Art
June 3, 2014

Incredible Man-Made Tunnels Formed with Wires & Repurposed Wood

Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira's incredible installation titled Transarquitetnica invites you to go on a fantastical journey through a cavernous interior. The recently-completed work is his largest to date, and he has successfully created a fully-immersive environment inside of a large, root-like system. Upon entering, you can follow multiple paths that lead you throughout the sculpture while you're completely surrounded by repurposed wood pieces that are tacked together and resemble bark on a tree.

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Art
May 31, 2014

Incredibly Detailed Ink Drawings of Winged Insects by Alex Konahin

We've been following the fine art illustrations of Latvia-based Alex Konahin for quite some time. He first caught our attention with his incredibly detailed ink illustrations of patterns that seemed to pop off the page. We were in complete disbelief that these weren't three-dimensional. Then, in his surreal Anatomy series, he left us spell-binded as we saw the heart, lungs and stomach like we'd never seen drawn before.

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Science
May 28, 2014

Gorgeous Gemstone Looks Like a Nebula is Trapped Inside

Looking at this breathtaking gemstone, one thing is clear: nature is amazing. This fine specimen, with its clumps of cloud-like formation and its shimmering background streaked with luminescent colors, looks like it has an entire nebula trapped inside it. The gorgeous stone is not an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and other ionized gases, however, but just an ordinary opal.

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