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Shadow Sculptures: Illusions from Clumps of Junk

Seemingly random bits of junk produce the most unexpected shadows when a light is shined upon them from a certain angle in these sculptures by Diet Wiegman.

Geometric Projections: Light Art Radically Reshapes Nature

Everyone knows there are mathematical patterns to be found everywhere in nature - though few such geometries are as explicit and dazzling as these.

Body Paint Illusions Transform Human Models into Animals

Carefully posed in graceful contortions, human models are transformed into dolphins, swans, iguanas and more in body paintings by Gesine Marwedel.

Doing it Wrong: Funny Photo-Edited Urban Improbabilities

It would be entirely right and wrong at the same time to call this body of work realistic - the scenes are at first glance probable, then clearly almost impossible.

Airborne Architecture: 12 Images of Flying French Houses

Context - that is the key to taking the ordinary and making it amazing in this series of displaced homes soaring up from forgotten streets of Paris.

Lessons in Graffiti: Math Symbols Make Street Art Equations

Simple black-outlined, white-filled, faux-three-dimensional shapes that render urban happenstance into something with a humorous sense of mathematical order.

City Cycle: Curved Urban Tread Wraps 'Round Bike Tire

Rough around the edges, we rarely notice the unique landscape that evolves from regular wear and tear on our bicycle tire - even our ordinary ones.

Paper Cuts: 40 Puzzling Pop Culture Silhouettes

Can you guess the identity of these iconic movie, television and comic book characters just by a basic outline of their heads?

Invisible Apparel: 8 Material-Free Dresses Made of Light

Combining light art photography and high fashion, these show-stopping runway gowns are manufactured without physical material and composed purely of light.

Rein-Vend: 7 Converted, New & Reverse Vending Machines

Some now-vintage models dispense art or books - other new machines can vend hot food, let you swap for new stuff, or work in reverse, giving you cash for goods.

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