Everyone needs several rolls of duct tape on hand at all times. Why? Because it fixes things like wallets, cars, planes, shoes, cameras, stop signs, babies… the list goes on. Check out this gallery and maybe you can find another creative use for this magical tape. To top it all off, it can even be [...]
Category: Creative
When we think of inventions we think of Thomas Edison’s invention of the lightbulb, or the invention of the wheel. They’re useful to have, and we couldn’t possibly do without them—not in today’s world, in any case. Inventions are things that people come up with out of raw necessity, or simply because they improve our [...]
When OMGPOP asks us to “draw something”, they’re just asking us to draw the minimum effort it takes to depict one of three chosen words available. Instead of simply drawing something lame, these players has taken the task to a whole new level by rendering fully illustrated environments to depict some of the simplest words. [...]
Can you spot the invisible man? Chinese national Lin Bolin is an artist well known for his photography and for his self-paintings. He paints paints himself in the colors of his surroundings, like camouflage, and manages to blend into everything from grocery store shelves and theater seats to the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing and [...]
We tend to anthropomorphize things—or put a human face on objects—in spite of ourselves. Artist and sculptor Terry Border has taken these anthropomorphs, or human-like objects, to an all new level by making them look more human than ever. With the use of some wire, visual puns and clever scene-crafting, Border brings these objects to [...]
There’s nothing like subjecting your brain to mind-bending optical illusions that play tricks with what you see, and alter your perceptions. When I was very young, I went to a museum which had numerous optical illusions on display, one of which required me to relax my vision in order to see a three dimensional object [...]
For the gamers among us, the games of yesteryear were among some of the earliest memories we’ve had as children. With everything from Dig Dug to Super Mario Bros, the games of yore would be disturbing, if they were reimagined in a post-modern light today. European artist Handre de Jager put together these wonderfully disturbing [...]
Photographer Sergei Larenkov took a series of photograph which he based upon iconic images taken after the second world war in Russia. He superimposed the old photos onto the new ones that he took to show what the world was like back then and how it looks now, effectively making it look like the past [...]
Would you like to troll your neighbors? If you have a garage, you can stick one of these full sized posters onto the door and fool them into thinking you’re keeping something in there that you aren’t. At least, that’s the whole idea behind these posters, which come in various forms such as a Soviet [...]