Crazy Junkyard

Family heirlooms, vintage clothes and boxes filled with antique jewelry all pronounce class, timeless elegance and old-fashioned values.

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When we first saw these images of “mirror man“, we thought this to be a sculpture. But later we realized that this wasn’t just another sculpture. But instead he turned out to be a street performer who creates amazing living art in Los Angeles. Flickr user SiLver sKY spotted him near Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and he was wearing a suit made of mirrors, from head to toe.

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Customizing mugs is certainly a work of art.

This saucer, cup and spoon at MOMA is a collection of surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim’s sculptures. Included is Object, a saucer, cup and spoon covered in the hair of a Chinese gazelle. An unreal piece of art from the surrealist movement.

“Junk artist” Gabriel Dishaw has re-imagined the Nike Blazer, complete with box using scrapped circuit boards, copper wire and other technology refuse. It’s the latest addition to his shoe series, which also includes a Dunk and Terminator. With this piece is to create a complete piece with both box and shoe notice some of the details, shoes lock down inside of box for easy portability, he also tied this piece around a theme, “Pentium”, the name of Intel’s chips. You will notice this repeated through out the shoes, and box.

The art of creating these beautifully decorated shrubs is actually called topiary.People take something ordinary, and transform it into something extraordinary. In this collection, we take a look at some cool bush sculptures that have come to life in the shape of animals.

For the Vivid Festival in the land Down Under, the installation Vessel of (Horti) Cultural Plenty showcased. Vessel of (Horti) Cultural Plenty, designed by Warren Langley, was recently showcased at Vivid Sydney, festival of music, light and ideas. Soaring four stories into the sky, the massive flowerpot uses 84 strand lateral emission fiber optic cables and three low-energy metal hallide bulbs to produce 200 meters of linear light with just 450 Watts of power. The base of the sculpture is crafted from rugged materials such as galvanized steel, laminated sheet iron and plywood to stand up to even the drunkest, burliest Aussie on the block. This one is sure to make that manager-special bouquet that you bought for your girl look even more wilted and inadequate.
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Scenes from Antarctica

Down in Antarctica, November marks the end of spring, the beginning of austral summer, and the beginning of Antarctica’s cruise season. The Sun just rose for the first time in 6 months on September 22nd, and is now visible in the sky all the time. Recent studies in Antarctica have brought new insights into the origins of deep sea octopus species (a 30 million-year-old ancestor from Antarctic waters), volcanic contributions to disappearing antarctic ice, and the effects of increasing numbers of icebergs scouring the seafloor.

1. After waiting for over two weeks for his mate to return from the sea and relieve him of nest duty, this Adelie penguin’s hunger helps him make the decision to abandon his egg in search of fish and krill in the sea. Photo taken December 12, 2002. Known populations of the Adelie penguin have dropped by 65% over the past 25 years. (Melanie Conner/National Science Foundation)

2. A killer whale (viewed from above) swims amid floating ice in the Ross Sea in January of 2005. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Southwest Fisheries Science Center were studying the whales to determine if there are three separate species of Antarctic killer whales. (Donald LeRoi, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center/National Science Foundation)

3. Palmer Station seen from the ocean on June 10, 2006. Palmer Station is the smallest of the three U.S. Antarctic Program research stations, located on Anvers Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. (Glenn E. Grant/National Science Foundation).

4. A molting emperor penguin seen on January 3, 2007. (Carlie Reum/National Science Foundation)

5. Sculptured iceberg in North Bay, Rothera Point, Adelaide Island, Antarctica.

6. The Calkin Glacier, seen on November, 2003. The glacier is located in the Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, named for Parker Calkin, US Antarctic Program geologist who conducted research in the area during the 1960-61 and 1961-62 field seasons. (Brian Johnson/National Science Foundation).

7. The aurora australis over the Dark Sector at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on June 3, 2008. The Dark Sector is so-named due to the absence of light and radio wave interfence. The bright spot above the ground shield in the foreground is Jupiter. The white streaks of light going up are the Milky Way. (Keith Vanderlinde/National Science Foundation)

8. Penguins on a massive iceberg near the Antarctic Peninsula on November 28, 2003. (Kurtis Burmeister/National Science Foundation)