After finding three giant bags of wool at a garage sale, Imgur user and knitter Otterknot decided to make a gigantic knitted blanket, using two huge pieces of PVC pipe for knitting needles. She posted the step-by-step process to Imgur which you can see below. [via Laughing Squid] 1. Getting the right thickness…
At the end of every quarter the Sifter highlights the top 25 ‘Pictures of the Day‘, culminating in an epic Top 100 at the end of the year (see last year’s top 100 here). It’s been an eventful year and I can’t wait to see what treasures next year will bring! Below you will…
Contemporary by Angela Li recently presented Li Hongbo’s solo exhibition – Shadow of Knives, a brand new series of metal sculpture and installation works by the Beijing-based artist. The initial concept of this metal series came to Li back in 2007, the same time as he developed his extremely successful expandable paper sculptures series,…
Ptolemy Elrington recycles old hubcaps, transforming them into incredible works of art. Currently based in Brighton, England, the artist has worked a variety of creative jobs including theatre and stage set design. Elrington concentrates on creating sculpture of natural forms from found and recycled materials. At the moment he is working with a variety…
More than 9,200 entries were submitted from over 150 countries, with professional photographers and amateur photo enthusiasts across the globe participating. Photographs were submitted in three categories: people, places and nature. The competition was judged on creativity and photographic quality by a panel of experts including National Geographic photographers John Stanmeyer and Erika Larsen,…
It began on September 10, 2012. Isaiah Webb uploaded a photo to his Instagram of what he called his ‘Lorax beard’. The photo went viral, “Incredibeard” was born. Some two years later and the 30-year-old San Francisco Bay Area native has a massive following online with hundreds of thousands of fans on Facebook, Twitter,…
Scott Wade turns dirty cars into works of art. Using a variety of brushes and painting tools, Scott has learned through much trial and error how to use dirt and mud on cars like paint. While he’s been doodling with dirt on cars since he was a child, Scott’s been serious about the craft…
© Artcurial Pictured above is a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder and a 1956 Maserati A6G 2000. The Ferrari is expected to fetch between $11.7 and $14.8 million while the Maserati A6G 2000 is expected to fetch north of a million. There are some 58 more cars going up for auction on…
Puerto Rican street artist Bikismo just finished this amazing artwork for the RAW Project at Jose de Diego Middle School for Art Basel Miami. The chrome dog is 100% spray paint and took the talented artist about 4 days to complete. The distorted reflections of the surrounding environment are what impressed me most. What…
Art student Kincső Nagy designed an amazing glow in the dark version of the Harry Potter books, complete with interactive illustrations throughout. The Hungarian designer created simple covers for each book in the series, and the laser-cut illustrations come to life once the lights go out. Inside, readers will find illustrations that pop-up, fold…
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