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Polish artist Anna Bocek's figurative paintings feature vibrant and energetic portraits of women. The painter's subjects are filled with emotion, communicated through facial expressions, body postures, and Bocek's brilliant color palette. Each portrait features a rich array of color, both in the background and on the subject, that adds to its evocative liveliness.

Strokes of color…

Ballroom Luminoso is a public art installation consisting of six sculptural chandeliers created by technologist Joe O'Connell and sculptor Blessing Hancock. Each luminous globe includes a custom designed LED light fixture encased in a spherical cage made of recycled bicycle parts that have been collected from bike co-ops from across the country. The…

Los Angeles-based artist Megan Geckler has mesmerized us with her radiant, site-specific tape installations time and time again and her most recent work, titled…

Patrick Thorendahl, better known as Peejet, has amassed an impressive collection of photos with celebrities, except none of them are real. The clever photo manipulator has created a hilarious collection of Photoshopped images featuring himself hanging out with numerous celebrities.

From Kanye West and Jay-Z to Halle Berry and Amanda Bynes, Peejet is right besides…

Texas-based sculptor Gil Bruvel manipulates ribbons of cast stainless steel to create spectacular figurative sculptures for his Flow series. Each form is energized with fluid, flowing lines of metal that appear all-at-once sturdy and fragile. Each metallic strand serves as a piece of Bruvel's captivating puzzle, all of which work in unison to depict "the natural strength and quiet…

S.A.C.R.E.D. is a six-part sculptural installation by renowneed Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei presenting stationary scenes from his publicly reported 81-day incarceration in 2011. At the time of his arrest and imprisonment in China, details of the artist's whereabouts were scarce as the public demanded answers. Being an active social media user worked in the artist's advantage. The…

Blogger and Photoshop expert Benjamin Grelle, aka The Frogman, has created a clever re-imaging of precious pups that like sticking their heads out of the window of a moving car. The series of manipulated images known as Warp Dogs features several shots of different dogs who appear to be warping through space…

Beetle Sphere is a sculptural composite of five Volkswagen Beetles compressed into one spherical ball by Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor. The 180cm³ metallic orb, which was recently unveiled at Art Basel Hong Kong, is comprised of real parts from 1953 models of the car,…

Food artist Ida Skivenes, better known as IdaFrosk, pays homage to the great painters of yesteryear with her playful food creations. The Oslo, Norway-based artist works particularly with toast as her canvas for her aptly titled series The Art Toast Project. The food paintings that IdaFrosk creates work with an assortment of ingredients that maintain a…

San Francisco-based design company MonkeyLectric has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Monkey Light Pro, a bicycle wheel display with the ability to feature motion graphics while you ride. The LED display is said to be compatible with…

Maned Wolf

The world we live in is filled with exotic wildlife, and that means more than just lions and giraffes. There are a multitude of species that are lesser known to the general public and fascinating to learn more about. Redditor…

Virginia-based paper artist Eric Standley meticulously cuts and layers thin sheets of paper to construct sculptural creations that look like stained glass windows. Every square inch of his multilayered creations are carefully carved to perfection, resulting in unbelievably intricate designs. The final product is an awe-inspiring, three-dimensional frenzy of colors and patterns.

Standley's…

Hungarian artist and photographer Kerényi Zoltán compares images from the past to the present in his series titled Ablak a Múltra, translated as Window to the Past. The photographer takes images from Fortepan, a site with an online collection of amateur photos from 1900 through the 1990's, and overlays it onto his…

British sculptor Marc Quinn creates a multitude of large-scale structures that draw a resemblance to nature. His latest works, a series of giant bronze seashells, are what he calls The Archeology of Art. According to Quinn, "the form of the shell is like a found structural diagram of how the present becomes the past, with the rings on the outside of the…

New York-based wedding photographer Ryan Brenizer always wanted to organize a creative and unconventional bridal shoot, but didn't get the chance to fulfill his dream until this year. While in Europe for a few workshops, Brenizer resolved to work on something very special with professional bridal model Claudia Nallely Agres who was now living in Germany with…

Single topic blog Animals Riding Animals features exactly what you'd expect: animals riding other animals. The hilarious and at times adorable (see: Chick riding kitten, below) Tumblr blog includes all members of the animal kingdom, from your basic house cat and dog to barnyard animals and exotic wildlife. The blog first launched in December 2010, but it has only in the last…

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) post-doctoral fellow Wim L. Noorduin has carefully manipulated chemical compounds to create microscopic structures that resemble flowers. That's not to say that he sculpted on a microscopic level, but rather combined solubles that naturally react with one another and the environment to result in self-assembled floral…

Record-holding free divers Christina & Eusebio Saenz de Santamaria, aka One ocean One breath, explore oceans and other large bodies of water around the world, diving deep down on only one breath. More than simply plunging into vast expanses of water, though, the married couple also manage to capture their daring underwater adventures on camera. On one excursion, using…

Japanese art and photography collective RRRRRRRROLL first mesmerized us with their spinning gifs over 10 months ago and they've continued to create one hypnotizing animated image after another. Sharing about one to two images every week, the 5 creatives behind this eye-catching project have been…

Animal lovers across the internet have popularized a fun photo trend that allows them to collaborate with their furry companions on a comical composite portrait, all created in-camera. It started with Cat Beards featuring feline friends as the lower half of their owner's face but dog lovers have…