Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
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Music Video Made From Jelly Beans
This music video for singer/songwriter Kina Grannis takes the term “bubble gum pop” to a whole new (sweet) level. Grannis worked with director Greg Jardin to create this fun and colourful music video that used 288,000 jelly beans (donated by Jelly Belly) for her song “In Your Arms”. At first, Grannis had a difficult time envisioning the concept that Jardin pitched to her (a music video ...
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Marilyn Monroe Portrait Made With 5000 Coffees
Artists have created a massive image of Marilyn Monroe using more than 5,000 cups of coffee. The team used the different shades of lattes, long blacks and flat whites to produced the caffeine-filled artwork at a coffee festival in Sydney. Different drinks were carefully lined up in a 80 x 65 cup grid, to recreate the classic image of the Some Like It Hot star, in ...
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Portraits Made From Ikea Products
Charis Tsevis, an award-winning visual designer from Athens, Greece, has put together an incredible collection of portraits for an IKEA ad series using nothing more than IKEA products compiled digitally. Tsevis is a part time professor of Editorial Design and Typography at the AKTO College of Art and Design and has published many articles about design, gestalt psychology, aesthetics, cyber culture and computer history in reputable ...
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Art Made From Rubik’s Cubes
In case you were wondering how many Rubik’s Cubes it would take to make a 19′ x 8′-6″ (5.7m x 2.5m) portrait of Martin Luther King, fret not, artist and interactive designer Pete Fecteau has determined you will need 4,242 officially licensed cubes. Fecteau’s work entitled “Dream Big” weighs a total of 454kg (1000 lbs) and features painstakingly twisted Rubik’s Cubes that come together to form ...
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Impressive 3D Gallery Art Work
These stunning works of art by Japanese artist, Yuki Matsueda, caught tour eye for their unique 3D quality and quirky subject matter. Matsueda has a Ph.D.in Design from the Tokyo University of the Arts. These works are inspired by Matsueda’s personal desire to escape from constraints (perhaps placed upon him in the art world?). The subject matter of his works literally appear to be escaping from ...
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Castle Made Out From Human Hair
Thanks goes out to artist Agustina Woodgate for being creative (and weird) enough to build two castles out of compressed human hair bricks. The works of art are entitled “Tower” (2008) and “Sand Castle” (2008) and are part of the series called “I Want To Be A Princess”. “Tower” stands on a 2 foot square base (61cm), and reaches 4.5 feet tall (121cm), and took 3,000 ...
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Massive Lego Army 3D Street Art
Lego soldiers marching down the street at the 4th Sarasota Chalkfestival in Florida US are a result of street artists, Leon Keer, Peter Westerink, Ruben Poncia and Remko van Schaik of the Netherlands. The Lego men are meant to resemble clay figures as a reference to the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang (the first Emperor of China). The beauty of such realistic perspective drawing such ...
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Brilliant Art Composed Of Naked Bodies
Angelo Musco, a New York-based artist, is doing amazing things with photography and creating interesting works of art that teeter on mosaic-style and illusion-based art. Musco takes photographs of naked human bodies and then digitally forms an intriguing visual to resemble scenes from the natural world, such as tree roots, bird nests, beehives, a swarm of fish and more. Musco’s photoshoots have been known to include ...
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Giant Monkey Made From 10,000 Flip Flops
Dutch artist, Florentjin Hofman, is the one responsible for conceptualizing this enormous “Fat Monkey” sculpture out of 10,000 flip flops. Students from Sao Paulo helped execute the artist’s vision that uses flip flops – a long-standing trademark of Brazil. The large-scale reclining monkey was featured at the 2010 Pixelshow conference amongst other works of art that appear pixelated once assembled. The colourful flip flops were attached ...
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Massive Mona Lisa Coffee Cup Art
Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting, “La Giaconda” (commonly referred to as the Mona Lisa) has been recreated using 3,604 cups of coffee and 564 pints of milk. Each cup is filled with varying amounts of coffee and milk in order to achieve the tonal changes necessary to depict depth and shape. The work of art measures 20 feet x 13 feet (6m x 3m) and was ...
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Carl Warner’s Yummy Foodscapes
Welcome to visionary photographer Carl Warner’s curious world, where Parmesan peaks tower over a desert of paprika and spiky chicory, while a tomato-skin scorpion perches on a potato. Every one of the 13 complex images featured in this calendar offers a unique visual feast for foodies and fantasy lovers. BUT THE BOOK NOW
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Massive Art Made From Garbage
Top-selling contemporary artist, Vik Muniz, traveled from Brooklyn, New York, back to his native country, Brazil, in order to create these intriguing works of art that are made from garbage and waste. In Jardim Gramacha, the largest open landfill site in the world on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, are hundreds of civilians who work amongst the piles of garbage. Muniz decided to photograph some ...
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Celebrities As Sunglasses
Image is everything, especially for celebrities, so it’s no surprise when one of our favourite mixed media artists, Hengry Hargreaves, came up with this fun photography project where he has paired a set of gold sunglasses with a celebrity name. The idea is that each celebrity’s sense of style (and dare we say swagger?) can be summed up in a single pair of sunglasses that the ...
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Portrait Of Steve Jobs Made From Mac Parts
The creative folk over at Foundry decided to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, former CEO and master-mind behind the incredibly successful computer brand, Apple. An old Mac Book Pro was disassembled, and after admiring the intricate and highly sophisticated components that comprise the technology, each component was disassembled. The individual parts were used to create a portrait of Steve Jobs shortly after his passing in October ...
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Photos Of Painted People That Look Like Paintings
In case you didn’t notice, there’s a lot more to these works of art by Washington-based Alexa Meade than meets the eye. The 25 year old artist has created these works of art that are not just 2D brushstrokes of paint on canvas, instead, Meade paints directly on top of physical subjects and then photographs the staged scene. When photographed, the representational painting and the subject ...
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Steampunk Darth Vadar Helmet
An artist from the B. Campbell Studio of Charlotte, North Carolina developed the SteamPunk Dark Vadar mask for the Darth Vadar Project – a charity event in which artists create new designs for the Darth Vadar mask and sell the works of art and donate all proceeds to the Make a Wish Foundation. (remember the Storm Trooper Hybrid Helmets post?) Campell Studio self-proclaims to “serve the ...
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Beatles Portraits Made Out Of Toast
Mixed media artist, Henry Hargreaves, has decided to commemorate the Beatles by dedicating a work of art to them – he has created enormous portraits of John, Paul, Ringo and George using nothing more than slices of bread – white Wonderbread, to be specific. Hargreaves achieves various levels of tone and shade merely by toasting the slices of bread at varying degrees. The work is part ...
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Pop Culture Faces In Classical Portraits
ghdjhf created a hilariously addictive tumblr stream called “replaceface” where he takes the portrait work of English artist, George Dawe, and replaces the faces over over 329 Russian generals who were active during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia for the Milityary Gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg (Russia) with faces of his friends, family and in some cases, celebrities. ngjfkf uses photoshop for his replaceface ...
