Original Illustrations of Charlotte's Web

The original illustrations of the classic children's book Charlotte's Web was seen by no one, until now. The book's illustrator ...

Portraits of the Mind: Brain Cells Under Microscope

Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century By Carl Schoonover is a book that is to be released on Nove...

Salon du Chocolat 2010 Paris: The Fashion Show

Salon du Chocolat is one of the most popular chocolate festival in Paris. This 16th annual event has just opened it’s doors to the delight o...

Movie Like Hyper-Realistic Paintings by Damian Loeb

Connecticut-born artist Damian Loeb is a photographer and painter and he's good at both. Loeb's early works were based on collage...

Shelter for Homeless Animals in Pirogovo, Ukraine

While homeless people around the world are struggling for a bed to lie on and a roof over their heads, the street cats and dogs in the tiny ...

The Most Expensive House in the World

India’s richest man, who is also the fourth richest in the world, Mukesh Ambani along with his wife and three children has recently moved in...

Sung Jin Kim’s Paintings of Sensuous Lips

God, look at those lips. So red, so sensuous, so passionate. But they are not photographs. These are oil on canvas by Korean painter Sung Ji...

Barbie Foot: Soccer Table for Females

French designer Chloe Ruchon , with her creation Barbie Foot, gave the manly game of football a decidedly feminine touch. She replaced the f...

Sydney Zombie Walk, 2010

Hyde Park was infiltrated by a staggering, shambling horde on October 23, as participants in the Sydney Zombie Walk held an annual gatherin...

Curious Rock Formation of Giant's Causeway in Ireland

The Giant's Causeway in northeast coast of Northern Ireland, is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an an...

Homemade Fallout 3 Plasma Rifle Replica

The A3-21 Plasma Rifle, popularly known to be a little devastator, in the video game Fallout 3 has made it to the real world – sort of. Piec...

Creative Ad by Copenhagen Zoo

A giant constrictor snake squeezing the metal frame of a Copenhagen Zoo Bus is an advertising campaign designed by the Bates Y&R . Altho...

Mexico’s Congress of Clowns

Every year, clowns from across Latin America gather in Mexico City for a week-long convention aimed at giving their art the respect they fee...

Robot Babe Dance at the Digital Content Expo 2010

When the HRP-4C a humanoid robot made her debut  in March 2009 it made news and grabbed headlines. Now the HRP-4C created at the Japanese Na...

Hipster Paintings by Ryan Shultz

Ryan Shultz is an artist from Chicago, whose work deals primarily with youth culture and the “cult of excess,” depicting scenes of intoxica...

The Cannonball Tree

The Cannonball Tree (scientific name: Couroupita guianensis) is a spectacular South American tree to be planted in subtropical and tropical ...

World’s First UFO Landing Pad, and the First Landing!

St. Paul, Alberta , a small town in east-central Alberta, Canada has the world’s first official UFO Landing Pad which was built in 1967 to c...

Furniture Made from Rusted Soviet Naval Mines

Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin creates furniture and other housewares from rusting naval "Blok" mines recovered from an ex-Soviet ...

The Amazing Human Printer

The Human Printer , founded by Louise Naunton Morgan, is a group of artists who uses markers to emulate the printing process. The group repr...

New York, Portrait of a City

New York, Portrait of a City is a photographic journey through the history of the New York. This book presents the epic story of New York o...

Switzerland Drills the Longest Railway Tunnel in the World

The longest railway tunnel in the world was completed on October 15, 2010 in Switzerland when the last two meters of rock were drilled throu...

Jeremy Mayer Builds Robots From Recycled Typewriters

American artist Jeremy Mayer was fascinated with typewriters ever since he was a child. His childhood interest has now become an art form c...

Amusing Planet is now on Facebook

Here is a small announcement for all those who read and love Amusing Planet – we have a Facebook Fan Page ! At the moment, you can use RSS F...

The Delightful Drawings of Maria Zeldis

Not much is known about Maria Zeldis, except that she is Russian and currently lives in Mexico. Her portfolio at DeviantArt is filled with ...

Kansas City Library’s Giant Bookshelf

One of the most unusual architecture at Kansas City, has to be the facade of the parking garage for the Central Branch of the public library...

Nikon Small World Microphotography Competition 2010

The Nikon Small World competition, now in its 36th year, is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life ...

The Creative Office of Inventionland

Inventionland is the creative work environment of Davison, a new product development firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Inventionlan...

Food For One Dollar

When Jonathan Blaustein bought 10 early-season organic blueberries for $1, he was a little upset by the price tag. It wasn’t the visual cont...

European Beard and Moustache Championships

Germany’s famous East Bavarian Beard Club played host to the European Beard and Moustache Championships high in the Austrian Alps on October...

KOZO Lamps: A Plumber’s Dream Lamp

Israeli designer, David Benatan's new collection of KOZO Lamps are put together with rough but robust plumbing pipes and joints. The pip...

Incredible Pumpkin Carvings by Ray Villafane

American sculptor Ray Villafane carves incredibly intricate and detailed faces on pumpkins, from the gruesome Predator to the friendly Barac...

The Modern Ghost City of Ordos

The city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, China, was founded on February 26, 2001. It was designed to be home for one million people, yet, the K...

New York at Night

Jason Hawkes likes to photograph the world from above, and he has been doing that since 1991. In college, all he wanted to be was a studio ...

World’s Longest Line of Bicycles

On Oct 3, 2010, some 1,200 bicyclists in Davis, California pedaled their way into what is likely to be a world record for the longest single...

Amazing Rainy Day Paintings by Gregory Thielker

Gregory Thielker’s awe-inspiring oil paintings explores the sensation of seeing through a car windshield while driving through the rain. His...

Gigantic Sculpture Built by … Robots!

MASS MoCA , one of the world’s largest centers for contemporary visual arts, will be showing Frederic Diaz’s ‘Geometric Death Frequency—141’...

Extremely Detailed Paper Cut-Out Maps by Karen M. O’Leary

Artist Karen M. O’Leary creates detailed maps of famous cities by carving them on a single sheet of paper. She first prints the map on heavy...

Knit Your Own Dog

A new book titled ‘Best in Show’ by Sally Muir and Jo Osborne teaches you knitting patterns for 25 adorable dog breeds from a pretty Poodle ...

World Championship of Sand Sculpting, Washington

The World Championships of Sand Sculpting was held in Washington from September 8 to October 3.  Artists from all over the world competed fo...

Commonwealth Games 2010 Opening Ceremony Pictures

The 19th Commonwealth Games which begins today, started off with the opening ceremony last night at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delh...

The World Upside Down by Anish Kapoor

Sculptor and designer Anish Kapoor installed giant stainless steel curved mirrors at a new show at Kensington Gardens that appears to turn t...

Yum Yum's Hilarious Toys

Beth Algieri and Jonny Plummer, both designers and art directors who make up the Yum Yum studio in London, created a set of adorable toys c...

The Vdara Hotel Death Ray

The tall, sleek, curving Vdara Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas is a thing of beauty. But the south-facing tower is turning out to be nuisan...

Hyper-realistic Still Life Paintings by Pedro Campos

Nailympics 2010: The Bizarre Fake Nail Olympics

Nailympics 2010, the self-styled ‘Olympic Games of fake nails’ was started in the USA ten years ago by three nail brands who wanted to creat...

Bagger 288: The Biggest, Meanest Machine in the World

The Bagger 288, also known as the Excavator 288, is the largest digging machine in the world. It was built by the German company Krupp for t...

Emergency Bra Doubles as a Gas Mask

Dr. Elena Bodnar, whose inspiration comes in part from having witnessed as a young physician the devastating effects of the Chernobyl nuclea...

Japanese Kite Festival in Haifa

The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art and the Student Beach in Haifa, Israel, ran a Japanese Kite Festival towards the end of September. Activi...