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Month: May 2010

Cryptic Codes: 11 Legendary Still-Uncracked Mystery Ciphers

From five lines of letters scrawled on the back of a dead man's book to the taunting codes sent to police by the Zodiac Killer, some of history's most legendary uncracked codes and ciphers ...

Collage Kid: Amazing Anamorphosis Art of Bernard Pras

Bernard Pras has anamorphosis and he wants to give it to you... well, show it to you at least. Anamorphosis is the art of stacking objects on a piece of canvas or a photograph, and Pras is a ...

Camouflaged Human Canvas: Faux Body Art by Kim Joon

Jumbles of beheaded bodies, limbs entwined, torsos twisting, hands reaching out – in compositions that are both glaringly Asian-influenced and psychedelic – call to mind some orgiastic body ...

Ghost in the Machine: Uniquely Musical Cassette Tape Art

The relationship between art and the medium in which it is created isn't often as perfectly matched as it is with these cassette tape art pieces. Atlanta-based artist Erika Iris Simmons (better ...

Righteous Wrappings: 33 Incredible Packaging Designs

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but there are times when the packaging matters just as much as what's inside. When you're shopping for anything from a bottle of juice to a new ...

Memorial Day Tribute: Tales From Creepy Abandoned Crypts

Crypts are stone chambers or vaults beneath a church usually used as burial vaults. In more modern times, family vaults were built aboveground in cemeteries and are usually referred to as ...

37 Detailed Sand Sculptures that Make Your Castle Look Sad

A small shovel and a pail for sand are the typical beach goer's adventure kit, but some people take their sand castles a bit more seriously. With ladders, and teams of workers, sand sculptors ...

(Un)Dead Languages: 10 Mysterious Undeciphered Scripts

Whether they contain spiritual secrets or mere mundane accounts of daily life, the ancient texts that today's scholars just can't seem to decipher could be keys to understanding civilizations ...

Icebound: 10 Amazing Historical Abandonments of Antarctica

Antarctica - this huge, frozen continent is bitterly cold, inhospitable as Mars and as far from civilization as any place on the planet. Just getting there has been a struggle; staying there has ...

Insanely Intricate Cut & Carved Eggshell Art by Franc Grom

It's all too easy to accidentally poke a hole into an eggshell – but few people can do it in such a controlled way that it can be called art. Slovenian artist Franc Grom turns these incredibly ...

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