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Outstanding Mega-Scale Beach Paintings
We stumble through life most commonly living in vast cities where the pace outruns our own. Our dreams grow ever more simple, and once we can afford it, we want to leave the highly populated madness for something a little bit more quiet and a little bit more sane. It has become the mold for a succes ...
Disney Goes Dead: Ariel & Snow White Zombiefied
The Disney princesses are starting to be like Star Wars and Lego to me in the sense that I'm seeing new, creative interpretations of them introduced almost every day. It's hard to believe that a line-up of fictional ladies could be such a huge source of inspiration for so many people, but apparently ...
Innovative Bike Gloves With Built-In LED Turn Signals
Even though it's March, and the first official day of spring is tomorrow, it's still cold in a lot of places. Even here in Atlanta, early in the mornings before the sun comes up, it's still too cold to walk outside without feeling chilled. As I've written many times before, I love to ride my bike, b ...
Microscopic Art: Unbelievable Scenes Made With Specs Of Dust
This is officially the tiniest artwork I've ever seen. Even with these pictures, which are magnified, it's hard to see the incredible details on each one. Willard Wigan, who is 55-years-old, started making small sculptures when he was only 5. Since he has dyslexia and other learning disabilities, he ...
I Heart You Cupcakes: Bake A Red Heart Surprise Inside
Just last week, I wrote an article about a creative baker who made colorful Lego blocks (made out of cake) inside vanilla cupcakes. I thought it was such a great idea, and when I read more about it, I learned that she got her inspiration from all the 'hearts inside cupcakes' articles she had seen be ...
Stunning Lamps Created From Used & Stained Coffee Filters
When I first heard about these lamps made with coffee filters, I assumed the coffee filters weren't used. I mean, used coffee filters are so fragile and full of coffee grounds, right? I was way off base. These lamps are each one-of-a-kind, and they are made by recycling used coffee filters. The colo ...
Booze On A Bike: The Best Way To Transport That 6-Pack
Since today is St. Patrick's Day in the States, a lot of people are going to be drinking a lot of green beer tonight. Many people from here in Atlanta are traveling to Savannah for the huge celebration, parade and drinking extravaganza. I love beer, and too bad I gave it up for Lent (dannnngit) othe ...
Illustration Intersects Two Careers: Illustrator vs. Industrial Designer
The use of illustration often crosses paths in the career of an illustrator and industrial designer, but there are key differences between the two careers. Since I come from the marketing side of being an illustrative graphic designer, I found this video by FDZ School to be really interesting. I agr ...
Unbelievable Book Carvings Let Books Tell Another Story
There is something special about books that make a lot of people care about them. Books have been in our lives for so long, and just a couple of years ago we started migrating books into the digital "eBook" format so we could easily buy and download them from an Internet store. This has lead to real ...
Geek Style: A Dress Made With 10,000 Embroidered LEDs
Usually geek fashions aren't flashy like some other styles, but if you wore this dress, you'd be brightly blinging all night long. This flowing beauty was created with 10,000 embroidered LEDs. It's called the "Aurora" dress because it was inspired by the aurora borealis which is basically a natural ...
Clever Birdfeeders Made With Repurposed Household Objects
Since I'm sitting at my desk on the computer most days, I like to look out the window into my backyard often. There is a rabbit house out there with a cute little white bunny, and several birdfeeders. If you have birdfeeders in your yard, and if you fill them with birdseed everyday at the same time, ...
Cartoon Handbags: Real 2D Handbags For The Geek
If you are a geek, you know that fashion can be quite a lot of fun. There is a load of fashion out there that takes inspiration from games and movies that pretty much every geek enjoys. There is of course a ton of other stuff out there that helps you front that geek lifestyle of yours. Accessories a ...
Black & White Canned Goods Filled With Intangible Wisdom
I read the other day that Americans are known by people all over the globe for being the most impatient people in the world. I would have to agree with that since everyone I know who lives in this country is impatient about at least one thing. But isn't everyone? Are there really countries where eve ...
Original & Fun Yarn Bombing To Brighten Your Day With Colors
Almost a year ago, I wrote an article about Yarn Bombing. At the time, it was a relatively new global graffiti phenomenon where people all over the world were having fun decorating public spaces with yarn. As you probably know, yarn bombing is the activity credited with making knitting cool again. W ...
DIY Recycle Plastic Bags Into Useful Woven Baskets
There are tons of craft blogs out there that offer creative ideas when it comes to recycling and repurposing. I've even found some new ones lately that I learned about on Pinterest. Out of all of them though, I always seem to come back to my favorite one, which is Radmegan. It's a blog run by Megan ...