To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...
The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
When artist and photographer Kim Keever grew tired of traditional painting methods, he began looking for ways to create interesting landscapes to shoot in the...
Artist Shawn Huckins is fascinated by the evolution of human communication. His paintings depict this timeline of evolution, brought on by the immediacy of...
Photographer Erik Johansson creates surreal scenes from his imagination using only his camera and some clever computer skills. He layers countless photographs into one...
In his ongoing series of installations titled 'Wallwave Vibrations', Italian artist Loris Cecchini turns gallery walls into liquid. Or so it appears. The illusory...
As a child, Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka became very resourceful at playtime. His imagination grew stronger and stronger and didn't stop in adulthood. His...
What do you get when you invite 75,000 people to the desert and ask them to express themselves without limits? Strange, sultry, spooky or scant - the...
