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Alcoholic Art: Liquor Under a Microscope. English Oatmeal Stout by BevShots Have you ever wondered what your favourite libation looks like under a microscope? Picture a scientist, drunk off White Russians; staring into his glass and thinking — I bet this would look really cool if I magnified it! To the Lab-Mobile! A few years and a few sloshy nights later, BevShots was born. A company that sells beautiful magnified prints of your favourite alcoholic drinks. Whiskey Magnified Gin Closeup The images are made by first crystallizing the drink of choice on a lab slide.

Each image is created by using a pipette of each particular drink and squeezing a drop onto a slide. White Russian Tequila! Pina Colada Cocktails can have fruit and soft drinks in them which contain citric acids and complex sugars which dry out well and look great photographed. American Amber Ale Scotch Scotch Scotch. Vodka Tonic Some drinks such as vodka do not have as many impurities in them as cocktails such as a pina colada.

Japanese Rice Lager English Pure Brewed Lager. Miniature Art on the Tip of Pencil by Dalton Ghetti. Many artists have used pencils to create works of art – but Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils. Dalton, who works as a carpenter, has been making his tiny graphite works for about 25 years. A sculpture of Elvis Presley wearing shades, carved from a single pencil. The 49-year-old said: “At school I would carve a friend’s name into the wood of a pencil and then give it to them as a present. Later, when I got into sculpture, I would make these huge pieces from things like wood, but decided I wanted to challenge myself by trying to make things as small as possible. I experimented sculpting with different materials, such as chalk, but one day I had an eureka moment and decided to carve into the graphite of a pencil” A tiny saw, using both the wood and graphite of a single pencil Dalton uses three basic tools to make his incredible creations – a razor blade, sewing needle and sculpting knife.

“I don’t make any money from it but that’s not what it’s about for me. Beautiful Photos of China. Forget everything you think you know about China and take a couple minutes to ponder these photos. These are some truly inspiring photos of China. Enjoy. Photographer: Feng Jiang Little about China from Wikipedia:China is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations and for most of the last two millennia was one of the largest and most advanced civilizations in the world, until the 1850s when it missed the industrial revolution.

Subsequently, imperialism, wars and civil wars damaged the country and its economy up to the end of the civil war in 1949. In the 1950s, change to economic policies in the Republic of China (Taiwan) transformed the island into a technology-oriented industrialized developed economy. Then and now. Cool Photos and Artworks for Your Inspiration #8. Lunarossa.jpg (JPEG Image, 995x492 pixels) 640x455 pixels) Kittymart.jpg (JPEG Image, 580x571 pixels)