Julia Gnuse – nicknamed the ‘illustrated lady’ – has 95 per cent of her body covered in ink, ranging from jungle scenes and cartoons to her favourite actors. Miss Gnuse, from California, started getting tattoos on her legs after developing a skin condition called porphyria, which causes the skin to blister when exposed to sunlight.

In an interview, Miss Gnuse said although the ink did not stop her skin from blistering, it covered up the scars and allowed her to be exposed to the sun. ‘I had a friend who is a plastic surgeon, who suggested tattooing my skin the same color to the scarring that I had, seeing if we can match my just pale-looking skin that I had.’ Miss Gnuse said every one of her designs had been created by the same tattoo artist. Miss Gnuse features in the 2011 Guiness World Records book.

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Magnificent 3D Street Painting by Manfred Stader

Manfred Stader began street painting, pavement art during his art studies at the famous Städel Artschool in Frankfurt, at the beginning of the 1980s and in 1985 he already became one of the few master street painters. Through the study of anamorphosis, which has been used in the painting of the Renaissance and Baroque to produce more optical height and width he developed a new form of street art, the 3d Street Painting in order to produce 3-dimensional impressions on a 2-dimensional horizontal Area, the asphalt. Manfreds 3d floor sticker are getting more and more popular.

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Joyful Dance of the Dolphins