The latest Eastern – European cold snap has brought delayed trains and flights, closed roads and houses buried under several feet of snow. However, despite all those bad things, the cold also brought some amazing photo opportunities. And the best one is the recently frozen Black Sea. The fairytale-like photos made the news around the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…