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Pumpkin carvings that will make your jaw-drop (Source) (Frightening Halloween Masks) (Fantastic Halloween Decorations)

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The Bellerby Globemaking Co. – The Most Romantic Company on Earth….  @CubeBreaker.com

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The Wooden Boombox – 90s Nostalgia Meets Modern Technology…  @CubeBreaker.com

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Izaskun Chinchilla Architects’ new City of Dreams pavilion goes up on Governors Island… @Cubebreaker.com

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More here: Futuristic Views of London Shot From a Helicopter at Night by Vincent Laforet

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Glitchy carpets by Faig Ahmed

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One of my charcoal drawings.

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Blending Art and Nature in Oma Forest, Spain

For more photos of art in nature, explore the Oma forest location page. For more stories from around the Spanish-speaking community, follow @instagramES.

(This interview was conducted in Spanish.)

In Oma forest, located in the Basque Country of northern Spain, art and nature coexist in harmony. The artistic work of Spanish painter Agustín Ibarrola can be observed captured on the trees.

“When you are in Oma forest you feel joy,” says Ida Johansson (@artessano), a Finnish artisan who has lived in Spain for several years. “Being there means having a great time because there’s so much color. You can see one image or a completely different one depending on where you are standing,” she says.

“It reminded me of when I was a little girl and I was treasure hunting. It’s a very playful place and every time you discover something new you get all excited,” says Ida, adding, “More often than not, art feels institutionalized, as it lives in a museum or a gallery. Seeing it in the woods is very different. You don’t have to be an art expert, you just need to go with all your senses open.”

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Delicate Glass Sea Life Sculptures by Emily Williams

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Wolf Fine Art PRINT, Illustration Print, Art Print, Pencil Drawing, Pencil Sketch, Wall Print, Home Decor, Wolf Print, Wolf Drawing Drawings

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This magnificent Laputan robot from Miyazaki’s 1986 feature-length anime Castle in the Sky would be an awesome statue, but it’s actually a super awesome piece of cosplay. The 10-foot-tall robot was spotted walking around Osaka during this year’s Amazing Japan Model Expo, sometimes with an adorable Teto Fox perched on its shoulder. We’d love to see video footage this this amazing costume in motion.

Photos by GYAVASO, CNOK3, and PARAKONI respectively.

Head over to Kotaku for additional photos.

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Canadian artist Shane Wilson transforms massive moose antlers into magnificent works of sculpture inspired by his natural surroundings in northern Ontario. Using ethically sourced antlers, horns, and skulls from native animals, Wilson painstakingly carves beautifully detailed scenes from the Canadian wilderness as well as intricate geometric, organic, and traditional patterns. His skill and care can turn a huge pair of solid moose antlers into branches covered in perching birds, a forest or mountain scene, a complex maze of Celtic knotwork, or even a dreamy interpretation of the Aurora borealis (bottom image).

Head over to Shane Wilson’s website to check out more of his stunning antler carvings.

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Artist Nick Smith recreates famous paintings using only Pantone swatches.

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Sand Francisco-based landscape artist Andres Amador uses beaches as his canvas and a simple rake to create enormous, beautifully-detailed sand paintings, some of which measure up to 500 ft x 300ft. He prefers to work during a full or new moon, when the tide is at its lowest, thus creating the largest possible canvas. Working either alone or with a few helpers, Amador carves giant geometric and organic patterns made of the contrasting shades of raked and un-raked sand, sometimes using a rope as a compass to help keep the design steady. Most of his pieces are completed in about 2 hours.

“I tend to frequent the beaches near where I live in the San Francisco Bay area. A design starts with an inspiration of some sort - an off-hand doodle or perhaps something I came across that day of which I took a picture. About 95 per cent of the work is done beforehand on my computer, creating as many versions as I can of a design and choosing the one that speaks to me. Then I reverse-engineer the step-by-step process I would need to replicate the design on the beach. Next I choose an appropriate day for a design, which is contingent on the tides and available daylight. The final step is to trust the guide I made and start raking. The window of opportunity is very narrow.”

Each sand painting is a short-lived creation. Not long after a piece is completed, the ocean begins to wash it away. They tend to last long enough for a few photos to be taken, which will end up being the only proof that the pieces ever existed. That impermanence is a vital part of Amador’s artwork:

“My ultimate goal is to promote the cause of self-awareness. The art I create is intended as a reflection and a reminder of the grandeur that exists within every viewer and the beauty that abounds in our world everywhere we look. At the beach itself the person lucky enough to see one happening generally stays to watch the process, cheering when I complete the design. Once I have finished a piece and can get up on the overlook to see my work and take photos, I completely let go of it.”

Head over to Andres Amador’s website to check out more of his awesome ephemeral sand paintings and videos his creation process.

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Photographs by Takashi Kitajima capture the fluttering lights of Tokyo at night @Cubebreaker.com

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Installation Artist Chiharu Shiota Casts a Tangled Web of Thread and Keys at This Year’s Venice Art Biennale

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Feast your eyes on this awesome example of extraordinary LEGO geekery. LEGO sculptor and mosaicist Eric Harshbarger recreated the iconic cover of the 1977 Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, the first Dungeons & Dragons set that Harshbarger and his brother played as kids.

“Obviously, the countless hours I spent reading the rulebook and perusing the illustrations made a pretty big impression on me. In fact, I still run a Basic D&D campaign semi-regularly using this very set.”

Harshbarger spent two months working on this stunning piece. The finished LEGO mosaic is comprised of over 50,000 LEGO bricks in 20 different colors and measures 75″ wide by 90″ tall.

Click here to learn more about this geektastic project.

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