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Unbelievably Realistic Paintings

Posted on 27 November 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

At first I thought this was real black and white photographs, but then I realized it was paintings. Amazing is the perfect word for Spanish painter Juan Bautista Nieto’s work. And if you wonder how he can draw such perfect human bodies, the answer is: he studied medicine before studying art. He uses a combination [...]

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The Perfect 1960′s American Town

Posted on 15 November 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

An typical American town from the 1960′s, untouched like it has frozen in time. How is that even possible? Well, at first glance this looks like a real town with all the Chevys parked around, the cinema, the toy stores and all the dining places. It’s like entering a movie scene, but where are the [...]

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Stunning And Delicate Toothpick Art

Posted on 05 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Most of us use toothpicks after eating or maybe for some detailed work like nail art. This guy is using it to make art. Amazing! His name is Steven J. Backman and for him every toothpick can be made into a famous landmark replica. The sculptures are so small that it’s ridiculously difficult to even [...]

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Beautiful Vintage Photos Of Moscow

Posted on 30 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Moscow is such a beautiful town with so much to see. It has always been that way it seems. You can see some amazing photos from 1909 of this capital. They were taken by an American that came to Moscow on an exhibition tour with a group of American champion trotting horses. The traveler had [...]

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Anamorphosis At Its Best

Posted on 30 June 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Without a cylindrical mirror these paintings would look meaningless. This kind of art is called Anamorphosis and comes from the Greek words meaning “formed again.” It’s basically paintings that can be viewed only with a special device. In this case a cylindrical mirror is the solution, and the amazing paintings are made by Indian artist [...]

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Stunning 150 Years Old 3D Photos

Posted on 20 June 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

We are all aware of the fact that there were no 3D effects 150 years ago. Well, maybe that’s just a theory, because they actually had something alike 3D that they called stereo photography. It was pretty popular during the Civil War in 1861. Here you can see a selection of Civil War photographs that [...]

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Artists Celebrating 20th Anniversary Of Edward Scissorhands

Posted on 24 May 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

It has been 20 years since Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder played in Edward Scissorhands. The romantic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton was a sensation. It’s the story of an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands. He falls in love with a teenage girl, but it gets complicated. [...]

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Realistic And Stunning Cinematic Paintings

Posted on 05 May 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

These are oil paintings, some very realistic ones too. The talented artist Joe Simpsons is the one that’s painting these breathtaking pieces of art, you have probably heard of him already. It looks like different scenes from movies, and that is the effect he wanted. Theatrical lighting and wide screen format is the tricks that [...]

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Painful Wall Cracks Filled Up With Lego Joy

Posted on 18 April 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

We all just love LEGO, and it doesn’t mean that you have to be uninterested in it just because you are an adult. This artist has got that, and here are his amazing street art. His name is Jan Vormann, and he is using all the cracks in different walls of the streets in Berlin [...]

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Tons of Punching Bags Create Muhammad Ali Portrait

Posted on 01 April 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

If you would built a portrait or a sculpture of Muhammad Ali, what would be the best tool to use? Punching bags of course! What could better represent a boxer than that? The same thought had Los Angeles-based artist Michael Kalish when he made a 22-foot high installation of Mohammad Ali’s portrait. There were used [...]

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Spongebob Terminator Made From Lego

Posted on 28 March 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

How would Spongebob Squarepants look like if he actually was a Terminator? For those who don’t know who he is, let me explain: He is an extremely energetic sea sponge who lives under the sea in the American animated television series. So energetic that some people thinks he is annoying. This optimistic cartoon character inspired [...]

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Darth Vader Helmet In 100 Unique Examples

Posted on 12 March 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Today’s most notable artist has gathered to create 100 different Darth Vader helmets. They worked on real-sized Darth Vader helmets as seen on the Star Wars movies. These 100 helmets have traveled thorough 3 countries, 8 exhibitions and one auction. All of this was the idea created by Dov Kelemer and Sarah Jo Marks of [...]

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Paintings of Skype models

Posted on 10 March 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Not a Still Frame is the name of an exhibition that show portraits of persons that are on Skype. German/Newzealander artist Sandro Kopp is painting different people on Skype; everyone from his friends to the more famous personalities. You can somehow see the quality of Skype and how it is not perfect because that other [...]

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This Is How A Model Spends Her Day

Posted on 09 March 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Many models you see on billboard ads do not live a glamorous life, they have to  live in very small apartments and wake up early to go to shows or castings, and forget about a personal driver. Here we have a set of photos that show you how 18-year old Swiss model Julia Saner is [...]

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Old Skateboards Becoming Artistic Skulls

Posted on 23 February 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Mixing skateboards with skulls mus to look bad-ass, and it really does. Designer Beto Janz has taken old used skateboards and created them into awesome skull art. This was actually done to promote a skate shop in Brazil, and you have to admit that the skulls are a cool idea. They promoted it in an [...]

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Small “Nisse” Invading Snow Globes

Posted on 14 February 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

You remember as a kid when snow globes was so much fun during winter time? You would have thought that they aren’t so popular anymore, but guess again. The Danish JA-JA architects has come out with a new line of Christmas snow globes that draws your attention. They have all kinds of fun settings, but [...]

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17 000 Push Pins Make a Huge Super Mario Panel

Posted on 09 February 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Some creative students from the CIS Student Association gathered and started a project that is out of the ordinary. They used colored push pins to create a Mario Bros panel, like in the famous video game. It is said that they used 17,000 push pins and that it took them two and a half semesters [...]

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LOTR Fans Watch Out – Minas Tirith in Matchsticks

Posted on 08 December 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

For those of you that are Lord of the Rings fan there is no need to explain what you see on the photos, but for those who are not familiar with this name; it is a matchstick version of Minas Tirith, also known as Tower of Guard, which is a fictional city in the movie [...]

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Old Historic Photos of American National Parks

Posted on 23 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

In a previous article there were mentioned the National Parks of America that were promoted with huge posters under the Great Depression in the 1930s. It exists a lot of photographs that show how people enjoy these parks in the early 18th century. Hundreds of millions Americans enjoyed the 35 parks that existed back then, [...]

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The Invisible Man Strikes Again

Posted on 08 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

This is what camouflage is all about. On the pictures you can see that something is hiding, but admit that is done in such a neat way. It is all the idea of the Chinese artist Liu Bolin, or maybe you can call him “the invisible man”. He really knows how to melt in with [...]

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Five Places That You Should’t Miss in Prague

Five Places That You Should’t Miss in Prague

Prague, which is believed to be one of the most beautiful and picturesque city of Europe is also known as one of the most well-liked holiday destinati...»

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The Amazing Falkirk Wheel Of Scotland

The Amazing Falkirk Wheel Of Scotland

How is it possible to transport a huge boat from one water level to another much higher one? Scotland has the answer; a gigantic wheel that lifts boat...»

Unbelievably Realistic Paintings

Unbelievably Realistic Paintings

At first I thought this was real black and white photographs, but then I realized it was paintings. Amazing is the perfect word for Spanish painter Ju...»

Detroit – Town That Is Falling Apart

Detroit – Town That Is Falling Apart

Detroit has become a ghostly town. Its population has really fell from 1950 till today. It used to live about 2 million people, now it lives only 700 ...»


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Five Places That You Should’t Miss in Prague

Five Places That You Should’t Miss in Prague

Prague, which is believed to be one of the most beautiful and picturesque city of Europe is also known as one of the most well-liked holiday destinations in the whole world. The popularity of this pla...

The Amazing Falkirk Wheel Of Scotland

The Amazing Falkirk Wheel Of Scotland

How is it possible to transport a huge boat from one water level to another much higher one? Scotland has the answer; a gigantic wheel that lifts boats. We are talking about the famous Falkirk Wheel t...

Detroit – Town That Is Falling Apart

Detroit – Town That Is Falling Apart

Detroit has become a ghostly town. Its population has really fell from 1950 till today. It used to live about 2 million people, now it lives only 700 000. No jobs and poverty has driven away families ...


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