As part of their ongoing series of visualizations, PhD student and self-described data geek Data Is Beautiful has created an animated timeline of the most popular genres of music from 1910 through 2019. In the early 1900s, opera was the most popular music category. A little more than a century later, Hip Hop/Rap dominated the…
Highly Detailed Miniature Replicas of Famous Guitars
Axe Heaven creates highly detailed, 10″ replicas of famous guitars played by some of the most iconic musicians in the world. Each officially licensed mini-guitar comes with a replica stand and replica case. While not playable, the look of each distinctive guitar evokes the memory of once hearing its inspiration being played. Among this collection…
Colored Pencils With Clever Star Wars Themed Shades
Online novelty pencil store Pop Colors has created a set of non-toxic, colored pencils that come in shades with names that are cleverly crafted with a distinctive Star Wars theme. The shades include such names as Darth Shader, Chewbacco, Return of The Redi, Bluke Skywalker Maroonium Falcon, Princess Leialac, R-2 Deep Blue, C-3Pgold, Obi-Sun Kenobi,…
Japanese Artist Creates Adorable Origami Creatures Out of Leaves, Flowers, Grass, Acorns and Peanuts
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? @kusabanaasobi ????????????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/JYpnb0jF8Y — ?????? (@shashin_kikaku) June 26, 2019 Japanese nature artist kusabanaasobi, which means “plant play” in Japanese, creates origami birds and other adorable creatures out of leaves, grass, flowers, acorns and peanuts. She also provides helpful tutorials showing how she folds the leaves in order to get such remarkable results. The artist…
Angry Aliens Invade a City That Only Takes Cash
In an amusing advertisement for Indian payments platform Airpay by Timur Abdulov and Irina Skaletskaya, a group of fierce extra-terrestrials attack a city after hearing a heated speech decrying aliens by Donald Trump and decided to kill every human on Earth. Despite this extreme violence on the streets and the dire warnings of his friend,…
Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Tarot Cards From the 1970s and 1980s Are Being Re-Released As a Complete Deck
In 1973, artist Salvador Dalí was approached by Eon Productions film producer Albert R. Broccoli to create a deck of Tarot cards for the James Bond film Live and Let Die. The legendary artist set about doing the work, using himself and his beloved wife Gala as models. Unfortunately a significant financial issue arose making…
Artist Turns Hateful Graffiti Into Enticing Food Drawings
Italian street artist Pier Paolo Spinazzi, aka CIBO, fights fascism with cans of spray paint, transforming hateful graffiti into enticing images of food. CIBO (a word that means “food” in Italian) founded this mission in 2008 and has been going non-stop ever since. CIBO’s strong beliefs, positive attitude, and immense talent allows him to fight…
A Colorfully Illustrated Map That Celebrates the Magic of Children’s Books With 50 Classic Titles
The very creative people at Dorothy have released the “Children’s Book Map”, a very colorful print that celebrates the magic of children’s literature. This 50cm x70cm (19.6″ x 27.5″) poster incorporates such iconic titles as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Harry Potter”, “Fantastic Mr Fox”, “If I Ran the Circus”, “The Lion the Witch and…