The internet has been in an uproar this week over an alleged time traveler spotted holding an iPhone spotted in an 1860 painting, Die Erwartete (The Expected One), by Ferinand Georg Waldmüller. Unfortunately (or fortunately), this person is not holding an electronic device, but rather a book, though the pose strikingly resembles someone who would be looking at their smartphone while walking down a pathway.
The “Saved by the Whale’s Tail” sculpture, built in 2002 at De Akkers station in Spijkenisse, a city just outside Rotterdam, saved a metro train after it went off the tracks. Rather than crash 30-feet to the ground below, the tail managed to save the day, albeit with some minor damage. Thankfully, only the train operator was the only person aboard at the time, but there is still no clear reason as to why it didn’t stop in time.
In most cases, a temporary tattoo refers to a non-permanent image that can either be drawn, painted, airbrushed, or needled in the same way as a permanent one, but with an ink that dissolves in the blood within 6 months. Many have either seen or used decal-style temporary tattoos, but what about Prinker S? This temporary tattoo printer basically sprays ink onto your skin in any design you want using cosmetic ink-filled cartridges.
A pilot first discovered a strange 2.2-mile-long geoglyph in 1998, etched directly into a South Australian plateau. Called Marree Man, the artwork shows a hunter with what appears to be a stick or boomerang in his hand. This design made from earthen materials is so large that it can only be viewed in its entirety from above, similar to the Nazca Lines in Peru.
Photo credit: Peeta via MyModernMet
Peeta is a street artist who specializes in creating mind-bending 3D optical illusion paintings, and his latest work can be found on a building in Mannheim, Germany, which was painted for the 2019 Stadt.Wand.Kunst mural project. All of his creations are painted specifically for the location since he first photographs the area and uses those to create sketches or 3D renderings. Now why was this wall in Mannheim so special? “Because of its shapes and colors. I immediately realized it had great possibilities of harmonious interaction with my overlapping anamorphic paintings,” Peeta told My Modern Met. Read more for a video, additional pictures and information.