Beautiful Drawings Of Bones From William Cheselden’s Osteographia

On February 6, 2015 by Tim Newman
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William Cheselden was born on October 19, 1688 at Somerby, near Burrow-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire. He worked as an apprentice surgeon at St. Thomas’s Hospital where he fell deeply in love with bones. By 1711, he was...

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Samuel Silva: A Ballpoint Wizard

On July 12, 2014 by Tim Newman
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Samuel Silva was born in Portugal and now lives in London; and he’s drop-dead amazing with a ballpoint pen. All of these pictures below were created using nothing but biro. According to Silva he started...

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Graffiti Cleaner Becomes Graffiti Subject

On July 30, 2013 by Tim Newman

A cleaner was sent to clear up some Hello Kitty work done by London graffiti artist DS. Little did the cleaner upper know he was being watched in the process. DS has commented that...

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Maths Meets Art – Anamorphic Sculptures By Jonty Hurwitz

On June 28, 2013 by Tim Newman

Jonty Hurwitz effortlessly blends number crunching and aesthetics. Well, it doesn’t sound effortless really, there’s a lot of work that goes into making these amazing anamorphic sculptures. Months of ground work and a...

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Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow - Nice Hat

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow: Turkmenistan’s Unusual Dictator

On April 28, 2013 by Tim Newman

I wrote a post recently about Saparmurat Niyazov, one of the craziest despots in living memory. His reign over Turkmenistan was cut short by an eagerly awaited heart attack in 2006. His successor Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow spent some...

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