crafty critter

larahawthorne:

These creatures are going to be in the next issue of ‘life’, a nature magazine based in Falmouth and Exeter, but will be in a different composition and involve other friends, such as a millipede and a cockroach!

Thanks for the submission Lara!

mossofthewoods: Adelaide Tyrol

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:20:04 -0400

mossofthewoods:

Adelaide Tyrol

archiemcphee: Mengyu Chen, aka Jenny, is a designer and art...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:23:26 -0400

archiemcphee:

Mengyu Chen, aka Jenny, is a designer and art director working in Portland, OR who created these lovely paper pop-up gifs as mock-ups for a new comic book she’s been working on.

[via Design You Trust and Colossal]

etsy: Hand Embroidered Black and Gold Ouroboros Pillow by...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:22:13 -0400

etsy:

Hand Embroidered Black and Gold Ouroboros Pillow by SomeRabbits.

etsy: Photographs of the interiors of miniature paper houses by...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:15:08 -0400

etsy:

Photographs of the interiors of miniature paper houses by Cathy Cullis. From the item listing:

“A few years ago I built my first paper house - just a small side-project for my own pleasure. Since then my paper houses have become several and my interest in interiors has developed into a photography project….

More than creating illusion, I have an interest in the simplicity of shadow and light, texture and quiet. I wish for the interiors to look at once plausible and yet to remain primitive.” - Cathy Cullis

Finn & Fallie - it is knitted spider...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:47:53 -0400

Finn & Fallie - it is knitted spider webs!!!

archiemcphee:

A Hungarian artist who goes by the name Babukatorium spent three months creating this awesomely intricate piece of guerilla knitting aka yarnbombing. The colouful crocheted piece is composed of 247 round spiderwebs in 13 colours. It took the artist three days to affix her beautiful creation to this tree, which is located somewhere in Veszprém, Hungary.

Babukatorium was inspired to create the piece after watching a performance of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

She said: ‘I’m obsessed with spiderwebs and rainbows and so when I saw this tree after the performance I thought it would be perfect for yarnbombing.

‘I used a lot of yarn and attached it with rainbow ribbons. At the end I was exhausted and surprised because I didn’t think I would be able to complete it. I was also surprised because people love it, and come to visit the tree just to see the work.’

To view more work by Babukatorium, check out her Flickr page and Etsy shop. She’s also here on Tumblr.

[via Dark Roasted Blend and Dailymail.co.uk]

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:55:30 -0400

etsy: We’re fascinated by Melissa Schmidt’s incredible “Slices...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:33:05 -0400

etsy:

We’re fascinated by Melissa Schmidt’s incredible “Slices of Life” necklace — it captures mini versions of family photos in glass bubbles. It’s just one example of the incredible custom work available on Etsy.

Read all about it: Making It Custom | The Etsy Blog.

archiemcphee: Keeping up with the pace of internet meme...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:12:55 -0400

archiemcphee:

Keeping up with the pace of internet meme development might just be a hobby unto itself. Last week we saw the rise of Japanese schoolgirls using photography to unleash Dragon Ball Z Makankosappo and Kamehameha energy attacks on each other. Then came the awesomeness that is Vadering.

Now, just days later, another creative photography meme has taken the Internets by storm. This time it’s Japanese teens taking photos in which they appear to be flying on broomsticks to play Quidditch, the fast and furious fictional sport from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter universe.

According to Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft:

“Japanese schoolboys, it seems, are now uploading photos of imaginary Quidditch games. Quidditch, of course, is the broomstick-based team sport from the Harry Potter books. Why “imaginary”? There already are Muggle versions of Quidditch, that’s why.

In Japan, students are responsible for cleaning their classrooms and also the school itself (for baseball players, this would also mean the field and the clubhouse). Thus, students have easy access to brooms, making phony games of Quidditch possible.”

The knowledge that these boys are supposed to be doing school chores when they’re staging these playful photos somehow makes them even more awesome.

Now that we seem to be in the midst of a hot creative streak, does anyone care to guess what the next photo meme might be?

[via Kotaku and Laughing Squid]

commovente: Lichen forest

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:33:47 -0400

commovente:

Lichen forest

noelbadgespugh: Anthophora urbana, head . . illustration for a...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:23:11 -0400

noelbadgespugh:

Anthophora urbana, head . . illustration for a book, Bees of California, with Gretchen LeBuhn of the Great Sunflower Project (www.greatsunflower.org) . . being published by UC Press as part of their series, California Natural History Guides.

drawingstupidmonsters: I made some illustrations for a...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:00:58 -0400

drawingstupidmonsters:

I made some illustrations for a science conference I got to work in. I was in charge of the macroinvertebrates section of a water workshop at Expanding Your Horizons, a science conference that teaches school girls about how rad science careers can be. I pretty much showed them how bugs were good rough indicators on how healthy the water in streams and ponds are. I also got them to look at some critters under the dissecting microscopes and identify them. It was really cool to do, and a lot of the girls were afraid of the dragonfly nymphs because they thought they looked like large spiders.

Also this is pretty much my first real attempt at doing anything similar to scientific illustration, so hopefully these don’t look too weird.

archiemcphee: French artist Edouard Martinet (previously...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:11:39 -0400

archiemcphee:

French artist Edouard Martinet (previously featured here) scours flea markets for everyday objects that he uses to create awesome animals and insect sculptures like the ones you see here.

“Working with a variety of refuse materials such as rusted kitchen pans, typewriter keys, car lights and other scrap metals, Edouard Martinet sculpts several types of animals and insects. His sculptures are made without the use of solder. He fits each component into place as if putting together a puzzle of random pieces and parts. Each masterpiece is carefully assembled after having drafted several detailed sketches.”

Visit Edouard Martinet’s website to view even more of his amazingly intricate creatures.

[via Free York]

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Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:06:38 -0400

scishow: approachingsignificance: Embryonic Bat Skeleton 1st...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:14:04 -0400

scishow:

approachingsignificance:

Embryonic Bat Skeleton

1st image: Image (still needs credit)

2nd image: Scott Weatherbee, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

DAAAAAAMN that’s cool.