Amazing Leaf Carving Art
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2010
Leaf Carving is the newest form of art out of China, where skilled artisans carve incredibly detailed portraits and pictures on the leaves o...
Linnea Strid's Incredible Oil Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2010
Linnea Strid is an emerging Swedish artist currently based in Stockholm who has a pretty impressive style. Her realistic paintings, particu...
Baobab: The Upside-Down Tree
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2010
Adansonia digitata , or Baobab tree is a strange looking tree that grows in low-lying areas in Africa and Australia. The Baobab is also call...
Swimming in -36 degrees? No Thanks
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2010
Members of a local winter swimmers' club went swimming in the ice-cold Yenisei River with the air temperature at about -36 degrees Celsi...
2010 Winter in Pictures
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2010
Winter has hit the United States and parts of Europe with an intense not felt for nearly half a century. Temperatures has fallen to –20 degr...
Birds of America: The World's Most Expensive Book
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2010
A copy of John James Audubon's “Birds of America” was sold at an auction in London last week for £7.3 million ($11.5 million), and thus ...
Amazing 3D Paper Sculptures by Bert Simons
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2010
Dutch artist Bert Simons has discovered a way to create very life like 3-D sculptures out of paper. He first maps his subjects' faces u...
The Abandoned Remains of the Superconducting Super Collider
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2010
Long before the Large Hadron Collider was even sketched out on paper, the US Department of Defense embarked on an ambitious project of crea...
Matthew Albanese Creates Dramatic Landscapes Out of Ordinary Items
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2010
New Jersey-based artist Matthew Albanese creates astonishingly detailed small-scale miniatures landscapes out of ordinary household items s...
We Make Carpets Out Of Everything
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2010
Designers Marcia Nolte and Stijn Van Der Vleuten and visual artist Bob Waardenburg together comprises of We Make Carpets - an art collectiv...
