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"I started out as a cartoonist but the graffiti side of things has really taken over the past three years," says Phlegm. "I think it’s because my style has been so effected by what i draw for the comic, it’s stopped almost all outside influences."

"I love to get run down urban spaces and factories and play with the space," he adds. "It’s such an immediate way to get your picture on the wall. A painting in the street becomes part of the cities architecture, influenced by what’s around it rather than being some awkward canvas in an art gallery."

By Steve in 7 Wonders Series, Animals & Habitats, Nature & Ecosystems

Do animals get the blues? I azure you they do! Whether big or small, on land or in the sea, an elite selection of Earth’s animals have chosen the blue end of the spectrum as their way to be made in the shade.

Blue Damselfly

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Damselflies, which are similar to but smaller than dragonflies, are found in a large number of colors though blue seems to be the most common. Not just any ho-hum blue, mind you, but rich, vibrant azure hues ranging from deep cobalt through jewel-like turquoise.

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The species Enallagma cyathigerum, or the Common Blue Damselfly is said to be “the bluest of the damselflies.” Found across the UK and most of Europe, the Common Blue Damselfly is a favorite subject for wildlife photographers – looking at these images it’s no wonder why.

Morpho Butterfly

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Morpho Butterflies can be found in central and South America, and although not all Morpho Butterflies are blue, those that are have attracted humankind’s attention from prehistoric times.

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Surprisingly, the wings of blue Morphos are not “blue” in the true sense, they’re iridescent: the upper surfaces are covered in clear crystalline scales that refract light, forming an interference pattern that our eyes and brains interpret as the color blue.

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Many people have been introduced to the beauty and wonder of the Blue Morpho by the 2004 film The Blue Butterfly, which stars Marc Donato and William Hurt. The plot concerns a terminally ill boy played by Donato whose last wish is to see a Blue Morpho butterfly in its home environment.

Blue Lobster

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It’s been reported that blue lobsters are one in a million. That’s not true – the rare genetic mutation of the American Lobster appears in just one out of TWO million crustaceans. It also makes them look WAY cool!

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Affected lobsters to produce an overabundance of a certain protein that reacts to form crustacyanin, expressed in the lobsters shell as a vivid blue tint. This doesn’t help the lobster much – contrasting with your surroundings makes it easier for predators to find and eat you.

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Though not the rarest of known lobster color mutations, blue lobsters are definitely the most striking. It’s worth knowing that the blue protein is only visible in the shell, not the meat, and blue lobsters are completely safe to eat. Keep in mind, though, that cooking destroys the protein making a cooked blue lobster indistinguishable from one of its non-mutated brethren.

Blue-Ringed Octopus

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Exotic and deadly, the Blue-ringed Octopus takes fatal attraction to an entirely new level. This small, shy octopus is found in coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean and uses its paralyzing venom to subdue the small fish and shrimp which are its usual prey. Like many squids and octopi, the Blue-ringed Octopus has chromatophores in its skin that become much more vivid when the creature is alarmed or excited – and you’d better not be the cause!

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Blue-ringed Octopus venom is a potent neurotoxin similar to the one found in Cone Snails and Puffer Fish. One Blue-ringed Octopus carries enough venom to kill 26 humans in minutes – and there is no known antidote. Most octopus bites are inconspicuous and painless, the effects are horrifying: victims suffer muscle paralysis and cannot breathe but are otherwise unaffected, meaning someone who may look dead could be fully conscious and all too aware they are about to die.

Blue Ribbon Eel

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Now this is one elite eel. Full-grown adults are over a yard long and can live up to 20 years: not just a blue ribbon winner among eels, but a Blue Ribbon Eel itself! This relative of the famed and feared Moray Eel is a popular aquarium fish for advanced hobbyists owning very large salt-water tanks.

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Blue Ribbon Eels are brightly colored in rich blue with contrasting yellow trim – which seems odd for a creature that spends most of its time hiding in a seafloor lair or, if captive, in a provided piece of PVC piping. Those wanting to add a Blue Ribbon Eel to their marine menagerie should be aware that they are difficult pets to maintain for extended periods of time.

Blue Arrow Poison Frog

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Also known as the Blue Poison Dart Frog, this small, beautiful and occasionally deadly amphibian remained unknown to science until 1968 when several specimens were brought back from the Amazon.

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The frog is one of a number of species utilized by native South American tribes for the powerful toxins stored in its brilliantly blue skin. It is thought that the frogs coloration acts as a warning to potential predators: eat me and die!

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The Blue Arrow Poison Frog comes by its poison through its diet of small, often venomous insects. Instead of metabolizing toxins in its diet, the frog instead safely stores them in its skin. Blue Arrow Poison Frogs raised in captivity on a keeper-chosen diet do not ingest these types of alkaloid compounds and are thus non-poisonous.

Blue Marlin

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One of the largest of all fish and striking in appearance, the Blue Marlin displays blue pigments on its upper (dorsal) side to help camouflage it from smaller prey swimming above it. Blue Marlin females are usually heavier than males – sometimes MUCH heavier: the largest females can weight up to 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) and run 13 feet (over 4 meters) from bill-tip to tail fin.

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A legendary fighter when hooked by rod & reel, the Blue Marlin leaped to fame with the 1952 publication of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” Today, the Atlantic and Caribbean “billfish” industry employs thousands of workers directly and indirectly, with hundreds of companies seeking to exploit shrinking numbers of Blue Marlin and other large billfish.

Hyacinth Macaw

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The Hyacinth Macaw ((Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)) can be found in forested areas of central and eastern South America. This majestic creature is the world’s largest flying parrot and can grow up to 39 inches (100 cm) long with a 56 inch (140 cm) wingspan. Almost completely blue, Hyacinth Macaws also feature black feathers under their wings and small contrasting areas of bright yellow around their eyes and along the sides of their massive lower beaks.

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Hyacinth Macaws can live as long as 60 years and need a varied diet of assorted fresh nuts and seeds, which they expertly shell with their powerful beaks – powerful enough to snap welds in metal cages. Costing upwards of $8,000 each, these beautiful blue birds are not cheap but they are still in great demand from pet stores, enough so that the wild population is continually under pressure from hunters.

Blue Tiger

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Occasionally reported but never officially documented, the Blue or “Maltese” Tiger is said to be an exceedingly rare mutation of the South Chinese or Amur Tiger – themselves critically endangered.

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Sometimes called Maltese Tigers after silver-gray cats found on the island of Malta, Blue Tigers display striped fur in white, black and misty gray, or at least they do in these artist’s conceptions.

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“The markings of the beast are strikingly beautiful. The ground color is of a delicate shade of maltese, changing into light gray-blue on the underparts. The stripes are well defined and like those of the ordinary yellow tiger.” So wrote American missionary and big game hunter Harry Caldwell after supposedly witnessing a Blue Tiger near the city of Fuzhou, China. Caldwell discusses his search for the legendary feline in his 1924 book, Blue Tiger.

Blue Whale

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Dinosaurs? Pshaw… the mighty Blue Whale is the largest animal to have ever lived – by far! Adults can grow up to 108 ft (33m) long and weigh as much as 180 metric tons (200 short tons), sometimes more. And, they’re really blue… well, shades of bluish gray to be exact. Once critically endangered, Blue Whales today number as many as 12,000. That may seem like a lot but before the advent of organized whaling in the 19th century it’s thought that the world’s oceans supported up to 240,000 – twenty times the number living today.

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Any discussion of the Blue Whale’s attributes and characteristics will be peppered with superlatives. Here are just a few: a Blue Whale’s tongue can weigh up to 2.7 metric tons and its heart, served by an aorta 9.1 inches (23 cm) wide, can weigh as much as 1,300 lbs or 600 kilograms. Newborn Blue Whale calves weigh on average 6,000 pounds (2,700 kg) and will gain 200 pounds (90 kg) every 24 hours. Try burping that big boy!

Bonus Blue Animal: The Blue Man

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A blue man? Yes indeed, and we don’t mean the members of Blue Man Group. 59-year-old Paul Karason doesn’t paint himself blue for public performances, nor can he wash off his tint – his blue hue is skin deep, and it’s been that way for over 15 years. That’s him above, top left, while he was still in the pink. Blue skin can result from a number of causes and medical conditions but for Karason, the effect manifested itself gradually after he began drinking colloidal silver in solution as a health tonic – he may be blue but he’s otherwise fit as a fiddle. Here’s a 2007 video of Karason being interviewed by CNN:

Man\’s skin turns dark blue, via CNN and benderxrd2

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Paul Karason certainly stands out in a crowd, though his bluish-purple skin tone is far from the bright, brilliant blue make-up sported by Blue Man Group. Curious, though, that he seems to enjoy dressing in shades of blue to complement his now natural blue skin.

So, still think singin’ the blues means feeling depressed? These amazing animals are anything but down, except perhaps when it comes to population density. That IS indeed something to be sad about but at the same time, their natural beauty compels us to preserve and protect these creatures so that future generations can appreciate them anew.

By Angie in Art & Design, Geography & Travel, Home & Garden

Easter eggs were reportedly first decorated in the 13th century, while egg shaped architecture “caught on” significantly later than that. From amazing decorated eggs to strange structures, here is a bizarre collection of oval-like designs in architecture and art.

Decorated With A Drill

Franc Grom created hundreds of amazing eggs. He uses his electric boring tool to pierce about 2,500 to 3,500 holes in each fragile eggshell.

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Grom was inspired by Slovenian designs. He patiently creates and then sells his masterful eggshell designs. There are times he drills as many as 17,000 holes per breakable egg.

Egg Art

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Decorating Easter eggs is not only for children. Some painted eggs are displayed in museums such as in the Eggs Museum located in Moldoviţa, Bucovina. The hand-made designs are passed down from families, differing in colors and patterns depending on which Bucovina village they were made. These Easter ornaments eggs were created by Lucia Condrea.

Egg City

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In terms of patience, it would seem to take huge amounts to stack these eggs for a massive sculpture. This “egg city” was built for an avant-garde exhibit in Groninger Museum in Groningen, Netherlands. Avant-garde is experimental or innovative, pushing the boundaries of what one might expect. The Groninger Museum was transformed into a ‘Small Chinese Empire.’

World’s Largest Easter Egg

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The world’s largest Easter egg or Ukrainian ‘Pysanka,’ was constructed in 1975 in Vegreville, Canada. The outer aluminum skin weighs 2,000 pounds. The Pysanka is an immense jigsaw puzzle containing 524 star patterns, 2,206 equilateral triangles, 3,512 visible facets, 6,978 nuts and bolts, and 177 internal struts. It measures 25.7 feet long, 18.3 feet wide, and stands 31.6 feet high.

Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló Has Egg-Shaped Windows

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Designed by famous architect Antoni Gaudí, Casa Batllo is in Barcelona, Spain. It has egg-shaped windows and Juliet balconies. This curved building is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Gaudí is known for his work as “God’s Architect” and spent ten years working on studies for the design of La Sagrada Família. He died in 1926 after being run over by a tram.

Blob VB3

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The mobile living space, blob VB3, has a bathroom, kitchen, storage niches, and even a nook for sleeping. The nose opens and can function as a porch. It took 18 months to build, is made primarily of polyester, and is easily transportable. The Blob can function as a office, garden house, or guest room.

Egg Shaped Structures

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Frank Heger addressed the designing challenges of how to keep digesters from falling over. With his help, the Crom Corporation constructed two 3-million gallon egg-shaped sludge digesters for Baltimore’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. The red egg-shaped house by architect Sergey Tkacheneko is located in Moscow. It is one part of a larger residential structure. His egg design was deliberated for years before construction.

More Design Egg Shapes

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The Egg-shaped digesters in Bottrop, Germany, are used for sewage treatment processing. Another large egg-shape building is located in Astana, Kazakhstan. The Egg-o house with the garden in the center was designed by architecture company A69 from the Czech Republic.

London City Hall

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London City Hall is located on the south bank of the River Thames. Its unusual egg-like shape reduces surface area and improves energy efficiency. Inside the ten-story building, a 1,640 foot spiral staircase goes up to an exhibition and meeting space called “London’s Living Room.”

Gherkin Behind The Tower Of London

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The Gherkin skyscraper is also in London. Designed by Norman Foster and constructed by Skanska, Gherkin has 40 floors and stands 591 feet tall. For energy savings, this unusual shaped building incorporates the double glazing effect. It has gaps in each floor to create six shafts, or chimneys, trapping air between two layers of glazing to insulate the office spaces.

City Of Arts And Sciences

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The City of the Arts and the Sciences in Valencia, Spain, is an egg-shaped entertainment-complex that is both culturally and architecturally amazing. It has glass windows and floors. The large “eye” is an Imax Cinema. There are three floors and 13,9930 square feet of the building which also houses a Planetarium and a Laserium.

Egg Building in China

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The National Centre for the Performing Arts, also known as The Egg, is a 129,000 square foot titanium and glass opera house in Beijing, China. The exterior has over 18,000 titanium plates, more than 1,000 sheets of ultra-white glass, and a low-iron glass with a high rate of light transmission. It cost $468.7 million and seats 5,452 people in three halls, The Opera House, The Hall, and The Theatre. It is said to look like an egg floating on the water; an artificial lake surrounds it. The hallway goes underneath the lake, but with a massive glass ceiling, light shines through the water to give visitors an otherworldly experience. The Egg was designed by French architect Paul Andreu. It held its first concert in 2007.

Cybertecture Egg

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The Cybertecture Egg, in Mumbai, India, is scheduled for completion this year. By using this “egg” shape, the building has approximately 10-20% less surface area than conventional buildings. This 13 story “egg” will use solar photovoltaic panels and rooftop wind turbines to generate on-site electricity. In focusing on health and wellness, it will interact with occupant’s vital health statistics such as blood pressure and weight. The 32,000 square meter egg-shaped building will combine “iconic architecture, environmental design, intelligent systems, and new engineering to create an awe-inspiring landmark in the city.”

Glow In The Dark Alien Eggs

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Dear children and/or trolls: Happy Easter to you too. Since none of the “eggs” here probably interested you, perhaps you would better like a dozen glow-in-the-dark alien eggs from Area 51?