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Some of these statues are very strange indeed. Some aren’t exactly statues- like the Mini parked up the wall but they are all all a bit odd.

The rhino hanging in mid air is my favourite, followed closely by the women swinging the kid.

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I love it when you see somebody talented do something extraordinary with everyday objects. It gives me the hope that maybe, just maybe I could do that. Though deep in my heart I know I can’t and never will.

A point in question, this photograph and many others (Link goes via Google.com translation as original site is in Spanish). You can also see his art on the online Saatchi Gallery.

These are photo quality but drawn by hand using ballpoint pens from photos he has taken by the Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas. Apparently he goes through 4 pens per painting! They are of the “i can’t believe it’s not a photo” quality. Just amazing!

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I’ve seen this effect used recently in an advert in a newspaper or magazine so I expect to see it happen more over the next 12-18 months before it becomes a clche and advertising agencies look for something else new and fresh.

That said, it’s still pretty clever and must take a fair bit of time, tweaking and adjusting to get just the right shadow you want.
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These aren’t cheap but they do look very stylish. Basically they are full door sized adhesive stickers that you put on doors to make your home look really different.

There are 35 wildly differing and you could turn a cellar door into a balcony, view into a village. I think they’re really ingenious.

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Sol it’s just another boring online product store? Not quite! Just watch it for a few seconds…

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It’s strange, when you think of art rendered in Lego, sculpting would be the first thing on your mind not painting.

These works by Italian artist Marco (from Turin) in Lego are very good, especially given the limitations of the medium- ie mainly primary colours and chunky. Be sure to check out the scenes in his profile as well.

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Retro-Futurism is looking back to a time when they foresee the future somewhat differently to how it panned out.

By now of course we should all have flying cars and video phones and live in peace and harmony. TV programmes like Tomorrows World from the 1970s envisaged us living in a plastic furnished world, usually in white. Of course things never turn up quite as people imagine them- we’re not quite in Orwell’s dystopian 1984 or some other’s utopia but somewhere in between and not living in a Bladerunner type world.

The linked site has a number of French illustrations from 1910 on how they thought the world of 2000 might look like. Some ideas seem positively quaint and we now know them to be dangerous- eg heating with radium!

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Not so long ago, several key cables were accidentally cut and India/Asia lost a lot of connectivity. This picture lets you see why. Ok, so i like this kind of stuff; infrastructure etc! Doesn’t make me a bad guy!

Click the link (or the picture above) and it will take you to the Guardians website and the full size image.

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Somewhere you don’t expect to find lots of lovely and interesting photos is Wikipedia (well I didn’t!).

Australian David Iliff has travelled to quite a number of places (poor bloke is currently in London- hard luck mate!) and these are some gorgeous photos and panoramas he has taken and put on on his user page in Wikipedia.

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Where did the last twenty years go? I was reminded of this by an excellent set of photos by Eileen Gunn of InifineMatrix.net on the 20th anniversary. It and the deserted city of Pripyat looks desolate and bleak.

The statue in the photo is a tribute to the firefighters who went into try and put the fire out. The intense radiation killed many of them and it took nine days to put the main graphite reactor fire out.

As this website says “There also had never been a fire-drill at the Chernobyl nuclear station. Many of the firefighters did not even know what they were fighting, they did not even know the dangers of radiation, much less that they were surrounded by it at the time. No account was ever taken of the possibility of radiation.”.

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As well as the electronics, I also had a spell doing Origami- I had the Robert Harbin books and made water bombs, flapping birds etc. (Yes I did get out as well!). No time for teenage angst I was busy doing crafts (my papier machier masks weren’t bad), water rockets, Airfix aircraft and tank kits, helped build bonfires for July 12th (I lived in N. Ireland), electronics, Blue Peter models…Then I got into Dungeons and Dragons and the rest got forgotten!

These photos are of some excellent Origami models.
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I bought a clock made from watch parts once, when I stayed in the Anjoa hotel in Leeds in 1991. The watch parts were arranged around the actual clock face i.e. decorative not functional. I think it cost me £35. The owner was selling them.

These 16 motorbike models are also made from watch parts. They are just exquisite.

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I'm not sure where the miniature world that these photos are of, was taken but they are excellent. My favourite is of the cyclists on the bridge with one cyclist who has fallen off his bike!

These seem to have places from all over the world. If anyone knows where the exhibition is, please let me know.

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This beautiful looking King Cobra is made out of cans all stacked high and is one of a number of photos from some exhibition somewhere.

Of course Andy Warhol made cans of Campbells soup famous in his paintings but I doubt he ever envisaged this use of cans!

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These are quite cute. They say things like “Note to security- I picked this bag all by myself” and “Have fun rifing through my underwear”.

I’m not sure if I’d have the courage to use them though!

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