From Abstract to Actual: Unrealistic Art Models Made Real
Some of the world's greatest abstract artists have created portraits of humans that, while inspired by the human form, have completely dispensed with any actual human's natural ...
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Suburban Intervention: Homes Altered, Then Set Ablaze
For the last two years, artist Ian Strange has traveled the East Coast of the United States, painting suburban homes in shocking shades of red and black, and in some cases, burning them down. The ...
Sandcastle Suburbs: Beach Buildings Form Fragile Sprawl
If castles of sand are ordinarily creative (if childish) works of artistic expression, then these are their opposite - boring and relentless repetition of identical houses inspired by postwar ...
3D-Printed Prosthesis: Custom Casts & Artificial Limb Covers
Customization has long been a limiting factor in certain aspects of medical practice, particularly those centering around damaged or lost limbs creating different person-specific needs. 3D ...
City Evolution: Watch Urban Growth in 3D Visualizations
Watch Manhattan multiply and San Francisco soar into the sky in a series of growth animation videos that show the expansion of cities over more than a century. Created by Calgary-based real ...
Cradle to Graveyard: 7 Abandoned Wonders of the Middle East
Eerie ghost towns, villages abandoned after shocking massacres, the palaces of deposed dictators and mansions so well preserved they're like 1950s time capsules are among the Middle East's ...
Piercing Images: 10 Shockingly Extreme Body Modifications
Body modification is a broad category that covers anything from socially acceptable ear piercings to culturally mandated circumcisions, but there's a small niche in this category that involves ...
Building Eraser: Smart Robot Scans & Deconstructs Concrete
Whether the building is a bare-bones warehouse or five-star hotel, demolition is an equally messy business - but perhaps it does not have to be. What if demolition teams could precisely separate ...
20 Million Sq Ft: World’s Biggest Building Opens in China
Night never comes to this massive complex newly constructed in China. Complete with its own artificial sun (as well as beaches and waves), the world's largest structure is not a skyscraper but a ...
3B Printing: Bees Create Bottle for Dewar’s Whiskey
This '3D-printed' bottle wasn't made by a machine, unless you consider an army of industrious honeybees a machine. For a new Dewar's Whiskey campaign, 80,000 highlander honey bees producing the ...
