Animals
April 8, 2015

Adorable Orphaned Baby Bats Cared for by Australian Bat Clinic

File this under “cutest thing we've ever seen.” These orphaned baby bats, swaddled in cozy blankets and fed milk in baby bottles, are the incredibly adorable residents of the Australian Bat Clinic & Wildlife Trauma Centre in eastern Australia's Gold Coast Hinterland. Volunteers and employees at the clinic work tirelessly to care for sick, injured, and orphaned bats whose mothers have died, as well as other wildlife in need of assistance.

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Art
April 6, 2015

French Artist Creates Beautifully Intricate Paper Masks of Animal Faces

French artist Mlle Hipolyte's colorful paper masks feature intricate, origami-like designs to form whimsical animal faces that people can really wear. Feathery paper triangles stacked in layers create a rich texture that resembles fur. The artist skillfully chooses and arranges slips of complementary shades of paper to create a sense of depth. The masks include some of the most adorable and beloved creatures in the animal kingdom, such as raccoons, foxes and tigers.

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Art
April 5, 2015

Amazingly Colorful Drawings of Reptiles by Illustrator Tim Jeffs

Artist Tim Jeffs brings vivid illustrations of regal reptiles to life with bold, black lines and brilliant pencil-crayon shading. The New York City-based artist starts a picture by drawing an outline that looks like a grid, which he then fills in with a beautiful spectrum of colored pencils. The grid “squares” transform into rainbow-colored scales, which function like individually shaded pixels to make up a brilliant, Technicolor image.

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Design
April 3, 2015

TransLook: An Innovative Transparent Display Case That Combines Digital Art and Interactive Information

From smart watches to phones to TVs, advanced interactive technology is occupying more and more of our daily lives. Emotive Digital–a startup based in San Jose, California and Seoul, South Korea–aims to develop that technology one step further with TransLook, a highly innovative transparent display case that could radically change the way we engage with brands, advertisements, and information while shopping.

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