Glass Rivers And Lakes Flow Across Beautiful Tables By Furniture Maker Greg Klassen Talented Washington-based artist and furniture-maker Greg Klassen’s beautiful river- and lake-like desks and tables straddle the line between furniture and art. Due to his relationship with a local sawmill, Klassen has access to pieces of raw wood, which means that he can make use of its natural forms and beautiful imperfections for his creative furniture. These organic forms lend natural power to the “rivers” and “lakes” on his tables, which are completed with custom-cut panes of glass and look much like features on a topographical map. Klassen, who has a degree in theology, writes, “I try to marry the natural beauty of the wood with the skilled craftsmanship of the maker. More info: Website | Facebook | Shop (h/t: colossal)
Post The Most Beautiful Treehouses From All Over The World Almost every child has dreamed of having a treehouse. Some were lucky enough to have one, and some still haven’t lost this dream even if they are grown ups now. So what is it so fascinating about having a shelter up in the trees? Freedom, harmony with nature, wilderness, and most importantly – no rules. From the tiniest uneven constructions to the most magnificent mansions – every treehouse is perfect. Take a look at this collection of the most impressive pieces from all over the world and tell me you don’t want one! Show 6 more Drag Image Tip: image width should be at least 600px Select File Ooops! + add source Post
Dramatic Fairy Sculptures Dancing With Dandelions By Robin Wight Robin Wight, a UK-based sculptor that works primarily with stainless steel wire, has mastered the creation of enchanting and dynamic fairy sculptures that seem to dance in or struggle against the wind. Wight is very open about the process behind his beautiful fairy creations, describing it in great detail. They involve the creation of a robust steel skeleton that is then wrapped in progressively smaller gauges of wire – the thickest forms the skeleton, the next thickest forms the muscles and body mass, and the finest wraps these muscles to form the skin. Looks like our readers missed these sculptures when they created this amazing sculpture post! More info: fantasywire.co.uk | Facebook (h/t: colossal)
This Traffic Jam Was Stuck In Belgian Forest For 70 Years These spooky apocalyptic images are not a scene from “Walking Dead”, they were actually taken at one of the biggest car cemeteries in the world – the Chatillion Car Graveyard, Belgium. According to an urban legend these cars were left behind by US soldiers from World War II, who could not ship them back to the US so they decided to hide them in a forest until they could come back and retrieve them. The locals disagree and say that it’s simply an old car dump of vehicles made after the WWII. At one point there were four car graveyards in Chatillon with as many as 500 retro vehicles. h/t: amusing planet Image credits: Rosanne de Lange Image credits: Theo van Vliet Image credits: Marcel Wiegerinck Image credits: Marcel Wiegerinck Image credits: Marcel Wiegerinck Image credits: Theo van Vliet
Incredible Body Paintings By Gesine Marwedel Transform People Into Animals And Organs Gesine Marwedel is a brilliant body painting artist based in Germany who creates both beautiful and terrifying pieces of art right on the models who serve as her living canvases. Marwedel is a master of painting on and with the human form – she can either emphasize it to work with her painting, or eliminate it to let her painting shine through. In both cases, she creates beautiful art that melds together with the people it’s painted on. These aren’t just pretty pictures – Marwedel also believes in the therapeutic qualities of art. She has even published a book exploring how body painting can be used as therapy. More info: gesine-marwedel.de | Facebook
Intricate Animal Sculptures Made from Wood Chips Dec 23, 2012 Sergei Bobkov is a talented Russian artist that uses wood chips to create intricate and realistic looking animal sculptures. The first step in the process is to carefully understand the anatomy of a creature. The next step is to create his own wood chips. [via My Modern Met, MSN Now, English Russia] Artwork by Sergei Bobkov If you enjoyed this post, the Sifter highly recommends: Wood-Chip Sculptures by Sergei Bobkov 53-year-old Sergei Bobkov has patented a unique technique of creating amazing sculptures out of Siberian cedar wood-chips. “It’s not very interesting to do what others can. To create something out of nothing in a completely new way is far more inspiring”. This is how Sergei Bobkov explains the unique form of art that he created. This resident of Kozhany, Russia, has developed his very own technique, that prevents wood-chips from falling apart, in time. Sergey has been doing this for some time now, but he has only created 11 wood-chip sculptures. Even though he was offered $17,000 for his wood-chip eagle.Sergei’s Bobkov declined, saying his rt is not for sale. Photo by Reuters via Daylife Photo by Reuters via Daylife Photo by Reuters via Daylife Above photos via EnglishRussia Reddit Stumble
Awesome Wood Sculptures by Sergey Bobkov 53-year-old Sergei Bobkov has an amazing unique technique of creating amazing sculptures out of Siberian cedar wood-chips. To create something out of nothing in a completely new way is far more inspiring. To create those artwork, Bobkov has developed his very own technique, that prevents wood-chips from falling apart, in time. Let’s take a look at the following Awesome Wood Sculptures by Sergey Bobkov. Realistically colorized historical photos make the past seem incredibly real [36 pictures] Over the last couple years, an increasingly popular trend online has been to create and share colorized photos from history. Artists such as Jordan Lloyd, Dana Keller and Sanna Dullaway take intriguing old black-and-white photos and bring them to life with color as if they’d been taken only yesterday. Here are some examples… Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife, circa 1939 Testing the Hydrogen Bomb London, 1945 Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 Japanese Archers, circa 1860 View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864 Audrey Hepburn Albert Einstein in Long Island, 1939 Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933 Baltimore Slums, 1938 British Troops Board Their Train for the Front, 1939 Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880 Walt Whitman, 1887 Mark Twain, circa 1900 Charlie Chaplin, 1916 Elizabeth Taylor, 1956 Country store, 1939 Washington D. Charles Darwin, 1874 Abraham Lincoln, 1865 Theodore Roosevelt Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953