Archive for the ‘Offbeat’ Category

Amazing and Creepy Sculptures Made From Old Newspapers

Posted on August 9th, 2010 by kikonja

Nick Georgiu is artist from Tucson who has been inspired with the fact that books and newspaper are slowly disappearing and are being replaced by digital technologies. He was inspired to create those funny sculptures from old newspapers which he collected from his friends. He claims that he has been thinking about how printed media [...]

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Famous Paintings Recreated in Vegetable Art by Ju Douqi

Posted on June 4th, 2010 by kikonja

Vegetables and other plants seems to be very good material for creating amazing mosaics. Chinese artist Ju Duoqi has discovered possibilities of plant mosaics and she managed to successfully recreate some of the classic masterpieces of painting art like Van Gogh’s portrait, Mona Lisa etc. Ju Duoki started to involve herself in vegetable art four [...]

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Bat Flower, Beautiful and Creepy in Same Time

Posted on May 11th, 2010 by kikonja

The Bat Flower, also known as Tacca Chantrieri is one of the world’s most creepiest looking flowers. If you carefully watch this flower you will notice how it incredibly looks similar to bat. Its weird-looking flowers are like the bat faces with huge teeth and their black colors gives them even spookier shape. They can [...]

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The 4 Aquarium Designs You Won’t See Every Day

Posted on April 19th, 2010 by kikonja

I believe there is not much people who do not like to watch aquariums and who do not feel relaxing while doing that. Colorful exotic fishes are surelly beautiful and attractive but they are not so exotic without adequately environment.

Here you can see some really interesting and unusual aquarium designs.

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Urban Settlement With a Green Park Inside it to be Built in London

Posted on April 19th, 2010 by kikonja

We are witnessing the fact that our urban settlements are becoming cold and dark bunch of steel and concrete. That is against the humans nature and is against the nature at all. Humans naturally do not feel comfortable in such urban areas where you cannot see a single plant. Studuio Seilern Architects came to an [...]

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Beautiful Snow Furniture Art by Hongtao Zhou

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by kikonja

Creations made from snow were always interesting and entertaining, the snow is often used by many of sculptor who makes different sculptures from it. Hongtao Zhou uses to create a furniture from snow and ice. If you look at following photos you will probably say: ‘Everyone could do that’ but, the fact that he was [...]

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Ideas for Landscaping Care of Your Real Turf

Posted on September 13th, 2009 by kikonja

Verdant lawns are very popular. It’s because someone has put some quality efforts and care into the real turf. While it looks like very hard to do, especially when you see the beauty of the turf at the horse races or at the golf course, but in reality, not so much. We’ll discuss a few [...]

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Make Your Flower Garden More Attractive

Posted on August 29th, 2009 by kikonja

You can make beautiful scenery out in your back yard by mixing and blending colorful combinations of flowers that are mostly found in the wild otherwise. You have two options when selecting your flowering plants, you could either select biennials that take about two years to complete their cycle of life, or annual plants that [...]

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The Best Gardens Part 4: Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, France

Posted on May 15th, 2009 by kikonja

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is a majestic garden which was constructed between 1905 and 1912 at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Mediterranean coastline of the south eastern corner of France by Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild. It is a beautiful garden built on the headland on the isthmus of Cap Ferrat . An example of exemplary human-made structure [...]

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The Best Gardens In The World Part 1: Butchart Gardens, British Colombia

Posted on April 16th, 2009 by kikonja

The Butchart Gardens is one of the most famous gardens in the world which is counted among the best of the best. Its no less than a heaven out there at Butchart Gardens located in British Colombia. The breathtaking views will keep you stunned for some time while there, they look out of this world, [...]

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