The Australian seaside town of Geelong is home to a hundred artistically enhanced bollards—thick wooden posts on wharfs, intended for a ship’s rope to be secured—sculpted by artist Jan Mitchell and hand-painted to depict the people and events of the town.
You definitely won’t be able to use these defaced notes as legal tender unless you slip them into a pile of other notes and pray no one notices, but that shouldn’t stop you from spending a few minutes to gaze upon these artistic efforts to re-theme George Washington and the background behind him.
Skeletons can be somewhat creepy, and are often a staple of horror films, but they also are popular in museums to show off the structure of ancient animals such as dinosaurs. Skeletons just stand there, but if you’ve ever seen a movie like Night at the Museum, you know that if skeletons were ever to [...]
Due to global warming, the threat of Africanized Killer Bees and pollution, the news is constantly abuzz with the potential extinction of honey bees. We all know what they look like (they’re black and yellow striped) and what their social habits are (they’re highly social and belong to hives). The media would give us the [...]
As sentient beings, we have a tendency to recognize patterns, compile them, and create collections of them. Here is a collection of photographic collections, in beautiful black and white.
The cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp in the Netherlands has an amusing tradition of putting elephant sculptures on parade. The placid pachyderms are paraded in a potpourri of paints.
Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral. Small pieces, normally roughly cubic, of stone or glass of different colors, [...]
Next to tennis balls, towels are a dog’s best friend. Providing warmth and comfort, dogs just love to snuggle up to them. They also make dogs look like Obi-wan Kenobi. I hope you appreciated the Hitchhiker’s Guide reference in the title!