Pawel Kuczynski, born in 1976, is a graduate from Fine Arts Academy in Poznan. He is famous for his satirical paintings reflecting the environment, politics and misuse of power in the modern society. [Source]

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Ten meters deep and almost six hundred meters wide lake Hillier also posses salinity of 38% (almost as much as dead sea). This means there is 340 grams of salt dissolved per every littler of the lake water making it impossible to swim. Only a narrow strip of sand and vegetation separates the lake from the ocean.

The authorities have transformed the region into natural park. Tourists can have easy access to transportation (planes and boats) as well as accommodation (bamboo huts). [Source: CompassGuy]

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“Whenever I’m flying home into LaGuardia Airport, I request a window seat and willfully disobey the flight crew by keeping my point-and-shoot turned on. On this particular September afternoon, there was high cloud cover with one rogue cloud hovering ominously above Midtown Manhattan. I timed this exposure so that you can see straight down 42nd Street, all the way to the Hudson River. Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Long Island City, Queens are visible in the foreground, separated by Newtown Creek.” – Jeff Weston explains

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“Houston, We’ve Had a Problem”

“It was rather a serious evening, you know”

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress”

“Flight controllers here are looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction.”

“This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.”

“There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.”

“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

[source buzzfeed]

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An artist/architect, Hong Yi, will be posting a photograph of an artwork she made with food on her instagram profile daily for the entire month of March 2013. She uses fruits and vegetables like carrots, radish, cucumber, water melon, and cherries etc to make meaningful illustrations. Hong will also be posting this on her Facebook profile.

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Get off my garden!

Underwater Invasion – Snake eel

Forest cutting

A bomb blast!

Invasion – bobbit Worm

Warning. Radioactivity detected – Mushroom Coral

Toxic waste control

This is the work of an underwater photographer Jason Isley who is also a co-founder of of a production company Scubazoo. Jason has found a new hobby: capturing macro images of toy figures interacting with underwater scenery and marine life. “I was completely bored with macro photography, most people are, which is why snoots and diopters are used; to spice up the macro. I was looking for something completely different, something that would create a response. I came across the work of Christopher Boffoli and Slinkachu who had both used miniatures in still-life sets and suddenly thought; what if you actually shot them with living creatures?” [wetpixel]

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Miami-based artist, Augusto Esquivel, suspends thousands of colorful sewing buttons to duplicate real life objects. “I am often obsessed with comparisons of reality and potential and the balance between them, in art: the idea of chaos in perfect order: an object seemingly solid to the eye can also be fragile and inconsistent to the touch; a common object used to create a piece of art becomes transformed into something complicated and intriguing” – says the artist. [via MyModernMet]

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Working as a professional tool-maker in Hungary, the artist go by the name of Cerkahegyzo, has found a hobby. Using tools like needles, sandpaper, razor blades and most important of all; concentration, he makes incredible art on pencil. [via boredpanda]

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Art has no boundaries and does not belong to rich alone, a 40 year of man from Nigeria named Ojo Adeniyi proved. Instead of making mats and baskets, Adeniyi made full car body using date leaves. The car is functional, aesthetically pleasing and very economical due to its great power to weight ratio.

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Project ‘Word Animals‘ is brilliant illustrations of animals using the letters in their name by a graphic design, Dan Fleming. The use of broad text and colors makes the designs eye catching and fun to look at. The work is somewhat similar to Ji Lee’s Word as an Image.

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