Without a cylindrical mirror these paintings would look meaningless. This kind of art is called Anamorphosis and comes from the Greek words meaning “formed again.” It’s basically paintings that can be viewed only with a special device.
Anamorphic art involves a lot of physics and mathematics. A lengthy complex formulae and lot of calculations are done to make a particular picture.
These amazing paintings are made by Indian artist Awtar Singh Virdi.
Check his website for more: http://www.artistasvirdi.com/about.html
Although he claim himself to be the only Anamorphic artist in the world today, but I found another Anamorphic art, created by Devorah Sperber :) 
Anamorphosis by Awtar Singh Virdi
Thread Spool Works by Devorah Sperber
Using thousands of spools of thread, American installation artist Devorah Sperber created pixilated versions of iconic works of art by famous artists
"After The Last Supper," 20,736 spools of thread. Detail view: Clear acrylic viewing sphere
The spools are hung in long, adjacent columns to create a pointillist, inverted abstraction of a famous painting. When viewed by the naked eye, they are barely recognizable. When viewed through an optical device, usually a "viewing sphere" (a transparent sphere the size of a baseball) placed several feet in front of the spools), the abstractions are inverted and shrunk into a remarkably detailed and faithful image of the original painting. -source: Wikipedia
Installation view: Brooklyn Museum, 2007
"After The Mona Lisa," 5,184 spools of thread. Detail view from approximately 10 feet
Installation view from approximately 50 feet
"After Renoir," 5,024 spools of thread.
"After Da Vinci (Self Portrait)," 442 spools of thread.
"After van Eyck," 5,024 spools of thread.
"After Vermeer," 5,024 spools of thread.
Check the website here for more of her works :)
Unique Dress
If you had any doubts regarding human creativity being endless, this unique creation will definitely make you a believer.
Meet some of the unique dresses ever made.
**There are a lot of unique dresses out there, but only - what I think - the best that I put here. So, fashion designers.. you better make your dresses good if you want me to put them in this blog :P
Glowing Fluid-Filled DressesDesigned by: Charlie Bucket
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This dress consists of 600 feet of looping sippy straws filled with glow-stick fluid.
The Galaxy Dress - Colorful LED DressDesigned by: CuteCircuit (a design company that specializes in “wearable technology”)
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This dress is created out of 24,000 full-color LEDs, each measuring only 2×2 millimeters. The Galaxy Dress requires only a few iPod batteries for 30 minutes to an hour.
Pull Tabs Prom DressDesigned by: Maura Pozek
Maura spent 100 hours working on this unique prom dress, created from 4,000 pull tabs and 400 yards of pink ribbon.
Gown from Discarded Children’s BooksDesigned by: Ryan Novelline
The skirt is comprised entirely of the illustrations from the books sewn together with metallic gold thread, and the bodice is made from the books’ foil spines.
Both the bodice and skirt have tape backing for reinforcement.
Check Ryan’s page here for more photos of the making-of process.
Rubber Band DressDesigned by: Margarita Mileva
Mileva constructed this dress by hand, painstakingly weaving an astounding 14,235 rubber bands into an haute-couture gown. That’s approximately 4 kilograms of rubber bands.
Check her website for more details of this dress: http://milevarchitects.com/m2/StartPageM2-8.swf
1,000 Newspapers DressDesigned by: Yuliya Kyrpo
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Yuliya Kyrpo wrapped Metro newspapers into cranes, and positioned them to create this dress. She managed to arrange the different texts and images to make her dress nice to look at.
Newspaper DressDesigned by: Amy M. Phillips and Fairlight Hubbard.
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The Paper DressDesigned by: Kelly Murray Jolis Paons
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Fashion student Kelly Murray has created a dress made entirely out of 750 phone book pages. She spent two weeks painstakingly pleating the black and white paper to make this wonderful dress.
Used Tea Bags DressDesigned by: Grace Robinson
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Grace Robinson, from Cambridgeshire, England, takes used tea bags and sews them into fashionable dresses, shoes and accessories.
She drinks tea every day, saves the tea bags and lets them dry naturally with the tea leaves inside. Once they’ve dried, she empties them and sews them. The color of this unusual fabric varies depending on how long she lets the tea brew
Coffee Filter DressDesigned by: Aimee Kick
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18-year-old Francis Howell North High School student from Missouri, Aimee Kick has created a unique prom dress entirely out of coffee filters. The dress is inspired by her reputation “the girl with the coffee cup” because of her love of coffee.
It took her one month to create the dress, as much as six hours per day.
She said each of the coffee filters had to be blow-dried by hand.
"Each and every filter is sewn onto a fabric base that I made. Most filters have multiple seams over them, save for the bodice, which was all hand sewn," Kick said to her local school district.
Luv the coffee necklace :)
Banana Oxidation Art by Jun Gil Park
Artist Jun Gil Park using a simple toothpick to make this amazing banana art.
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Like this one.. The Beatles' world-famous Abbey Road album cover
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He scratches the designs into the banana, and the harder he presses/scratches, the darker the bruised part gets.
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It usually takes about five minutes for the oxidation to start showing, and after a day or two it gets really dark.
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Check out for more at: http://www.jungilpark.com/
Chinese Ink Paintings on Water
Water painting, as not many has heard of, differs from the commonly seen watercolor painting. This also known as Chinese Ink Paintings on Water.
Artist: Huang Zhu Lin
Huang Zhu Lin has chosen an unconventional canvas for his art, the 25-year-old Chinese artist creates his paintings on an ever-changing liquid surface.
First Huang mixes a viscous solution of water and various chemicals as his base, which he then pours into a clear tray that sits on top of a lightbox. Then he dabs coloured paints onto the surface and coaxes them into delicate patterns with a metallic needle.
"The paint drops are all in forms of circle on the liquid surface. Any patterns or designs should be transformed or created into other patterns from the circles. This is the basic painting method," he said.
In order to keep his artwork flowing and to stop the liquids from solidifying, Huang adds special chemicals to the base liquid and grease to the paint but he keeps his specific ingredients a secret.
Beijing-based Huang said it took him more than 12 months to perfect his formula and then another year to understand how to create patterns with just a needle and his mixture.
Artist: Zhu Sheng Hi
Zhu Sheng Hi, an artist from Xi’an, China’s Shaanxi Province paints on the surface of the water using a fine tool and naphta. After he’s finished the design, Zhu places a piece of paper that absorbs the paint from the surface of the water.
Photos by China Foto Press and Grand Angular
