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But this year, maybe it’s time to get a little more … interesting with your artwork. The Easter Bunny won’t know what hit him.

Boats ushered event attendees to a separate floating auditorium offering a spiritual and unique cinematic experience. Beijing-based Scheeren fashioned his design after local fishermens' lobster rafts. He wanted to create “a sense of temporality, of randomness” where the pieces playfully joined together. The modular rafts, loosely assembled, were meant to replicate a floating archipelago of islands within the lagoon. Scheeren described the project: A screen, nestled somewhere between the rocks....

40-year-old Ukrainian artistDmitriy Khristenkhocreates intricate miniature models of motorcycles using component originating from watches. Each motorcycle can take anything up to 50 hours to complete. The complex creations sell for more than 300 each, with demand for personalized bespoke models rising. Related Motorcycle Based on Famous Logos How to turn Spare Radio Parts into Art?

Allison Cortson said dust is the perfect material because it is actually created by the people in the paintings. Finally, she coats the work with an acrylic sealer.

It’s but one of nearly 50 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonia Ice Field. This year around 2,500 tourist were fortunate to witness the event. The crowds cheered as the 97-square-mile glacier splintered and ice crashed down. The glacier first ruptured in 1917, taking with it an ancient forest of beech trees. The last rupture occurred two days ago in March 2, 2012, and previously in 2008. Altogether 21 ruptures has been recorded since 1917....

Ondrej Pakan, from Myjava, Slovakia, captures stunning macro photos of bugs covered in tiny water droplets.

This fine resolution enables the creation of intricately structured sculptures as tiny as a grain of sand. In just 4 minutes it can print 100 layers consisting of 200 lines per layer. That translates into five meters of polymer printed in one second. In two-photon lithography, this is a actually a world record. At the TU Vienna, scientists are now developing biocompatible resins for medical applications. The 3d printer could also be used to create tailor made construction parts for biomedical technology or nanotechnology....

The Tenere region was not always a desert. During the prehistoric Carboniferous period it was a sea floor and later a tropical forest. Dinosaur roamed the region and it was once the hunting ground of a crocodile-like reptile nicknamed the SuperCroc. Tenere was inhabited by modern humans as long ago as the Paleolithic period some 60,000 years ago. They hunted wild animals and left evidence of their presence in the form of stone tools....

Heres a few such amazing works of designers who would laugh at your pathetic attempts at origami. The attention to detail in cutting shapes out of each layer to form a wholly consistent pattern is remarkable. With fantastic images of simplistic things, Schubert cleverly creates the embossed look with images such as these. In Dettmers own wordsThe age of information in physical form is waning. Her work depicts those elegant patterns, the flowing veins in a leaf brought out to show its beauty....

The Japanese love flowers, and wisteria are among their favorites. Yae-fuji, a variety with more than the usual number of petals, can also be viewed. There are no English descriptions and very few foreign visitors.

Most of the vegetation and birds were introduced in the late 1800s to early 1900s. The crater is 3,520 feet in diameter with a 760-foot summit. When the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898, harbor defense became a main responsibility. One of the major defense forts, Fort Ruger, occupied the Diamond Head Crater. A 580-foot tunnel was dug through the crater wall to provide easier access to the Fort. A battery of canons was located within the crater providing complete concealment and protection from invading enemies....

The Salon offers chocolate tastings and the possibility to watch chocolatiers at work: a whole education in chocolate. But theres an extra treat: a fashion show with clothes made from chocolates. There is no fabric whatsoever between the chocolate and models skin. We had to figure out a way to raise the melting temperature, designer Renggli says. They managed by adding pectin, a binder, among other things.

The Firefly Squid is a bioluminescent squid growing to a length of only three inches. The squid is equipped with special light-producing organs called photophores that emit a deep blue light. Large photophores can be found on the tips of the tentacles as well as around the eyes. In the Toyama Bay, in the central Japan Sea, the squid are found in fantastic abundance. The spawning season of the firefly squid also runs during the same period....