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    Amazing handmade fantasy creations by Ukrainian artist Maryana Kopylova

    Zyabras are fantastic space creatures who live on Earth to help nature and all living beings.Each Zyabra has its own mission: one keeps peace in the forest, another sings lullabies to birds, the third one grazes snails in the meadow… Maryana Kopylova is the mastermind behind these beautiful sculptures. Ukraine-based artist creates intricate hand-made polymer...
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    Artist Turns Bananas Into Amazing Banana Sculptures!

    Remember when your mother told you not to play with your food?! Well nobody must have told artist Stephen Brusche, who creates delightful banana-creations! It appears that banana art is all the rage at the moment, as we’ve previously featured HERE. However Stephen’s banana art is extra a-peeling, as you will see in our favourite...
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    93-Year-Old Grandma Shares 30 Years of Embroidered Temari Balls

    Back in 2009, NanaAkua uploaded an incredible 468-picture gallery on Flickr that featured the amazing embroidery work of her then 88-year-old grandmother over a span of 30 years. Her grandmother practices a folk art form known as Temari. Meaning ‘hand ball’ in Japanese, the art form was introduced to Japan by China around the 7th century A.D. Traditionally, Temari...
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    Anonymous Artist Turns Famous Museum Paintings Into Hilarious Memes

    Visiting an art museum can be a pretty interesting experience, with the opportunity to see many famous paintings painted over different centuries all available in the one place. The anonymous account GLOSS has made the experience even more fun, adding a good amount of humor to the table by turning famous artworks from around the...
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    Photos of People Awestruck by the Beauty of Nature

    Nature has a way of making our problems feel small and insignificant, an incredible view can change our whole perspective on life. While in Moab, Utah for a March photo shoot adventure, photographer Jerry Patterson captured a shot of the Milky Way through the arches of beautiful sandstone monuments (above). He calls the photo Stargazing Through...
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    Artist Collects 50,000 Keys Across the Globe for An Exhibition About Memories

    Within the 2015 Venice Art Biennale’s Japan Pavilion, artist Chiharu Shiota has amazed visitors with an extraordinarily immersive presentation. Using two boats, vibrant red yarn, a net of interlaced metal, and more than 50,000 unique used keys, Shiota created “The Key in the Hand,” an exhibition meant to inspire viewers to think about the importance of memories and the unknown....
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    Amazing Photography Depict 1970s Skateboarders Doing There Thing

    Back in the days when there were no iPhones, computer games or Guitar Hero, kids went outside to play. In sunny California during the 1970s, the thing to do as a kid was to skateboard.  And do it well. Really well. Photographer Hugh Holland documented the ‘ballet on concrete’, to created a fabulous book which...
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    Bringing Mozart to the Kids… Spectacular Costumes and Props in the Magic Flute

    Costume and effects guru Julie Taymor has outdone herself with Opera Australia’s latest production… Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”. With a particular focus of entertaining the kids as well as their parents, Taymor (who was previously the director of the Lion King on Broadway), brings together a nine-metre serpent, towering polar bears and hundreds of paintstakingly hand-crafted props...
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    Amazing Color-Matching Pen Can Write in Any Color on Earth!

    If you’ve ever wanted to capture the exact color of something, now you can. The amazing Scribble pen makes it possible to match any pigment you see by using an RGB sensor and a five-color ink cartridge, and it will allow you to translate the beautiful hues of real life onto paper or your digital...
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    Street Artists Paint an Entire School Building Before it is Demolished

    As part of the Rehab 2 festival, 100 artists were recently given the opportunity to paint the interior of a soon to be demolished student residence at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris, making it their canvas. Although the dormitory and all the works will be destroyed when the dormitory is renovated, several photographers have extensively documented...
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    Stunning Portraits Reveal the Powerful Movements of Dance

    Studio dance photographer Alexander Yakovlev creates stunning portraits of professional dancers that are brought to life with the use of airborne flour. Yakovlev doesn’t only utilize this powdery element to make his images pop, he has also created a portfolio that allows black and white to meet color, ballet to meet break dance, and stationary poses to...
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    Creative Tattoos That Make Clever Use Of The Body!

    The rising popularity of tattoos and the easing of the taboo surrounding them means that more and more people are choosing to express themselves with creative body art ideas that are meaningful to them. Although tons of new styles are being developed by tattoo artists, we wanted to explore a specific type – tattoos that...
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    Powerful Street Art Pieces That Tell The Uncomfortable Truth

    As the world moves to cities, so does art. And just as art can inspire political action and resistance, so too do the walls of the city become canvases for important street art messages. The graffiti and street art on this list is perfect for spreading messages about environmentalism and climate change to a wider...
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    Welcome To The Magical World Of Modestas Malinauskas

    Lithuanian artist Modestas Malinauskas paints surreal world directly from his imagination.What is really interesting to me is that all these paintings have a one unique style. It feels like Modestas has a vision of a wonderful fairy tale, which he shares with us on his canvases every once in a while. This story is never...