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Elaborate displays of radish sculptures attract thousands of people as Oaxacan radish artists compete for prizes in the annual Night of the Radishes. The event has its roots in the Spanish colonial period, when farmers began carving their radishes to attract buyers to the Christmas market. Local priests encouraged farmers to carve nativity scenes, and that's how it turned into a radish carving competition. It was formalized by the city 120 years ago, on December 23, 1897.
These incredible Baroque style wigs and dresses and even the small boats are all composed out of paper and glue, and they are all designed to be worn. Artist and clothes designer Asya Kozina crafts the paper creations at her studio near St. Petersburg by hand, and she's gotten quite good at her work. Perhaps even more incredibly, the Ukrainian-born artist creates her master work by using designs that are only found in her head!
Indian sculptural artist Kamlesh creates tiny sculptures of Hindu gods painstakingly carved out of pencil lead With neither a microscope nor any complicated tools in sight, Kamlesh uses nothing more than his own eyesight and a simple, pointed instrument to carve intricate miniature sculptures into pencil lead. Kamlesh reportedly began working in this microscopic scale in 2004 as a way of making ends but his career really took off when he created a profile of Lord Ganesha on a rice grain, becoming a local celebrity as a result. Now he performs his work across northern India and children come out in droves to watch as he carves his tiny sculptures.
One street artist is taking Moscow by storm with his ability to transform dirty vehicles into works of art by drawing masterpieces on them. Nikita Golubev, who goes by the handle ProBoyNick, carves intricate images into the grime built up on the back of semis and other vehicles that he finds parked on the Moscow streets. Nikita Golubev, who studied medicine and is a paediatrician by profession, moonlights as an artist, drawing pictures on vehicles parked on streets throughout the Russian capital. He was inspired to use dirty cars and trucks as his canvas after walking around his neighbourhood one morning and seeing random drawings on cars parked on the road. Nikita posts his artwork regulary on his Instagram account and his work has gotten some serious recognition. He now boasts nearly 20,000 followers, causing him to get noticed by some big time Moscow TV shows. It looks like doing the dirty work is starting to pay off big for Nikita Golubev.
An eager audience of spectators looked on as French artist Abraham Poincheval emerged from the centre of a 12-tonne rock at the Palais de Tokyo art museum in Paris on Tuesday. The artist had been entombed for a week in the custom-built stone, remaining in the same sitting position without moving for a whole seven days. Poincheval designed the rock himself so that he could sit upright while encased but also receive air, water and soup directly to his mouth regularly through several small openings in the stone. What was it like to be trapped in one position for an entire week? Poincheval had this to say about his unusual forced meditation experience. The 44-year-old is no stranger to forcing himself to sit still in small spaces for long periods of time. Poincheval spent two weeks trapped inside a stuffed bear after some assistants sewed him shut. His next project involves him becoming a human hen - he will hatch eggs by sitting on them for weeks at a time.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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