Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
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Storm Trooper Hybrid Helmets
Lucasfilm Team Celebration Helmet Dave Filoni Plo Koon Helmet Tory Belleci/Mythbusters Viking Warrior Helmet JJ Abrams LOST Helmet Ray Park TK Maul Helmet William O’Neill TK Pharaoh Daniel Logan Maori Helmet Fillbach Brothers Captain Freebird Helmet Katie Cook Doodle Helmet Jan Duursema Sith Empire Helmet Arturo Delgado “Red Tail” Helmet Peter Mayhew Taken By Chewbacca Helmet Randy Martinez TK Laker’s Helmet Noble Studios RED DOG-3 Cheshire ...
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Hyper Realistic Human Sculptures
Evan Penny is a Toronto-based artist that creates hyper realistic sculptures of people. Although Penny generally produces head-and-shoulders busts that are larger than life in size, his incredible attention to detail can easel fool viewers into thinking the subject matter is real – especially in photographs. Penny implants each hair one strand at a time and includes natural blemishes, age sports and wrinkles on the faces ...
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If Super Heroes Were Hipsters
Fabian Ciraolo is an illustrator from Santiago, Chile. His work is mesmerizing, witty and riddled with parody, which is exactly why we love it. Ciralolo’s collection of super heros and villains dressed up as hipsters are a big hit. The colourful and textured backgrounds are reminiscent of 70s psychedelic imagery in terms of luminosity and colourfield, but also have a hint of 80s flare to them ...
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Gothic Typeface Made Out Of Bacon Strips
One of our favourite mixed media artists, Henry Hargreaves, has created and photographed the entire alphabet made out of raw bacon strips rendering in Old English Font with prop stylist, Sarah Guido. Guido and Hargreaves completed the photoshoot over the course of two afternoons. 15 pounds of bacon was used (harmed) for the project. Hargreaves began his career in the arts as a model in front ...
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Huge Sculptures Made From Lottery Tickets
New York-based artist duo Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom (known as artist collaborative, Ghost of a Dream) collect discarded lottery tickets and use them to create large-scale sculptural works of art. The artists originally started collecting lottery tickets they found on the ground, but eventually asked corner store clerks and lottery ticket vendors to hold onto the unwanted losing tickets until the duo’s collection was substantial ...
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Famous Photos Recreated With Lego
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Tiananmen Square Behind the Gare Saint Lazare Tennis Girl Falling Soldier Bed-In Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima Moon Landing Horse in Motion ” “” Photography Mike Stimpson claims he likes to play with toys, and light – we can tell he isn’t lying from the photos he took of lego men (and lego ladies) recreating famous photographs. We love the photos ...
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Have Your D.N.A. Mapped Into Art
These awesome works of art are made out individual DNA portraits that have been printed and stretched onto canvas. DNA 11 was founded by Adrian Salamunovic and Zazim Ahmed, and is the company behind the truly unique works of art that aim to “capture the essence of a person”. The artwork is printed in the company’s own 3000 square foot studio. Interested? All you have to ...
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National Flags Made Out Of Food
At the last Sydney International Food Festival, the advertising agency WHYBIN/TBWA designed national flags out of food, but not just any ol’ edible items – only food items and ingredients that are native to the nation. That’s right: spaghetti with basil and tomatoes for Italy, Tuna sashimi on rice for Japan, etc. The assembly of the flags required some serious creativity at times (thank WHOAness for ...
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Insane Victorian Lego Houses
Lego artist Mike Doyle creates incredible Victorian mansions using no foreign materials, just pure tiny plastic bricks, including LEGO. His latest work, Victorian on Mud Heap, uses nearly 130,000 pieces and took 600 hours to complete. For me, this piece speaks to the inherent unpredictability of those things which we call our foundation. Like a little dollhouse, a seemingly secure home is plucked up and set ...
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Willie The Groundskeeper As Van Gogh
“Willie Van Groundskeeper” painted by David Barton over at LimpFish.com. This work is done mostly with photoshop, corel painter and a crayon. If you like David’s work, you’ll love his Darth Vader as painted by Claude Monet.
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The Hiroshima Lamp
Italian industrial designer, Luca Veneri, worked with 3D printing technologies in order to create this alluring table lamp that is shaped like a mushroom cloud explosion. The “Nuke Lamp” is available for purchase and is delivered in two parts – the 3D printed piece as well as the Lamp kit with bulb and stand. The lamp’s complex surfaces were created using real fluid dynamic stimulations BUY ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses
Imagine our excitement when we discovered these hilarious images of human noses that have been altered to resemble Ninja Turtle heads?! These images come from a frequently-updated tumblr blog called Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses, that has the following slogan: “God is the artist, I just find the turtle in his work”. The artists takes photographs of celebrities, politicians, sculptures, artists and draws a turtle head outline ...
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Weird Steampunk Minions
Artist, Joseph F. Drust, has developed a wide range of vinyl “kitbashed” sculptures called Steampunk Minions that boast a seriously WHOA-worthy style. The creations plug into your computer via USB hookup and some of them light up, react to music and (our favourite:) play old-school Nintendo NES games. The sculptures are made out of recycled operational parts including magnets, tesla coils, USB drives and LCD screens. ...
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Amazing Chalk Swimming Pool
Leon is a Guinness Book World Record Holder for the largest street painting ever created. Leon Keer (1970) learned to paint through designing and producing large advertising murals for multi nationals (since 1997) such as Coca-Cola, Schweppes, Heineken, Red Bull, Reef, Evian, Royal Club, Remy Martin and Absolut Vodka. He has executed commissions in the Netherlands, Germany and Australia. His knowledge of materials, acquired by painting ...
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Badass Disney Starlet Tattoos
Tattoo artist, Timothy John Shumate, of DeviantARTist Telegrafix, whipped up these illustrations of cartoon characters with tattoos to give us a glimpse of what the characters might look like if they were ink-obsessed (and let’s face it, if you dealt with being in love with a mortal and your only way to seal your fate was to surrender your angelic singing voice to an evil octo-woman-creature, ...
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Darth Vader As Painted By Claude Monet
“Darth Vader With A Parasol” painted by David Barton over at LimpFish.com. This work is done mostly with photoshop, corel painter and a crayon. If you dig Starwars, check out these killer Lightsaber Chopsticks!
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Egg Carton Chandelier
Industrial Interactive Designer, Federico Otero, has created a fabulous chandelier called the ORIGEN out of the every day egg carton. The chandelier boasts excellent luminosity thanks to the varying thicknesses of the egg carton material, as well as it’s proximity to the light bulb. Otero is a Peruvian-based designer and is the recipient of numerous international design awards.
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This Bicycle Plays Vinyl Records
Merel Slootheer, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong are the brains behind this collaborative bicycle project, F/P/M – Feats Per Minute. With backgrounds in graphics, illustration and industrial design, the team aimed to transform a 30-year-old Alpina bicycle into something awesome – enter the Record-playing Bike. The unit features recycled parts from salvaged vertical record players, but the best part about this project is how ...
