Woodturning - One Big Ugly Burl into a dragon egg !!

That turned out really well. It will surely make for a nice centrepiece. Impressive!...

This gnarly burl was another field find , I was planning on making a vase but wasn't confident it would stay on the lathe while hollowing  as some of it was quite punky , so it ended up being quite a cool looking egg ...
I filled the voids with Alumilite Amazing clear cast epoxy resin
and coloured with Jacquard sapphire blue pearl ex powder.

Andy Phillip

Making Counterfeit Bananas

Wow. So much work went into producing these fake wooden bananas. It took him all week but the results were amazing. Woodworkers and artists alike would love this stuff...

In this video, I make fake bananas out of wood to trick my roommate.
I carved them out of a kiln-dried fir 2x4, using the bandsaw, Japanese hand saw, slick chisel, drawknife, and spokeshave. Then I paint matched a banana peel and painted them to be as realistic as possible. The texture and finishing was very important to selling the illusion that this was real fruit. This is the first time  I used Titebond as a wood finish, and I think it has a lot of potential.

Bob's Wood Stuff

Super Mario Theme - played by Four calculators

We never knew calculators could be used for playing music, but these ones, made in China and bought on Amazon, apparently do! The calculators don't have every tone but we'd say the Super Mario Theme played on them turned out pretty good!

The uploader, from Japan, created a video explaining more about these interesting calculators in the second video below.

It's a small world

Introduce Calculator AR-7778 and AR-8001 & about practice

Hello.
I try to introduce the calculator.

Mandrill - Fine Art Bodypainting by Johannes Stötter

Wait for it...
Mandrills are the world's largest monkeys. Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man that "no other member in the whole class of mammals is coloured in so extraordinary a manner as the adult male mandrill's". Fine art bodypainter Johannes Stötter is back with yet another amazing creation...

Johannes Stötter

Belgian Artist's Amazing Shadow Sketches (18 Photos + Instagram Video)

This artist's talent goes on and on forever on his Instagram site. He's so full of ingenious, inspired and imaginative thoughts that he is able to create so many awesome sketches, out of shadow - and everyday objects. It's like, if there's a shadow, he'll be able to create a sketch out of it. Amazing!

Earlier this year, Belgian film-maker and artist Vincent Bal stumbled upon an uncanny resemblance to an elephant in the shadow of his tea cup. This gave him the idea for Shadowology, a series of doodles that interact with the shadows of simple, everyday objects: a banknote, some ice cubes and a flower, for example, can turn into a church, a woman and a hippy.

“I draw a few lines and I get my image. It’s really the shadows that inspire me,” Bal says. 

TRASH to Stunning ANIMAL SCULPTURES by Artist Bordalo II (25 Photos + Video)

Amazing! Where we see trash, this artist sees art and uses his artistic talent and incredible skills to spread his message about endless waste production by creating some of the most stunning animal sculptures out of plastic and metal waste.

Therefore, unlike most artist, Portuguese street artist Bordalo II (Artur Bordalo) doesn't have to buy his material - he scavenges it. He seeks to portray nature (animals) with the materials that threaten it, using the walls on streets and other outdoor surroundings as his canvas.

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Jon Boogz | Alexa Meade | Lil Buck| "Color of Reality"

Transfixed by racial, political, and socioeconomic tensions saturating the news, movement artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, enveloped by the art of Alexa Meade, switch off the TV and release their emotion into a stirring dance that is both a lament and a spirited call to action.
Movement artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, who use dance to move people and improve the world, find alchemy with Meade’s perspective-changing art. The result is a powerful, mesmerizing reflection, a moving 2D art representation, of the state of today’s society.

Jon Boogz

This art exhibit is a funhouse for adults

Finally, a funhouse for adults - even if it's only temporary...

Refinery29 turned a warehouse into 29 rooms of interactive art in New York in a way that puts you in the center of art, cinema, technology and fashion.

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Disguise Your Vehicle with this ‘Rust Wrap’ To Prevent Theft! (12 Photos)

Don’t want your fancy or new vehicle getting stolen? Perhaps disguising it as an old rust bucket should do the trick with this innovative rust-like vinyl wrap from Clyde Wraps, a company in Glasgow, Scotland which provides colour change vinyl wraps and digital vehicle wraps and graphics. A customer came into their shop and requested this one-of-a-kind artwork for his brand new top-of-the-range Volkswagen T5 Transporter Sportline van.

Incredible FIRE PITS That Are Works of ART (26 Photos)

A while back we featured an incredible looking wood stove – The Darth Vader Wood Burning Stove, but we had nooooo idea there were others out there that are so intricately and beautifully designed, until we stumbled upon these.

#1 Burning Forest Fire Pit

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