Above: a piece from the Lifeguard collection. Photos: Courtesy of Leo Battistelli.

In 2002, Argentine artist based in Brazil Leo Battistelli began working with the remains of a porcelain factory.

Images from artkrush

Banksy, that super-productive and ubiquitous graffiti artist, is at it again.

Image by Erin Hanson

Erin Hanson's outlet is the Recovering Lazyholic, and she has some great ways of pinpointing the unfortunate condition of so many of us folks, who give in to our slovenly side a little too often.

Images from abandonedchairsblogspot.com: Queen West

There is something so forlorn and sad about a chair abandoned on the roadside. Innocent and sometimes beautiful, it is hard to resist taking them home and giving them a reason to live again.

Some artists have been having the same problem.

Images from flavorwire

A good documentary photographer takes us to places that we never could imagine and teaches us something at the same time.

Image via National Geographic

Insect eggs are neat, but we had no idea they looked this neat. Gizmodo points us to a phenomenal slideshow of insect eggs photographed from and ant-eye view, making the less-than-2-millimeter eggs look other-worldly.

Photos: Kristin Rule

A couple of years ago Kristin Rule, alias 'The Unconventional Cellist' undertook a 20 week music tour, toting her cello on a motorbike with a solar trailer. With a new album recently released, she is soon to be touring again, but this time by bicycle accompanied by a solar-powered, electric-assist trailer.

Photos: Theo Kamecke. "Byzantine".

Pulsing with the silver and gold veins of a powerful, artificial intelligence, Theo Kamecke's works look like they belong on the set of an Egyptian-themed sci-fi film.

Images via Wired

We've seen our fair share of art made from circuit boards -- even a Mona Lisa made of motherboards. But the sculptures by artist Theo Kamecke take the cake.

I am B

Artists do amazing things with garbage; we have shown whole exhibitions of it. I am B ink and media blog gave artist Faith Pearson their empty ink cartridges (do people at media blogs still print?)...