Photography
November 4, 2014

Two Friends Turn Their Van into Australia’s First Mobile Laundromat for the Homeless

Two 20-year-old friends have come up with an ingenious way to help the homeless population in Brisbane, Australia by turning a van into a mobile laundromat, where the homeless can safely wash and dry their clothes. Lucas Patchett and Nicholas Marchesi, the founders of the project, started out with an old white van, which they outfitted with a portable generator.

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Design
October 30, 2014

Playful Furniture Design Looks Like a Giant Comfortable Birdsnest

Israel-based Merav (Salush) Eitan and Gaston Zahr of OGE Creative Group were inspired by the structure of a bird's nest to develop this large, playful reclining space. Called Giant Birdsnest for Creating New Ideas, the circular wooden structure is filled with soft, egg-shaped pillows and is intended to function as a “fusion of furniture and playground.

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Art
October 28, 2014

Fantastic Surreal Landscapes by Painter Jung-Yeon Min

Paris-based artist Jung-Yeon Min paints fantastic, dreamlike landscapes that are both beautiful and intriguingly grotesque. Playing with form, space, perspective, and scale, the Korean-born artist uses acrylic on canvas to create surreal scenes filled with warped expanses of land, towering organic life, and fleshy appendages that sprawl and twine like vines or tentacles. Min's paintings, which blend Western and Eastern aesthetics, invite the viewer to explore a world as alluring as it is frightening.

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Photography
October 24, 2014

Winners of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014

Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards were recently announced and the photos are better than ever! The competition, which is put on by the Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide, is one of the exciting photo competitions around because of all of the great entries. This year, they received more than 42,000 from 96 countries.

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