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Here is the Blog of the Game of Thrones Costume Maker

There is so much going on in that crazy HBO show Game of Thrones that we rarely get to stop and appreciate the finer details that go into its creation. Michelle Carragher is the talented embroiderer and illustrator behind the lavish costumes worn by many of the characters, and her blog is like a secret Game of…

Fill in the Blanks of these Untold Time-Travelling Detective Stories

Each one of Blaise Arnold’s characters are highly suspicious. The Parisian photographer takes us on a journey back in time through the 20th century, discovering scenes of untold mystery, expertly composed to fully immerse us in the past. Despite his French scenery, there’s Hollywood quality to Arnold’s series called “Stories“and a desire to know more of the story…

River Rockets of the Soviet Space Age

It looks like a prop from Star Wars doesn’t it? Trust the Soviets to have the coolest abandoned stuff lying around. During the cold war period and into the 1980s, this rusting behemoth was once part of a fleet of vessels which rose out of the water at high speed and were considered the heroes of the Russian riverways.…

Making Bicycles from Memory

If you were asked to draw a bicycle right now, from memory, without cheating, would you be able to remember the exact anatomy of the seemingly simple two-wheel design? Would you be a little hazy on how the frame connects the wheels or where the saddle area really sits? Artist Gianluca Gimini has a feeling you might…

Dreamy Paintings of a Bohemian Surfer

If I’m ever asked who my favourite artist is, I think I’ve always had the bad habit of saying the name of someone else’s favourite artist, or a buzzing artist I was supposed to like or know about. But recently, I discovered some art I really, really like. Jules de Balincourt’s paintings make me think of several things, such as;…

Stop Everything, Check out these Miniature Mediocre Motels

Among my favourite things are mid-century American kitsch and teeny tiny stuff. Put the two together and you basically send me into overload. I’m not exactly sure why run-down vintage motels fascinate me so; perhaps that seedy glamour of America is much more appealing to a European road-tripper like me who hasn’t stayed in enough of them yet to have encountered bed bugs. But those pastel…

Art of the Damned: Sculptures made from Abandoned Spaces

Ian Strange isn’t your average sculptor. He doesn’t work with stone, metal, ceramics, wood or plaster to create his masterpieces. He uses abandoned buildings. From covering condemned facades in spray-paint or cutting out gaping holes in the roofs of homes destined for demolition to wrapping a historical building with 600 sq meters of gold wallpaper, Stange has used…

Step right up for the Amazing Time Travelling Photo Album

If this isn’t as close as you’ve come to stepping into a real time machine from behind your computer screen, well then … I’m guessing you probably have an actual time machine back there. “The Old New World” is a Photo-based animation project by a Moscow-based digital artist, Alexey Zakharov and by opening a peculiar steampunk photo album,…

Anonymous Places of the 20th Century

I found some very pretty pictures today. A scrumptious visual mash-up of 20th century art, design, architecture, photography and cinema, allow me to present a series called The New World, by artistic German duo Geebird & Bamby (great names, right?!). Using photorealism and graphic design, they create ‘anonymous’ buildings from what appears to be a…

Mona Lisa and Machine Guns: Was Leonardo daVinci an Aspiring War Lord?

When you think of Mona Lisa’s peaceful smile, you probably wouldn’t imagine it was captured by the same man who invented the world’s first machine gun. You knew da Vinci was a multi-talented visionary; free-thinker, architect, painter, scientist among many things, but aspiring war lord? Take a look through the blueprints of his lesser-known inventions, and it might start…

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