Inspiring
July 26, 2015

Community Comes to the Rescue When Bride Loses Everything the Day Before Her Wedding

The women of Scotland's Orkney Islands displayed an extraordinary amount of kindness when bride-to-be Lucia Sessions lost her valuable luggage. After arriving at her destination, Sessions was in the midst of every bride's worst nightmare: her entire wedding wardrobe had disappeared in transit. To make matters even worse, her wedding was scheduled for the very next day. With less than 24 hours to spare, Sessions's hotel stepped up to the plate. “A Request for help!!

Read Article

Art
July 21, 2015

Secondhand Novels Are Carved into Extraordinary Mountainous Landscapes

Artist Guy Laramee has made a name for himself through his incredible ability to transform encyclopedias, dictionaries, and secondhand novels into extraordinary mountain landscapes. Drawing inspiration from places that he's visited, the artist carves away at printed materials that have been replaced by technology. Upon the pages of wide-ranging publications, Laramee reveals every tree, curve, canyon, and crack in the Earth's surface.

Read Article

Art
July 20, 2015

Artist Discovers the Beauty of Life Emerging from Visual Chaos

Canadian artist Glen Ronald has the incredible ability of finding beauty in visual chaos. Looking beyond crackled paint and frenetic ink splatters, his popular Instagram shows him transforming unruly media into portraits of people and animals. Faces, fur, snouts, and beaks are created by drawing into these drips, and they produce the illusion that they're somehow emerging from the abstract forms.

Read Article

Photography
July 17, 2015

Whimsical Photos of Everyday Objects Playfully Reimagined Through the Eyes of a Child

Photographer Peechaya Burroughs‘ playfully minimalistic shots contain a contagious amount of positivity. Through Burroughs' unique lens, a yellow/orange balloon becomes a perfect egg yolk, food is transformed into artistic material, and origami is magically brought to life. No matter what the concept, each image showcases the artist's imaginative ability to see the extraordinary in everyday items. “My photographs mainly consist of things that I create or manipulate by hand,” Burroughs explains on her website.

Read Article

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.