Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
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Creepy Weaponized Taxidermy Insects
Artist and illustrator, Job van deer Molen, has created the most bizarre collection of works entitled “Insect Army”. The collection features “preserved” insects (i.e.: taxidermy bugs) shown carrying miniature replica models of weapons. Why one would choose to create such an absurd series of art, we cannot say for sure, but this strange project has achieved something that not every project has: It made us say, ...
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Super Geeky Star Wars Origami by Martin Hunt
Origami is an ancient Japanese art of paper folding that sometimes gets shafted in the world of fine arts, but not today. Today, we celebrate Math graduate and software engineer, Martin Hunt, for his wonderful and complex Starwarigami models. Hunt began making Star Wars vehicles and characters out of origami while in university, but over the years, his hobby has turned into a passion and he ...
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Amazing Car Sculpture Made Out of Posing Humans
Austrialian-based artist Emma Hack makes awesome works of art using an unusual medium – human bodies. Don’t panic, all the humans are still alive and well. Hack is a diverse multimedia artist specializing in Skin Illustration, Photography and Sculpture. We love this sculpture of a crashed car entitled “Body Crash” that she made by positioning human models in various poses and painting them as a whole. ...
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10 More Amazing Sculptures Made From Paper
Ontario-based artist Calvin Nicholls takes credit as the brains behind these beautiful works of art made entirely out of paper. Nicholl’s interest in Canadian wildlife led him to create these paper sculptures of animals found in his home country (um…with the exception of the panda bear and lion…not likely Canadian-residing animals). The sculptures have a special 3D quality to them thanks to the artist’s inclusion of ...
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Poignant Photos Showing the Before & After Effects of Drug Use
London-based photographer Roman Sakovich has brought to life the images that kids all love to look at – the before and after effects of drug abuse. Remember being in school and being taught that drugs will screw up your life and make you look horrific? We do. We remember those days and would have appreciated if the lectures were accompanied by useful visuals such as these ...
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Pop Culture Portraits Made From Fingerprints
In all honesty, these fingerprint portraits made us smile from ear to ear! ITalian artist known as Dito Von Tease created these fingerprint portraits as part of a collection entitled “Ditology”. Dito Von Tease has managed to pick-and-choose the nuances and facial characteristics that are associated with certain celebrities and characters in order to produce these easily-recognizable portraits that were composed on an ordinary human finger. ...
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Dead Rockers As Tech Savvy Present-Day Dudes
We love works of art that imagine the wonderful talents and characters we have grown to love in a different light, so it’s no wonder we love these images compiled by Brazilian artist and Behance user, Butcher Billy. Do you think Elvis Presley would be a Blackberry or an iPhone kind of guy? We agree – iPhone all the way for the King. Also shown are ...
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Photoshopped Scenes from WWII In Today’s Streets
Artist Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse has created this breath-taking photography collection that features photoshopped images of people during WWII transposed over photographs of today’s streets. The artist aims to remind viewers to “stop and think about history, about the idea and sometimes forgotten stories of where they live”. Her collection entitled “Ghost of History” was inspired by film negatives that were found at flea market in Amsterdam ...
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10 Amazing Optical Illusion Charcoal Drawings
Netherlands artist, Ramon Bruin, is trained in the art of anamorphic drawings – special works of art that appear 3D only when viewed from a specific angle. Ramon Bruin is a 31-year-old talented freelance artist, who graduated from the Airbrush Academie in the Netherlands, but he is mostly a self-taught artist. Besides a great passion for airbrush, he also draws and paints. We love these charcoal ...
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10 Brilliant Long-Exposure Photographs of Fireworks
Photographer David Johnson captured these fireworks at the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using a long exposure of approximately one or two seconds long. Sure, it doesn’t sound like that much time, but in shutter speed terms, the two seconds allowed Johnson to capture the little stems and the long dropping branches of the fireworks in a way that highlights the bursting effect of the ...
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Freakishly Realistic Looking 3D Body Art
Japanese artist, Choo-San, uses acrylic paint to create these freakishly realistic-looking paintings on human bodies. The final results are surprising – what many people assume to be digitally enhanced photography is actually nothing more than a photograph of a practical effect. Choo-San began drawing on her hands while bored and soon realized that the more she practiced, the better her drawing and painting skills became. By ...
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Giant-Sized Realistic Drawings Made Using 100 Pencils
Michigan-based artist, Chris LaPorte, dedicated 1,200 hours of his time creating this incredible giant-sized drawing using pencils as his medium of choice. LaPorte burned through over 100 2H pencils to create the 13×26 feet work of art entitled “City Band”. The portrait was inspired by an old photograph the artist found of his grandfather’s high school marching band. The original photograph was in very bad shape ...
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Amazing Portraits Chiseled into Building Walls
Just when you think the street-art world has exhausted ideas for new types of expression, an artist like Alexandre Farto aka Vhils from Lisbon Portugal comes up with these marvellous feats. Vhils is one of the youngest artists who specializes in street-art; at 25-years-old he is already represented by Steve Lazarides (also the agent that represents Bansky). Vhils’ chiseled wall portraits of ordinary citizens have made ...
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Crazy Guitar Shaped Forest in Argentina
Crop circles are for amateurs, and clearly, Pedro Martin Ureta, a 71-year-old man in Argentina is no amateur. Ureta and his four children planted every tree in this guitar-shaped forest decades ago in honour of his wife, Graciela Yraizoz, who was inspired by the idea of planting a shape-based forest while flying in an airplane over Pampa while noticing a farm below that coincidentally resembled a ...
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Creepy 3D Zombie Pumpkin Carving
Yes, this post is perfect for Halloween, but there is much to be said for the artistic skill behind these incredible (and somewhat terrifying) carvings made from the holiday’s favourite harvest vegetable. Ray Villafane is an artist that studied Visual Arts in New York City and started to “dabble” in pumpkin sculpting during autumn months. In 2007, Villafane was contacted by High Noon Entertainment and asked ...
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13 Jaw Dropping Pumkpin Carvings by Ray Villafane
Ray Villafane, Visionary and Patriarch of the Villafane Studios Sculpting Family was born in Queens, New York. Ray’s hobby of pumpkin sculpting was brought to an entirely new level in 2007 when he was contacted by High Noon Entertainment and asked to participate in the Food Network’s Challenge Show, Outrageous Pumpkins. Ray competed as one of four professional pumpkin sculptors, impressed the judges enough to sweep ...
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Cool Scientific Photography That Demonstrates Time Over Space
These photos made us say, “wow” because they are super stylist and very cool, but once we discovered that these images have not been photoshopped, we let out a deep and resounding “WHOA!” in the Whoa Headquarters. Seriously?! An architect, painter, political activate and cinematic special-effects designer (AND student of cognitive sciences, we might add) by the name of Jay Mark Johnson has managed to create ...
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Amazing Wood Sculptures by Dan Webb
Wood is one of those materials that is usually easy to identify. The wood grain, the material’s density, the natural colour…all of these characteristics that typically identify wood sculptures are present in these sculptures by Dan Webb, but at first glance, we weren’t sure if the “Wood” was actually wood! We’ve never seen such beautiful sculptures made out of wood that resemble draped fabric so perfectly ...
