A Portrait Drawn by Hand with 2.1 Million Ink Dots

A Portrait Drawn by Hand with 2.1 Million Ink Dots to Aid Amnesiac Benjaman Kyle

In 2004 an unconscious man was discovered behind a fast food restaurant in Richmond Hill, Georgia. He had no belongings, severe sunburn, and was nearly blind from cataracts. The man also had absolutely no idea who he was. After months of ongoing evaluation from doctors and psychologists it was determined he was suffering from dissociative amnesia. He adopted the pseudonym Benjaman Kyle and has embarked on a search for his true identity sparking massive amounts of media coverage and even a short film, Finding Benjaman, by John Wikstrom. He is the only citizen in the United States officially listed as missing despite his whereabouts being known. One strange aspect of this predicament is that Kyle now lives completely in limbo: for the past 8 years he has been denied the ability to obtain a new social security number which in turn prevents him from opening a bank account or having a credit card. The government argues that he already has one, but despite the efforts of fingerprint matching, DNA tests, and exposure on television, he simply cannot determine his true identity.After catching a screening of Finding Benjaman at the Tribeca Film Festival artist Miguel Endara (previously) was inspired to help in any way he could, which meant making art. Endara embarked on this portrait of Benjaman using stippling, a tedious technique which involves a pen, patience, and an obscene amount of dots. The portrait took nearly 138 hours to complete, and at a rate of 4.25 dots per second, he estimates the piece contains roughly 2.1 million of them. The hope is to spread awareness for Bengaman’s plight and to help raise money through the sale of prints to support a petition to get him a new social security number. You can learn more about the drawing here.

صور في غاية الروعة والإبداع

صورة نقطية مرسومة باليد مكونة من 2.1 مليون نقطة إستغرقت 138 ساعة من العمل لتخرج في صورتها النهائية  

A Sculpted Ceramic Hand

Cycle of Decay : A Sculpted Ceramic Hand that Looks Like a Carved Tree Branch

 This impeccably detailed ceramic sculpture called Cycles of Decay was created by ceramicist Christopher David White who works out of Bloomington, Indiana. Even on close inspection the knotted and twisting veins of the tree branch look almost exactly like old wood

صور في قمة الروعة والإبداع

مجسم ليد من السيراميك كأنه من الخشب

12 Delicious Dishes Served Inside Other Foods

12 Delicious Dishes Served Inside Other Foods

Recently I’ve noticed a trend where treats and snacks are served inside other edible goods. My first experience was a bowl of clam chowder soup served inside a bread bowl. Since then, I’ve seen bacon, chocolate and hollowed out apples used as a bowl. I’ve even seen eggs cooked inside other vegetables to give it a unique shape or extra flavour.With the popularity of food and recipe sites and the explosion of ‘foodie’ culture on Instagram and Pinterest, I thought I would take a stab at compiling some of the more popular images floating around online. I’ve also tried to mix in a few delicious examples you may have not seen before. Bon appetit!

1.    Bacon and Egg Cupcakes

2.   . Ice Cream with Brandy Caramel

3.    Portobello Mushroom Pizza

4.    Chocolate Covered Strawberry Shot Glasses

5.    Baked Avocado and Egg

6.    Apple Pie Baked Inside an Apple

7.    Ice Cream in Chocolate Cups Made with Balloons

8.   Raspberries Stuffed with Hershey’s Kisses

9.   Caramel Apple Jello Shots

10.              M&M Atop a Pretzel-Wrapped,  Melted Hershey’s Kiss

    

11.              Eggs Cooked Inside Bell Peppers

12.              Turducken!

Volcanic 2012

2012  The Year in Volcanic Activity

Out of an estimated 1,500 active volcanoes around the world, 50 or so erupt every year, spewing steam, ash, toxic gases, and lava. In 2012, active volcanoes included Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego, New Zealand's Tongariro, Russia's Plosky Tolbachik, Chile's Puyehue, Italy's Etna, and a new island appearing in the Red Sea. In Hawaii, Kilauea continues to send lava flowing toward the sea, and locals living near Mexico's Popocatepetl continued to deal with ashfalls. Collected below are scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year.

صور : نشاط الحمم البركانية لعام 2012