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A Restaurant In A Cave In Italy
In the town of Polignano a Mare in southern Italy (province of Bari, Apulia), lies a most unique dining experience at the Grotta Palazzese. Open only during the summer months, a restaurant is created inside a vaulted limestone cave, looking outwards toward the sea. The restaurant is part of the Grotta Palazzese hotel located above. INTERESTED? CHECK OUT: A RESTAURANT ON A ROCK THE UNDERWATER HOTEL
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The Killer Whale Submarine
This is the streamlined, two-person watercraft that breaches and submerges just like the Orcinus orca after which it is designed. A pilot protected beneath its watertight 1/2″-thick acrylic canopy pushes and pulls twin control levers to articulate the whale’s pectoral fins for rolls and stealthy dives. With a finger on the right lever’s throttle trigger, steering is provided by dual foot pedals that control the vectored ...
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Watch Collection Made From Moon Dust
Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome has already shown the world that their creations need attention. Earlier, we have seen the $300,000 Day or Night watch and the Titanic-inspired watches. The latest from the house is the “Moon Dust-DNA” collection, which includes watches made from moon dust, parts of the Apollo 11 rocket and bits of spacesuits. This new, one of a kind collection has been launched to ...
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Creepy Victorian ‘Hidden Mother’ Photos
Above is a selection of images from the Hidden Mother Flickr group. Hidden Mother was a practice where the mother…often disguised or hiding often under a spread…holds her baby tightly for the photographer to insure a sharply focused Image. Super creepy… NOT CREEPED OUT ENOUGH YET? CHECK OUT THESE CREEPY VICTORIAN C0RPSE PHOTOS
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Superheroes In Renaissance Art
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… …a Bouguereau? There were no superheroes during the renaissance period. Why? Apparently there were no supervillains so they were not needed. That would explain the lack of superheroes in fine art. Worth 1000 fixed that with one of their latest contests. The rules of the contest were as follows: Take any piece of fine ...
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Flaming Devil Sculpture Made From Matches
Sculpture by David Mach. Being a sculptor leads everything I do. Every project I take on starts from that point. I believe that an artist must be an ideasmonger responding to all kinds of physical location, social and political environments, to materials, to processes,to timescales and budgets. I also believe that sculpture just about encompasses everything – a painting can be a sculpture, a TV ad ...
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The Evolution Of Video Game Controllers
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW IN FULL SIZE GLORY! The long-awaited reboot of the most extensive charting of video game controllers ever by Pop Charts Lab. Now detailing 119 species and 11 genera over seven decades of video gaming. Each 24″ x 36” print is signed and numbered by the artists, from a first edition of 1000. BUY NOW
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Bizarre Photos Of Shrink-Wrapped Lovers
Japanese artist Photographer Hal has stuffed club kids into bathtubs and other cramped spaces in his work before, but this time he’s chosen to shrink-wrap them like living dolls squirming under plastic. With some nude, and some dressed in candy-colored attire, Hal covers his models with a plastic sheeting that he vacuums the air from in order to distort their features and bond them together. It ...
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Cool Underwater Photos Of Fallen Surfers
Australian photographer Mark Tipple’s The Underwater Project captures surfers and swimmers frozen mid-action as they’re thrown down by the force of waves, escaping a cloud-like avalanche of frothy water, plummeting toward the sandy ocean floor, and thrusting themselves triumphantly towards the rippled, silver surface. Yes, these images are quite striking and totally refreshing… because Tipple wants them to be. With this deliberately appealing project, the photographer ...
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Custom Vulva Portrait Necklaces
Each piece is an original, one of a kind hand sculpted image of its owner to remind her that regardless of what the world and the people in it may tell her: she is beautiful. So celebrate yourself (and feel free to take pleasure in the fact that when someone tells you that your necklace is beautiful they are really saying they think your Vulva is ...
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Awesome Treehouse Hotel In Sweden
Staying in a hotel in Northern Sweden doesn’t have to be a run-of-the-mill experience thanks to the Treehotel – a group of unusual tree houses that are up or rent in Harads. The concept of the Treehotel was inspired by the film “The Tree Lover” by Jonas Selberg Augustsen, and brought to life by some of Scandinavia’s leading architects. All of the rooms are suspended approximately ...
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Subjects Removed From Famous Press Photos
What makes for an amazing photograph? Most often, the subject matter takes the credit, especially when it comes to the iconic photographs that have had an impact on viewers around the world. Visual artist, Pavel Maria Smejkal has taken several iconic photographs and removed the subjects by means of Photoshop software for a series entitled “Fatescapes”. By removing the focus of the image, Smejkal forces the ...
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Cool Mini Illustrations On Matchbooks
Jason D’Aquino is a miniaturist – he creates artwork on an incredibly small scale, many works not exceeding one inch by one inch in dimension. These graphite illustrations were done on strike-on-front matchbooks as a result of D’Aquino’s appreciation for what he refers to as “found canvases”. We love the idea of a teeny treasure being revealed upon the opening of a matchbook – a quirky ...
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All-In-One Glove And Drink Cooler
A cup of hot chocolate really hits the spot in the winter, but not nearly as much as a bottle of beer would, right? Now, there’s a way to drink your beer in the great, cold, outdoors and keep your hands warm while keeping your beverage cold thanks to the Skuuzi, or rather, the Scandinavian Koozie. The Skuuzi is made from soft merino wool and looks ...
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Color Added To Famous Black And White Photos
Reddit user mygrapefruit and self-taught colorizer Sanna Dullaway has colorized famous photographs in history. You can find the entire 34-image collection on Imgur. Using a Wacom bamboo tablet and Photosohp, each photo takes anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours. LIKE THIS? CHECK OUT THESE FAMOUS PHOTOS RECREATED WITH LEGO
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If I Die: Facebook Your Friends From The Grave
As the video states, you never know when you’re going to die, and you can end up caught off guard without having had a chance to say goodbye. Thanks to the “If I Die” Facebook app, you can leave a message to friends, family, enemies and strangers by pre-recording a video message and entrusting three of your Facebook contacts to share your message after your passing. ...
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Disgustingly Cute Plush Organs
One of our favourite companies, Broodr, has recently listed some of the most disgustingly adorable plush toys that made us say, WHOA twice! The plush organs by Tainted Visions feature cutesy stuffed toys in the shapes of cartoon organs as part of the “I love Guts” series. Our favourite? Well, we can’t choose just one, but the plush testicle and plush ovary are on the top ...
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Kowloon City Mapped Out By Hand
SEE IN HIGH DETAIL Kowloon was one of the most crowded walled cities in the world. Located within Hong Kong, it had a dense population of over 50,000 inhabitants within 0.025 km2…(that’s 1,923,076 inhabitants per km2!). After war strife between the Chinese, Japanese and English, the city became abandoned and soon invaded by squatters, resulting in a haven for illegal activities like prostitution and drug trafficking. ...
