Art
January 14, 2013

Incredible Woven Installation Made of 60,000 Coffee Stirrers

Most people don't think twice about their coffee stirrers once they've fulfilled their mixing duties, but artist Jonathan Brilliant has found another purpose for the common wooden sticks. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based artist has constructed numerous spatial art installations over the years that incorporate the coffee stir sticks, perhaps the most eye-fetching of them being The Sumter Piece.

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Art
January 14, 2013

Hyperrealistic Still Life Paintings of Sugary Treats

Anyone with a sweet tooth will instantly love this work by Italian artist Roberto Bernardi. Viewers will be shocked by the collection of candy still life images when they learn that these aren't photographs, they are actually hyperrealistic oil paintings on canvas. The delicious details are astonishing and it's hard to believe that these images aren't recorded with a camera. Since a very young age, Bernardi has been a painter.

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Aerial Photography
January 10, 2013

Incredible 3D Aerial Panorama of Central Park

Almost makes your head spin, doesn't it? First spotted on The Atlantic, what you're looking at is aerial photos stitched together to form one huge 3D panorama of Central Park. Russian photographer Sergey Semonov won first place in the amateur category at the Epson International Photographic Pano Awards for this near unbelievable photo. Semenov works for AirPano, traveling the world to create these high resolution 3D aerial panoramas.

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Photography
January 10, 2013

Capturing the Violent Moment of Sneezing

Swedish photographer Ulf Lundin created this hilarious series, entitled Bless You, in which he captures some of the less flattering moments of his subjects as they are mid-sneeze. To start, the artist invited people to his studio. He sat them alone in a room and asked them to freely sneeze in front of a video camera.

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