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Indonesian Tribe Believes Chiseled Teeth Make Women Beautiful

Indonesian Tribe Believes Chiseled Teeth Make Women Beautiful | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
 If tattooed black gums are considered a thing of beauty in West Africa, it’s chiseled, pointy-sharp teeth that’s the ‘in thing’ for some Indonesian tribes.
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Kelvin Okafor’s Photo-Realistic Drawings Are Simply Mind-Blowing

Kelvin Okafor’s Photo-Realistic Drawings Are Simply Mind-Blowing | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
 Look closely at the images below, and tell you don’t see artistic black and white photos? Well, they’re really just incredibly detailed pencil and charcoal drawings by talented British artist Kelvin Okafor.
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Un téléviseur fabriqué à base de télécommandes

Un téléviseur fabriqué à base de télécommandes | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
Que faire avec 645 télécommandes de télévisions ? Une oeuvre d'art. Qui diffuse des images invisibles par l'oeil humain. Chris Shen a décidé de recycler les télécommandes pour créer un écran de télévision d'une définition assez faible : environ 25...
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Beautiful Cyberpunk Collages Made with Discarded Computer Parts

Beautiful Cyberpunk Collages Made with Discarded Computer Parts | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it

I’ve always been a big fan of steampunk and cyberpunk art, and the beautiful collages of Anna Dabrowska, a.k.a. Finnabair, are some of the most intriguing works I’ve ever seen.

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The Stunningly Beautiful Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky

The Stunningly Beautiful Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it

Ukrainian-born artist Vladimir Kanevsky creates exquisitely handcrafted porcelain flowers that look perfectly natural, but never die.

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10 Coolest Ads Using Street Art

10 Coolest Ads Using Street Art | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
Creative (and cheap) advertising meets amazing art.
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10 of the Most Amazing Ice Formations

10 of the Most Amazing Ice Formations | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
Winter is a greatest time for amazing photography.
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Benjamin Shine Creates Incredible Portraits with Tulle

Benjamin Shine Creates Incredible Portraits with Tulle | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
Most people use tulle netting to create dresses, but artist Benjamin Shine folds and presses the fabric with a clothes iron to create beautiful portraits (Artist Creates Hauntingly Realistic Portraits with Tulle Netting
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The Amazing Rice Grain Artworks of Chen Forng-Shean

The Amazing Rice Grain Artworks of Chen Forng-Shean | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it

Taiwanese artist Chen Forng-Shean uses little things like grains of rice and sand to create awe-inspiring miniature artworks. The self-taught artist spends up to several months in front of a magnifying glass, working on a single piece.

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This is seriously impressive.

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Tibetan Sand Mandalas – The Sacred Art of Painting with Colored Sand

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Demolishing sand castles can be great fun. But what if you had spent weeks creating it painstakingly, only to have it destroyed at the end? Heart breaking, isn’t it?
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Tibetan Sand Mandalas are so impressive.
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Robot Band Compressorhead Puts the “Metal” in Heavy Metal

Robot Band Compressorhead Puts the “Metal” in Heavy Metal | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it

Compressorhead is not your usual heavy-metal rock group. The band’s three members are all robots, but they’ve proven they can cover hits by rock legends like Motorhead or AC/DC honorably.

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Nigerian Artisan Covers Car in Woven Raffia Palm Cane to Advertise His Business

Nigerian Artisan Covers Car in Woven Raffia Palm Cane to Advertise His Business | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it

Ojo Obaniyi, a talented artisan from the Nigerian city of Ibadan has come up with an ingenious way of advertising his raffia palm cane weaving services – he covered the inside and outside of his Volkswagen pickup in the natural material.

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Designer Creates Fashionable Dresses Out of Thousands of Colorful Rubber Bands

Designer Creates Fashionable Dresses Out of Thousands of Colorful Rubber Bands | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
 Bulgarian-born designer Margarita Mileva spends around 90 hours painstakingly knotting rubber bands together to create wearable dresses. Her latest creation numbers 18,500 rubber bands.
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“Sugar Carpet,” Two Tons of Sweet, Obsessive Art

“Sugar Carpet,” Two Tons of Sweet, Obsessive Art | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
The “Sugar Carpet (Tapis de sucre)” by Montreal-based artist Aude Moreau was made with over two tons of sugar, laid out perfectly evenly across an expansive floorspace, then decorated in a Persian rug motif with charcoal and food coloring.Read the...
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Last Supper in Lint

Last Supper in Lint | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
The Last Supper in Lint? It's not a new Da Vinci code... but a Michigan woman's massive art project. See it here.
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Artist Hides $12,600 Check in Art Gallery to Raise Public Interest

Artist Hides $12,600 Check in Art Gallery to Raise Public Interest | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
 Tomas Georgeson, an artist from Buckinghamshire, England, has come up with an ingenious way of getting people to visit the local Milton Keynes Gallery – he placed an advert in the local paper informing town folk that he has hidden a blank...
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Artist Creates Incredible 25-Foot-Tall Castles from Icicles

Artist Creates Incredible 25-Foot-Tall Castles from Icicles | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
 50-year-old Brent Christensen, an artist from Alpine, Utah, creates extraordinary structures that I thought only existed in my imagination and really cool fantasy stories.
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Vernon Spicer’s Incredible Pasta Paintings

Vernon Spicer’s Incredible Pasta Paintings | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it

Self-taught artist Vernon Spicer, from Alabama, uses pasta like spaghetti, macaroni, lasagna and noodles to create his detailed paintings.
I’ve seen some pretty unusual materials used in paintings, but pasta is definitely a first for me.

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8 Coolest Animal Artists

8 Coolest Animal Artists | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
What do you think: talented animals or crazy owners?
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Italian Artist Turns River Stones into Life-Like Works of Art

Italian Artist Turns River Stones into Life-Like Works of Art | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
 River rocks may not seem very interesting to you, but once you see what Italian rock painter Ernestina Gallina can do with them, I’ll bet you’ll see them in a new light.
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ENORMOUS WALL OF SAND HITS AUSTRALIAN COAST

ENORMOUS WALL OF SAND HITS AUSTRALIAN COAST | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
Brett Martin, a tugboat worker, captured this amazing photograph of the incoming dust tsunami.
Check out these amazing photos coming out of Australia today.
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Ugly Model Agency Redefines Fashion Business Standards

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Every model agency has strict criteria based on which they select their workforce, and so does the Ugly Models Agency. As the name suggests, of course, you have to be ugly. Well, ‘unusual-looking’, to be more specific.
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Return of the Invisible Man – New Stunning Camouflage Works by Liu Bolin

Return of the Invisible Man – New Stunning Camouflage Works by Liu Bolin | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it

Liu Bolin, the man who took the international art world by storm, in 2009, with his incredible ability to merge with the environment, has returned with a new series that makes him even harder to spot.

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Russian Artist’s Paintings Are Made with Dead Butterfly Wings

Russian Artist’s Paintings Are Made with Dead Butterfly Wings | Strange days indeed... | Scoop.it
 Vadim Zaritsky, a former police officer turned artist and entomologist uses a very strange medium for his artworks – butterfly wings.
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