Moscow-based artist and designer Andrew Gorkovenko created these beautiful landscapes out of dried tea leaves. The landscapes themselves reflect the origin of the tea used to create each artwork. For example, the Great Wall of China is depicted with green tea leaves, while a Pagoda was created using black tea. The temporary art was…
THE VENEZUELAN POODLE MOTH Photograph by Arthur Anker on Flickr The photograph above, taken by zoologist Arthur Anker, has been making the rounds online, as the bizarre creature looks straight out of a fantasy world. The moth was spotted in the Gran Sabana region of Venezuela’s Canaima National Park several years…
Tauba Auerbach’s RGB Colorspace Atlas were created in 2011. The project consists of three 8x8x8 inch (20.3cm) case bound books. The books attempt to illustrate the RGB color shceme in a page-by-page format. The printing procedure was digital offset and the cloth covers and edges were airbrushed. Binding was co-designed by Daniel E. Kelm…
THE PERSEIDS METEOR SHOWER Photograph by David Kingham on Flickr | Prints Available In this stunning capture we see the Perseids meteor shower as observed from the Snowy Range in Wyoming. The photograph was taken the night of August 11th by professional photographer David Kingham. Kingham explains: “I went out to…
Artist ABVH is an animated gif monster! With over 33 pages of animated excellence on his highly active Tumblr page, ABVH is proof that the animated gif culture is alive and well. In the series below, ABVH adds movement to some of Banksy’s most famous artworks. The animations are subtle with much of the image…
Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find the 20 funniest images, 10 most interesting articles, and 5 most viral videos from the previous week of sifting. Most images found on Reddit; articles typically originate from Twitter, RSS and email; videos come from a variety of sources. Any suggestions? Send a note to…
BARREL FEVER Photograph by Agustin Munoz/Red Bull Content Pool In this incredible capture we see surfer Mick Fanning about to enter a beautiful barrel (where the wave is hollow when it is breaking). The photo was taken off the Mentawais Islands in Indonesia back in 2009. You can feel the impending…
Photograph by MBARI Macropinna microstoma, commonly known as Barreleye, are small deep sea fish found in tropical-to-temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. What you might first mistake as its eyes (just above the small mouth) are actually the fish’s olfactory organs (the equivalent of nostrils). Believe it or not, the…
ITN Architects converted this old industrial warehouse into two three-story apartments in Melbourne, Australia. Before the conversion the industrial space was used as a Technical College an d many of the former details were retained and left exposed (e.g., external walls, lower floors, welding benches, etc). The building fronts two streets so each apartment…
AN X-RAY OF A STINGRAY Photograph by Ken Jones The photograph above is an x-ray of a freshwater stingray species discovered in 2011 in the Amazon rain forest. The discovery was made by the research team of Nathan Lovejoy, a biologist at the University of Toronto in Scarborough; and Marcelo Rodrigues…
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