In 2009, vets at the Leipzig zoo were baffled when some bears began to lose hair. Not just a few clumps, but their entire fur coat. Vets earlier assumed the bears were going to grow a thicker fur coat to deal with the winters in Leipzig, away from their native South America. That didn’t happen, [...]
Portraits of Melting Icebergs
Artist Simon Harsent finds his calling in photographing icebergs. This set in particular takes a good, hard look at what may be loosely called the life span of an iceberg. The portraits start with massive icebergs as they reach Greenland’s Disco Bay from the Ilulissat Icefjord and goes on to the east coast of Newfoundland, [...]
Scrap Metal Beasts Made From Motorcycle Parts
Artist Robert Jefferson Travis Pond delves into scrap metal mostly from motorcycle parts, old gears, steel handles and a few other things to create these imposing, surreal animal sculptures. The impressive part of course is his ability to weld all these seemingly unrelated parts that don’t quite lend themselves to sculpting, and still come out [...]
Cut Leaf Illustrations Beautifully Show the Importance of Plants
An artistic and well executed campaign by Legas Delaney for Plant for the Planet, this shows the importance of plants towards the environment and our lives.
Newspaper Paintings Put Old Paper to Good Use
Artist Nick Georgiou uses old, discarded newspapers to create these abstract, weird, and mesmerizing sculptures or newspaper paintings, if we can call them that.
Jurassic Awesomeness Shines in this Metal Crafted T-Rex
It looks like the latest creation of Andrew Chase is busy devouring anything that comes in its path. But that was kind of obvious given most creatures would fall prey to the “Tyrant Lizard”. The handmade mechanical creation was built using recycled metal that primarily came from transmission parts, conduit, plumbing pipe and unidentifiable widgets [...]
Forest Wonderlands Photographed by Lars van de Goor
Lars van de Goor is a Netherlands based photographer. One with the penchant of capturing the beauty of the woods and presenting the same in a very interesting way. His wonderful pieces have won him Hasselblad Masters Award 2012, which seems only natural after having feasted our eyes on these wonderful images.
NYC Landmarks Made With Twings and Leaves
New York Botanical Garden has been running a very interesting show for the past twenty years. Named the Holiday Train Show, it features New York City landmarks recreated from twigs, leaves, barks and other plant materials. They are built in a most intricate fashion, creating an impressive personification of the landmarks from the Big Apple. [...]
Group Plans to Transform Eiffel Tower Into a Giant Tree
A group in Paris has intentions of converting the Eiffel Tower into a giant metallic tree by covering it in over 600,000 plants. They hope to accomplish this by covering the structure in 12 tons of rubber tubing that would make way for the gradual addition of plants on the tower.
Appetite For Destruction
Street artist Blu made this thought provoking mural in Belgrade, Serbia back in 2009. Via misabrzi on Flickr, TwistedSifter
