Art, Wildlife

Octopus Tan Sculpture / SPI

This Octopus Tan Sculpture by SPI will be appreciated by collectors of this intelligent marine animal. A great conversation starter that can be placed on a desk, bookshelf or coffee table — via Wildlife Wonders

Art

EC 561122233 / Chris Bathgate

These are more or less 3”x3”x2” each. The bodies are solid stainless steel and the details are anodised aluminium in blue, orange and red respectively — via Chris Bathgate

Art, Wildlife

Cephalopod print / Inkling For Design

This specific print is a series of sorts with, The end is near. I hear a noise at the door and …as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it as my own little tribute to the great HP Lovecraft. If you’re unable to handle the writhing mass of all three don’t fret — they all look just as lovely alone as together — via Etsy

Art

Desert Breath / D.A.ST. Arteam

Located near the Red Sea in El Gouna, Egypt, Desert Breath is an impossibly immense land art installation dug into the sands of the Sahara desert by the D.A.ST. Arteam back in 1997. The artwork was a collaborative effort spanning two years between installation artist Danae Stratou, industrial designer Alexandra Stratou, and architect Stella Constantinides, and was meant as an exploration of infinity against the backdrop of the largest African desert. Covering an area of about 100,000 square metres the piece involved the displacement of 8,000 square metres of sand and the creation of a large central pool of water — via Colossal

Art, Design, History

Classic Car Graveyard in Sweden / Svein Nordrum

When American soldiers pulled out of Europe after World War II, they left hundreds of automobiles behind. Many were consigned to a scrapyard in the woods near Bastnas, Sweden. The brothers who ran the scrapyard abandoned it over twenty years ago, and since then moss has grown inside the cars and trees have grown up through them. Cleaning up the scrapyard is proving to be a difficult task, as birds and animals use the classic autos for nests. Photographer Svein Nordrum took a set of gorgeous and haunting pictures of the cars — via Neatorama

Photo: Svein Nordrum/Medavia.co.uk