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Ducks, Otters, and Other Wildlife Plunge into Water in Intricate Split-View Embroideries | Colossal

AUGUST 13, 2021 GRACE EBERT Fiber artist Megan Zaniewski sends delicate air bubbles rippling through her water-based embroideries that capture the momentum of ducks, turtles, and other wildlife as they dive into a pond or lake. Through a combination of knots … Continue reading

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Art by @titomulk and @stefistephanedurot, Paris

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Installation at Tokyo’s National Art Center Made From Brochures of Pandemic-Related Cancelled Events | Spoon & Tamago

photos courtesy yuri yagi and NACT The global pandemic has hit the pause button on life. Everything that brought us together—art shows and festivals to trade shows and symposiums—have all been cancelled. But memorializing these events and re-contextualizing them as … Continue reading

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Matches, inventive stop motion studies by Tomohiro Okazaki | The Kid Should See This

Put on your favorite seven and a half minutes of music, full screen the video above, and hit play. This silent series of stop motion studies riffs and reinvents the structures of a simple matchstick over and over again. The … Continue reading

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London-Based Illustrator Edward Luper’s 36 Views of the BT Tower

In the early 1830s, Katsushika Hokusai created 36 Views of Mt. Fuji. Images from the series would go on to becomes some of the most iconic images Japan has ever produced, their vast reach and influence being almost impossible to … Continue reading

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The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail | Theresa Elly

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Motörhead’s Ace of Spades played on church bells works so much better than it should | The Poke

Of all the covers of Motörhead’s classic headbanger, Ace of Spades, you could reasonably expect to hear, it’s unlikely that ‘played on church bells’ ever made the list. However, at the Torenfestival – Tower Festival – in Weert, Netherlands, someone … Continue reading

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Reflorestal by Maria Nepomuceno | The Portico Library

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Ordinary Household Objects in Visually Satisfying Arrangements | My Modern Met

By Margherita Cole on August 9, 2021 There’s no Photoshop involved. Just a creative vision and A LOT of patience. Artist Adam Hillman has a way of finding hidden beauty in ordinary objects. He uses items like toothpicks, buttons, and … Continue reading

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A Japanese UFO? – The Utsuro-Bune Incident of 1803

oday, we examine a mysterious event in Japanese history where a strange object drifted to shore in 1803 near a fishing village. Some are convinced the event is clear evidence of an extraterrestrial visitation by aliens occurring in our not … Continue reading

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