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Omayra Sanchez

Omayra Sanchez was a 13-year-old Colombian girl who became trapped in the debris of her collapsed home, which was caused by a mudslide from the eruption of a volcano in 1985. 

 Sanchez’s legs were bent in a kneeling position and trapped under concrete. Her deceased aunt also had her arms wrapped tightly around the girl’s legs. The workers and volunteers realized there was no way to rescue the girl without severing her legs. 

They lacked the equipment to be able to save her from the effects of amputation, so the doctors decided that it would be more humane to let her die. Sanchez lasted three days before succoming to the likely effects of exposure. 

The entire world followed her televised plight and was outraged that the government didn’t do more to save her and other victims of the mudslide. (Source) 

This sculpture, called the Wu Zei, depicts a creature that resembles both an octopus and a cuttlefish. It hangs from a 22-meter-tall ceiling. The sculpture was made by artist  Huang Yong Ping.

Cleverly created pasta box designs by Moscow based artist Nikita Konkin.

Judit Czinkné Poór is a Hungarian artist and pastry chef that creates the most incredible cookie art I have seen. Working out of her studio, Mézesmanna, Judit uses icing like a paintbrush, creating incredible edibles.

Light Painting Evolved: Introducing the Pixelstick

Designed by Duncan Frazier and Steve McGuigan of Brookyln-based BitBanger Labs, the Pixelstick is a fancy new gadget for creating long-exposure light paintings. The device reads digital images created in Photoshop (or any other editor) and displays them one line at a time through an array of 198 full-color RGB LEDs. The images can be any height up to 198 pixels tall and many thousands of pixels wide creating huge possibilities for visual effects. (Source)

Lamp for Urban Movement by Olafur Eliasson

Metropolitan landscape art by Luke O’Sullivan.

As part of the Wood Furniture Japan Award (2016) in Tokyo, artist Emmanuelle Moureaux made an exhibition with 100 shades of color that lit up the entire exhibition hall.