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Charming Pencil Carvings by Diem Chau

Seattle-based artist Diem Chau creates amazing miniature carvings from the graphite of pencils. Chau combines common mediums and common means to create delicate vignettes of fleeting memory, resulting in works that combine egalitarian sensibility and minimalist restraint.

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13 Apr 2013 09:42:00,post received 0 comments

Educative New Genus of Bat "Niumbaha Superba"

A new genus of bat has been discovered in South Sudan, the world’s newest country. The strikingly striped bat has been placed into the genus Niumbaha, which means “rare” or “unusual” in the Zande language of the region.

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17 Apr 2013 12:51:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Living With Wolves

Jim and Jamie Dutcher spent six years in Idaho in a tent within the world’s largest wolf enclosure in order to observe and document the behavior of these wild animals. They got really close to the wolves and made many unique photos of wolves in their natural habitat.

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04 Dec 2012 10:40:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Trojaner Horse Made of Computer Keys

“Hedonism(y) Trojaner” is a sculpture of a horse that is made out of resin and recycled computer keys and cables. The sculpture references the Trojan Horse of myth (and more recently, computing) and was created by Nuremberg, Germany-based artist Babis Pangiotidis.

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07 Dec 2012 14:58:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Photo by Vadim Trunov

Young photographer Vadim Trunov has serious portfolio, but most impressive is his macrophotography of snails and insects.Among the favorite characters Trunova – mantises, ladybugs, ants, dragonflies, bugs-soldiers.

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14 Dec 2012 12:50:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Some Photos: In Motion

People enjoying the hot weather on Brighton beach in Sussex, England on August 7, 2020. (Photo by Stephen Lock/i-Images)

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22 Sep 2020 00:03:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Dresses this Week, Part 2/2

Demi Rose seen attending I Saw It First party at SUSHISAMBA Covent Garden on February 11, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by The Mega Agency)

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17 Feb 2019 00:05:00,post received 0 comments

Funny Book Art by Thomas Allen

American photographer Thomas Allen constructs witty and clever dioramas using figures cut from the covers of old pulp paperbacks. Using salacious pulp art drawing’s of the ’40s and ’50s that covered books such as ” I Married a Dead Man” and ” Marihuana Girl’, Allen constructs one set of pictures up close while obscuring another, and in the process creates a different context. Each piece is given a brand new storyline, though never quite strays from their cheeky origins.

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05 Dec 2012 13:01:00,post received 0 comments