Mention chainsaw and the mind usually wanders to lumberjacks cutting trees with chainsaws for logging and to the horror movie ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’. The potentially violent and destructive machine that can be used to create art is something that defies logic. I mean, how can such a crude appliance be used to create wooden […]
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Ever wondered what the colorless white stone busts of the Roman emperors actually looked like in reality. Difficult to imagine, since there are no colors or pupils in these busts. Well, Haroun Binous, who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland, took it upon himself to reveal the actual person behind these busts. Haroun’s first step was to
Ever heard of slacklining? It’s nothing but slack rope walking, popularly known as slacklining, done by daredevils hundreds of meters up in the air. Marcus Nelson is one such stouthearted slackliner, who not only walks at mind-numbing heights, along the suspended length of flat webbing tensioned between two anchors but also runs, jumps, bounces, and
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If you want to wear a real one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry, forget the traditional jewelry. Kt Ferris, an American jewelry designer, offers unique jewelry that’s simple, timeless, and clean. However, some of it is with a twist, that is, it actually blinks! This 20-something jewelry designer, based in Brooklyn in New York City, USA, creates
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Colin Mitchell dreamt of becoming the youngest general manager in international paper history and studied hard to earn a degree in MBA. He picked up a job too straight out of college when he was living in Lynchburg in Virginia, USA. However, once into the job, he felt disillusioned by his hard-earned degree and miserable
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures aren’t the only means for expressing art. In India, the innocuous artistic matchbox labels are no less than collectors’ items. And they’ve been depicting art from the time of their inception. If you’ve seen matchboxes down the ages, you’d know the mind-boggling variety of art depicted on its labels. Their depiction
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Ms. CaiCai has certainly turned candle making into art and the variety she offers, through her US-based candle store in Katy, Texas, called ‘CaiCaiHandmade’, is simply mind-boggling. This Japanese, who was an architectural designer by profession, but an artist at heart, let her heart rule over her head and switched to candle making. What really
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If you ever want to play a prank on someone, Ben Cullen’s cakes will certainly give you a thumping success! This is because this King of Cake bakes cakes that perfectly imitate everyday items of food, vegetables, fruits, and much else…even human body parts! So realistic are they that it becomes difficult to distinguish between
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It’s rare to find an artist who is equally comfortable with painting as with sculpting, whose works evoke such strong emotions. Well, Thomas Lerooy is one such artist whose works do stir emotions, mainly because they’re a potpourri of realism and surrealist themes, with a sprinkling of classical sculpting. The viewers are able to identify
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Gregory Doyen, an outstanding pâtissier, has distinguished himself with his unique brand of pastries with exotic flavors. What sets him apart from the rest, he explains on sogoodmagazine.com, “My creations, first of all, are based on aesthetics, because a cake must have a surprise effect and should be enjoyed with the eyes in the first
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There’s something about the black line engravings of Dan Hillier that immediately catch attention. This amazing professional artist embodies the ‘Steampunk’ aesthetic, combining it with Victorian-era imagery, to produce his original ink drawings. Hillier’s stunning images, rooted in the late-1800s imagery, are fantastical, to say the least. This is because he depicts human-animal hybrids that
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