Wish - art at the Belfast Festival

This looks like a work of Photoshop - at a glance, nothing in particular, right? But this portrait is very real and happens to be the biggest land art portrait in United Kingdom and Ireland, made by the artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada with the assistance of a lot of people autumn 2013.

Vertical Gardens

Patrick Blanc is a French botanic that became a designer using his knowledge about plants. He is perhaps mostly famous for the five stories high vertical garden arrangement on a museum in Madrid, Spain, in 2007. Even Blanc's - from the outside - ordinary apartment contains a wall that looks more or less like the one on the picture, with 250 different species, and the floor is basically an aquarium.  Pic source. Read more and see more pictures at the Vertical Garden Institute! 

Something for fast readers

Perhaps the world's biggest bookpile! :) It is made of 5,000 books that were to be thrown away anyway and can be found at Casa de America, Madrid and is made by the artist Artist Alicia Martin. Source!

Invisible.

Insects and nature are often one whole, almost indistinguishable from each other. Others are just cool.

"Attack, dudes."

"Yeeey!"

As for humans being invisible, it is apparently possible if 1) you are an artist, or 2) if you are a scientist.
Least exciting goes first: a so-called thermo optical camera used by researchers at Tokyo University. It is highly dependent on the viewer's position, as the jacket simply films what happens at the back of the person
and displays it on his/hers front.

Yeah, yeah, we know, it's an old experiment...

Meet Liu Boli instead, an artist from China.

Somewhat harder to find.

Artist Desiree Palmen also puts down almost a day's work on each camouflage photo.

Either the top part is a really well made painted cloth, or a really well made part of the photo,
or it's simply me, or... a zest of Photoshop perhaps?

Squared.

Puzzles just got a new dimension...

...and somebody who failed laying the puzzle decided to throw cubes at Abercrombie Lane in Sydney... (Source.)

Freezing festivities

The Japanese Sapporo Snow Festival is held for the 62nd time this year, from 7th till 13th of February. It once started with high school students building six snow statues in Odori park; today, it is one of Japan's largest winter events with about two million people that come to watch the hundreds of chilly sculptures every year.

Wonder how many snowflakes and graupels fit into this sculpture?

Pencils, pencils, pencils

By artist Jonna Pohjalainen.

Somewhere in the U.S.A.

A huge ad for the Faber Lancasters pens. Source.