In Nottingham, you can get a degree in heavy metal music

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By Low Lai Chow in New Music on Tuesday 21 May 2013

Wow, this is too cool for words. At the New College Nottingham in England, you can headbang your way to a degree in heavy metal. To be specific, if you enroll in the Heavy Metal Music Performance degree — it’s a full time course, mind you, heavy metal demands nothing less than guts, blood, sweat [...]

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Life after people: Abandoned Star Wars film sets

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Tuesday 21 May 2013

Italian photographer Rä di Martino took these amazing pictures of abandoned Star Wars film sets in Tunisia. Using Google Earth, she effectively tracked down decades-old locations such as Luke Skywalker’s Tatooine dome home, the Lars Homestead, for a number of photographic projects. As she observed on her website, “Some of it have now become ruins, [...]

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Speakeasy Briefs: Includes a secret pocket for an entire flask

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By Low Lai Chow in New Products on Tuesday 21 May 2013

Guy, this is probably the closest thing you’ll find to a Batman utility belt. The Speakeasy Briefs — an invention dreamt up by best buds Jeff Schneider and Dan Goldman— are underpants that come with a private pocket for carrying whatever you can tuck inside. That includes a flask. That’s right — if you pledge [...]

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The most epic skywritten message

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Monday 20 May 2013

Earlier this year, comedian Kurt Braunohler ran a Kickstarter appeal to “hire a man in a plane to write stupid things with clouds in the sky”. He raised $6,820 out of the $4,000 he asked for. The result is this beautiful skywritten piece of work. Enjoy.

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Ghosts of War: a haunting photo series by Jo Wedwig Teeuwisse

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Monday 20 May 2013

Dutch historian Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse’s photography series entitled Ghosts of War beautifully combines World War II photographs with images of the same location in present-day. She skillfully composes each image, making sure that every detail is matching up, and then she edits the image in Photoshop. Teeuwisse’s photos are a haunting reminder of the past, [...]

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Man recreates famous paintings with photography using his daughter as model

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By Cormack O'Connor in New Photography on Monday 20 May 2013

Melbourne-based photographer Bill Gekas has taken on the daunting task of recreating famous paintings. Though not through painting. Gekas has used his young daughter as the subject in a series of exquisitely executed photographs, each representing a famous painting. Yes, I think we have a young model in our midst.

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Stunning illustrations in a moleskin notebook by Marco Mazzoni

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By Nicola Smanio in New Illustration on Saturday 18 May 2013

What Marco Mazzoni can do with coloured pencils on a moleskine sketchbook is pretty amazing. The Modenese artist has a taste for delicate, very detailed renders and intricate compositions of small animals and mystical women. In his women portrait series, he chooses not to paint the eyes, which he sees as a distraction, thus infusing [...]

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Non destructive masking tape graffiti by Australian artist Buff Diss

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By Cormack O'Connor in New Art on Saturday 18 May 2013

Buff Diss is an amazing street artist from Australia who creates insane masking tape graffiti. If you’re thinking the use of tape would be detrimental to the the designs he could create, you are very wrong. Diss’ designs are intricate, well thought-out and easily removeable. What more could you ask for? Although, I’m not too sure you would want to remove the works of art. They make a lot of the spaces look a lot better, in my opinion.

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Big monsters on tiny Post-Its by Don Kenn

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By Carlo Muttoni in New Illustration on Saturday 18 May 2013

Don Kenn is a Danish writer and director of television shows for kids. On top of that, he has his own set of kids, so he doesn’t have much free time. But when he does, he draws monsters on Post-Its with a ball-point pen. And he’s pretty damn good at it. His bestiarium makes me [...]

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Food Lovers: amazing edible art by Studio 23 in Rome

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By Angela Sofo in New Art on Friday 17 May 2013

Well, we can appreciate a wonderful landscape, we can also take a picture of it and walk under a blue sky. But I never imagined we could also taste it. ‘Food Lovers’ is a project by Studio 23 in Rome. Starting with a simple recipe, the photographer, Daniela Di Rienzo, and the culinary artist, Mariagrazia Lonza, turn [...]

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Street artist Hush

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By jen disisto in New Art on Friday 17 May 2013

The artist who goes by the name of Hush is a prolific street artist who has taken to fine art as well. His work depicts geishas with generally high contrast images that layer up graffiti to create complex patterns. A lot of the work relies on a palette comprised of primary colors.

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Now you can type with a cat font

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By Erik Kraft in New Trends on Thursday 16 May 2013

Nekofont. The internet is powered by cats, so you might as well write in cats too. If you’re secretly 8, like me, you’ll want to test it out with swears. Then you can get on with your life. (Not really, because you are writing words with cats).

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Dad illustrates his kids lunch bags daily since 2008

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Illustration on Thursday 16 May 2013

David LaFerriere might just be the best dad ever. Since 2008, this graphic designer and dad has been illustrating his kid’s sandwich bags with cool drawings. He’s even photographed almost every illustrated bag, which comes to a staggering total of over 1,100 bags. You can even check out each individual bag on Flickr.

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Some of the greatest photobombs of all time

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Wednesday 15 May 2013

Let’s face it, everybody loves a good photobomb. But even better than a good one-off photobomb is this collection of some of the greatest photobombs of all time. Take a moment to soak in the hilarity.

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Classic paintings modernized with celebrity faces

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By Annie Churdar in New Art on Wednesday 15 May 2013

Do you have trouble making yourself appreciate classic art? Then these photoshopped paintings of modern celebrities are a great way to slowly ease yourself into something more classy. Wether we’ll admit it or not, most of us enjoy a good gossip magazine. So why not convince yourself that classic art is just as entertaining. Flip through [...]

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