The creative Japanese artist Hiroshi Fuji has taken cute little toys and made big and scary dinosaurs out of it. He calls them Toysaurus and if you want to see them, you have to go to Tokyo. The project has taken him several years because he first had to collect the toys and then put them together into great sculptures.
Make popular sci-fi characters yourself by using paper
This really detailed work is papercraft made by the Japanese graphic designer Shunichi Makino. For years he has been crafting sci-fi creations out of paper, and in his collection you can find Star Wars characters, the Terminator, Iron Man and others. Makino has also made it possible for everyone to download the patterns in PDFs so that you can cut it and built the models yourself if you want.
Huge tree branch growing through glass jars
The Japanese artist Naoko Ito from New York has made a great piece of art using only a big tree branch and jars. She has cut the branch into several pieces before putting them in the jars and then stacking the jars into the original shape of the branch, so it looks like the branch is growing inside them.
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12 World’s weirdest stadiums
A lot of stadiums around the world have spectacular designs, like the new World Cup 2010 stadiums in South Africa. Stadiums give pride to the countries where they are located. Yet there are some stadiums where architects have failed and there are some very clever adaptations to the surrounding landscape and that makes them kinda weird.
Japanese farmers use rice fields to express their art
We have all heard about the crop circles and seen them on television, in movies, or maybe in real life, but in Japan you can see rice art on the fields. Every year Japanese farmers are planting rice in different patterns and using different sorts of rice for color. The result is spectacular pictures.