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With his NASA background, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that artist and architect Kurt Wenner has an out of this world imagination and the skills to bring passerby into the picture. When viewed from the correct angle, people standing on top of them look like they are floating in thin air, and solid concrete can look like gaping chasms. Kurt has been perfecting his technique since 1982. Now, using the skills he has perfected over 30 years, he is able to create stereoscopic images, such as the one above enabling people to walk along imaginary webs slung by Spiderman.




Source: telegraph

The National Library of France (BnF) has an amazing collection of prints from 1910 which depict life in the year 2000. They are credited to Villemard.

Back in 1910, Villemard started predicting the future on paper. With each brush stroke, an elegant picture of the future came to life. It is amazing how accurate these paintings are. Sure, we don’t have personal wings or flying machines (individual ones that is) just yet, and the cars are a bit different as well. However, the overall look of 2000 pretty much made perfect sense.

The accuracy of these images is not in the way they are drawn but in the toys, gadgets and gizmos that are depicted therein. I wish someone today would do the same thing and predict the future in a hundred years from now. That would give our children a chance to see how lame we were, and how off we were in predicting their future. I can’t stop looking at these masterpieces. They are just… oddly beautiful in so many ways.

Clever ice sculptures can be found around the world, this photo was snapped in Matsumoto Japan
Yes, this really is ice! These brightly lit temples are just one of the many ice sculptures created for the Ice and Snow festival in Harbin, 
Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival

Unique and cool, this ice sculpture also doubles as a pool table.In addition to highly skilled ice carvers, a computer was also used to get the measurements just right.
London Ice Sculpture
Cadillac CTS Ice Sculpture
Motorcycle Ice Sculpture
F1 Car Ice Sculpture
blackberry Ice Sculpture
Tiger Ice Sculpture
Watch Ice Sculpture

Scooby Doo Ice Sculpture

Ford Focus Coupé Cabriolet Ice sculpture at The British International Motor Show.

Camaro Ice Concept at the Canadian International Auto Show