10 Most Beautiful Royals Ever
Princess Grace of Monaco: Hollywood darling Grace Kelly has topped a poll of the most beautiful royals of all time. Princess Grace's fairytale wedding to Rainier of Monaco was the stuff every little girls' dreams are made of. She died tragically in a car crash, but her mystique endures.
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Broken Vinyl Portraits
French street-artist Thierry Guetta, also known as Mr. Brainwash, has created a series of portraits of international pop icons, out of broken vinyls and CDs. Mr. Brainwash, rumored to be friends with legendary street artist Banksy, has probably smashed thousands of old vinyls into pieces, to create the artworks for his latest collection, entitled “Icons”. Though they all look like they’ve been drawn with a stencil, each of them is made exclusively out of broken pieces of vinyl and CDs. Read more after the break..........
Unusual Art
A portrait of Anna Nicole Smith made of junk, artist Jason Mecier created the picture. He creates his portraits of celebrities using junk, pills and sweets. Jason sometimes uses items donated by the stars themselves to complete his pieces. Jason explains: "Celebrities really do send me items. Most people send me anywhere from a shoebox to a trash bag full of things to incorporate into their portraits. I have a bag of Pam Anderson's laundry, and a letter Paris Hilton wrote me from prison." more creative portraits after the break............
Alphabetic Illusion
Designer Marc Böttler used stacked wooden blocks and combined them with tricky camera angles to turn children’s playthings into a cool set of optical illusions. He calls it his Klotz Type Experiment. Because they only form letters when viewed from certain direction, it might be one of the first official anamorphic alphabets that could be used on a computer. Read more after the break.......
Parliament Buildings Around The World
The Palace of Parliament (Romania), is the largest building in Europe and the building that holds three records homologated by the Guinness Book of World Records: for the largest civilian administrative building in the world, the heaviest building in the world and the most expensive administrative building in the world. Read more after the break......
Sculptures of Car Parts
Watching the shiny metal grommets roll through his auto recycling plant in Brisbane, Australia, James Corbett doesn’t appear to know the word “junk” when it comes to cars. He takes all of those leftover bits and makes superbly detailed sculptures of mostly vintage racers and, of all things, animals. None of the parts are bent or altered to help make the pieces, either. Corbett even built a full-size car out of parts and stuck a flathead V8 in it, and he still takes it racing.Then he sells his creations for thousands of pounds!It’s really an amazing work, more pics after the break.....
Ships Made With Toothpicks
Artist Wayne Kusy, 50, of Chicago spends years painstakingly piecing together the fiddly sticks to make stunning sculptures of ships which have included the Titanic and Cutty Sark. But his master-pick is undoubtedly his Queen Mary, made of nearly one million toothpicks, which is an astonishing 25ft long, 3ft wide and 6ft high. Wayne began making toothpick sculptures as a schoolboy when he was set an art project to make sculptures out of household utensils. See more pics after the break.......
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