When the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, the surrounding streets were enshrouded in plumes of smoke and massive clouds of dust.
Artist Xu Bing collected much of this dust and ten years later has used it as material for an installation called Where Does the Dust Collect? Blowing the dust onto the floor of an exhibition space with a leaf blower, he then stenciled a zen poem into it.
These licorice portraits look good enough to eat. Artist Jason Mercier is known for his celebrity mosaics made of candy, food, pills and make up and even celebrity's own junk. For his latest project, called 'Licorice Flix: Edible Movie Mosaics,' he took scenes from some of his favorite movies and recreated them with pieces of black and red licorice in startling detail.
Of all the things one can do while sleepwalking, Lee Hadwin seems to have found the most lucrative. Ever since he was a child, the 37-year-old has drawn sketches in his sleep, some of which have fetched sums of over $100,000.
Our country would look pretty different if it weren't for the defeat of General Frankenstein at Bunker Hill or Metallo the mechanical man's passages in the Declaration of Independence. At least thats the way these events occur in artist Matthew Buchholz's 'Alternate Histories' poster series.
Scott Weaver has spent the last 35 years building a highly-detailed tower replica of San Francisco using only toothpicks. And it that wasn't impressive (or insane) enough, his tower allows ping pong balls to take a half-dozen differently routed tours throughout San Francisco's neighborhoods and famous landmarks.
In the video below, Walker walks you through all of his painstaking creation's twists.
The best part about winning computer solitaire is the flurry of cards that fills the screen after making the final move. Lars Marcus Vedeler and Theo Tveteras of experimental design team skrekkogle have now translated this iconic moment into a physical 3D sculpture of the jumping cards.
Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, is impressive enough on its own, let alone when it's done in miniature form. Yet that's what artist Anja Markiewicz does, creating amazingly tiny sculptures of things like animals and snowflakes out of paper less than an inch in width.
How would you react if a painting suddenly came to life? Alexa Meade's painted people look like works of art but move like humans -- making for an eerie sight.
Whereas most artists would just paint their subjects on a canvas, Meade actually turns her subjects INTO the canvas. She creates life-size installations that are shockingly exact in their similarity to actual acrylic paintings. Upon first glance it's almost impossible to tell that there are real people under all that paint.
Unless this is your first day on the internet, you're almost certainly familiar with Chris Crocker. He was the mascara-smudged Britney Spears uber-fan who pleaded with the world to just leave her alone already during the singer's tragic, head-shearing meltdown back in 2007.
Artist Curtis Kilhorn is making it his mission to restore beauty to dead trees in the Colorado wilderness. Kilhorn paints their remains in a rainbow of bright colors, turning a dried-up tree skeleton into a technicolor conversation piece, and will install his creations in customers' backyards. He says the intention of the installations is to remind people "of the splendor of the world around us" but we think it's a righteous way to recycle. Mother Nature would be proud.