Category: Creativity

Art

Freelance photographer Kito Fujio documents sculptural play equipment around Japan

After quitting his job as an office worker in 2005, Kito Fujio became a freelance photographer. His latest series documents cement-molded play equipment scattered around Japan. Fujio has spent the last 12 years exploring...

By Umar Ansari · May. 29, 2014

Funny

13 recognizable celebrity portraits made from assembled cornflakes

New York City artist Sarah Rosado has created quite a name for herself...making portraits of famous people out of cornflakes breakfast cereal. As silly as this sounds the depictions are actually very good and typically don't need...

By Justin Crowe · May. 27, 2014

Art

This striking jellyfish portrait won the 2016 UK Wildlife Photography Awards

The British Wildlife Photography Awards has announced winners of the 2016 competition and they entries are nothing short of amazing. Several categories like Animal Behavior, Animal Portraits, Urban Wildlife were up...

By Umar Ansari · May. 27, 2014

Creativity

Video of hundreds of balls on an escalator is endlessly entertaining

In a funny public stunt disguised as a "science experiment" En Was Not Here unleashed a massive amount of plastic balls onto an escalator. In some ways this was demonstrating perpetual motion, but mostly it was just really funny...

By Justin Crowe · May. 27, 2014

Sculpture

Korean artist’s uncompleted sculptures explore human melancholia, existentialism

Park Ki Pyung, a Seoul-based sculptor, and student, creates haphazardly finished sculptures that are heavily inspired by his personal reflections about existentialism. The artist transforms resin and steel into human forms...

By Mariza Monta · May. 25, 2014

Creativity

Delicate images meticulously created with dandelions

Duy Anh Nhan Duc’s dandelion collages were featured in the show “VOYAGE CELESTE”, at the COLETTE in Paris last December through January. Duc’s meticulously attached dandelions form subtle shapes against white backgrounds....

By Laura Smith · May. 25, 2014

Design

Stuffed anglerfish combines several materials and turns inside out

Innovation extends to stuffed animals with Rachel Ciavarella new creations. The artist and designer created Morris, a stuffed anglerfish that can be turned inside out. The reversible fish is part toy and part material...

By Umar Ansari · May. 24, 2014

Inspiration

Electrical circuits bring new life and energy to LEGO bricks

Two physicists were inspired to develop this awesome improvement on building bricks. They are compatible with regular LEGO bricks, so with just the very same very basic building technique, you can add light, sound, proximity...

By Odette Carrasquedo · May. 23, 2014

Art

'Eloise at the Museum' reveals the creative collaboration between illustrator and cabaret star

The New-York Historical Society will be the venue for the upcoming 'Eloise' exhibit. The collection will feature the famously audacious and feisty character of Eloise, the popular picture book star. Eloise remains known to many...

By Sharee Ann Narciso-Tolentino · May. 21, 2014

Creativity

Insect sculptures assembled with tiny screws by Edouard Martinet

The incredible French artist Edouard Martinet is at it again with some brand-new designs from his already notorious collection of insects made from recycled materials. These are no 'random' trash repurposed materials,...

By Justin Crowe · May. 18, 2014

Creativity

Toy teaches toddlers the principles of programming

Cubetto is a little cute wood robot, who is lost, and needs help finding his way. This way kids can relate with a friend who needs directions, and without realizing it, they learn some simple principles of programming languages,...

By Odette Carrasquedo · May. 18, 2014

Art

Blocky LEGO brick creations reveal hidden shadow figures

John V. Muntean is a LEGO master-builder who creates these bulky blocks that, when spun on a single axis in front of a light source, reveal multiple projected shadows. His two latest works are comprised of literally thousands...

By Umar Ansari · May. 16, 2014

Art

Dual Bowls: One of a kind metal-casted bowls popular on Kickstarter

Dual Bowls use the might of metallurgy which is used to fuse two different kinds of metals together in contemporary forms. Artist Kawther Al Saffar forges each one-of-a-kind bowl from a mixture of recycled brass, copper,...

By Umar Ansari · May. 14, 2014

Creativity

Song anatomy stereotypes by genre— it’s funny because it’s true!

Different genres of music follow different song formulas, and this structure can be surprisingly consistent. Cartoon artist John Atkinson illustrated this song anatomy, but his analysis went beyond the musical rhythms and...

By Steph · May. 14, 2014

Funny

Artist crochets 10 impressive food-themed hats

Phil Ferguson came up with an interesting strategy for making friends when he moved from Perth in Western Australia to Melbourne last year. The 22-year-old artist launched an Instagram and began to crochet food themed hats....

By Justin Crowe · May. 13, 2014