Origami City

This ain't no 'snowflake'

Mr Ito, 25, started building his 'Castle on the Ocean' when he became bored during his university entrance exams.
Using just a knife and glue, the art student built up an entire cityscape over four years by cutting and folding hundreds of pages of craft paper.
The finished piece is now being displayed for the first time at an exhibition on the artificial island of Umihotaru, near Tokyo.

Backyard full of elephants

Gavin Hogg painstakingly carved out seven adult elephants and three babies from his hedgerow.
It took two days to craft the herd with a trimmer, shears – and a pair of scissors for the fiddly bits.
The result is a striking 100ft-long trail of green elephants that stretches around the corner of his family home outside Brecon in Mid Wales.

So cute!!! I have the perfect overgrown hedge just waiting to be carved out. When mosquito season is over, I will see what I can do.

Seattle's Gum Wall

This Gum Wall, also known as the Wall of Gum, is one of the least known (and perhaps the oddest well not quite) attractions of the historic Pike Place Market - known nationally for its fish throwers and as the location of the original Starbucks logo.
It has its beginnings in the early 1990s when theatre patrons waiting in line to buy tickets or attend the theater began placing their gum on the wall. At first people used gum to anchor coins to the wall, but the practice stopped, leaving only the gum on the wall after the coins were taken by some people.

Hum...and this is a tourist spot?

First Crop Circle 2009

The huge crop circle sculpted in a sea of barley seems to be based on the Yin and Yang theme, and appeared near an ancient British burial mound beneath Windmill Hill near Devizes, Wiltshire on 25 May.
The ancient area of Wiltshire close to Silbury Hill, Windmill Hill and the Sanctuary is a hot spot for crop circles.

I bet these folks (the ones who make these) are also tattoo artists.

Tattooed Man to donate his skin

An Australian man whose body is covered in tattoos has pledged to donate his skin to the National Gallery when he dies.

Geoff Ostling, 65, spent 15 years having the colourful artwork "All the flowers of a Sydney garden" tattooed from his neck to his ankles.

Mr Ostling, a retired history teacher who did not get his first tattoo until he was in his forties, worked with artist eX de Merci on the design. The completed work now covers his back, chest, arms, legs and buttocks.

Think that's strange.... "Portraits painted on human skin hang in galleries around the world. They don't tell you that, of course, and valuable books were also covered in human skin."

And he has a lot of skin there to donate........

Organ Donor Dolls

These dolls are all heart - and lungs, eyeballs and brains. David Foox, an artist based in Denver, Colorado, has created a collection of organ donor dolls

I like normal heads on my dolls but they are kind of cute.

Is that a kidney?

Lego Jesus

I thought my nephew had every Lego ever made but this statue takes the cake.

Members of the congregation donated nearly 30,000 Lego bricks to build the 5ft 8 high statue, said Per Wilder, the pastor of the Oensta Gryta Church (presumably not made of Legos) in Vaesteras, about 70 miles west of Stockholm.
Finished just in time for the Easter holiday, the work began a year and a half ago.
The model was based on the Danish sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsens's, 19th century work 'Christus', which depicts the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

a Blond, a Brunette, and a Redhead

winning advertising photographer Julian Wolkenstein works with the supermodels of the equine world ... with a few hair extensions and a little bit of grooming

Peep Season

Easter Peeps

A holiday traditionBut did you know there are competitions for the best Peep diorama?

The one below I found on www.mentalfloss.com entitled...

Octopeeps!!

and the one above, untitled but obvious, I found on the Chicago Tribune site.

Want to build your own PeepShow, visit www.marshmellowpeeps.com for all the color/animal/etc options.

60 ft. phallus

A teenager got away with painting a 60ft phallus on the roof of his parents' home for a year before his parents found out.

Andy and Clare McInnes did not discover their son's rude artwork until a helicopter spotted it on top of their home near Hungerford, Berks.
Rory McInnes, 18, climbed on to the flat roof of his parents' home and daubed the symbol using a tin of white paint, after watching a programme about Google Earth.
Web surfers can view detailed images from satellites using the Google software, enabling them to zoom in on their homes to see them from above.

This is priceless...

Sheep Art

Welsh sheep farmers' sheep being herded into astonishing shapes on a mountainside.

Starving artist turned sheepherder?? or vise versa??