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If you're having a RUFF morning, Mi Cofi cafe in Taiwan is sure to put a smile on your face. The Café has taken latte art to a whole new level by using frothy milk, chocolate and a bit of patience to create the uncanny creations. Since posting pictures online the cafe has been flooded with photographs and requests from people hoping to see their beloved pet staring up at them from their morning cuppa.
Via: Caters News
American painter and illustrator Danial Ryan is far more obsessed with cats than the average kitty fanatic. They play a lead role in his artistic creations. Using acrylic paint on canvas, Ryan portrays our feline friends in a variety of surreal, absurd and often bizarre scenarios from his studio in Tampa Florida. We've handpicked a few of our personal favorites from his collection below, but you can see the entire on-going series via his official site or through his personal Instagram profile @artofdanialryan.
American photographer Carli Davidson is having fun capturing cats in the most ridiculous positions, photographing them in the middle of shaking with a high speed camera. The Funny series is called Shake Cats and below you can watch a video summarizing the project.
Mappa Animalia is a collection of illustrated maps by Dau Daw meant as a tribute to Mother Nature and the entire animal kingdom. The collection illustrates how animals and nature form tohether a beautiful symbiosis. Each map is honoring a specific class/family/subfamily of animal by naming mountains, seas, lakes, cities etc. The level of detail is made to match that of a real school map. Beautiful!
One man's trash is another man's treasure, especially if it ends up in the hands of Bordalo II. Bordalo II is a Portuguese street artist who specializes in breathing new life into junk he finds on the streets. Here is a collection of his beautiful animal art.
With her series entitled "Where the Wild Things Are", the American photographer Natasha Wilson has decided to pay tribute to the animals miraculously saved from the black market, creating beautiful and poetic pictures. The animals in these photographs were collected by the Animal Tracks wildlife sanctuary, which now serves as a refuge for these wild animals, torn from the wild and trained to become pets to be sold on the black market.
Via: ufunk
