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Tim Tadderis an American advertising photographer specialized in dramatic sports photography involving people, actions and concept.

Yorkshire sculptor Marcus Levine uses nails to express the human form.

This mirrored figure may look like a sculpture, but there is actually a man inside this extravagant costume. This amazing street performer was spotted outside the Griffith Observatory in LA.

Kumi Yamashita also makes other incredible things, like these portraits completely detailed with thread. You have to watch this video to fully appreciate her work.

The distance covered is equivalent to five-and-a-half marathons, but it is run in several stages. One thousand athletes from 43 countries aged 16 to 73 years came to took part in this years competition. Moroccos Mohammed Ahansal and Monica Aguilera Viladomiu from Hispania came out winners.

Max Gadney is a master of infographics. He works for the BBC in London commissioning digital products and experiences. Before that he worked at the BBC News website, where he looked after graphics and design. Click to Enlarge Read more about these infographs athttp://www.maxgadney.com/

Voted the most influential Czech artist of the last 20 years, Jiri David, unveiled an impressive work of art at Franz Kafka Square in Prague, on March 9. This spectacular 6 meter sculpture is made from 85,000 keys, and spells the word Revoluce signifying the 20 years that have passed since the Velvet Revolution. The creation of the key sculpture was supported by the Vodafone company, which organized a public collection of keys on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of 17th November 1989....

Signs, artifacts, and even buildings ranged from playful to eccentric, from deliciously cartoonish to psychedelic. Magazine LIFE.com picks up 11 most wacky attractions from among it. Related:Salem Sue - The World’s Largest Cow

Saimir Strati, an artists from Albania, uses tens of thousands of nails and toothpicks which he hammers into a wooden board to create awesome mosaic art. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest nail mosaic is a 2 meter by 4 meter portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, which consist of about 500,000 industrial nails and weighs 400.

Love-love is a perpetually sinking boat created by French artistJulien Berthier. The boat seems to be sinking but never actually does, thanks to its clever design. Berthiers Love-Love freezes those sentiments permanently both celebrating and overturning them. The boat now belongs to some wealthy London Banker to whom he sold it for 50,000.

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Instead of painting on canvas, she paints portraits directly on the subjects themselves. “Typically a painting is an artist’s interpretation of the subject painted onto another surface. Essentially, her art imitates life - on top of life”, she explains.

About 45 km north of Farafra, the White Desert begins. At night, and many of the organized trips out here include overnight stay out in the desert. The White Desert is a popular tourist spot for its dramatic and unusual rock formations. These mushrooms shaped rock formations are ten to fifteen feet tall.