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24 Clever Print Ads. In print advertising world, agencies are bound to reflect their message solely with an image and they generally count on intelligence to accomplish this. Smart ideas on great visuals attract audience’s attention easily and they become a kind of art in the end. Here are some of the latest creations, each of which are virtual proof of what we’ve stated so far.

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Messy Nessy Chic — Blogging on the Off-Beat the Unique and the Chic Messy Nessy Chic. Autumn At OZ Festival - Emerald Mountain, Historic Land Wizard of OZ in Beech Mountain, NC - Take a stroll down the yellow brick road! Abandoned Suitcases Reveal Private Lives of Insane Asylum Patients. If you were committed to a psychiatric institution, unsure if you’d ever return to the life you knew before, what would you take with you? That sobering question hovers like an apparition over each of the Willard Asylum suitcases. From the 1910s through the 1960s, many patients at the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane left suitcases behind when they passed away, with nobody to claim them.

Upon the center’s closure in 1995, employees found hundreds of these time capsules stored in a locked attic. Working with the New York State Museum, former Willard staffers were able to preserve the hidden cache of luggage as part of the museum’s permanent collection. “There were many patients in these asylums who were probably not unlike friends you and I have now.” Photographer Jon Crispin has long been drawn to the ghostly remains of abandoned psychiatric institutions. After learning of the Willard suitcases, Crispin sought the museum’s permission to document each case and its contents. The 33 Most Beautiful Abandoned Places In The World. ×Imgur needs your help to win the Webby Award for best social entertainment site!

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Christ of the Abyss at San Fruttuoso, Italy View full resolution Download full resolution Kolmanskop in the Namib Desert View full resolution Download full resolution Abandoned dome houses in Southwest Florida View full resolution Download full resolution The remains of the SS Ayrfield in Homebush Bay, Australia View full resolution Download full resolution The abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park outside Beijing, China View full resolution Download full resolution Fishing hut on a lake in Germany View full resolution Download full resolution Holland Island in the Chesapeake Bay ups. Artificial Owl. Urban Explorer and Photographer Dan Marbaix Takes Stunning Photographs of Abandoned Buildings. Photographer Dan Marbaix is what is known as an "urban explorer. " He travels from city to city, exploring abandoned houses, asylums, churches, state buildings and much, much more.

He has been arrested over 20 times for his trespassing - and even held at gunpoint - but he refuses to give up his search for things that exist outside of the mundane. You'll see why. Dan wasn't supposed to be in ANY of these places, but you'll be glad he was. Above is an abandoned house in Germany. It's hard to define what exactly makes these pictures so beautiful. Is it the fact that humans have abandoned their dwellings? Or because it seems that life goes on, even when people aren't present? Some places are left in the state they were abandoned in. No matter how many times he has been threatened or arrested, Dan thinks it's all worth it. The Chambre du Commerce in Antwep, Belgium, was erected in 1872 as a reconstruction of a 1531 Stock Exchange. But they aren't fiction.

Retro Futurism. Retro Futurism Frank R. Paul was an illustrator of US pulp magazines in the science fiction field. He was born in Vienna, Austria… Frank R. Paul was influential in defining what both cover art and interior illustrations in the nascent science fiction pulps of the 1920s looked like. Many many years ago (~1940), Frank R. 7th of July 2010 Probably Related Retro Futuristic Illustrations by Klaus Bürgle Tavis Coburn’s Amazing Retro Program Covers #7 by disonyando Retro Style Recovery Kits Travel Status Back home since 54 days Currently in: Switzerland Oh dear, do you realise how old your browser is? The year 2000 as envisioned in the year 1910. Beautiful/Decay Artist & Design | Daily Art And Design Blog. Pusheen the cat. Scandinavia and the World - It's all about the children.

The Book Surgeon (15 pieces) Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms. "My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception," he says. "The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time.

Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he studied at Columbia College. Update: Read our exclusive interview with the Book Surgeon here. Brian Dettmer's website. 352432_1246003810_large.jpg (1600×992) Yokai_jiten_2_large.jpg (1000×712)