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Children
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Imagination Playground
Read more: Imagination PlaygroundWhen award-winning architect David Rockwell started spending time in playgrounds with his young children, he was disturbed by the lack of imagination and variation in the way kids interact with standardized playground equipment. He spent five years developing the Imagination…
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Maman Sculpture
Read more: Maman SculptureThrough the use of mythical and archetypal iconography, Bourgeois translated her encounters into a very individualized symbolic imagery, employing things such as swirls, arachnids, cages, surgical equipment, and sewed appendages to represent the feminine mind, beauty, and mental agony. The…
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Los Intocables
Read more: Los IntocablesA CUBAN artist’s controversial photographs of children being hung from crosses has landed him in hot water. Erik Ravelo took a series of photos of children hung like Jesus from a cross, but in the place of the cross were…
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A New Kind of Barbie
Read more: A New Kind of Barbie“Many people have criticized Barbie dolls for their unrealistic proportions, claiming that they give young girls a warped idea of what beauty should be. To tackle this problem, Nikolay Lamm created digital visualizations of a regular-sized “Barbie” doll, hoping to…
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8-Year-Old Creates ‘Buddy Bench’ For His Classmates Who Don’t Have Playmates
Read more: 8-Year-Old Creates ‘Buddy Bench’ For His Classmates Who Don’t Have Playmates“Eight-year-old Christian Bucks from Roundtown Elementary School noticed that some of his classmates did not have any friends to play with during recess. His solution was to introduce a “Buddy Bench”, where lonely classmates could choose to sit if they…
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Something Terrible
Read more: Something TerribleSomething Terrible is the story of Trippe’s childhood sexual abuse and painful struggle with its psychological aftermath. Though the comic itself is sparsely scripted and free of gory details, Trippe provides an afterword that relates the hard facts: he was…
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Haircuts By Children
Read more: Haircuts By ChildrenHaircuts by Children is a whimsical relational performance that playfully engages with the enfranchisement of children, with trust in the younger generation, and the thrills and chills of vanity. Haircuts By Children involves children between the ages of 8-12 are…
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Fat Barbie
Read more: Fat BarbieFor those of you unfamiliar with the wonderful Worth1000, it’s a website that hosts creative contests of all kinds, most notably for photoshoppers who are outstanding at what they do. Hell, just look at the first question on the site’s…
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Carly’s Cafe
Read more: Carly’s CafeCarly’s cafe by Anna Rae FerraThose with severe autism are often unable to speak or communicate in any meaningful way, which makes 17-year-old Carly Fleischmann such an anomaly. After she was diagnosed with nonverbal autism and oral motor apraxia at age…