Talented Turkish artist Hasan Kale Paints Detailed Landscapes on Incredibly Small Pieces of Food

Talented Turkish artist Hasan Kale specializes in creating micro paintings on incredibly small objects, like butterfly wings and snail’s shells. In his latest project, he’s taken his micro painting skills to a whole new level – by using food as a canvas.

The list of edible objects that Kale has painted on includes peanut husks, split almonds, banana chips, fruit seeds, beans, onion peels, mini breadsticks, and even bits of chocolate. As long as it’s tiny, it appears that Kale will paint on it. He uses an extremely fine paint brush tip and a magnifying glass to paint intricate landscapes of his native Istanbul.

Through Kale’s work, you can enjoy a picturesque view of the Nusretiye Mosque and other scenes from Istanbul on a Milka Square, painted with such amazing detail. Of course, most of his work is microscopic, and therefore not very visible to the naked eye. You’d need some sort of magnification to be able to see the paintings clearly.

It’s truly impressive, the way Kale is able to paint with a high level of accuracy on something as delicate as food. But he’s not satisfied in his quest for tiny canvases. Now that he has mastered food, his next goal is to paint an Istanbul landmark on a single strand of hair. It sounds impossible, but going by his track record, he’ll probably get it done very soon.

What I admire most about Kale’s current work is his ability to paint on stuff like chocolate and M&M’s. If I attempted a project like that, I’d probably end up eating more than painting!

Mike Libby’s Steampunk Insects

Stop! Don’t even think about screaming “Photoshopped!” because Mike Libby’s Insect Lab is 100% real. And so are his incredible Steampunk insects.

Mike began his unusual project on a day like any other, when he found an intact dead beetle. Thinking about how the little bug functioned as a mechanical device, he remembered he had also found an old wristwatch and decided to combine the two. After dissecting the beetle and mounting the mechanical parts, he realized he quite liked his new craft and decided to stick to it.

Now Mike Libby creates all kinds of Steampunk insects, from scorpions to ordinary beetles and dragonflies. He only works with non-endangered species from all around the world, fitting them with mechanisms from antique watches as well as old typewriter and sewing-machine parts.

Check out Mike Libby’s Insect Lab and feel free to email him if you want to purchase any of his Steampunk wonders or place a special order.

A guy rides a modified wooden pallet down the tram track in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Performance made with standartized europallet, modified to ride in the tram tracks. Realized in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2008.

The space between the tram tracks in Bratislava is 435 mm narrower than  the gauge of tracks in Prague or Pilsen (1435 mm). The wooden europallet,  a basic feature of any warehouse or storage hall, with its standartized  1200×800 mm dimensions, when modified can only run on the tracks  in Bratislava.

A new transport vehicle brings change into the spatial perspective of a passenger  in motion and generally changes the life of the city, through which the pallet can run, guided by a map of the city lines.

Technological Mandalas Made from Soldered electronic Components

Leonardo Ulian is an Italian designer who specializes in making sculptures made from electronic and radio components soldered in large networks called mandalas (Sanskrit word meaning circle, community, environment). With the help of many electronic components welded together, he creates stunning works that fascinate by their symmetry and their level of detail. It also manufactures books hampered by microchips. His works are regularly exhibited in galleries around the world.

Microchip synapses 02 - The last days of Pompei

Microchip synapses 03 - The dead place

Microchip synapsis 04 - Comunity factor in modern technology

Technological mandala 01

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technological mandala 38 close up

Technological mandala 15

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Technological mandala 42 - random relay from Leonardo Ulian on Vimeo.

Giant Fish Sculptures Made from Discarded Plastic Bottles in Rio

As part of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) an enormous outdoor installation of fish was constructed using discarded plastic bottles on Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The sculptures are illuminated from the inside at night creating a pretty spectacular light show. Love this. See much more over on this Rio+20 Flicker set.

Collage Art by Derek Gores

In his collage portraits, Derek Gores recycles magazines, labels, data, and assorted found analog and digital materials to create the works on canvas. The series showcases Gores' contrasting interests in the living beauty of the figure, the angular and abstract design aesthetics of fashion, and a fearless sense of play. His fine art canvases are exhibited by galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Sydney, Cologne, Miami, Santa Fe and more. Gores' design clients include Dwell Magazine, Lincoln Motor Co., ESPN, Lenny Kravitz, Lucasfilm, Kings of Leon, U2, Adidas, Madonna, Harley Davidson, Standard Collective, the National Football League, LiveNation, SEIU and more.

Summer Ride

To Quality and No Nicknacks

Could Do Anything

Plan de Paris

Full Volume Floral

All About It

Moulin Music

Full Volume London

Wim Delvoye's Rubber Carvings Turn Tires Into Art

While Belgian artist Wim Delvoye isn’t the first person to create art with used tires, he might just be the most talented name in the niche. That’s because his utterly gorgeous creations manage to maintain the structure of the tires while incorporating elements from nature, such as flowers and vines, so the viewer thinks of the delicate beauty of Mother Earth while never forgetting that they are looking at something totally industrial.

The artist uses no mechanical devices during the reworking process to make his masterpieces, and tough car and tractor tires take a very long time to manually carve and sculpt.

Mexican container city

This is a container city located in Cholula, Puebla in Mexico. It is about 2 hours away from Mexico City, a few blocks away from the Great Pyramid of Cholula, which is the world’s largest monument, and the largest pre-columbian pyramid (by volume).