Thank You Internet...for this IRL Fruit Ninja

Phil Leung curates the best of the web for Exhibitionists. Click your way through the five best things he saw online this week.

This Instagram is bananas

Trigger warning for all the trypophobes out there. As for the rest of us, this Instagram account is downright "a-peeling." Mukimono is the art of fruit carving, and this Japanese artist, who posts incredible work under the handle @gakugakugakugakugaku1 has been racking up followers by sharing pictures of bananas and broccoli and anything else you might find in the produce section.

Out-of-this-world origami

Robert Lang used to be a NASA physicist, but he left that dream job for what turned out to be his true calling: origami. The art form has a surprising link to his old gig, though, and Lang recently shared his story in a mini-documentary made by Great Big Story.

Toronto, you've changed

CBC Arts has featured Mathew Borrett before, a Toronto artist known for creating large-scale renderings of hyper-detailed fantasy worlds, and his latest exhibition, Hypnoagogic City, is a followup to his Future Toronto series — which, per the title, imagines his hometown through a sci-fi lens. "Many consider his images of decaying buildings and flooded homes post-apocalyptic," says Phil. "But I consider it affordable rent." As for the artist's take, he recently spoke to CBC News about the project. The series depicts eroded downtown landmarks, reclaimed by nature. Says Borrett: "Something that is fully dystopic or fully utopic is just kind of boring. Real life is much more complicated and stranger than that."

Ai Weiwei's most enormous installation to date

Phil, like about 297K others, follows Ai Weiwei on Instagram, where the world famous artist and activist has been documenting his latest installation. Like much of his recent work, it's inspired by the plight of migrants. The piece, which is installed in Prague's National Gallery, includes a 70-metre-long boat filled with sculpted passengers. It's Ai's largest site-specific installation ever, according to CBC News.

Everything is awesome...when you have Lego tape

Sorry, the official name is "Nimuno Loops." But whatever you call it, this ingenious plastic tape can turn anything — your desk, your fridge, your face — into a surface that's primed for Lego construction. The design company behind the idea is raising money for the project on IndieGogo, and though their original goal was $8,000, U.S. supporters have pledged more than $1.4 million as of writing. Looks like this awesome dream is about to become a reality. As Phil puts it: "People of Lego...please do not sue them."

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