Playful and Colorful Street Art Works by Wes21

 Swiss street artist who calls himself Wes21, and whose actual name is Remo Lienhard, creates playful street art paintings the main feature of which is the combination of nature with science fiction.

Woman Quits Her HR Job To Create Paper Art

It can be terrifying to leave the security of a salaried job to pursue your passion, but this is precisely what Turkish artist Sena Runa did earlier this year. The former HR specialist now does paper quilling full time. 

Quilling or paper filigree “is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs.” While quilling was common during the Renaissance and 18th century, it now enjoying a seeing a resurgence in popularity.

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This is what Tears look like under a Microscope

Where are tears made from? Heartbreak or.. something scientific likeantibodies, oils, enzymes and H2O. Dutch photographer Maurice Mikkers wasn’t sure so he put all kinds of tears under a microscope and composed an eye-opening photoseries to show us what tears look like from really close up.

He asked a couple of friends to use their tears for this experiment. It revealed an unexpected beauty of these little salty water drops, that symbolize our strongest emotions.

Monochrome Watercolor Paintings of Children and their Animals

Indonesian artist Elicia Edijanto, creates beautiful watercolor paintings that capture the unique relationship between human, nature, and animals. it’s not often that we see black and white scenes be this lively.

 

E-MAN - How the Internet is becoming a part of us

For Professor Yuval Noah Harari from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the merging of man and machine will be the “greatest evolution in biology.”

“I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so Homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering of by the creation of cyborgs, part organic part non-organic. It will be the greatest evolution in biology since the appearance of life. Nothing really has changed in four billion years biologically speaking. But we will be as different from today’s humans as chimps are now from us.”

But what role will the internet and all its devices – ever smaller and ever closer to us – play in this great evolution? Meet E-man

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