Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
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Giant Fish Sculpture Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles
The Botafogo Beach in Rio de Janiero is home to an art installation featuring these incredible fish sculptures made from discarded plastic bottles. The slogan on a sign beside the installation loosely translates to, “recycle your attitude”, and is part of an initiative to raise awareness for the recently completed United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, affectionately called the Rio+20. The Rio+20 (or the Rio 2012) ...
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Hilarious Photos Of Henry The Flying Baby
We wish we could fly. And we wish we could look as cool as baby Henry does while doing it. New York City-based photographer Rachel Hulin took these photos of her son, Henry, called “The Flying Series”. Although some images are pretty eerie-looking, the concept is quite harmless. One day, Hulin noticed her husband lifting Henry in the air and imagined what the scene would look ...
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Famous Movie Scenes In The Style Of The Ottoman Empire
Turkish artist and illustrator, Murat Palta, has designed a series of Ottoman motifs for this graduation thesis that blend contemporary Western cinema with traditional Ottoman motifs in the miniature art style. Before we go any further, allow us to shed some light on the Ottoman motif – this is not a reference to the common footstool – the Ottoman Empire was one of the longest lasting ...
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If Star Wars Characters Were Teens In The 80′s
DeviantARTist, Denis Medri, (a.k.a. ~DenisM79) has created a whoa-worthy series of illustrations featuring imaginary depictions of Star Wars characters as 1980′s teenagers. The sketchy nature of the drawings gives the characters a little extra “oomph” as we can imagine the drawings coming to life, comic-book-turned-movie style (which makes total sense seeing as Medri is an Italian comic book illustrator). Medri imagined what the characters would look ...
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Cool Self-Referential Photo Mosaics Of Famous People
Greek visual designer and illustrator, Charis Tsevis, is the artistic mind behind the Tsevis Visual Design (TVD) studio and responsible for these wonderful mosaic photos. A photographic mosaic is a large image that was composed by thousands of smaller images. The colours and shapes of the smaller images work together to suggest a form or image that the human eye recognizes as a whole. In this ...
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Creepy Anatomical Sculptures Made From Food
Paris-based Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov makes cool stuff from food, like these anatomically themed sculptures made from cold cut meats, sausage wieners, prawns, lettuce, rice paper, cauliflower, carrots and more. You may remember a post we previously shared featuring Tsykalov’s skull sculptures made from carved fruit and veggies that were a big hit in the WHOA! community, and we think these just might be too. We ...
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Cool Jewelry Made From Antique Spoons
We are slightly obsessed with the gorgeous jewelry over at Anomali – a South African-based jewelry company featuring the creative works of designers Marlette Strauss and Moniek van Zyl. These Cape Town jewelry geniuses create adorable scenes featuring landscapes with animals and other characters carved out of antique spoons. Anomali accepts custom jewelry requests and asks for a mere two weeks to produce a unique work ...
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Amazing City Scape Art Made From 100,000 Staples
Artist Peter Root has been busy collecting staples and turning the boring metal office supplies used for bundling paperwork into mesmerizing city scapes. Using 100,000 staples to cover an approximate area of 600cm x 300cm (118 inches x 236 inches), Root’s work of art entitled Ephemicropolis was born. Root broke down the stacks of staples into varying sizes, the tallest of which measures 12cm high (5 ...
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Lingerie Inspired By Cinderella And Other Disney Starlets
Looking for a horrible role model for your young and impressionable daughter? Look no further, there are millions available in today’s society, but these previously innocent Disney princesses might just take the cake. Deviant ART contributor, ~retipuj-rules, shows Disney starlets in a whole new light in her collection entitled “Sexy Disney Princesses and Heroines”. All kidding aside, we love when Disney starlets are reinvented so that ...
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Blood Splatter Wallpaper Inspired By Roman Polanski
Everyone has their own taste when it comes to interior design and home decor, some peoples’ style is just a little more wacky than others’, and in this case, the Bloody Moon Wall Murals by Pixers are made for the absolute eccentrics and wackiest of wacky folk. Pixers is an online interior design store that recently shared their latest collection of wallcoverings featuring blood splatters with ...
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A Louis Vuitton Waffle Maker
Kick it up a notch for breakfast with the Louis Vuitton waffle maker – the perfect product for glamourous waffle eaters. Designed by Andrew Lewicki, the Louis Vuitton Waffle Maker is a fine art sculpture in an edition of 3. Although it is fully functional and fabricated to look like one, this item is not a commercial product (we let out the saddest “sigh” when we ...
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Funky Fruit Skulls By Artist Dimitri Tsykalov
Paris-based Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov makes cool stuff, like these skulls made out of fruit and vegetables that he worked on from 2005-2008. Tsykalov’s intriguing and provocative works of art that are often based on food. The food sculptures he creates are photographed on plain backgrounds to allow the art to speak for itself – and boy, does it ever! We love the cabbage skull, and ...
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Highly Detailed Art Made Entirely Out Of Fingerprints
Artist Judith Ann Braun uses her fingers to create stunning murals. With nothing more than graphite dust and her own finger tips, Braun is able to create works of art within the Fingerlings series that have an intense sense of motion and texture. Her abstract works are particularly intriguing, but the artistry behind her landscape works is equally impressive. In Braun’s artists statement, she states: [The ...
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Crazy Bubble Gum Illusion Art In Venice
Luxembourger artist Simone Decker created a provocative art installation of small-scale bubble gum wads positioned throughout Venice, Italy and photographed in a way that the gum wads appear to be large sculptural works. Th collection was called “Chewing in Venice 1 & 2″ and was created in 1999 – it’s an oldie by this time, but still a goodie. As said by the artist herself, “The ...
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Some More Extremely Impressive Body Painting
New Orleans-based artist, Craig Tracy, is known for his unique works of art, appropriately titled Bodypaintings that involve human subjects who lend their bodies to act as the canvas for Tracy’s paintings. Tracy uses many techniques in his Bodypainting works when applying pigment to the human body, including traditional paintbrush application, finger painting, sponging, splatter and dripping application and airbrush. Inspired by culture, nature and intellectual ...
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45 Self Portraits Created On A Different Drug Every Day
Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders conducted a bizarre experiment. For several weeks, he took a different drug every day and made a portrait of himself under the influence. He is no stranger to self portraits either: on March 30th 1995 he started doing at least one Self-Portrait everyday for the rest of his life. At present he has over 8,000 of them. Like fingerprints, snowflakes and DNA ...
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Large Scale Portrait Made From Tattoo Ink Cups
UK-based artist Leigh Mulley is best known for her amazingly realistic paintings of cool stuff, like lollipops, plastic water guns and ice cream trucks, but this portrait work of art really caught our eye. The art was created specifically for an empty windows initiative in the artist’s home town of Folkestone. When asked to work on the theme of “Hidden Gems”, Mulley thought of the characters ...
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How Your Favorite Superheros Use The Toilet
Illustrator Jim Strouse’s has provided us with a decent chuckle thanks to his postcards featuring superheros using the toilet. Ever wonder how Superman would relieve himself? Us neither, but now we cannot get the image of him and his airborne stream out of our minds (and maybe someone should mention to Batman that a little extra fiber in his diet will help with his little problem). ...
