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You can get a copy of The Great Gatsby, now with a new cover featuring the cast of the upcoming film, for a few bucks in bookstores. But if you want to get a copy of the original first-edition, you will hurt your bank account. [More]

Girls’ heart will yearn for Rie Hosokai’s collection of dream-like bubbly dresses.

Rie Hosokai of Daisy Balloon, a Japanese artist, builds elaborate dresses from the inflated material to create striking haute couture with an unlikely fabric. The unimaginable dresses was produced through a custom type knitting of balloons to build a fragile yet wearable garment

Hosokai’s latest work was constructed as part of a charity art exhibition called ‘Piece of Peace‘. The exhibit is being held at Parco Gallery in Tokyo and will run until January 9, 2013.

Feast your eyes on these eye-candy dresses:

Source:
Daisy Balloon website

Photo Credits:
Hiroshi Manaka
Satoshi Minakawa

Japanese photographer Shinichi Maruyama immortalized moments in split seconds before they are lost to gravity. [More]

Bloemencorso, the annual parade of flowers in Zundert, Netherlands is probably one of the reasons the country is constantly ranked as one of the best countries to live in on Earth. [More]

New York based artist Daniel Arsham recently completed a number of new works, most notably these three figurative sculptures made from compacted broken glass, inspired by the discovery of glass shards in his home after hurricane Andrew in 1992. [More]

At first glance they look like photographs but you are actually looking at hyper-realistic paintings by London-born artist Robin Eley. [More]

A self-taught artist creates wonderful artworks by cutting through leaves. [More]

Flowers generally represent life, beauty, and vitality. Their beauty is lithe especially when they are frozen in liquid nitrogen. [More]

Green School is an innovative and environmental campus that embraces sustainable practices in education and entrepreneurship. Imagine being educated in a serene and beautiful place. [More]

Typically the beauty of bridges is seen in their architectural form. However, the Xiying Rainbow Bridge exudes beauty and creativity in a unique way. [More]

“The Awakening” mosaic in Gorky Park, Moscow sets a new world record for the largest coffee bean mosaic.

The mosaic measures nearly 30 square meters and is made of 1 million coffee beans, weighing 180 kg. The brainchild behind this impressive art creation is Arkadi Kim, a Russian artist. He and his team spent around two weeks working on the mosaic. They roast the coffee beans to achieve the desired color tones and placed them on just the right spot on a 30 square meter panel set up in Gorky Park.

Entitled “The Awakening”, it shows the detailed visage of a girl and alluring coffee aroma making its way to her nose. The coffee bean mosaic was acknowledged by Russia’s Book of Records, beating the previous title holder by about 5 square meters.

The impressive coffee bean artwork remained in Gorky Park until the 1st of July. The coffee beans now have been dismantled and sold to a processing plant.

Photo Credits:
Mikhail Metzel/AP
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Amer Shomali, a Palestinian artist and multimedia designer, created a portrait of Leila Khaled using 14 colors and 3,500 lipsticks. [More]

Kumi Yamashita creates out-of-this-world portraits by wrapping a single unbroken black thread aroung thousands of galvanized nails on a solid white-painted wood panel. [More]

Flippycat created a project to recreate Van Gogh’s famous painting using 7,067 dominoes. [More]

Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Brandt created new photographs and printed works for two of his ongoing series ‘Lakes and Reservoirs‘ and ‘Taste Tests in Color‘ which are shown at Yossi Milo Gallery in Brandt’s first solo exhibition in New York City until June 30, 2012. [More]

Sean Avery transforms old CDs into wonderful sculptures instead of throwing them away. [More]

Hong Yi, a Malaysian artist, created a realistic portrait of Taiwanese singer Jay Chou using only coffee stains. [More]

2011’s top architecture projects give us a peek into the future of style and design of buildings and other infrastructures. It can be observed that these projects by forward thinking visionaries such as Foster + Partners, BIG Architects, Zaha hadid, and MVDRV involved massive iconic structures that will create new spaces. [More]

The Made in Polaroid exhibit showcases over 50 pieces created by artists, designers, photographers, actors and musicians. All works were created exclusively using the Polaroid GL10 Instant Mobile Printer and will be auctioned for charity. Participating artists include fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier and Steven Klein, designers Cynthia Rowley and Phillip Lim and actors James Franco and Viggo Mortensen, among many others.

Here are some of the marvelous works of art from the exhibit:

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This unique dining place which displays elegance and is located at the heart of Paris is conceptualized by French architect Odile Decq. [More]