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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Inspiring Portraits: One Face, Ten Moods

Here’s a lesson of how simple ideas lead to great imagination exercises. The painter of these magical portraits, known as Dilka Bear, used a standard expression for each of them, putting the characters in different moods and circumstances. In my vision, each of this little fairies tells an interesting story. Let’s start with a first…

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6 More Landscapes That Make You Say YUM!

If we were ants, this is probably what Heaven would look like. It might sound weird to picture yourself as a dead insect but think about it: no one to command you, no busting your chops gathering food, no worries. Food would be everywhere so all you’d have to do would be to focus on…

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Amazing Coffee And Toast Portraits

When someone says “coffee and toast” you probably think of breakfast, right? Well some people decided to use these items in a definitely more creative way. They put together loads of coffee cups or toasted slices of bread resulting some pretty impressive portraits of painted-characters, celebrities and other people. After taking a look at the…

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Inspired by Cupcakes

From weddings and costumes, to tattoos and graffiti, cupcakes invaded our world and made it more colorful and peaceful. Girls wear jewellery inspired by them, designers dedicate collections to them, artists around the globe create art around them…cupcakes, who doesn’t love them? Even if you try to educate yourself for becoming more food-aware, I am…

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The Robot Orphanage of Brian Marshall

Forks, tea spoons, tea kettles, bolts and a dozen other metal scraps have found themselves creatively manipulated by the hands of Brian Marshall. He has created a website for these little fellows that’s more like a foster home filled with robots waiting for people to take them. No, they aren’t small Terminators. Brian Marshall ensnared…

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