Scientific art in the form of plush petri dish specimens created by UK fiber artist Elin Thomas. The pieces are a mix of needle felting, embroidery and crochet.
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Animal sculptures formed from delicate metallic tree branches by Kang Dong Hyun
Korean sculptor Kang Dong Hyun creates animal-shaped metal sculptures fusing animal forms with natural elements such as branches of trees and little twigs.
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Murals of Plants | Mona Caron
A series of paintings of urban weeds by San Francisco-based artist Mona Caron. Her focus is on community-informed and site-specific murals in public space. She has created large-scale murals in the US, Europe, South America and Asia, has delved into stop-motion animation as part of her “WEEDS” project.
Incredibly detailed portraits created with millions of tiny ink dots
David Bayo is a French contemporary artist who creates portraits made up of dots, using a technique called stippling. He starts by drawing out the general layout of his portraits, and then proceeds to fill them up with millions of tiny ink dots.
The video below shows Bayo at work.
The museum of curious rocks that resemble faces
Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) is a museum in Japan that contains nothing but rocks that look like faces. The museum’s founder, who passed away in 2010, collected rocks for over fifty years. Especially strange rocks that naturally resemble celebrities, such as Elvis Presley, movie characters, and more.
Folly architecture
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of garden ornaments usually associated with the class of buildings to which it belongs.
18th century English gardens and French landscape gardening often featured mock Roman temples, symbolizing classical virtues. Other 18th century garden follies represented Chinese temples, Egyptian pyramids, ruined abbeys, or Tatar tents, to represent different continents or historical eras.
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Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, England
By Saffron Blaze – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
A fascinating golden bait trap
Russian artist Roman Booteen has created this Hobo nickel, which he titled “THE TRAP with GOLDEN BAIT.” A carved Morgan dollar, featuring a 1945 gold 2-peso coin from Mexico serving as “bait” in the middle. The coin also features a mouth of teeth that act as a trap jaw. The trap jaws are triggered when the gold coin is pressed.
Booteen sells his work on eBay. See more on Instagram.
