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Black Cat Graffiti ~ Athens, Greece

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360 degree landscapes by Randy Scott Slavin These psychedelic and surrealistic photographs were taken by well know photographer and filmmaker, Randy Scott Slavin. His curved perspectives place normal landscapes in entirely new, beautiful, swirling designs.

No Carve Printmaking using Plexiglass, Silicone Caulk, and Acrylic Paint

Yarn bombed steps......Granny Square afghans on the steps outside Helsinki's Cathedral, Finland.

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Gorgeous buildings made of books

Paul Cadden's pencil drawings blur the line between photo and hyperrealism

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Peterborough Cathedral & Christ in Majesty from the triforium, via Andy Marshall.

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Thinking Outside The Box: Mark Langan's Amazing Cardboard Artwork. Picture credit: Caters. Click for more: www.huffingtonpos...

This incredible sandcastle version of London’s famous architecture is currently being finished and detailed by sculptors at the Sand Museum in Tottori, Japan in honor of the 2012 Olympic Games.

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Pantone Easter eggs. Brilliant.

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// Josef Albers, Tlaloc, 1944

Chan Hwee Chong for Faber Castell These masterpieces of spiral art technique were created by Chan Hwee Chong, to promote Faber Castell’s line of Artist Pens, which, quite literally, preformed their task with flying colors. You’ll have an easier time understanding Chong’s greatness and skill if you look at this video

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indoor garden at The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Jeff Koons' blue flower sculpture (1998), Berlin, Germany

Art piece by Erwina Ziomkowska

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Cats Improve Art: Renaissance Masterpieces Get The LOLcat Treatment. Picture credit: BNPS/Svetlana Petrova. Click for more: www.huffingtonpos...

3D portraits made of screws by Andrew Myers.

Parko Polo is the alter ego of Edinburgh based illustrator Edward McGowan. As Parko Polo, Edward pairs bright cheerful colors with bold geometric lines to create images of wonder and exploration.

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The Photo Drips series, by German-born, Brooklyn-based Markus Linnenbrink, is pure rainbow-colored goodness. His pieces are positively dream-like and are explorations in color and texture all rolled into one.

Glass Art, Heatherwick Studio (established by Thomas Heatherwick), Bleigiessen, Wellcome Trust, London "The Wellcome Trust commissioned the studio to design a sculpture for its new headquarters. The site for the sculpture was within an 8 story atrium above a pool of water...using 142,000 glass spheres suspended on 27,000 high tensile steel wires; 15 tons of glass and just under a million metres of wire" (narrative from website), Steve Speller, Photographer

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True Concealment - Cecilia Paredes Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes works in San Jose and Philadelphia. Here paintings are full of rich colors, ornaments and repetitive patterns interwoven in a traditional style.

Conceptual extension to Whitney Museum of American Art by Axis Mundi.

Paintings from the series “Under The Unminding Sky” by Gregory Thielker. Reasonable doubt  2008  oil on panel  24 x 24 inches

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sequin buildings by theresa himmer

Eggyptian Relief, Ptolemy dynasty (305-30 BCE) Museum of Fine arts, Boston

This is a rare meteorological phenomenon called a skypunch. When people see these, they think it's the end of the world. Ice crystals form above the high-altitude cirro-cumulo-stratus clouds, then fall downward, punching a hole in the cloud cover. #Meteorology #Weather #Clouds

A wall in Aspudden, Sweden.

London designer Dominic Wilcox is nibbling his way through 30 boxes of McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes to build models of UK landmarks and icons.

Custom Pet Portraits: Stella Poore's silhouettes (she does humans, too) are sleek and affordable. The best way to get a profile shot of a cat or a dog? Have a friend hold a treat a bit higher than eye level, then snap from the side.

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Ceci n'est pas une pipe. C'est une d'impression d'une pipe.

Melting Disco Balls by Rotganzen (Robin Stam, Joeri Horstink and Mark van Wijk ) | Photos by Rick Messemaker

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Church of San Giovanni Battista in Switzerland - amazing.

Watercolor World Map No 6 by JessicaIllustration on Etsy, $25.00

Edible Gelatin Typography

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Huge Rabbit sculpture by Gelitin collective, near Artesina, in the Italian Alps - you can see it in Google maps

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Autun Cathedral Pisces the Fish, zodiac sign for February. Detail of archivolt above the west portal of Autun Cathedral, sculpted by Gislebertus around 1130.

from Flickr

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"Structure Joyeuse" by Kandinsky

Il Sole sui Tetti light show inside a Renaissance church in Florence.

Sandro Kopp Skype portraits

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very creative fire drawings

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