Category: Art
Ideal Rings for Coffee Lovers
Coffee is for millions of people, that tasty and energizing black beverage they can’t live without. Of course, in time, an overwhelmingly number of combinations and aromas have been created – each tastier than the other. The legend tells that 700 years ago, while out to pasture his sheep, an Ethiopian shepherd saw them eating leaves [...]
Learn to Make Great Origami Christmas Decorations
Globes, garlands, reindeers or stars. Christmas decorations haven’t changed that much over the years. That doesn’t mean that we have to satisfy our desire to decorate with just buying them. One of the simplest methods to make your own Christmas decorations has always been the art of paper-folding: Origami. Each time when we think about [...]
Oleg Shuplyak’s Optical Illusion Paintings
Sometimes there’s more to the eye than you initially perceive. Apparently just some amazing oil paintings, the works of Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak’s hide a surreal world once you take a step back and watch more closely. Through carefully placed objects, characters, coloring and shadows, there is a second image in the painting which creates [...]
6 Creative Calendars to Get You Through the Year
Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Time flies but even if we cannot stop it, we can at least make wonderful memories to help us get through life. We all use a calendar to remind us of events or simply to keep our life in order but the problem is that most of them are quite plain. Maybe it’s [...]
The Halloween Menu in Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cat
To continue the series of Halloween mood stories, here’s one of the creepy classics. The father of the macabre couldn’t have been but the main course this Halloween. This story teaches you never to cross your cat, unless you are willing to suffer the consequences. Photo from arteyfotografia One of his greatest stories that has been [...]
The Halloween Menu in Literature: Kurt Vonnegut’s Hall of Mirrors
How about a series of short stories that would get you in a Halloween mood? As an appetizer, this first one is a science fiction story by Kurt Vonnegut and it will certainly raise some doubts in you. Mr. Weems, an old and humble man, had hypnotizing skills in deceiving others; women went missing and [...]
Freaky Zombie Tattoos for Halloween
Wanna know what’s even scarier than a good Halloween costume? Maybe you’ve never thought of getting a Halloween tattoo, but if you really identify with the culture of the gruesome, here you have it, boys and ghouls, zombies and monsters tattoos: No costume can beat having this kind of stuff on your skin, although taking [...]
Taking Art Outside the Gallery: Peter Callesen
Paper art, paper art, paper art. Origami, collages or decoupage? Which one is it this time? Peter Callesen set his heart on decoupage and origami in his artworks. What’s rather unusual is his indifference towards colors. His working material is the blank paper. By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the [...]
Challenging Conventions
In 1863, for the first time in centuries, a guy named Edouard Manet challenged what it was known as “Art”. An anti-academist who rattled a cage that was left to rest in peace for too many centuries, Manet would open the way for the biggest artistic revolution ever seen. Impressionism, Dadaism, Cubism, Surrealism, Pop Art, [...]
Bukowski Who?
I don’t have any problem with people’s life choices. Whether you’re a CEO or the average Joe, personally I don’t care that much. But when someone comes and tries to sell you their sad and pathetic life put neatly between two covers and call the character Henry Chinaski, you might have a problem. And this [...]
