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Medieval Suits of Armor

Metal Body Suits vs. Weapons of Medieval Destruction Back in the good old days — which everyone pretty much agrees were pretty damned rotten — what you wore was a matter of life and death: simple rotting cloth was common, leather was rare, but for the gentleman of standing, it was armor or nothing.   Armet of Henry VIII known as the Horned helmet. Innsbruck, Austria, 1511–14 The first appearance of armor...

Inside a Wave: Awesome Photography by Clark Little

Monster Waves… Tricky Lighting… Astounding risk… Timeless Photographs. “The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little” is nothing short of epic. Getting inside, over and under 30-40 foot waves is no small feat, especially with bulky camera equipment, and a goal of finding that perfect angle and lighting condition that makes a perfect shot. (all images copyright Clark Little, used with permission) Clark...

Creepy Wearable Sculptures

If you want a weirder mask or a costume, you’d have to ask aliens to make it How many times have you seen the same variations of witches, vampires and superhero costumes? Boring, I say, utterly unexciting. So, we decided to bring you the wickedest wearable stuff, bordering on insanity, that would be next to impossible to forget – the kind of costumes that would leave shock in their wake, rather than just mountains...

The Tasty Art of Chocolate & Candy

Watch what you bite into. It might be a priceless chocolate piece of art Some people may unabashedly crave chocolate and consume it as fast as they can rip away the wrapper. However, by doing so, they miss on some serious creativity and artistic thinking that modern chocolatiers are putting into their products. In this article we’ll see some very yummy and eminently edible chocolates and candy… totally not healthy...

Creative Food Manipulation

Pimp My Food!- For the sake of Art and Stomach. These wildly creative examples of artfully augmented food (that anybody can make, provided they got Michelangelo’s sculpture skills and nearly limitless free time) can be then displayed in upscale New York art galleries (until they go bad) and bring their creators untold riches and client commissions. So then – who needs to eat boring food ever again? (images...

The Pasta Monster (And Other Strange Food Art)

Don’t stare at your food, or it will stare back at you In Strange Food Special and Creative Food Manipulation you’ve seen many weird (and tasty?) results of artists playing with food, mostly in a sculptural way (creative cooking will require its own page, I’m sure) Nike Air Max 90 Burger, by Olle Hemmendorff) We’ll start with a cabbage bra, by Edith Zimmerman, and her “Alien Autopsy”...