Animals

January 4, 2018

Wood Artist Carves Fallen Logs into Adorable Forest Animals Crawling Out of Trees

Japanese wood carving artist and nature-lover Mori Kono creates impressively detailed woodland animal sculptures. Now living in Canada, the skilled artist and his team (MK carving & sculpting) utilize their local materials such as yellow and red cedar, alder, and birch wood. The ongoing sculpture series includes bears, raccoons, rabbits, owls, and chipmunks.

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January 2, 2018

Larger Than Life Lion Sculpture Made from Hand-Cut Steel Weighs Over 700 Pounds

Istanbul-based sculptor Selçuk Yılmaz creates larger than life, three-dimensional animal sculptures from thin strands of hammered and welded metal. His latest work—titled Kali—takes the form of a majestic lion sculpture, whose ferocious features include a flowing mane and muscular physique. Every inch is made from meticulously placed pieces of steel in various textures. With a length of approximately 11.5 feet, the incredible artwork weighs 772 pounds, making it Yılmaz’s largest sculpture to date.

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December 22, 2017

Dog Portraits Capture the Unique Personalities of Pups Around the World

Last year we introduced you to London-based street photographer Alan Schaller, whose high contrast, black and white images capture “the realities and diversities of human life.” Previously, we covered an intimate series of his that showed the rarely photographed faces of Moroccan people. In his latest work, Schaller takes to the streets once more, but this time, his subjects are a little smaller and furrier.

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December 19, 2017

Fluffy Siberian Cats Overtake Couple’s Farm, Turn It Into Snowy “Catland”

Introducing the Queen of Cat Ladies: Russian farmer Alla Lebedeva, who claims her farm-turned-“Catland” is home to “a million, maybe more” Siberian cats. Located in snowy Prigorodny, just outside Barnaul, Siberia, Lebedeva and her husband Sergey have been raising this majestic breed of felines for over ten years. Their cat collection began in 2004 when their first lion-like cat named Babushka gave birth to five ginger kittens.

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