An update on a 19th century optical drawing tool lets artists trace the real world around them. The NeoLucida will soon be available for just $40.

These layered creations are surprisingly realistic, even in black and white, thanks in part to their scale and reinforced by their shadows and context.

Artist Kumi Yamashita winds a single black sewing thread around a grid of galvanized nails on a wooden board to create intricately detailed portraits.

Artist Hasan Kale paints incredibly intricate scenes from his native Istanbul onto delicate butterfly wings, narrow cactus spines and tiny grape seeds.

An adept furniture maker is familiar with scrap - but this artist has turned leftover materials into something just as fantastic as his designer projects.

Like a flip book, there is no text, and each page of these volumes contains a slightly different scene. But that is where the similarities end and the fun begins.

Artist Mirko Reisser has long developed a highly personalized (and profoundly cool) approach to making two-dimensional tags appear three-dimensional on surfaces.

Though naturally unique, the work of any of these 21 eyebombers is also inherently anonymous due to the similarly simple materials used in each case.

From timeless architectural insights to new building technologies, watch these videos and you will never see built environments in the same way again.

Well known for grand gestures and huge installations, Christo has outdone himself once again in this latest work made of air, light and wonder.