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        Force of Nature: Mother Nature Furiously Spins the Earth Italian sculptor Lorenzo Quinn sculpted his project Force of Nature I and II, after being a witness to the devastating destruction of hurricanes in Thailand and in the Southern United States. Constructed from bronze, stainless steel and aluminum, the work reflects nature’s perceived powerful energy, which is unpredictable, beautiful, yet dangerous. By omitting Mother Nature’s face, Quinn reminds us that there is no sense of security or protection from the Earth itself. We are not in control, sudden destruction awaits at any time. |
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                Everyone please raise a nanner to welcome the newest member of the Department of Awesome Banana Art: Rotterdam-based artist Stephan Brusche, aka iSteef. “It all started a few years back when I just started using Instagram. I was at work and I just wanted to post something,” he recounts. “I then noticed my banana and I figured it would make a nice post if I just drew a little happy face on it. I took a ballpoint pen and just started drawing. I was pretty amazed how pleasant a banana peel is to draw on. After that I tried to come up with new ideas for drawings while using the shape of the banana in all kinds of clever ways. Trying to keep pushing myself I eventually started to carve in the banana peel as well.” Not only does Brusche draw on bananas and manipulate their peels to create illustrated banana sculptures, he even creates stop-motion bananimation: |
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          Dramatic Black and White Storms Photographed Raging Across Rural America Photographer Mitch Dobrowner sets out across the Southern states of America, chasing treacherous storms with his camera. |
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            Remember the words of Mr. Bergstrom, Lisa Simpson’s substitute teacher, “Everybody has a talent.” For Shunsuke Tani in Japan, that special talent is creating gravity-defying, stacked coin sculptures suing 1 and 5 yen coins. Tani posts his creations to a twitter account where he often shares how much time each sculpture took to create (usually 2 – 3 hours). He also adds some self-deprecating humor like “I have no other skills in life, other than this” or “I sacrificed 2 hours of my life.” Each of Tani’s creations is perfectly balanced, no glue or photo manipulation is used in the process. To prove this he sometime share videos demonstrating just how easily his sculptures can fall apart: |
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    Cubism and Realism Collide in New Murals and Paintings by ‘Belin’      Built some time around 2000, this abandoned outdoor movie theater is located somewhere around the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. As the story goes, a wealthy French businessman visited the region at the end of the last millennium, and thought that the area was missing an outdoor theater. Having a considerable amount of money to throw around, he decided to build one with his own capital. He had old seats, a generator, and a screen hauled in from Cairo to build it with. However, the locals didn’t seem to like this idea; and so when the day of the first screening came, some of the locals had, overnight, destroyed the screen and the generators. It never saw even a single screening. |
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   Ken Hermann didn’t mean to start a fire. Really. He didn’t. He was just trying to take a picture. He loves making photographs of explosions, and had a pretty good track record. He had a system, see. But this time, something went wrong. He lit the firework and sprinted back to his camera for his shot. Hermann has made more than 50 photos for Explosions 1.0 and Explosions 2.0, shooting everything from mini mushroom clouds to great balls of fire.    |
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          Planet Soup, Sushi Cats, and Snake Cake, oh my! The Department of Phenomenal Photoshop loves these awesomely surreal mashups created by graphic designer Paul Fuentes. crossconnectmag The New Pop Art by Paul Fuentes Paul Fuentes is a graphic designer, based in Mexico City, who enjoys staging everyday objects into surreal and colorful compositions creating pop mashups. His Facebook. CrossConnectMag on Facebook - a place that’s definitely worth a visit! posted by tu recepcja |
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    The neighborhood of Hazaribagh runs along the bank of the Buriganga River as it flows through Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Its name means “a thousand gardens” in Urdu, but you won’t see much green. Instead, the streets are lined with mounds and mounds of leather. Hazaribagh is home to the country’s $1 billion tanning industry, a place where thousands work in the factories and chemicals makes the river slick and shiny.   |
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    In-Camera Light Paintings by Hannu Huhtamo Sprout in the Darkness Like Alien Blooms    Today the Department of Awesome Natural Phenomena is marveling at these awesome light pillars witnessed and captured on camera in North Bay, Canada by photographer Timothy Joseph Elzinga. Light pillars are a stunning atmospheric optical phenomena that occur in extremely cold weather when light bounces of ice crystals in the air, making it appear as though aliens are dropping in for a visit. |