Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak masters the optical illusion in his incredible scenic oil paintings.
Through strategically placed characters, objects and coloring, Shuplyak’s surrealist works depict historical famous figures, including Darwin, Van Gogh and Shakespeare.
Shuplyak makes the second image so easily recognizable in many of his paintings, that observers might miss the original image.
People make great meme images with this toddler.
From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. Reuters photographers covered the breaking news events as well as captured more intimate, personal stories. In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that [...]
Wood Thumb is a San Francisco based manufacture that prides itself on creating wearable wood ties made out of recycled and reclaimed wood from barns. With a little creativity, this duo was able to transform waste materials into useable products.
With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking.
The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it.
Where the so-called “brinicle” met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea [...]
While working on a highway-widening project in the middle of the Atacama desert, Chilean workers accidentally unearthed an eerie scene that had no business being found over a kilometer away from the ocean: a mass fossil graveyard containing over 75 ancient whales.
Finding whale bones in the middle of the desert is strange enough, but scientists [...]
Venezuela recently hosted the 4th annual World Body Art Encounter (Encuentro mundial de arte corporal). Participating in the event were 32 artists from 16 different countries. After a kickoff in Caracas last Friday, the event will tour different parts of the country.
By some accounts, body painting is a practice that dates back hundreds of years [...]
Is it true that elephants are artists? Can they really paint pictures of flowers, trees and even other elephants? Are they the only animals on Earth, apart from human beings, that can create pictorial images?
Light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti, is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image.
The term light [...]
The Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae), in the family Nymphalidae. It is perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies. Since the 19th century, it has been found in New Zealand, and in Australia since 1871 where it is called the Wanderer. In Europe it is resident in the [...]
