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Do you remember cutting paper snowflakes? Rogan Brown has lifted that unassuming artistic expression you've experienced in school, and taken it to the n-th level by combining this with microbiology. Those expansive scale paper models may resemble snow or coral reefs, but they are a representation of different types of microorganisms and life forms. The pattern you see looks natural,...
Nicholas Baker is an illustrator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He draws his main source of inspiration from the wilderness that surrounds the city he lives in, and he represents it with a very special technique. Baker uses the technique of pointillism, and all his drawings are made up of millions of tiny dots drawn by hand. With a...
Quite a few colorful orchids blossom in British artist Laura Hart's studio. From their symmetry to their sprinkles of color and nuance, they show the extraordinary magnificence of this plant species. Although they look entirely life-like, they're in fact made of glass - but display all specific botanical details of the real flowers, including petals, and each of them...
In 2011, 16-year-old Dutch inventor and entrepreneur Boyan Slat was diving in Greece when he noticed that there was more plastic in the water than there were fish. He decided to try to fix the problem and devoted his time to his research. Two years later, he founded The Ocean Cleanup and gave his first TEDx Talk about cleaning up...
Since 2001, Bennett Ewing a.k.a. Eyevan Tumbleweed has been sculpting with unaltered found wood and assembling mostly faces and bodies from thousands of selected pieces he gathered from mountains, deserts, swamps, forests, rivers, and beaches. His sculptures are made of non-carved, naturally colored woods he collected from his travels in almost 40 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico, and Ireland. His technique...
British artist Rebecca Louise Law suspends fresh flowers with copper wire, transforming art galleries, museums and exhibition halls into indoor public gardens that take viewers into a whirlwind of colors, textures, and scents. Her art is a study of floral forms and their evolution through the stages of beauty and decay. Hanging from the ceiling of the exposition space, the...
The Netherlands, also known as Holland, is transformed into a vast sea of flowers from mid-March to mid-May. It starts with crocus season in March, followed by daffodils and hyacinths then around mid-April up to the first week of May, tulips will show their beautiful colors. It is reported that The Netherlands produced an estimated nine billion flower bulbs annually...
Some cameras are sturdier than others and have the rare chance to visit extreme places and live to tell the tale. One such camera shot a mesmerizing video of hot lava approaching and engulfing it; although the photographer thought it was lost forever, even after being encased in liquid rock it refused to turn off and continued to transmit...
California-based artist Christine Stein created a mural to commemorate Prince in front of her yard when the legendary artist passed away in April 2016. Nearly two years later, Stein got a big surprise when the bush behind the mural began to blossom, giving Prince a magnificent flower-laced crown. “4.1.18 - Our #Prince bush started flowering all of a sudden! Now...
Hundreds of thousands of people know about hedgehog Azuki and his adventures. Doesn't sound familiar? He lives here, visit him. Azuki has a cozy and warm home but he loves going out on adventures from time to time. Let's see how his recent camping trip went.

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