Modern Day ‘Gargoyles’

The Absolute Best of the Signs From The Anti-Brexit March

Stunning Poses By Dancers in Surreal Gravity-Defying Photos of the Human Body

‘Succulent Cakes’ Turn Prickly Plants into Delicious Desserts That Look Too Good To Eat

Willie Nelson Drawing

Hilarious Photos From the National Beard & Mustache Championships

Planning A Trip To Japan? Photos That Prove That Japan Is Unlike Any Other Country

Dam Rice Served at a Japanese Restaurant!

Ceramist Anna Whitehouse Created 100 Unique Clay Vessels in 100 Days

The Most Perfectly Timed Photos That Will Make You Smile

Photographer Discovers That There’s A Type Of Bee That Falls Asleep In Flowers And It’s As Cute As It Sounds

Rainbow Toy Car Installation Made from 2500 Cars

Distorted Skies Made from Hundreds of Stacked Photographs by Matt Molloy

People Suddenly Realize They Have Astigmatism After This Comparison Photo Goes Viral

The Problem With the World Today According to Illustrator

Spectacular Industrial Flying Machines Made From Cardboard by Daniel Agdag

3 Artists Draw Celebrity Portraits Based Only On Oral Descriptions And Produce Surprising Results

Photographer Tracks Down People He Shot in the Street 30 Years Ago to Recreate Their Pictures

Amazing Photography Taken At The Right Time In The Right Place

Artist CJ Hendry destroys her painting after being sued for copyright infringement and turns it into an NFT

This Dad Created A T-Shirt That Makes His Kid Give Him A Massage

What Happens When People Are Bored At Work (50+ Pics)

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