Creative Products
June 24, 2020

Adorable Loch Ness Monster Kitchen Tools Add a Pinch of Fun to Every Meal

They say a family who eats together stays together. Well, now you can make every meal a family affair with OTOTO‘s line of adorable Loch Ness Monster-inspired kitchen tools! There's papa, mama, and even a baby Nessie. Each one emulates the mythical creature's long-necked likeness and is ready to help you serve legendary meals. If pasta is on the menu, then you better call the Papa Nessie Pasta Spoon for help.

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Animals
June 23, 2020

This Moth Has Brilliant Wing Patterns That Look Like Tiger Eyes

On one of David Weiller's many expeditions to the rainforest, he was drawn like a moth to a flame to a slumbering Brahmaea Hearseyi moth occupying a nearby tree trunk. “This was a lucky find as it was attracted at night to the light of my bungalow,” says the wildlife photographer. What makes this moth so different from any other? Well, it's wings look like a pair of tiger eyes.

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Music
June 22, 2020

Musician Transforms Classic Pop Songs Into Medieval-Style Cover Songs

You’ve likely heard acoustic versions of your favorite tunes, but have you ever heard cover songs remixed to sound as if they’re from a completely different era? Singer Hildegard von Blingin' transforms well-known hits—such as Creep, Bad Romance, and What Is Love—into medieval-style ballads. She describes the genre as, “Bardcore for the discerning clergyman, noble, or muck-gathering peasant.

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Painting
June 21, 2020

Artist Paints En Plein Air to Create Vibrant Landscape Scenes Inspired by the Old Masters

Inspired by the Old Masters of landscape painting, Erik Koeppel takes to the great outdoors to capture surrounding nature en plein air. From autumnal forests to majestic mountain scenes in Jackson, New Hampshire, each colorful painting celebrates the beauty of our planet. “I have sought to discover that highest knowledge of beauty, poetic and philosophical, that has been the common thread between all of the great masters of art,” Koeppel reveals in an artist statement.

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