“The facades of entire buildings are transformed with the larger-than-life painted silhouettes of Madrid-based street artist Sam3. Known for both the enormous scale of his work and the graphic simplicity of his figures, Sam3 gives decaying urban buildings a sense of mystery and wonder… Sam3′s street art can be seen all over the world, from his home state of Spain to a skyscraper in Atlanta.” w/ photos

“I feel so insignificant with my creative abilities…” — Aim1This1Way

“Invest in some nice knee pads for yourself. Your future self will thank you.” — fluocantus

“There’s a hitman on the streets, and there’s a good chance you might run into him. The assassin in question is Agent 47, the ice-cold clone killer from the massively successful Hitman video game series – and the subject of a marketing-meets-street art project by barcode artist Scott Blake… Located at 699 Third Street, San Francisco, the poster allows passersby to interact with it using their smartphones. By scanning individual barcodes, smartphone users can find out where to buy the game and locate secret quick response (QR) codes that unlock special content – like a video trailer and select images from the art book.” w/ photos

“I know it sounds cruel, but before you label Vadim Zaritsky’s art as a crime against nature, you should know he only uses the wings of dead butterflies that died en masse he finds on the paths and roads around his home city of Lipetsk, 272 Miles southeast of Moscow, and dead specimens donated by fellow butterfly collectors. ‘Butterfly collectors know that some wings are considered – collectors call it trash,’ Zaritsky says. ‘If the wings are damaged, if they have partially faded, specialists would usually put them aside. It’s a shame to throw them away but you cannot use them either… So he began using these discarded wings as a medium for his art, and in the last five years he has created over 100 works of art of varying size and theme. The Russian entomologist takes between a week and several months to complete a single butterfly wing painting.” w/ photos

“What happens to lovers while they are sleeping?’ photographer Paul Schneggenburger asked as he began his project ‘The sleep of the beloved.’ Using the second room of his two-bedroom Vienna apartment as a studio, he set up black sheets on a mattress, lit by a string of Christmas tree lights. A self-constructed trigger outside the room started the 4×5 camera at midnight for each six-hour exposure and turned it off automatically at 6 a.m., before the sun rose. Schneggenburger, of course, was not in the room during the exposures. Paul Schneggenburger was curious to find out how people behave when they’re asleep, whether there is any emotion between them.” w/ photos

“The Danish authorities agree. In May 2013 Spanish street artist Hyuro will transform a very long and dull wall in Copenhagen into the longest coherent piece of street art in Denmark. The artwork will be 271 meters long and located in Copenhagen. You can see Hyuro’s concept for the wall in the video above. It is certainly going to make a huge difference! Hyuro was selected in a competition held by the creative community ArtRebels in cooperation with the Municipality of Copenhagen. 140 artists – some internationally known other local talents – participated in the competition. Proposals were submitted from all over the world: South America, US, Europe, Russia and Asia, but in the end the jury decided on Hyuro and her proposal ‘In / between’ as the winner.” w/ photos + video

“In some places it feels like a giant cave – or perhaps a Bond villain’s base. In others, it resembles a science-fiction space station. And then there’s the part that looks like a blood vessel running through some kind of giant cyborg. Yet no matter which of Stockholm’s 90 decorated subway stations you visit, you’re sure to see something amazing… The subterranean artwork is full of variety. Here we see artist Takashi Naraha’s surreal Vreten station ‘sky cubes.’ And even from the little we’ve seen so far, we think you’ll agree that taking the metro is a lot more exciting and less mundane in Stockholm than it is in most other cities.” w/ photos

“The Netherlands is inextricably linked to tulips, but at the annual Bloemencorso flower parade, it’s all about dahlias, as these are the only flowers used to decorate giant floats made of steel wire, cardboard and papier-maché. Every year, members of 20 hamlets from the tiny town of Zundert work hard to win the title of most beautiful flower float in show. Preparations begin months before the big event, as the older members of the hamlets are tasked with planting and growing the colorful dahlias needed to cover the larger-than-life installations… They discuss design ideas and building techniques, but it’s the three days before the big event that are the most stressful. Because the flowers have to be fresh, contestants can only start applying the dahlias on the Thursday before Bloemencorso. If need be, hamlets will work night and day putting needles through the flowers, and sticking them in just the right spots on the cardboard body of their mobile installations. But all the effort pays off once these mind-blowing creations make their way through the streets of Zundert leaving crowds of spectators in awe.” w/ photos + video

“The object of a cubist painting is to invoke reassembly of the scene in the viewer’s mind. This video both enacts that reassembly and even does a further dissection of the scene. It literally puts us in the picture.” — MrCuddlyable3