How about owning a grand home that housed classic art work that includes stucco casts of Antonio Canova’s Pair Of Pugilists estimated to be worth up to £40,000, a pair of cherry-wood bookcases by Karl Roos worth £120,000 and a previously unseen painting by 18th-century artist Johann Zoffany? As amazing as it sounds, Gianni Versace’s [...]
Ever saw movie called Lord Of The Rings? Ever read a book with same title, done by J.R.R. Tolkien? Ever watched the cartoon LOTR? I know, you must be asking yourself, what kind of question is this anyway… Hehe, at least you will have no problem recognizing these huge installments made in Australia. Man, if [...]
Artist Sarah Kaufmann created a life-size sculpture of astronaut Neil Armstrong made out of Wisconsin cheddar cheese. It was to go on display this week at the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Unfortunately, the air conditioners at the museum are turned off every night to save energy, and the statue started [...]
The Great Leonardo Da Vinci designed many weapons, including giant crossbows, machine guns, siege towers, cluster bombs and even a precursor to the modern-day tank. 1. Leonardo Da Vinci’s Terminator Leonardo Da Vinci’s mechanical knight was not discovered until 1957, when Carlo Pedretti discovered it, hidden amongst Da Vinci’s countless designs. The mechanical knight, first [...]
At This to That, there is a bit of role reversal going on – books become the shelves for more books, recycled, reused and recombined in clever and sometimes satirical ways to support collections of even more books (or something else entirely as shown in the strangely inverted set of wood blocks-on-books pictured above). Sometimes [...]
Arches National Park, Utah Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, California Badlands National Park, South Dakota Beargrass, Grinnell Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina Bow River and Castle Mountain, Alberta, Canada Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee Canadian National Park, Yoho National Park Cathedral Rocks Reflects [...]
See the optical illusion shown below. You will feel that there is no floor.Actually its a floor design which make it look like bathroom is without floor. When you project a light behind this pile, it casts a shadow that resembles real Motorbike, this shadow sculpture of a motorcycle is built entirely out of welded [...]
Take a look at these great paper artwork pieces by Jen Stark.