These lifelike wooden animals are sculpted with a chainsaw

The art of chainsaw sculpting is astonishing to think of when creating with using such an indelicate tool. Both elaborate and exhilarating, it’s also a lengthy process that takes time to perfect. However, if you give Jürgen Lingl-Rebetez a block of wood and a chainsaw, all you have…
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Daniel Swanick
September 11, 2018
Art & DesignNature

Shazam-like app identifies plants and animals in your photos

If you’ve ever gone hiking and come across plants and animals you were unfamiliar with, and wanted to know more, there’s now an app for that. You could try to describe what you see and type it into Google. But you might not get the…
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Daniel Swanick
March 27, 2018
NaturePhotographyTechnology & Innovation

Giant straw animals invade Japanese fields after rice harvest

Fall is here, which means that it’s time for the harvest and the annual fairs that celebrate it. In Japanese culture waste is often minimized, especially in food. Sometimes, during the annual rice harvest, the leftover rice straw is transformed into straw animals.
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Daniel Swanick
October 17, 2017
Art & DesignNatureTravel

Artist turns old CDs Into amazing animal sculptures

Although we’re taught from a young age not to be wasteful, a broken CD isn’t much good to anyone. In fact, CDs are pretty much obsolete these days. Unless you’re Australian artist Sean Avery that is.
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Daniel Swanick
January 27, 2017
Art & DesignNature

Add charm to any room with geometric lamps

Tel Aviv-based design studio Sturlesi Design was looking for to offer a unique and authentic approach to ambient lighting. Hence, a collection of decorative, geometrical lamps were created.
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Daniel Swanick
December 9, 2016
Art & Design

Modern light fixtures turn into animals when illuminated

When award-winning Tel Aviv-based designer Chen Bikovski was growing up, she was fascinated by pop-up books. Mesmerized with the experience of three-dimensional storybooks, she transformed this idea into her design practice.
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Daniel Swanick
November 24, 2016
Art & DesignTechnology & Innovation

Powerful ads feature animals tied up like garbage bags

An argument can be made that in order to deserve respect from other humans, you need to be human. However, with peoples deep love for animals, it raises fundamental questions about the basis of moral rights. 
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Daniel Swanick
November 9, 2016
AdvertisingHabitsNature

Tables designed to look like animals emerging from water

A coffee table can serve as a convenient place to rest your drinks and feet. It can also be a design element that can serve as a great conversation piece. If you’re looking to spice up your living room with a unique piece of furniture, these…
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Daniel Swanick
August 29, 2016
Art & DesignNature

Fake animal facts left all over Los Angeles Zoo

California-based comedian Jeff Wysaski, who goes by the handle Obvious Plant, has recently pranked the public. If you happened to visit the Los Angeles Zoo recently, you may have spotted some rather unusual facts regarding some of the animals.
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Daniel Swanick
August 4, 2016
HumourNatureTravel

Artist creates animal portraits on wooden canvases

I’ve previously posted about paintings on tree logs that mirror their surroundings. Now, an illustrator and tattoo artist Kirsten Roodbergen from the Netherlands has created lovely animal portraits on slices of wood from cross-sectioned tree trunks.
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Daniel Swanick
January 25, 2016
IllustrationNature

Adorable, brutally honest circle of life illustrations

Mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, insects and other invertebrates each have their own unique circle of life. And while all animals need to be safe and to reproduce, they also need to eat; one animal feeds off of another to survive—that’s just how it is.
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Daniel Swanick
June 5, 2015
HumourIllustrationNature

Geometric models of animals made entirely out of paper

Artist Wolfram Kampffmeyer—aka PaperWolf—has become renowned for his talent creating stunning 3D geometric models; beautiful polygonal animals made from coloured paper. 
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Daniel Swanick
December 3, 2014
Art & Design
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