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Category: Sculpture & Craft

From public works to private masterpieces, here are some of the most beautiful, strange, surreal and sublime sculptures and crafts in the world.

Wheels of Steel: Full-Sized Art Cars Made of Nothing But Scrap Metal

Their body panels consist of a lacework of metal gears, their windshields no more than mesh, their seats steel and the spaces under their hoods hollow, but these life-sized car sculptures still ...

LEGO Shadow Show: Masses of Toy Bricks Reveal Surprising Silhouettes

What looks like no more than an unweildy mass of Lego bricks stuck together into an abstract shape reveals itself to be not just one but two separate intricate shadow-casting designs. Artist John ...

Art of Protest: Student-Built Scale Model of $20 Billion ‘Bailout City’

After the Austrian government spent €19,000,000,000 to bail out a bank in 2014, a student group in Vienna created a giant urban model of a place Hypotopia in protest. This visionary city for ...

Urban Camo: Bus & Train Fabrics Turned into Wearable Textiles

Transportation system patterns, right down to seat cloth details, are designed to last and look good even when stained by dirt and spilled drinks over time, making them an oddly suitable choice ...

Real Life LEGO Man: Fleshy Mini-Figure Cosplay Will Freak You Out

You’ll never hear the phrase ‘all thumbs’ the same way again after looking at this real life Lego man complete with eyebrows, wrinkles and the biggest, weirdest thumb nails you’ve ever ...

Tunnel Visions: 15 All-Encompassing Explorable Art Installations

Few art experiences short of virtual reality are quite as immersive as entering a tunnel, literally surrounding yourself with an artist's vision, blocking out nearly all sensory input not related ...

Nemesis Machine: Cybernetic Cityscape Visualizes Surveillance Data

Activated by unspecified data transmissions, spinners whir and lights blink atop skyscrapers of computer parts arranged like a miniature city, visualizing information in real time as it’s ...

Living Light: Human Figures Dance Inside 3D-Printed Zoetrope

All it takes are a few highly focused beams of light and a spinning zoetrope to make a human figure spring to life, walking or even dancing in a barely-visible translucent circle. ‘Process and ...

Beast of a Bicycle! Mechanical Modification With a Spider-Like Walk

This bizarre new take on the Strandbeest bicycle isn’t going to get you from point A to point B much faster than a casual stroll, but it’s fun to watch, with the rear mechanical mechanism ...

White Water Roofing: Wild Water Tanks Top Cool Punjabi Homes

Out to impress the neighbors in Punjab, India? Try topping your humble abode with a cool water tank rendered as a jet, blossom, or bodybuilder. ...

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