The 23 Photos That Will Make Your Stomach Drop

1. Cliff camping.

2. Skywalking in the Alps.

3. Portaledge camping at Yosemite.

4. Climbing Redwoods.

5. Sitting on the Trolltunga rock in Norway.

6. Jumping on the Trolltunga rock in Norway.

7. British climber John Roberts in South Africa.

8. Ice climbing a frozen waterfall.

9. Extreme skiing at Grand Targhee, Wyoming.

10. Tree camping in Germany.

11. Extreme kayaking at Victoria Falls.

12. Blake Aldridge dives 29 metres from the rock monolith during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Portugal.

13. On the Edgewalk in Toronto.

14. A defying act by Eskil Rønningsbakken in Norway.

15. Alex Honnold at Yosemite.

16. Now imagine if you dropped your phone down there.

17. Glacierboarding.

18. Trapeze paragliding.

19. Hanging out at the Sky Walk in Macau.

20. Strange sport in the air, USA

21. A ride at the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas.

22. In Ft. Tryon park.

23.  Driving down a sand dune in Lucky Bay, Australia.

Perfect. Pencil. Drawing .

At just 22 years old, Italian artist Diego Fazo has developed the skill to create photo-realistic drawings using a simple charcoal pencil. His latest creation, pictured below, has drawn hundreds of positive comments on his Deviant Art profile.

Don’t tell me you can tell the image below is a drawing and not a high-definition photograph, because I don’t buy it. In fact people were so skeptical this incredible piece of art was drawn by hand that young Diego Fazo had to put up some photos of the work in progress just to lay doubts to rest. And looking at his-mind-blowing masterpiece, can you really blame people for  questioning it’s hand-drawn?

Like other talented artists who started their careers on Deviant Art, Diego is a self-taught pencil master whose technique matured with the passing of the years. He started out as a tattoo artist, and developed a passion for creating photo-realistic drawings. Inspired by the works of Japanese artists from the Edo period, like Katsushika Hokusai, he managed to capture people’s imaginations with his precise lines and oriental drawing techniques.

Scroll down for more of his awesome drawings, and check out his Deviant Art profile, as well.

taken from www.odditycentral.com

taken from candychang.com

Confessions

What happens in Vegas... 2012

As they say, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but what if we could share with full discretion? Confessions is a public art project that invites people to anonymously share their confessions and see the confessions of the people around them in the heart of the Las Vegas strip.

As Art Production Fund Artist-in-Residence at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Candy lived in the The Cosmpolitan for a month and turned its P3 Studio gallery into a contemplative place for people to anonymously share their confessions. Inspired by Shinto shrine prayer walls, Post Secret, and Catholicism, she created a place where people could write and submit their confessions on wooden plaques in the privacy of confession booths. Candy hung the anonymous plaques on the gallery walls each day and painted select responses on large canvases. The space also featured original, contemplative music by Oliver Blank – listen to it here.

By the end of the exhibit, over 1500 confessions were displayed on the walls: I still love her two girlfriends and five years later, Came here married to one girl and left married to two girls, I sold heroin to my friend and it ruined his life, I stole over 15,000 from the company I work for, I like porn more than my husband does, I’m afraid I’ll die young just like my mother, I’m in love with my best friend – too bad he’s married, I feel some days that I’m socially unacceptable, I don’t know what I am doing and I’m running out of time…

Every passerby is another person full of longing, anxiety, fear, confusion, and wonder. We struggle with a lot of the same issues and there is great comfort in knowing you are not alone. Through this project, Candy sought to create a cathartic sanctuary where all of us became the imperfect priests to help console one another as we contemplate our lives. July 19 – Aug 12, 2012.

Installation team: Abraham King (construction), Kristina Kassem, Wendalyn Lewis, Caroline Oh. Gallery coordination: Krista Salley, Lily Tran, Casey Fremont Crowe, Sheila Marcello, Cory Mervis. Thank you to Yvonne Force Villareal.

Read more about the project in The Atlantic.