As the year has now come to a close, it’s time to look back at The Aesthetic Poetic’s most popular stories of ‘08. In case you missed them the first time, here’s a list of the top 12.
1. Ilkka Halso: Museum Of Nature - Finnish artist Ilkka Halso portrays a futuristic world where nature, no [...]

Created by intermixing purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice with local green-leafed tsugaru-roaman variety, imaginative farmers in rural Japan grow mass scale rice paddy artworks in their fields.
According to Pink Tentacle, “In recent years, a growing number of local governments around Japan have started organizing rice paddy art projects as a way to attract tourists and [...]

Discovering that the sensuous Russian woman you’ve been talking dirty with and sending money to online is actually a man (part of one of the many disturbing Russian mafia rings making a fortune off of such scams) can be heartbreaking!
Creativity Online recently published the 2008 Creativity 50. Radiohead, Yugo Nakamura, Johnathan Harris and The Coen [...]