What comes to mind when someone mentions stuffed animals? For most of us words like 'cute' and 'cuddly' or maybe 'kids' and 'toys' come to mind. For these photographers and product designers, however, words like 'twisted' and 'disturbing' or even 'demented' and 'deranged' are perhaps more fitting. Some have explored the innards of these seemingly innocuous childhood toys (more or less literally) while others have had Blair Witch Project experiences with strange, spontaneous and surreal roadside stuffed animal 'art' installations.
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15 Creatively Twisted Stuffed Animals: Intentional and Spontaneous Distortions of Childhood Toys
What comes to mind when someone mentions stuffed animals? For most of us words like 'cute' and 'cuddly' or maybe 'kids' and 'toys' come to mind. For these photographers and product designers, however, words like 'twisted' and 'disturbing' or even 'demented' and 'deranged' are perhaps more fitting. Some have explored the innards of these seemingly innocuous childhood toys (more or less literally) while others have had Blair Witch Project experiences with strange, spontaneous and surreal roadside stuffed animal 'art' installations.
The Making of 5 Modern Marvels of Engineering: Construction Truths Behind Contemporary Wonders
Even today modern wonders of engineering like the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge inspire awe (and songs and works of art). A quick look at their origins, however, can turn awe to amazement and astonishment. Each of the five projects listed here took their toll financially and were paid for in part with human lives. Some cost more than the GDP of a small country to construct and others were completed with tens of thousands of people lost in the process. A few were predicted centuries before their time and others were attempted multiple times and faced numerous setbacks before they could be completed.
3 (More) Kinds of Unusual Art from Ordinary Objects: Toothpick Sculptures to Hammer-and-Nail Portraits
A surprising number of artists use remarkably conventional materials as the basis for their offbeat masterpieces. Sometimes the results are inspiring and other times they seem to border on kitsch. Still, art from ordinary objects can provide an interesting reminder that the things around us we take for granted can be repurposed in ways most of us might never think of. Also, as any artist knows, a new material can mean new aesthetic possibilities and unique material-dependent expressions.
3 Incredible Gatherings: The Largest, Strangest and Scariest Collective Activities in the World
As humans we have a difficult time comprehending large numbers, and vast collections of people perhaps in particular. There is something simply surreal about a pilgrimage that attracts more people than the population of Texas or a festival that draws thirty thousand revelers deep into one of the harshest deserts on Earth. The following three events are vastly different in terms of geography, history and purpose but are all impressive in their own way and right as these images show.
20 (More) Incredibly Unconventional Hotel Rooms: Artistic Interior Designs from Around the World
[above: Kids fortress bed with full mini-golf room from the Propeller Island Hotel]
Ever wonder what it would be like to be stuck in prison, live in a museum or stay in a hotel room in space? Art and concept hotels have begun addressing every fantasy you may have had ... and some you probably haven't. These twenty rooms range from playfully artistic to mind-bogglingly surrealistic with everything in between. Also be sure to check out the original 16 incredibly creative and sexy hotel rooms.
