Yet another organization is making strides toward helping ordinary citizens spend time in outer space. The Gateway Foundation has announced plans to build the world's first space hotel, with an aim to have 100 tourists per week by 2025.
For its first venture in Japan, Heatherwick Studio is continuing to push the boundaries when it comes to architecture that...
Portuguese graffiti artist Vile wields his spray cans like a laser cutter, expertly “carving” his name into concrete and stone.
Myanmar-based photographer Zay Yar Lin looks to the fundamentals of art as a way to capture compelling portraits of the world. Focusing on lighting, composition, and color, his often-aerial shots are simultaneously abstract while communicating stories about people as they travel, work, and exercise their spirituality. The images depict everyday moments that are otherwise easy to forget. But thanks to Lin's keen eye, he transforms them into works of art.
Travel photographer Peter Yan left behind a successful career at Apple to pursue his work as a respected visual storyteller.
Renowned street photographer Alan Schaller continues to travel the world, snapping his masterful black and white imagery that captures the...
When it comes to planning a proposal, timing is everything. While waiting for the “perfect” moment is standard practice when popping the question. Self-described “spontaneous improviser” Edi Okoro took this idea to the extreme—and he has a hilarious Facebook album to prove it. For an entire month, Okoro secretly snapped photographs of his girlfriend, Cally Read, unknowingly posing with an engagement ring.
Artist Ania Amador transformed an ordinary swimming pool into a stellar basin that is out of this world.
There are two primary ways to see sculptures made by renowned artists: within the walls of a museum and in...
Designer Nicholas Rougeux has spent the last year combining his love for data visualization with his tech skills to lovingly restore and place 19th-century texts online. After the success of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours and the geometry tome Byrne's Euclid, Rougeux is tackling a new topic—botanical illustration. After scouring the internet for different 19th-century botanical catalogs, Rougeux set his sights on Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants by Elizabeth Twining.
While many bowling alleys around the world are being constantly updated to suit modern strike-chasers, there are others that have...
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