Category: Art
A Scream Worth $120 million
Photo from The Poppy’s by the Tree Killer on Tumblr The famous painting entitled “The Scream” by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch just became the most expensive painting sold at an auction, after it fetched no more than $119.9 million. The expressionist painting was sold recently during a Sotheby’s auction to an anonymous buyer, thus also [...]
The Fantasy Art Drawings of a Romanian Artist
It’s not easy to affirm yourself as an artist nowadays, especially if you are a young one, but this girl is determined to. We are talking about Andreea S., an eighteen year old student from Romania who developed from an early age an extraordinary artistic sense. “An aspiring animator and film-maker” as she describes herself, [...]
Star Wars Yoga by Rob Osborne
Were you aware that Darth Vader‘s favorite Yoga positions are “Revolved Lunge”, “Reverse Warrior” and “Half Lord of the Fishes”? Well neither was I, but self-entitled writer/artist/world conqueror Rob Osborne was creative enough to imagine this. And much more… Ranging from $13 to $19, posters of the Star Wars Yoga are available to buy on [...]
A Day In the Life of a Make-up Artist: Carla Dias
Their work is carried in the backstage and you rarely get to see them, you rather see the final product. They’re just one of those people who know that beauty is in every person and try to emphasize it so that the others notice it as well. Only they know the transformation they put a [...]
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 [...]
