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Interesting facts from around the world. New perspective in to casual things and interesting ideas.

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Raised in Waihi Beach, New Zealand now residing in Sydney, Australia, Ben Young is a self-taught artist who has been making glass sculpture for over 10 years. Having spent most of his life living in the beautiful Bay of Plenty (North Island, NZ) it seemed obvious to him to explore the local landscape and surroundings for early inspiration in his art. The ocean also playing a dominant role in his life being a keen surfer and boatbuilder by trade, he was inspired to capture the perfection and raw power of the sea and of the perfect wave. Other local landscapes including the lonely Mount Maunganui and Mayor Island have featured in his uniquely crafted glass sculptures. Though overwhelming in their apparent simplicity, what the common eye won’t realise is that each of Young’s sculptures are hand drawn, hand cut and handcrafted, layer on layer to create the end product. There is no high-tech equipment involved but the complexity comes from the planning phase, which Young describes as ‘a lot of work’. Internally, he works out what he wants to make and how he wants it to look, “I do a lot of thinking before I even start to draw or cut”, and he then sketches the concept by hand, brainstorming the look and feel. “I work with 2D shapes and have to figure out how to translate that into a 3D finished product. Sometimes my start point changes dramatically as shapes can be limited – I can’t create any internal right angles – so I have to find a way to layer the glass to create certain shapes,” said Young. Only the finest glass and materials are selected to use in his pieces. The texture and colour of the glass is different in every piece he makes, ensuring one-off and truly unique pieces of artwork. “I love watching the two dimensional shapes evolve into three-dimensional creations and the different way the light plays inside the glass. I love the liquid qualities the glass brings with it. It enables me to play with lighting and watch the glass react.”

  Young is available for collaboration and commissioned pieces please contact him on [email protected]

Images courtesy of Zico Oneil

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Today the Department of Extraordinary Upcycling explores the work of Rochester, NY-based artist Dave Pollot who, in the awesome company of artists such as David Irvine, Thyrza Segal, Dave Vancook and Gauvain Manhattan, finds kitschy old paintings at thrift stores and enhances them with the addition of delightfully geeky pop culture characters and vehicles.

Visit Dave Pollot’s website to check out more of his playfully repurposed paintings.

Pollot sells prints via his Etsy shop as well as many of the original repurposed paintings themselves via his personal website.

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"Sex in the Devonian", Microbrachius dicki by Brian Choo

- Comments by Brian Choo (Deviantart)

- Copulation in antiarch placoderms and the origin of gnathostome internal fertilization (article at Nature where this painting is included)

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Long Distance Street Photography

You don’t have to stand in the rain to shoot photos on a rainy day. Rodrigo Viera shot these lone portraits from afar using a telephoto phone lens (similar to this one).

See his album, Voyeur.

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Amazing Concept Art by Justin Goby Fields

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Playing Tetris in a pumpkin

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This is gourd-damn amazing.

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Scariest thing which I saw in Halloween

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"Self Portrait"

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Davis–Monthan Air Force Base

is a United States Air Force base located within the city limits approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south-southeast of downtown Tucson, Arizona. It was established in 1925 as Davis-Monthan Landing Field. The host unit headquartered at Davis–Monthan is the 355th Fighter Wing assigned to Twelfth Air Force, part of Air Combat Command. The base is best known as the location of the Air Force Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, the aircraft boneyard for all excess military and government aircraft.

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Monumental Misconceptions by Liane Lang