Art&Culture

Dutch photographer Maria Netsounski loves to play with perceptions and this set of photos demonstrates it very well. According to Wall to Watch, for this particular series of photographs entitled “IR”, the artist employed an infrared filter in order to completely turn around summer landscapes. The result? Each photography seems sprung out of a...
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We ran across this incredible ad on Creative Monkeys which left us staring at the monitor for quite some time after the movie finished. Morihiro Harano came up with the concept of creating a giant wood xylophone in order to promote a phone with a wooden housing. The installation is memorable, and so are...
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Rice field art or tanbo art is a Japanese project originated in the village of Inakadate, Aomori in the Tōhoku region. It all started in 1993 when the locals searched for a way to revitalize their village and to develop tourism. After they realized that cultivating rice is an old tradition in the area,...
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Royal de Luxe is a French mechanical marionette street theatre company founded in 1979 by Jean Luc Courcoult. In its long existence, Royal de Luxe became one of the most famous performance companies, being associated with exceptional appearances and complex open-air theater stunning millions of people from all over the world. In the last...
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Even if many of you probably already heard about the Telectroscope, this great invention captured our attention and we thought of sharing it. Although it had a short existence (May-June 2008), it is a famous creation that consisted in outdoor interactive video installations linking London (near Tower Bridge) and New York (Brooklyn Bridge). It...
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Pop-Up Books are known worldwide for their fascinating design. Flipping pages and discovering three-dimensional characters, buildings and so on makes for a fun readers’ experience, both for children and adults. Bowdoin College from Brunswick, USA has a collection of over 1,800 pop-up books and they will all be on display this spring as part...
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Tomorrow (March 20th), Hindus everywhere are celebrating a religious spring festival in an intriguing way: by people throwing coloured powder and coloured water at each other. Check out our post where we covered the Holli Festival of Colors and have a look at the video below for a glimpse of this colorful, colorful day....
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Photo by Jhadow The Wieliczka Salt Mine is located in Wieliczka, a town near Krakow in southern Poland. It is considered one of the oldest salt mines in the world, since it continuously produced table salt from the Middle Ages (13th century) until 2007, when was transformed into a museum. It reaches a depth...
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Seen on bridges, walls, streets and cities throughout the world, Banksy’s artistic works consist of subversive epigrams and painted satires. Banksy is an annonymous English grafitti artist, painter and political activist. According to wikipedia, Banksy’s stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects...
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Cancun Underwater Museum or MUSA is a stunning exhibition of sculptures made by Jason DeCaires Taylor placed in the waters surrounding Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc in Mexico. The amazing project that took shape in 2009 because of the artist Jason deCaires Taylor, in collaboration with  The National Marine Park and The Cancun...
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