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Sacramento, California-based illustrator Jerrod Maruyama has a way of taking our favorite pop culture characters and turning them into cute and cuddly creations. He uses the term "kawaii" which he tells us is the Japanese version of cute. "The Japanese culture uses characters for just about everything," he says. "There is a real appreciation for cute…
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Added by alice on August 24, 2011 at 10:30am —
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Michael Zhang, founder and publisher of PetaPixel (who you may remember from our
Content Curator series), just wrote to us to tell us about his awesome new
Polaroid Picture Frame… Continue
Added by alice on August 24, 2011 at 10:00am —
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About a week ago, on August 16,
we put up a post about Quebec, Canada-based graphic designer and photographer Ulric Collette's
Genetic Portraits. I called it a "shockingly cool project." Ulric took photos of two people from the same family…
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Added by alice on August 24, 2011 at 9:30am —
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a
spectacular underwater gallery that was created on the Vandenberg shipwreck off Key West, Florida. The exhibition, titled
Vandenberg: Life Below the Surface, recently released the 12 digitally layered images that were used, all of…
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Added by Eugene on August 23, 2011 at 4:30pm —
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Extreme adventure photographer
Jimmy Chin narrates his own personal journey at Yosemite National Park while on assignment to shoot the cover story for
National Geographic. It's exhilarating to see the amazing imagery Jimmy is able to…
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Added by Eugene on August 23, 2011 at 3:00pm —
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The stars have certainly aligned for this project. Photographer Ignacio Torres combines the natural beauty of stars with the art of photography to create
Stellar gifs. The Texas native started this project after finding out about a popular theory; that we are made of cosmic matter as a result of the death of stars.
“I created imagery that showcased this cosmic birth through the use of dust and reflective confetti to create galaxies,” shares…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on August 23, 2011 at 1:30pm —
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What could be more sexy than supermodel Gisele Bündchen in lingerie? The 31-year-old Brazilian beauty recently debuted a steamy new collection called Gisele Bündchen Intimates for Hope Lingerie. It appeared first in May 2011 on the catwalk for a fashion show in Brazil. Her campaign images have the title Burlesque, and they beautifully show off her near flawless figure.
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Added by Alyssa Anda on August 23, 2011 at 1:00pm —
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How much fun would washing your hands be if you had this! Dinosoap, designed by Taiwan-based studio 25togo, combines fossil excavation and something we do every day. With each wash, layers of soap slowly dissolve until an image of a fossilized dinosaur is revealed! Made of natural ingredients, like apricot kernels, the sand-like soap provides excellent exfoliation. Wait about three months, and…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on August 23, 2011 at 1:00pm —
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Who says art can’t be eco-friendly?
Recycled Shadow is a wonderful installation by Spanish architectural collective Meva. First, they folded hundreds of old newspaper pages into windmills. Next, the windmills were hung up on nylon mesh to create suspended sculptures. This simple act provided shade to anyone who happened to pass by.
“The windmills are organized…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on August 23, 2011 at 11:30am —
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You've just got to appreciate not only the creativity, but the time and patience it took for couple Christine and Ian to create their one-of-a-kind wedding invitations. Though everything from the RSVP card and the Field Guide to the buttons, string, stamps and envelopes were thoroughly thought out, it's the main invitation that really caught our attention.
"Ian designed the main…
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Added by alice on August 23, 2011 at 11:00am —
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The world has been captivated as news broke that Libyan rebel forces have overtaken Moammar Gadhafi's fortress-like compound in Tripoli following fierce street battles against forces loyal to the longtime leader. To help with the surge, NATO has been dropping leaflets in the area of Tripoli. The majority of the leaflets were intended to encourage pro-Gaddafi soldiers to lay down their weapons and to…
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Added by Eugene on August 23, 2011 at 11:00am —
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Now this looks like fun! Artist Nathan Stapley is coming back to Gallery1988 later this month for a new solo show. His first exhibition at their Venice gallery, "The Same Gang: Compartmentalizing Pop-Culture Iconography" will features all new works, where Nathan brings together our favorite pop-culture icons together by similar attributes.
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Added by alice on August 23, 2011 at 10:30am —
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Gerbera
We've all seen flowers beautifully displayed in our local market or flower shop, but never have we seen them exploding like this! Qi Wei is not a botanist but a curious photographer who, one day, came across
Todd McLellan's Disassembly series. It got him thinking.…
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Added by alice on August 23, 2011 at 9:30am —
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To mark the occasion of the World University Games, which runs until August 23, 2011, German studio GMP Architekten has built the stunning Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen, China. The games are for students only and are held every other year in winter and summer. Judging by the number of athletes participating, the summer Universiade is the second largest multi-sport event in the world…
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Added by Eugene on August 22, 2011 at 2:00pm —
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Now that Emma Watson's
Harry Potter days are over, the Hollywood starlet has moved on to newer projects. With such fresh and stunning beauty, Watson has been making splashes in the fashion world. First a
Vogue cover, and now Watson's featured in the fall 2011 issue of…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on August 22, 2011 at 1:30pm —
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What's a long and slinky boat doing on a wall? It could only be the work of Phlegm! His last piece took him to the
Walk & Talk festival in the Archipelago of the Azores, situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. The magnificent mural took only four days to complete.
Perhaps this boat belongs on the…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on August 22, 2011 at 1:00pm —
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Who doesn’t love fresh food and intriguing art? Photographer
Carl Kleiner teamed up with ad agency
Joe Fish to create these fun food sculptures and photographed them on pastel-colored backgrounds to make them truly pop. There is a definite fresh quality to this edible…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on August 22, 2011 at 12:30pm —
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Famed photographer Vincent Peters captures the ever gorgeous Du Juan and male model Edwin K in a steamy, romantic tale of nighttime seduction for the September issue of
Numero China. Tim Lim styles her in sexy, form-fitting dresses from name brands like Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Roberto Cavalli, and Salvatore Ferragamo. These stunning cinematic photographs certainly highlight the…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on August 22, 2011 at 12:30pm —
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How many of you would know what to do when you saw that Super Mario Bros. box dangling in the air? Known on
Reddit as NullPoint84, this creative person hand-made a question block featured in the hit game. Hung outside, it practically begged those who passed by to try and hit it! Wouldn’t it be fun to take a picture next to…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on August 22, 2011 at 12:00pm —
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One of America's greatest civil liberty leaders, Martin Luther King Jr., was honored today with a long-awaited statue that was revealed at the National Mall in Washington, DC, the same place King made his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech.
To reach the memorial, visitors walk through two large stones with a gap in between. The giant 30 ft statue, the first on the Mall to honor a…
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Added by Eugene on August 22, 2011 at 11:30am —
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Cute Pop Culture Characters
Underwater Shipwreck Art Gallery - Photos Released!
Stellar Cosmic Gifs
