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A pencil is a writing implement or art medium usually constructed of a narrow, solid pigment core inside a protective casing. The case prevents the core from breaking, and also from marking the user’s hand during use. Pencils create marks via physical abrasion, leaving behind a trail of solid core material that adheres to a sheet of paper or other surface. They are noticeably distinct from pens, which dispense liquid or gel ink that stain the light color of the paper...

Now that the NASA Space Shuttle Program has officially finished, it marks the end of an era and no doubt some American astronauts are left questioning where they stand in the world. Neil DaCosta (with Sara Phillips on Art Direction) explores that notion with a dark twist in new series of photographs titled "Astronaut Suicides"...

Margaux Lange, the New York-born jewelry designer revives the plastic doll and everything that incorporates it, and her psychedelic creations make every girl’s Barbie dream to come true. Being a Barbie nostalgic or not, her designs will make you want to dig out from your dusty shelves and boxes your beloved toy and play with it again and again...

Long exposure photography entails using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring its moving elements. Technique When a scene includes both stationary and moving subjects (for example, a fixed street and moving cars or a camera within a car showing a fixed dash-board and moving scenery), a slow shutter speed can cause interesting effects, such as light trails...

Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire...