16s3d: Bestioles, opinions & pétitions

"When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian).  Minna Sundberg, creator of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent, a story set in a lushly imagined post-apocalyptic Nordic world, has drawn the antidote to the boring linguistic tree diagram."

Spanish artist Jaime Sanjuan Ocabo uses his iPad to create these beautiful finger paintings. It is quite difficultto believe that these highly realistic paintings are made using only an iPad.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the U.S. and one of the most important museums in the world, just digitally released a collection of almost 400,000 pictures of works in its collection online.

Seattle-based modern glass master Jason Gamrath creates gorgeous large-scale glass flowers, bringing the details of their micro world to our macro scale. The artist mainly focuses on orchids and carnivorous plants, which shine with vivid colours and dazzle us with their remarkably realistic features and details.

Photos: Robert Jahns, aka nois7 on Instagram

Un logiciel de reconnaissance faciale a permis d'identifier le visage du poète sur une photo prise au Yemen. 

photos: Iwan Baan, www.iwan.com 

The winners of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards have finally been announced. The winners of the Open, Youth, and National Awards competitions were selected from over 70,000 entries and 139,554 images by amateur and professional photographers from all over the world. The final winners in ...

We are used to seeing the Great Pyramids of Giza, Taj Mahal or the Acropolis in photographed from the front with no background to corrupt their mystical aura. However, they are all built or situated in surroundings that don't always match the glory, beauty and glitter of the landmarks ...

On a pu le constater: le fameux tableau de Courbet représentant un sexe de femme n’a plus rien d’érotique. De même que la laïcité a été détournée de sa fonction première pour devenir une injonction...

Established photographer Sandro Miller, together with long time friend and Hollywood legend John Malkovich, created a witty project called “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to photographic masters.” As the title suggests, the creative duo's photo series reimagines the world‘s most iconic portraits with Malkovich as the main subject instead.

In 1942, the owner of one Parisian apartment left her home for Southern France, trying to escape a Nazi raid. Although she never returned to the apartment, she kept paying the rent until her death at the age of 91. Interestingly, the owner of the apartment was the granddaughter of Marthe de Florian - a true Parisian gem of her time, a socialite and an actress with many admirers lining up at her door.

Eric Standley's brilliant and one-of-a-kind form of laser-cut paper art imitates the intricate patterns of Gothic and Islamic architecture to create mind-bendingly complex and beautiful mandala-like artworks.

Australia-based photographer Steve Axford loves to travel to the remotest corners of the earth, capturing the lives of people, animals, and most importantly, fungi. His fascinating photographs of the diverse world of fungi seem to picture a fantastic expedition to some distant alien world.

Sydney, Australia has recently become the subject of international attention because of the start of the annual Vivid Sydney festival, a celebration of light and music. The festival consists of an outdoor exhibition of delightful lightning installations, music events and important creative industry forums, most of which are free to the public.

Chinese retouching artist Chunlong Sun has created a bizarre portrait series called “Celebrity,” which shows 5 of the most infamous world leaders from recent history gently holding stuffed animals in their arms. In the portraits, which were made using almost-look-alike Chinese stand-ins, the leaders look at once friendlier and creepier than ever before.

Macrophotograhie: Vyacheslav Mishchenko