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Month: June 2013

Type Face: Monumental Figurative Sculptures Made of Text

Giant human figures made of jumbled steel letters loom over public spaces in a series of monumental typographic sculptures by artist Jaume Plensa. The contemplative seated figures seem to watch ...

Urban Time Lapse: 15 Videos Show Cities at Super Speeds

Watch the frenetic motion of urban scenes around the world in mesmerizing time lapse videos created using thousands of still photographs. Often captured from some of the highest vantage points in ...

Street Retouch: Bus Riders Get Live Photoshop Treatment

Unsuspecting travelers waiting to catch a ride were shocked to see their own photos integrated into humorous advertisements on the walls of the bus stop shelter. Berlin-based Photoshop artist ...

Swirl World: 9 Cool McFlurry Flavors You Can’t Get Here

McDonald's McFlurry is the coolest thing on the menu but not all McMenus are created equal. Take these 9 cool McFlurry flavors... oops, our bad, you can't! ...

An Entire Amusement Park Smashed Into a Four-Ton Cube

Amusement parks are a big part of most peoples' childhoods, with fond recollections of roller coasters and snow cones dancing in our memories. But what happens to those amusement parks after they ...

Kim Jong Il Leaves an Unusual Architectural Legacy

Started in 1987 and still not complete, North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel is perhaps its most potent architectural symbol, and an odd legacy for an odd and secretive leader. The 105-floor, ...

Nail House: Holdout Building Had Highway Built Around It

China is full of strange stories of so-called 'nail houses' - homes of people who refuse to move to make way for a large development project. Still, this one was particularly unique: its owners ...

Secret Speakeasy: Abandoned Water Tower Nightclub in NYC

New York has a long history of hidden and illicit venues - one that did not stop when prohibition was lifted. There is the innocuous pizza shop where dialing the right number in their phone booth ...

15 of the World’s Weirdest Low-Tech Film Cameras

A pistol that shoots photos instead of bullets, a harness for pigeons, a cane and a human skull are among the unexpected objects that have been turned into film cameras since the dawn of ...

Unauthorized Installations: The Fine Art of Urban Subversion

Brad Downey is familiar with both sides of the art world, with a fine arts degree and gallery exhibitions, on the one hand, and run-ins with the authorities about his sometimes-unsanctioned ...

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