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The Bold Art of the European Tour Bus
Often looking like a mix between color field paintings and some pretty rad late 80s skater art, the sides of european tour busses are a vastly under-appreciated art form. Photographer Taylor Holland...
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Vaults: Mesmerizing Patterns on Cathedral Ceilings
The next time you find yourself in a Romanesque or Gothic european church, cathedral or basilica, lay down on the floor and cast your eyes up to the mesmerizing ceiling. Built between the 12th and...
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1000 European Breweries on One Map
The beer obsessed folks over at Pop Chart Labs have outdone themselves again, creating a thirst inducing poster of breweries and abbeys on the European continent. Featuring nearly 1,000 breweries,...
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You’ve Never Seen a Flower Parade Like This Before!
I’ve got to admit that I don’t usually rank flower parades that far up my list of cool things… but this example from the Netherlands completely blew me away. Bloemencorso, the annual parade of...
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Albania: A Bunker for Every 4 People
Although it was chosen as the No.1 Destination in Lonely Planet’s list of ten top countries to visit for 2011, Albania is still a country unexplored and unknown to most. The small coastal nation,...
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100 Years Later: First World War Photos Superimposed on the Locations Today
With this year marking 100 years since the start of the First World War, it becomes more and more difficult to remember the world changing conflict. The last veteran of “The Great War,” Florence Green,...
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Illustrations Filling the Sky Between Buildings
When you look up at the sky and think of art, you might think of skywriting airplanes or animals made out of clouds, but French illustrator Thomas Lamadieu is giving “sky art” a whole new look. The...
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Bridges on Euro Banknotes Were Fictional, But This Dutch Designer Built Them...
In designing the new Euro banknotes released in 2002, Austrian designer Robert Kalina purposely created fictitious bridges to represent architectural styles through European history. It was deemed a...
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16th Century ‘Prayer Nuts’ Hide Miniature Carvings
If you were wealthy and devout in 16th century Europe, one of the ultimate possessions was a prayer nut. These tiny wooden spheres were intricately carved boxes filled with religious scenes like the...
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Markus Brunetti’s ‘Facades’ are a Soaring Inspiration of Cathedral Architecture
German photographer Markus Brunetti had two decades of work behind him, but he was feeling creatively stuck. Thinking of a quick fix, he and long-time partner Betty Schoener built a truck, then headed...
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