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Beautifully Bent Cherry Tree Project



What a surreal idea! "The Patient Gardener" is the product of a weeklong workshop conducted by Visiondivision. Ten Japanese cherry trees have been planted in a 26 foot diameter ring (8 meters), and will slowly grow into their bent design. The saplings are being pulled toward a tower in the center that will be removed once the trees are strong enough and won't unbend. The Japanese cherrys will… Continue

Added by Jacob Paul Wiegmann on October 25, 2011 at 2:30pm — 3 Comments

Beautifully Offbeat Photography (13 photos)



Samuel Bradley's photos cannot be neatly categorized. Wonderfully offbeat and somewhat quirky, they truly span the spectrum. As he tells us, "I'm battling with two different ways of working and I don't know which one I prefer. I think most people follow my work and blog for the more quirky, interestingly processed and sometimes a bit 'cliché vintage' photographs. They're accessible to a wider…

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Added by alice on January 12, 2011 at 10:00am — 26 Comments

Beautifully Vulnerable Self-Portraits (16 photos)



Kalie Garrett is a 19-year-old photographer who takes such vulnerable self-portraits, you can't help but get emotional when you look at them. Rather than describe them myself, here are some touching testimonials left on her Flickr page:



"You probably know by now how much I adore your work. I mean, your photography is like a drug to me. I can get lost in your stream so easily and just look… Continue

Added by alice on December 23, 2010 at 11:00am — 7 Comments

Beautifully Layered Paper Sculptures (8 pieces)

Self-taught Korean artist Cheong-ah Hwang creates beautiful and intricate works of art that are made entirely out of paper. In order to gain exposure and fund a project to make low-cost prints of her Little Red Riding Hood layered paper sculpture, she joined Kickstarter. She ended up raising $570 which far exceeded her goal of… Continue

Added by alice on December 18, 2010 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

Beautifully Lit Spiral Staircase (6 pics)

Speirs + Major designed this magnificent cylindrical chandelier to provide light for a new spiral staircase in Edinburgh's Usher Hall - one of Scotland's historic art venues. The cylindrical, concrete walls meant it was almost impossible to fix lighting in a way that would appear architecturally integrated. Their solution was to create a 45 foot (13.8 meter) long suspended… Continue

Added by Eugene on November 24, 2010 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Beautifully Artistic iPhone Photography (15 photos)

When I first came across Aik Beng Chia's… Continue

Added by alice on November 11, 2010 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

Dramatic Fashion Photography (12 photos)

Whether he's breathing passion and life into the flamenco or making us fall further in love with our favorite celebs, Alexi Lubomirski has a way with the camera. Having studied under famous fashion… Continue

Added by alice on November 8, 2010 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Beautifully Unwrapped Flowers (15 photos)



Taking beautiful photos of flowers from Flickr, Golan Levin and Kyle McDonald worked their magic to give us a whole new way of enjoying them. Using panoramic-imaging software that they co-wrote, they produced flower panoramas, or panoramic images from inside a flower.



The software was originally created not to unwrap flowers, however, but to unwrap the…

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Added by alice on July 12, 2010 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

Hyperrealistic Sculptures With Meaning (7 total)

While we've now seen our share of hyperrealistic sculptures, Sam Jinks' are in a league of their own. An Australian sculptor who used to work in film and television special effects, Jinks not only creates unbelievably realistic sculptures, he's also the master of making us remember our own mortality. Made of silicone, fiberglass and human hair, his stunning… Continue

Added by alice on July 7, 2010 at 4:00pm — 5 Comments

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