Crafts
August 3, 2024

Textile Artist Captures the Beauty of Nature With Colorful Woven Landscapes

Weaving is one of the oldest crafts in history, and Chicago-based artist Adrienne Lee keeps the ancient art form alive with her Painted Sky Textiles. She uses colorful yarn and a loom to render intricate textile landscapes that capture the beauty of the hills, meadows, mountains, seas, and skies. Before Lee starts on a single piece or collection, she often has a theme or place in mind that she wants to base it on.

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Nature
August 2, 2024

Hypnotic Videos of Insects Crawling on Tiny Worlds of Blooming Flowers

Japanese artist Yoshiyuki Katayama highlights the relationship between insects and flowers through exceptional videos. For eight years, he has been adding new work to his ongoing Umwelt series. The work merges a time-lapse video of flowers blooming together with insects crawling on the plants in slow motion. This makes for a dynamic composite as the slow motion and time-lapse create a hypnotic video.

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Sports
August 1, 2024

Olympic Fencer Nada Hafez Competes While Seven Months Pregnant and Wins the Match

When three-time Olympian Nada Hafez won in a fencing match against American Elizabeth Tartakovsky at the Paris 2024 Olympics, she was joined by an unlikely co-competitor. As the public later found out through an Instagram post, Hafez was actually seven months pregnant while she was competing. In the post, Hafez wrote, “What appears to you as two players on the podium, they were actually three!

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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.