When we started this blog, we concentrated on online merchants, products, how-to articles, reviews and important news. We focused on creativity, innovation and excellent examples in eCommerce, small businesses and self-publishing. But we soon realized that craziness is a part and parcel of ingenuity; therefore we dedicated some of our undercover scientists who don't invent but discover all kinds of witty and applaudable stuff found online.
This year, it was a joy ride working on these articles, and we are sure you will have a good time checking the most popular E-scientists' Finds of 2011. So sit back and embrace yourself for some wackiness:
Lip Smacking Art: Animals Painted On Lips
Paige Thompson, an artist from United States has a strange fascination with her lips and I must add impressive imagination to go with it. She draws animals using cosmetics and water based Halloween face paint on her lips to create this adorable art form. (Learn More)
Can You Imagine A World Without Money? Well, This Lady Hasn't Used Any Money In 15 Years!
Heidemarie Schwermer is a truly inspiring lady who does not believe in petty things like money. She has found a way to live her life without its burden and what a life it is.
Heidemarie is a 69 year old German lady who gave up using money 15 years ago. It all began when she was in her 40s and was emerging from a difficult marriage. She moved to a town called Dortmund in Germany with her two children. A place with quite a huge population of homeless people, a situation that touched her heart and she decided to come up with a system wherein homeless people can swap products and services. Pretty much like a barter system...in fact exactly like barter system. (Learn More)
Some Fun Facts & Tweets About 11.11.11
11.11.11, a number that has made the world go berserk, some are dying to tie the knot on this 'auspicious' day, while some are anxiously hoping that their child is born today. People kissed their watches at 11.11.11, 1111 hours, while some sent their most desired wishes into the universe. Twitter can't seem to have enough of 11/11/11 and conspiracy theorists have loads of stuff to feed on.
Astrologers and numerologists are having a very busy day, and so are the priests who are busy marrying couples all over the world and let's not forget the doctors who are busy handling expecting mothers who will do anything to deliver their child today. There seems to be a whole lot of excitement all over the place, therefore we decided to compile few fun facts about 11.11.11 and some funny tweets. (Learn More)
Disparity Series By Christopher Boffoli: Miniature Figures Creating Stories With Food
Playing with food has always been my favorite time pass, and its amazing to see creative artists like Christopher take my favorite time pass to a whole new level. Christopher Boffoli, who likes to create interesting scenes using miniature figures and food. Something like Alice in Wonder-Food-Land. :) (Learn More)
Back To The Future: By Irina Werning
There couldn't be a more apt name than 'Back to the Future' for this project by a photographer who recreates memories and merges present and past through her creativity and quite accurately.
A series where Irina who shoots images of people reenacting their yesteryears. A great concept executed wonderfully, with close attention to details. Its not just the wardrobe or posture that is similar, but also the background and image quality. (Learn More)
The History Of English In 10 Minutes. These Awesomely Animated Videos Will Make You Laugh 'n Learn!
The Open University have squeezed in 1600 years of linguistic history into 10 minutes and explained it in series of 10 videos of 1 min each. So have a look at these fun videos that will take you through a fun journey of how the English that we speak today evolved over so many years. (Watch More Videos)
Jimi Hendrix's Portrait Made Out Of 5,000 Guitar Picks
This one-of-a-kind portrait dedicated to the legendary Jimi Hendrix is created by a British artist, Ed Chapman.
It was auctioned in London for a fundraising event for Cancer Research and was sold for 23,000 pounds. And this is not the first time Ed has dedicated one of his creations to a musical legend and raised money for a charitable event, in 2009 he created a ceramic portrait of John Lennon and that was auctioned for thousands of pounds as well. This particular portrait is created out of 5000 plectrums not made from any random guitar picks, Ed has specifically used Fender guitar picks, since Jimi was known for playing Fender Stratocaster. (Learn More)
Internet Vices: What If Social Media Was A Drug?
Then we would have been sipping Tumblr, snorting Twitter, having shots of YouTube, gulping down Facebook, popping Gmail and smoking Digg.
Patrick Moberg, an extremely talented illustrator has quite aptly compared our social media habits with drug addiction and has playfully created an interesting and witty illustration: Internet Vices. (Learn More)
Men-Ups: A Hilarious Calendar Project With Men In Classic Pin-Up Poses
You may have seen endless images with sexy girls in their classic pin-up poses, but this is the first time I've come across men in pin-up poses. This role reversal has turned out to be quite viral across web, and why not...how many times do you see men in such wonderfully giggly poses. And do notice that the props used in the images are very much masculine and thats what makes this ironically hilarious.
Rion Sabean is the mastermind behind this project, a 26 year old senior in the University of South Florida who is currently focusing on studying photography. (Learn More)
What Does It Take To Create World's Largest Stop-Motion Animation?
Apparently a Nokia N8, a beautiful beach in South Wales, a huge crane and of course creativity.
Gulp, is a stop-motion animation that tells a story of a fisherman and his adventures. This film has broken a world record for being the largest stop-motion animation and has secured a place in the Guinness World Record. An animation that was created on a 11,000 square-foot set. Very impressive indeed! (Learn More)
Eyelid Art By Katie Alves. You Won't Believe Her Eyes!
We bring you Katie Alves who likes to draw scenes from movies or share a story of her own through her eyes.
A 21 year old artist who uses her eyelids as a canvas and creates such extremely detailed art that you would instantly assume it to be photoshoped. Not only is it a completely technology free art, but also requires a hell-lot-of patience specially when Katie has a weak eyesight and is practically blind without her glasses. (Learn More)
Twisted Fairy Tales By Jeffrey Thomas. The Dark Side Of Disney!
Jeffrey Thomas, a character designer/story artist has created an intriguing series called, Twisted Princess.
An extremely creative project where he has brought his own perspective towards ever-so-perfect and iconic Disney princesses from almost all the famous fairy-tales that brought a smile to our faces before our folks tucked us in for the night. Now, if you use these twisted princesses in children's books, then nightmares will be inevitable. (Learn More)
Beautifully Detailed Paper Art By Alexei Lyapunov & Lena Ehrlich
These wonderfully detailed and colorful illustrations are by two Russian artists: Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich. Not only does their art bring out three-dimensional effect, but it also depict a story that any one of us can relate to. (Learn More)
Tweeting Seat: An Interactive Park Bench That Tweets
TweetingSeat is an interactive "tweet bench" that aims to explore the connection between the digital and physical world. Designed by Christopher McNicholl, this bench is "created to explore the environments in which it is placed and the people whom it encounters."
It has two cameras, one is placed on the bench that captures surrounding place and the other is placed in a nearby location to capture people who use this bench; these images are then uploaded on TweetingSeat's Twitterfeed. (Learn More)
"Today's Levitation" Series By Natsumi Hayashi, Tokyo Girl Suspended In The Air
Natsumi Hayashi is a teenage girl based in Tokyo. Natsumi caught attention of many bloggers out there when she posted the first photograph of her series "Today's Levitation". It's not rocket science but Natsumi's superb creative sense and simple (or may be complex) camera technique has resulted in this super amazing series.
It appears as if Natsumi is floating mid air but of course it is not a magic technique. She jumps in the air and keep jumping till she gets the right shot. A work of labor and patience, I must say. (Learn More)
Crayon Carvings By Diem Chau
Diem Chau is an artist who creates intricate and unique crayon sculptures, she defines herself as "artist, doll collector, tinkerer..." She carefully and beautifully carves on these tiny little crayons, an art form that requires patience, delicacy and a sharp eye for details. (Learn More)
Who, How And How Much Of Facebook Marketing (Infographic)
Flowtown in collaboration with Column Five has come up with an infographic that gives out detailed statistics about the know-hows of Facebook.
Lately, many businesses have been using Facebook as a platform to reach out to their potentials and fishing out their prey. Let's learn the who, how, and how much of Facebook Marketing through this infographic below that reveals some interesting facts and figures. (View Infographic)
Poetic Graphite Sculptures By Agelio Batle
San Francisco based artist, Angelio Batle likes to create poetry through his graphite sculptures. Not only are these sculptures beautiful, intricate and metaphorical, but can also write. Nature inspires this artist, therefore you will find sculptures of plants, trees, animals or flowers.
"Committed to making art from materials that are part of daily experience, the artist originated this work by casting his own hand in pencil lead, graphite, each day for the calendar year 1999." shares his website. (Learn More)
Never-Seen-Before Beach Art By Jim Denevan
California based artist Jim Denevan is an absolutely extraordinary artist. From past 17 years, he has been creating numerous temporary drawings at different beaches. Each of them is a real beauty and very huge in size. Knowing the fact that his drawing would eventually disappear because of waves and weather, he puts in his full efforts in making it a stupendous piece of art. Jim creates temporary drawings on sand, earth and ice. The drawings range in scale from smaller beach compositions to large scale land works the size of a city. (Learn More)
28 Examples Showing Steve Jobs In The Mirror Of Art
It's needless to introduce you to Steve Jobs and apparently more needless to tell you what all the headlines are yelling about him. It's Steve mania everywhere and I am no exception. He has been hovering my mind since the time I have heard about his resignation and have been reading & researching about him. Well, it started boring me after some time and I decided to switch to the entertaining aspect of research; a research on what artists have been doing for him during his tenure and what are they doing now when 'he has quit'!
Check out these awesome examples of fusion of Steve Jobs and Arts. (Check out these examples)
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Never-Seen-Before Beach Art By Jim Denevan
California based artist Jim Denevan is an absolutely extraordinary artist. From past 17 years, he has been creating numerous temporary drawings at different beaches. Each of them is a real beauty and very huge in size. Knowing the fact that his drawing would eventually disappear because of waves and weather, he puts in his full efforts in making it a stupendous piece of art. Jim creates temporary drawings on sand, earth and ice. The drawings range in scale from smaller beach compositions to large scale land works the size of a city. (Learn More)
28 Examples Showing Steve Jobs In The Mirror Of Art
It's needless to introduce you to Steve Jobs and apparently more needless to tell you what all the headlines are yelling about him. It's Steve mania everywhere and I am no exception. He has been hovering my mind since the time I have heard about his resignation and have been reading & researching about him. Well, it started boring me after some time and I decided to switch to the entertaining aspect of research; a research on what artists have been doing for him during his tenure and what are they doing now when 'he has quit'!
Check out these awesome examples of fusion of Steve Jobs and Arts. (Check out these examples)
For many more fascinating finds from our E-Scientist, you can subscribe to our RSS feed. You can also choose to receive updates via email.
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