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]]>Costa is a jewelry maker based in Lisbon, Portugal, who found her true calling when she started working with polymer clay. She’s always been a huge fan of cakes and miniatures, and she came up with a creative way to mix her two biggest passions into one.
“I fell in love with polymer clay and modeling a few years ago, and nowadays I can reconcile these two passions and have my dream job: making miniature food… I am always looking to create something new, unique, and above all… super cute!” she writes on her Etsy page.
Costa’s polymer clay creations take many different shapes and forms, but food is definitely her biggest source of inspiration. She celebrated her heritage with her signature Portuguese collection, but she’s also no stranger to making jewelry shaped like everything from donuts and cookies to toast and pancakes.
In addition to sharing her creations online, Costa is committed to helping other people make their own polymer clay jewelry. She shared dozens of silicone molds that you can use to make your own charms and miniature foods.
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]]>Fiennes joined hosts Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper during CNN‘s New Year’s Eve to discuss his Golden Globe-nominated performance in Conclave, and the most epic moment came at the very end of the interview. Andy Cohen asked him to recreate the “very demure” monologue after showing him the clip earlier, and his version set the internet on fire.
Fiennes’ version was so hilarious that the hosts couldn’t contain their amusement, especially when Fiennes started to wrap things up by saying, “Be mindful of why they hired you. Here’s a reality check, diva. What’s the name you want me to make it out to?”
“Demure” was named the word of the year by Dictionary.com after it went viral thanks to the TikTok creator Jools Lebron. After she posted a recent video of her New Year’s Eve outfit, her comment section was filled with comments referencing Fiennes’ “very demure” monologue inspired by her viral video which attracted over 50 million views on TikTok.
@joolieannie #fyp #demure ♬ original sound – Jools Lebron
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]]>Björk’s works are presented in the form of comic book covers and bring together Friday the 13th franchise with Rugrats, Texas Chainsaw Massacre with Charlie Brown, Little Mermaid with Beetlejuice, and much more. While each work oozes horror, violence, and gore, they also contain all sorts of comedic bits and funny references.
For example, one of Björk’s illustrations shows the titular characters from Cartoon Network’s animated hit Ed, Edd n Eddy transformed into Pinhead, the villain from the Hellraiser movies. The “comic book” is fittingly titled PinhEd, PinhEdd n PinhEddy.
Björk has been an avid fan of horror movies since childhood but also enjoyed watching Saturday morning cartoon while growing up in the ’80s and ’90s. He started bringing together these two seemingly conflicting interest in his drawings early on and it eventually became his passion.
Nowadays, Björk has a large social media following thanks to his mashups while also selling T-shirts and various other items with his works through his brand Kick Punch. He also attracted the attention of Netflix, which recruited him for an illustration based on their hit series Stranger Things.
Continue scrolling to check out more of Björk’s horror and cartoon mashups below.
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]]>Rox dives into all sorts of different subjects when creating his pieces. Sometimes, it will be an optical illusion of a street that you will think you walk into, an old pirate ship emerging from the wall and seemingly sailing towards you, or Marvel’s superhero Hulk crashing through bricks.
Rox has been active as a street artist since 2008 while also working in other mediums including paintings, digital art, and more. He estimates that he created more than 5,000 works that are scattered all over the world.
“Like many modern artists, I started drawing from sketches at school and the first walls of my city. By honing my drawing skills daily, I was able to achieve rapid growth in graffiti culture. I began to receive orders for wall painting from various institutions and organizations. I learned how to make master classes and teach people. After that, I opened a painting studio and recruited a team with which I implement the most daring projects,” Rox shares about his creative journey.
If you don’t have a chance to check out Rox’ works in person, you’ll be happy to know that he regularly updates his Instagram profile, which has 212K followers, with newest street art creations. Check out more of them by scrolling below.
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]]>The post Kale Junkie is Developing Healthy Recipes to Heal Her Relationship with Food appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Before becoming a food blogger and recipe developer, Modic worked as an employment defense lawyer, but her career didn’t bring her the fulfillment she was craving. She used food to cope with stress, binging, purging, and restricting food, until she found the strength to come clean about her eating disorder to her husband.
Her relationship with food significantly changed when she started developing her own healthy recipes and sharing them on her Instagram page Kale Junkie almost a decade ago.
“Through extensive therapy, yoga teacher training, and changing the way I ate to include ALL foods through an intuitive eating approach, I learned to love food and I healed. My recovery journey ignited my passion for creating recipes made with real, whole food ingredients,” she writes on her official website.
Modic is now on a mission to make healthy eating more accessible to others and prove there’s more to it than green salads and kale smoothies. She’s hoping her recipes will inspire other people to develop a healthier relationship with food and add more nutritious and delicious dishes to their daily menus.
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]]>The post Long-Lost Masterpiece by Joaquín Sorolla Resurfaces After 134 Years appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Sorolla has been an influential painter, renowned for his portraits, landscapes, and paintings showing themes from society and history. Between 1889 and 1890, Sorola visited Paris, France, and the visit inspired him to create “Paris Boulevard.”
The piece shows an outdoor seating area of a busy café and people walking down the street while featuring a self-portrait of Sorolla as a man sitting at a table with a soldier and enjoying a cigar. It was an unusual addition to the artist’s opus, being considered a departure from his signature bright and vivid works.
Sorolla exhibited the finished painting at Spanish National Exhibition in 1890 and sold it to a private collector shortly after. It was the last time painting was seen and art experts ended up concluding that the artwork was lost. However, recent investigation showed that the family which originally bought the painting actually kept it in its possession and they ended up lending it to Royal Collections gallery for the exhibit.
“The panoramic composition of the work—which is very photographic and which doesn’t worry about the figures which are cut off at each end—really grabs your attention and gives it a freshness that’s a taste of what Sorolla would go on to do more emphatically,” curator Blanca Pons-Sorolla, who is also Sorolla’s great-granddaughter, said of the piece. “The drawing is very accurate, the brush strokes restrained, and the details have a real virtuosity that defines the more careful and defined painting of his early works.”
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]]>Joyce uses pencil, pastel, and paint during her creative process, which allows her to replicate the features of her subjects in all of their beauty.
Arguably, the true testament to her artistic talent is her Midnight series. Here, Joyce paints on a black background, which helps her to highlight the features of every animal with the monochromatic color palette. This results in captivating paintings that resemble fine art photography in every way possible.
“Bringing together a fascination with the animal kingdom and a natural leaning towards realistic art, I enjoy exploring a diverse range of subjects, and my detailed work aims to celebrate every inch of their individual characteristics and natural beauty, bringing them to life on canvas,” Joyce explains in an artist statement posted on her website.
Joyce’s artwork is quite popular on social media, especially on Instagram, where she has more than 170K followers. Her paintings also captured the attention of some big brands, and she recently created a piece for one Lamborghini dealership in the UK.
Continue scrolling to see more of these impressive artworks.
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]]>The “Ugly Dog Competition” is organized by the photography company Parrot Print, and it’s all done in good fun. According to the company’s official statement, they’re on a mission to celebrate every dog – no matter what they look like – because there’s something beautiful about every pooch.
One of the previous winners Peggy became a bonafide superstar after winning this competition and appeared in Deadpool & Wolverine earlier this year. Muppet, the 12-year-old Chinese crested dog from Peterborough, is her latest successor after winning the competition this year, over a decade after his brother Mugly won the ugliest dog competition in 2012.
Muppet’s owner Bev Nicholson described him as a “wonky little rescue dog” with missing teeth whose “beautiful inside and out.” Even before winning this competition, he always enjoyed being the center of attention. People often stop Nicholson when she’s walking Muppet to ask her for a selfie with the pup, who became a true sensation thanks to his quirky hairstyle and a tongue sticking out of his mouth.
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]]>Belo is a Brazilian-born painter based in New York, and she embarked on quite a journey before finding success with her quirky cakes. She studied social work during her time in college and eventually moved to the U.S. for her master’s, but never gave up her passion for art.
She explored different mediums over the years, from illustration and multimedia storytelling to ceramics, before finding an unexpected form of self-expression in cake art. It all started when she made a cake for a friend’s DIY wedding and attracted the attention of the food and art space Lil’ Deb’s Oasis.
Belo’s designs only got wilder as time went by, and she doesn’t shy away from fully embracing chaos with each of her creations. Frosting and filling are oozing or dripping out of her abstract cakes that look straight out of this world, and she uses everything from fresh flowers and herbs to layers upon layers of buttercream to make them truly pop.
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]]>Among various AI-generated videos featured on Impossible AI @/impossibleaicinema, the ones that caught our attention the most were the clips that showcased how life looked in different periods in history. They are a testament to how AI video generators became highly advanced while also representing a treat for history buffs.
One video shows life in the ancient city of Carthage, which served as one of the most important trading hubs in the Mediterranean Sea during ancient times. It takes us back to 1000 BC and provides a snapshot of the port, bustling market, impressive architecture, everyday life, and much more.
In another video, we can travel back in time to New York City in the 1920s. It shows some of the city’s most famous landmarks, like the Flatiron Building and Times Square, the atmosphere in jazz bars, people walking on the street, Wall Street brokers reading newspapers, and more.
Other history throwback videos by Impossible AI feature the Bronze Age period in Scotland, Ancient Egypt, Aztecs, Victorian London, and more. Check them out below.
@impossibleaicinema The Aztecs feel like home
♬ original sound – Jay| Content Creator#aztecs #history #historytok #ancienthistory #aztec
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