Cakes, as normally placid desserts, usually don’t give a fight when you’re about to eat their sugary goodness. Well, sculptor Scott Hove is about to change that with his new creations for a show, aptly called “Your Deadly Desserts.” As the name suggests, the cakes in his line up look like they will readily bite your hand off if you so much as look at it the wrong way.
This reminds us too much of IT.
This one too. What’s with the raspberry that reminds us of clown noses?
And we thought the ones above were terrifying enough.
Along with the spikes, fangs, tongues, and other bits from our nightmares, Scott Hove throws in a few dismembered body parts too.
If you want to see more of these cakes with a bite, feel free to check out the link below.
The Boston’s Museum of Bad Art only showcases pieces of art that you can never really call “fine art”. Here are some of the paintings being showcased during the Museum of Bad Art: Art Too Bad to Be Ignored exhibit.
Two iconic pieces from West Bank by the graffiti artist Banksy are now for sale in a Hamptons art gallery. The two works (Wet Dog and Stop and Search) were removed from their original locations, transported from the Middle East to the Keszler Gallery. According to reports, the works were originally removed by an enterprising Palestinian and had been sitting at a stone mason’s yard for several years.
Good thing the pieces weren’t discarded or destroyed before the galleries stepped in, right? Well, depends on who you ask, the removal and subsequent sale of the Banksys is not sitting well with some people. The Banksy works have been priced to go at $425,000. At any rate, check out the video below to see how the Keszler Gallery (in partnership with Bankrobber Gallery) transported the works from the West Bank to Hamptons.
You’ve probably seen football, baseball and basketball fans paint their faces with their favorite teams’ logos or flags. That shows dedication and real support for their teams. Other people have their faces painted for artistic reasons, for Halloween, or just for fun. Artist James Kuhn has created a project featuring unique and varied face paintings.
When you’re selling your product, it’s imperative that your packaging design represents exactly what’s inside – or in this case, the packaging should be creative and awesome enough to catch the buyer’s attention. The quality of your product is important as well, but with this kind of creative product packaging, you’re sure to elicit buyer interest.
Smirnoff Caipiroska
Japanese pastry packaging for black melon bread
Bowtie in Parkinson’s packaging exudes English personality
Guggle Bum skeletons
Light-bulbed shaped Gloji juice
Butter Better with lid as disposable butter knife
The Tulip (single serving plastic wine glasses with peal-off foil lid)
Amazing pieces of architecture never fail to make heads turn – whether they are hideous or stunning. Below is a list of five of the most amazing architectural feats constructed recently and in the past years.
The Ice Hotel
This amazing hotel is built every year using some 10,000 tons of crystal clear ice from the Torne River and 30,000 tons of pure snow. Sweden’s Ice Hotel is located in the old village of Jukkasjarvi in Swedish Lapland. What makes this hotel even more interesting is that it houses an ice chapel, an ice art exhibition hall, the famous Absolut Ice Bar, and a cinema. The hotel’s design differs every year.
Habitat 67
This housing complex in Montreal, Canada was built in 1967 by architect Moshe Safdie as part of Expo 67. It was designed to create affordable housing but still give residents private quarters equipped with modern necessities. Over time, however, the units’ prices soared due to the area and the housing’s popularity.
The Stone House
This house has become a popular tourist attraction because of its peculiar design. The house is constructed between two giant stones and linked with a concrete mix. It can be found on the Fafe mountains’ hillside.
Manchester Civil Justice Centre
Considered as the biggest court complex built in the UK since the 19th Century’s Royal Courts of Justice, the Manchester Civil Justice Centre has a total floor area of 34,000 sqm. There are 15 levels that house office and support spaces, 75 consultation rooms and 47 court rooms. It was designed by architect Denton Corker Marshall.
Dar Al-Hajar
Constructed in the 1930s, the Dar Al-Hajar was built as a summer palace of Imam Yahya. Inside, you’ll find rooms for women, a kitchen, storage rooms, and several meeting rooms for high-ranking people and friends which the Imam used to see in this summer residence.
Art heists are pretty exciting to watch in movies, and Hollywood is well aware of the fact, giving us the likes of The Thomas Crown Affair, Entrapment, and Ocean’s 12, among other movies. In these movies, we see highly convoluted and down-to-the-last-millisecond plans, double quadruple double-crosses, and pretty people playing art thieves. In real life though, the theft of a piece of ridiculously expensive art can be frustrating for police and heartbreaking for art museums and galleries.
In this video of Yahoo!’s Who Knew, we learn which paintings are currently missing, why some thieves steal art, and what happens to said paintings and other pieces when they are taken. Check out the video below.
That’s Marilyn Monroe, and in case you’re curious, she was not painted using a brush, or drawn with a pencil. She was painted using a pair of lips.
Natalie Irish, an artist from Texas, paints with her lips. She basically applies lipstick, kisses the canvass, and voila! A portrait emerges. She has a portrait of Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe (seen above), the Beatles, Elvis, and Roy Rogers. She also makes portraits with thumbprints and shows videos of how she does them.
Pucker up for art!
It’s an awesome piece of art don’t you think? If you want to see how she made that portrait of Jimi Hendrix, just click play below.
The chair, interestingly, did not become a common piece of household furniture until the 16th Century. The bench, stool and chest were the typical seats used back then by ordinary people, while the chair was used as a symbol of social status and dignity. It was once an emblem of authority – hence, the use of the term “Chairman” to refer to people with positions in the government and academe, among other institutions. Chairs were often adorned with precious stones and expensive materials, and they usually had intricate carvings and patterns.
After it became common furniture in a lot of homes, the chair has since evolved from being a utilitarian piece to an aesthetic piece used to decorate one’s home. Creative manufacturers and artists are creating chairs using a variety of materials in designs that would otherwise make one go, “Really?”
Here are the 10 creative and unusual chairs that one might want to have in his home (or not):
While we understand that traditions, customs and values differ in every province, country or continent, we’re still at awe how some “artistic” sculptures in other places can elicit admiration, disgust or pure amazement from other people who live elsewhere. (Although some might just plainly be freaked out by these.) We’ve come across several known sculptures from all over the world that are far from the conventional statues or sculptures one might usually find. Interestingly, most of these strange sculptures feature people, although they’re usually put in very compromising positions, while some feature stuff from every child’s nightmare like a gigantic spider.
Peeing Statues in front of the Franz Kafka Museum
Statue in Moscow (somewhat similar to the Statue of Liberty)
