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Princess Grace of Monaco: Hollywood darling Grace Kelly has topped a poll of the most beautiful royals of all time. Princess Grace's fairytale wedding to Rainier of Monaco was the stuff every little girls' dreams are made of. She died tragically in a car crash, but her mystique endures. Read more after the break.......... Queen Rania of Jordan: Rania Al Abdullah, Queen Consort of Jordan's King Abdullah II is famous not only for her beauty and impeccable style but also for her involvement in humanitarian work. She was ranked 76th in a 2009 list of the 100 most influential women in the world. Style and substance in one lovely package.  Kate Middleton: England's future Queen Catherine has captured public imagination with her commoner-to-royalty story. Always well turned out, Kate's beauty is understated yet striking. She makes third place, just ahead of Princess Diana.  Diana, Princess of Wales: The People's Princess remained adored by her devoted public much after

French street-artist Thierry Guetta, also known as Mr. Brainwash, has created a series of portraits of international pop icons, out of broken vinyls and CDs. Mr. Brainwash, rumored to be friends with legendary street artist Banksy, has probably smashed thousands of old vinyls into pieces, to create the artworks for his latest collection, entitled “Icons”. Though they all look like they’ve been drawn with a stencil, each of them is made exclusively out of broken pieces of vinyl and CDs. Read more after the break.......... The intricate facial expressions were achieved by using quarter inch vinyl cuts, while chiseled CDs were used to reproduce the shine of sunglasses. “I had to find something that nobody in the world of art had done. I wanted to take singers that spent their whole lives singing for us and make them live forever with what they sold.” Mr. Brainwash said about his incredible vinyl portraits. His unique portrait of Jim Morrison reportedly sold for $100,000, and others had a

A portrait of Anna Nicole Smith made of junk, artist Jason Mecier created the picture. He creates his portraits of celebrities using junk, pills and sweets. Jason sometimes uses items donated by the stars themselves to complete his pieces. Jason explains: "Celebrities really do send me items. Most people send me anywhere from a shoebox to a trash bag full of things to incorporate into their portraits. I have a bag of Pam Anderson's laundry, and a letter Paris Hilton wrote me from prison." more creative portraits after the break............  A portrait of Amy Winehouse made of pills. Using 5,000 multicoloured tablets.  Jason says his Lady Gaga portrait "has some Hello Kitty merchandise that was used in her famous photo shoot." He says his portraits take at least 50 hours, but many take much, much longer - Lady Gaga took him almost two months and hundreds of hours.  The San Francisco artist builds collages from unusual materials that he feels suit the pe

Designer Marc Böttler used stacked wooden blocks and combined them with tricky camera angles to turn children’s playthings into a cool set of optical illusions. He calls it his Klotz Type Experiment. Because they only form letters when viewed from certain direction, it might be one of the first official anamorphic alphabets that could be used on a computer. Read more after the break....... At first glance these wooden letters appear to be nothing more than a few blocks organized on a table to create a standard alphabet. However the letters are actually illusions of perspective, viewable only from the photographed angle, certain elements stacked high while others layered below are actually far in the background. Designed and photographed by Marc Böttler, see the full alphabet here.