FLORENCE, ITALY—Insisting that she never intended for anyone besides her boyfriend to see the explicit images, Venus, the Roman goddess of love and fertility, was reportedly horrified Tuesday upon browsing the internet and discovering millions of nude pictures of herself. “Oh, my God, someone uploaded all these nudes…
NEW YORK—Having concluded they are at best nice little distractions suitable for children and adolescents, researchers at Columbia University released a report Tuesday confirming video games will never reach the level of art. “Our findings show that video games can be a fun activity, especially for children 14 and…
From stitched artwork to highly intricate installations, we’ve seen some very creative artwork over the past year. Here are your top ten favorites:
10. Millions Of Pieces: The Sculptures of Tara Donovan
Artist Tara Donovan transforms “ordinary” objects by the thousands into impossible and awe-inspiring formations.
9. A Closer Look at Jeff Koons
We had the rare opportunity to view and photograph Jeff Koons’ two-gallery exhibition up close. A must-see!
8. A Mind-Blowing Art Installation Makes A Statement
A floor painting with a deep message that creates an incredible visual illusion.
7. Music Posters that Explore Swiss Modernism & Punk Rock
Vintage-looking music posters that combine a bit of punk rock with Swiss modernism.
6. Stitching Photographs: Various Approaches
A curated exhibition that explores the approaches of 11 artists who take a needle and thread to photographs.
5. Paint Swatch Installations by Madiha Siraj
Dizzying kaleidoscopes of pixelated colors make up these installations made entirely of paint swatches.
4. Mind Blowing Porcelain Art by Katharine Morling
Life-sized ceramic sculptures that are like 3D drawings.
3. Mind Blowing Porcelain Art by Katharine Morling
Vintage posters of historical parks across America designed to inspire you to travel cross-country.
2. See Life: Layered Wooden Sculptures Inspired by Reefs
These mind-blowing, three-dimensional sculptures are made up of cut wooden pieces that form reef-like compositions.
And the #1 most popular Art post of 2014 is…
1. Carving Paper: The Surprising Sculpture of Li Hongbo
These may look like plaster sculptures, but they’re actually made from stacks of white paper.
MaevepintoWow...
MaevepintoLove it.
Correcting Internet DisInformation: The American Space Pen / The Russian Pencil
thank you for this.
And then from his initial investment of >$1,000,000, the Fisher Pen Co. was able to make a lot of money and grow the overall size of the U.S. economy and create lots of jobs.
So essentially a story that is supposed to be about government inefficiency turns out to be a story about how the U.S. government worked with a private company to make space travel safer while also stimulating economic growth.
The moral of the story is not that the Soviet Union was more efficient. The moral of the story is that by failing to allow private investment in innovation, the Soviet Union was doomed.
Incidentally, Paul Fisher, who invented the Fisher space pen, was a fascinating guy. He had this plan to eliminate income and property taxes with a progressive asset tax and even ran for President. And the Fisher Space Pen Co. is still a going concern, still employing people, and still generating a return on Fisher’s million-dollar investment.
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You might think artist Ben Heine has Photoshopped himself into his own pencil drawings, but he’s actually standing on top of them. Much like the mind-bending optical illusions produced in chalk by sidewalk artists, these are flat drawings that just seem like they’re three-dimensional.
The Belgium-based multidisciplinary artist mixes photography and drawings for the series ‘Pencil vs. Camera,’ one of his best-known projects. The drawings seem to pop out from the page when viewed from a certain perspective, making it look like the artist is interacting with his own creations.
“I just make art for people,” says Heine. “I want them to dream and forget their daily troubles. I used to write poems many years ago, I want to convey a poetic and philosophical meaning into my pictures, each new creation should tell a story and generate an intense emotion, like a poem, like a melody.”
Another part of the series blends Heine’s drawings with landscape photos so they match up. The artist selects a location, draws a fanciful illustration, and then takes a photo of the combined results.
MaevepintoThe floods are coming!
Posted in News
“The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Monday began accepting Freedom of Information Act requests for records from Bush’s presidency. The day marks five years from the end of Bush’s presidency, on Jan. 20, 2009. Access to the records is governed by the Presidential Records Act, which says the records may be requested by the public five years after the presidential administration ends.” (via The Associated Press)
MaevepintoBeautiful!
Many college dorms – especially at public schools – are little more than prison-like rows of cheap, boring housing with no architectural interest to speak of. That’s definitely not the case at Tietgen Student Hall in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, a circular seven-story building measuring 288,000 square feet with 360 rooms.
The circular shape enables all rooms to face outwards with a view of the courtyard, emphasizing equality and community. It also lets in lots of natural light. Each of the rooms has either a French window or a balcony.
Communal facilities on the ground floor include 30 kitchens, each with four fridges and two stoves, as well as music rooms, a bike storage room, a gym, a computer room, a study hall, an assembly hall, and outdoor sports areas. There are also sewing, bike and wood workshops.
Completed in 2006 and designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter, the building looks more like a luxury apartment complex than college housing. “The house itself says what the idea behind it is: community,” say the architects. “You can walk all the way round on all floors. No hallways are a dead end; no doors are locked. The house does not turn its back on anyone.”
MaevepintoRock on Mother Teresa.
This is, hands down with no exaggeration, one of the most inspiring and heartfelt collections of advice I have read.
MaevepintoAmos is famous!
no caption, i’m just wondering what purpose that cabinet could possibly serve except as “cat perch”
MaevepintoPiglet as a dalek! PIGLET AS A DALEK!!!! Melting.
To be honest, peeps, I wasn't going to do Doctor Who Sweets this weekend, only because I've already featured most of the best ones over the years.
But then I came to my senses.
After all, I grew up on Doctor Who. My first convention ever was a Doctor Who event - where John Pertwee patted my head - and a few months ago I received a side-hug from my favorite Doctor, Peter Davison. [Still squeeing over that, btw.]
Besides, John and I managed to find a few 'Who Sweets we haven't posted yet, so you get the ultimate Best-Of mix sure to make your knees go all wibbly-wobbly. So, without further ado:
The 13 Best Doctor Who Cakes Of All Time (So Far!):
(By Nerdache Cakes)
Much as I adore Tigger, I'm kinda bummed I can't make a "Doctor POOH" joke here. But that's ok; Piglet in a homemade Dalek costume MORE than makes up for it.
And speaking of Daleks:
(By Stacked Cakes)
WOW.
The 'net is full of so many fantastic TARDIS cakes, it's hard to narrow down the best ones.
Actually, I take that back; this one wasn't hard to narrow down at all:
(By Leigh Henderson of theyrecoming.com)
This cake (yes, it's cake!) is fitted with mirrors and lights to make it actually look bigger on the inside.
Here's a peek inside the window:
Time for a cookie break!
(Sub'd by Christina C. and made by Cookie Cowgirl)
Daleks in party hats. YESSS.
And who's the cutest widdle alien fat particle of all time?
(Found here, baker unknown)
IT'S YOU!
(No, not YOU you. I mean the adipose. Um. Awkwarrrd.)
As a Classic Who girl, these guys were always my favorite villains:
(By Truly Scrumptious Designer Cakes)
Still can't get over how cute she managed to make a Cyberman look, though. I seriously want that cake in doll form!
And now for something a little steamy:
If you think about it, Steampunk and Doctor Who really are a match made in the heavens, am I right?
And while we're talking TARDISes TARDI TARDIS cakes, I love the galaxy airbrushing on this one:
(Made by Claudia's Cakery)
It takes a lot to fool me with cake these days, but this next one did. I *still* have a hard time believing it's not a wooden model:
(Sub'd by Kristy G. and found here)
Even if you've only watched Doctor Who since the reboot, I bet you still have a soft spot for Tom Baker:
(Sub'd by Emily G. and made by Border City Cakes)
It's all about the scarf, right? And the crazy hair.
(I'm, uh, glad the baker went with the scarf, though. o.0)
And another excellent contribution from the original show:
(By Imaginative Icing)
K-9!
Sometimes you see a fan-built K-9 rolling around at conventions, and I so want one.
Even though I grew up on the show, I'm ashamed to admit I have a LOT of catching up to do with the new episodes. (Too many were making me cry!) I will catch up, though - I WILL.
Anyway, if you're in the same boat - or if you've never seen ANY episodes and just want to know what all the fuss is about, then at least watch the episode "Blink." It's quite possibly the best episode of any sci-fi show EVER, and stands alone just fine.
Plus, after you watch that, you'll know why everyone else is about to flinch away from their screens in terror:
(By the cake girl)
BOO!
Muahahahaha! :D
Ok, one more, just so we can end on a less petrifying [smirk] note:
(By Michelle Sugar Art)
Woohoo! It's a WHO-bilation!
(In my mind Doctor Seuss & the Doctor are friends, so that totally works.)
Enjoy the 50th anniversary special, my fellow Whovians, and have a Sweet weekend!
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Invisible at a glance, artists have long hidden fore-edge artwork in plain sight, resulting in works that are sometimes first spotted decades or even centuries after their creation. What looks like a plain gold-gilt surface on the shelf can unfold to reveal a rich and colorful surprise.
Via Colossal, the above examples come from Colleen Theisen and the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa. They are from a series of four books titled after the seasons (Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer shown sequentially above) published in the 1800s by Robert Mudie.
The art of disappearing fore-edge painting dates back hundreds of years, but (visible) edge painting on closed books goes back over a thousand years. Sometimes the scenes are made to match content, contexts and characters from within the book. In other cases, they are more broadly relevant, meant to set the stage or tone for the reader.
The fore-edge (found on the opposite side of a book’s spine) can be painted directly on the closed book to create a drawing that is immediately visible. Alternatively, the pages can be splayed out and painted on the front or back of the edge. In some cases, both sides are painted to create a double fore-edge works that are entirely different depending on which way you splay the sheets. Triple fore-edge variants are also possible, with two patterns or scenes that disappear and a third that is visible when the book is closed.
    
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MaevepintoSad but true.
California's Yosemite National Park, established on October 1, 1890, stands closed today, along with all other national parks and monuments in the U.S. More than a century ago, naturalist John Muir, a strong advocate for the recognition and protection of the region, successfully lobbied congress to set aside more than 700,000 acres as one of the nation's first national parks. These days (when the park is open), up to 4 million visitors per year make the trip to Yosemite. As we wait out the government shutdown, here is a virtual tour of Yosemite over the past 123 years. [32 photos]
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MaevepintoDoes this make anyone else want to check out "Attack of the Pig-Zombies"?!
TV plays an prominent role in life. This info graphic provides information on countries with large number of TV viewers and Top TV shows of top nations. US stood top of the list with highest number of TV viewers.
Submitted by: emersonrose (via www.graphs.net)
MaevepintoToo cute!
Sauron made friends with a Toad!
At first, I thought he was going to kill it. But he just started petting it. Not swatting at it, and not trying to hurt it at all. They ended up just layin’ and chillin’ together for awhile. Then the toad went on his merry little way. Too cute haha!
MaevepintoI fall for these *every* time...
An exclusive look at the TFiOS movie set has led to possibly the most adorable facebook album known to man: Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort help keep John Green’s children entertained while dad and mom tour the set.
Oh my goodness. Thank you, new and official tFiOS movie facebook page, for this gift to mankind. Thank you.
As if John isn’t making a cameo in the movie for real, and the Price of Dawn cover contest, and as if you couldn’t win a trip to the movie set yourself… I think Nerdfighteria might explode.
p.s.: this is FYNF’s 10,000th post!! joy and excitement about our blog
MaevepintoThis is awesome.
Motion pictures aside, the nature of photographic representation implies freezing space in time – a moment captured and preserved, independent of what comes before or after.
Yet, as photographer Fong Qi Wei points out, “we do know that time is also a dimension, like length, breadth and width. In fact, physicists have a model called space-time: suggesting that time is part of a continuum with the 3 dimensions that we are familiar with. But the print is still an instance. Most paintings and photographs are an instance of time. That’s not the way the world works. We experience a sequence of time.”
His solution is this photo series, Time is a Dimension, in composed mostly of “landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes,” which “are a single composite made from sequences that span 2-4 hours, mostly of sunrises and sunsets. The basic structure of a landscape is present in every piece[, but] each panel or concentric layer shows a different slice of time, which is related to the adjacent panel/layer. The transition from daytime to night is gradual and noticeable in every piece, but would not be something you expect to see in a still image.”
There is a playful and experimental quality to the variety of approaches found within this set of images. Sometimes a series of casually-drawn circles spread out from a focal point. In other cases, rays like a child’s drawing of sunshine span from some implied but out-of-frame source. Each has at least one surprise upon inspection, like the changing reflections in glass over the course of a day, or the differences in artificial illumination going into the night. Overall, the results are rich in colors and shades but also do tell a story of time elapsing, quite by design.
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For all the little girls who are in that 'princess stage,' and the big girls who never really grew out of it (I can't be the ONLY one who was positively destined to marry Prince William), and everyone else in between ...
(By Renato Ardovino)
We cordially invite you to a Princess Party!
So slip on your tiaras and glass slippers and and join in! We have cake!
Princess cakes are not a new trend, but they sure have come a long way from the days of jabbing a Barbie into an overly-iced Bundt cake and callin' 'er good:
(Sub'd by Eri R. and made by Bluebird Cakes)
Isn't this cake stunning? And maybe it's just the photo, but Tiana looks life-sized! Although, for my daughter to have any idea who I'm talking about, I'd have to call her by her full name: Princess And The Frog.
Do your kids do that with Disney movies too? Her name is not Rapunzel, it's Tangled, silly!
(Sub'd by Brien F. and made by Kiilani)
And her tower here is incredible. So much great detail. I bet the ivy alone took days.
Merida? Who's that? Her name is Brave!
(By Antonella Di Maria Torte and Design)
And her cake is amazing. I can bearly stand how sweet it is.
There is one exception to the rule: We don't watch Beauty and the Beast at our house, we watch Belle.
(Sub'd by Reagan H. and made by Key Art Studio Cakes)
I mean, how could you take your eyes off her? Although for a little girl with a name like Yasmine, you'd think this cake might look more like ... I don't know ...
(Baker unknown)
I mean, right? Great gold touches on her jewelry. Shining, shimmering, splendid, even.
And what's a princess party without a prince or two?
(Found here with lots more adorable party pics, but the baker isn't listed. Anyone know?)
My favorite detail on this cake: the little tuft of hair curling behind Jasmine's leg!
But you don't always need an actual princess on your cake to get the point across:
(By TuffCookie Cakes)
Snow what I mean?
We wouldn't want to upstage the birthday girl.
(By Peggy Does Cake)
Although this one is a showstopper all on its own. Who knew a swamp scene could be so gosh darn adorable?
But it's YOUR princess party! So make a splash if you want to!
(By Sugar Sweet Cakes & Treats)
OK, cutest Little Mermaid cake EVER. Look at the little ripples! Sacre bleu, even Sebastian's in a good mood!
Or, opt for simple simplicity if you like:
(By Peace Of Cake)
I want, nay, need that Snow White figurine in my life.
And speaking of figurines, I think Sleeping Beauty and Prince Phillip here are not of the edible variety,
(Made by the Disneyland Hotel (Found here on Pinterest))
... but what a gorgeous wedding cake! Who knew thorny briars could be so beautiful? (For Briar Rose, see?)
Well, it's about time to wrap this thing up. Please be responsible as you head home, whether you plan to travel by enchanted pumpkin, sail off on a magic carpet,
(By TatianaK)
... or canoodle in a canoe under a lantern-lit sky.
Thanks so much for coming, and may you live happily ever after til next time!
Psst. Hey. Curious which bakeries in your area have been featured here on Sweets? Then be sure to check our Sunday Sweets Directory!
MaevepintoWhoa...
Grégoire de Lafforest created this gorgeous birdcage table he called Cage Archibird, which he explains was designed to break convention. It creates a theatrical aspect to the traditional table, as an homage to curiosity cabinets. The bird cages are designed to look like glass bells as a nod to the idea of stuffed/taxidermy birds. It’s very interesting, but not sure I’d want to eat at it!
The cage was made by Ateliers Seewhy and is being exhibited at Gallery Gosserez in Paris. Photos by Jérome Galland.
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MaevepintoOk... I'm not usually one for "Yo mama" jokes but when they are Harry Potter themed it becomes epic.
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MaevepintoAwesome.
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