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Near Photorealistic Owl Drawings by John Pusateri

Here’s another noteworthy addition to our roster of amazingly detailed artworks: the adorable colored owl drawings of Auckland based artist John Pusateri. Take a look at some of them after the jump!

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Colorful and Elaborate Spray Paint Portraits by David Walker

A London-based artist has been decorating outdoor walls with beautiful and elaborate portraits using nothing but spray paint. Take a look at some of his work and learn more about them after the jump!

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Anxiety

Sometimes the reason for anxiety can be other people, they drag you down and you get caught in their web.
But still you can escape.
If it’s your own web you’re caught in, you can’t just escape like before… You’ll have to look the fear in your eyes.

An assignment for art school. BenjiiBen

lomographicsociety:

Amazing Stop Motion Ad Made Completely with Moleskine Notebooks

If you’re the type who prefers to make scribbles, doodles, and notes on paper and notebooks, I’m sure you will love this amazing stop motion short by a Netherlands based designer for a Moleskine ad. Every element of the stop motion short was made almost entirely with heaps of those beautiful Moleskines, so if you’re interested, read on to watch it and find out more!

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It’s time for another visit to the Department of Awesome Natural Wonders. These pretty amphibians with perfectly transparent underbellies are called Glass frogs. They live in the cloud forests of South america, are one of the relatively small number of species where the fathers exclusively care for the young, and scientists are still trying to figure out why they evolved to have transparent tummies.

Complete transparency has evolved multiple independent times. This suggests that a translucent underbelly provides some evolutionary advantage. Juan Manuel Guayasamin, an evolutionary biologist who studies glassfrogs extensively as a researcher at Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica’s Center for Research on Biodiversity and Climate Change, explains:

“Most frogs are not transparent because this would expose organs to the deleterious effects of sunlight and heat.” But in transparent glassfrogs, key organs like the liver and digestive tract are covered by a thin layer of light-reflecting organelles called iridiphores. These iridescent cellular subunits may provide a layer of protection from heat and sunlight, a feature that Guayasamin says could give glassfrogs the ability to optimize their internal homeostasis by simply moving about, “covering each organ at a time, as opposed to the entire body cavity.” 

Guayasamin says another hypothesis holds that transparency evolved to help glassfrogs avoid predators (an ability commonly referred to as “crypsis”). ”Most glassfrogs are green and reflect light almost as a leaf. For predators (and amphibiologists), it is quite difficult to find a glassfrog if it is not, for example, calling.”

You can even see their hearts beating inside their bodies. That’s pretty awesome.

Top photo by Heidi & Hans-Jurgen Koch, via National Geographic, bottom photo by Martín Bustamante.

[via Neatorama and io9]

We see right through you, little glass frogs.