Posts by Kristine Mitchell

Portrait Photography
January 18, 2016

Stunning Self Portraits of a Woman Sharing an Eye with Various Animals

Hungarian artist Flra Borsi has a keen talent for creating surreal visuals. We have featured Borso before, with her collection of playful time-travel edits and enchanting urban landscapes, and the self taught artist just continues to improve and impress. Her latest series of skillful photo manipulations feature some stunning self-portraits with an animalistic twist. The series, titled Animeyed, showcases the young artist with one eye replaced by that of a wild animal.

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Environment
January 15, 2016

Eco-friendly "Great Wall of Australia" Naturally Protects Residents from Sweltering Outback Heat

Composed of 230m of simple, natural materials, this earthen structure may look unassuming, yet it is actually the longest rammed earth wall in Australia. Built to accommodate cattle workers during mustering season in the scorching Western Australia outback, the eco-friendly formation represents a shift in the approach to architectural design of this sort.

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Environment
January 14, 2016

Beautiful Photos of Soulful Wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic

Kyriakos Kaziras‘ images capture the surprisingly humanistic qualities within the wildlife of the icy North and South Poles. His ongoing projects, titled White Dream Arctic and White Dream Antarctic, reveal the many moods of the polar bears and penguins in their natural environments of the Arctic and Antarctic, respectively. The French artist's stunning photography is powerfully simple, the absence of colour emphasizing the infinite shades of black and white of the stark environment.

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Art
January 11, 2016

Surreal Sculptures of Animals Carrying the Weight of the World on Their Backs

Wang Ruilin‘s surreal animal sculptures radiate a simultaneous sense of wisdom and whimsy. His ongoing series, aptly titled Dreams, features a variety of otherworldly creatures, some supporting the weight of the world on their backs. Previously, we have featured his collection of flat-back whales, and Ruilin continues to impress with these stunning additions to his fantasy menagerie of placid beasts that hover between fantasy and reality.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.