Art & Photography

Do you remember being told not to play with your food as a child? Most of us ended up listening but Boguslaw Sliwinski, of Poland, never listened to his parents and he turned out to be one creative individual.

I have a young niece and every meal has to be turned into a game in order for her to finish her food. These creative plates for Boguslaw Sliwinski can be a fun way for kids to play with their food and also encourage them to eat it at the same time. The ceramic plates have a transportation theme for the most part such as drawings of boats, trains, cranes, trucks, and helicopters.

Over the last few months I’ve come to a sickening realization. Where once the internet was full of cool stuff – such as videos of bears playing hockey, and people spraying liquid cheese out of places that should never spray liquid cheese – it has now become a dumping ground for both cat and baby photos.

All over the internet, from Facebook to internet forums, there are pictures of cats and babies. People ooo and awww at them, making the disgusting creatures “talk”, despite the fact that both the cats and babies have

Unfortunately, none of the amazing photos I have to share with you today are from a disaster movie… these incredible and horrible scenes were captured in the real world on January 15, 2013. A five alarm blaze ripped through a warehouse late at night, gutting the entire building while scorching brick and concrete and shattering glass panes. While we never like to see destruction of property on this scale outside of when our favorite action hero is causing it safely on a sound stage somewhere, a unique situation occurred with the recent cold snap and ice in Chicago. What you’re seeing is the water used to put out the fire freezing almost instantaneously, creating a haunting landscape of abandoned trucks, black char, and crystalline white ice.