Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
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Crazy Cool Portraits Made From Phone Books
Cuban-born artist, Alex Queral, has a self-proclaimed fascination with heads. Yup. His words, not ours, and as strange as this fascination may be, we are thankful for it because it has resulted in the creation of these amazing 3D portrait works of art starring soem our fav faces like Sammy Davis Jr, Clint Eastwood, Pee Wee Herman and John Goodman. Queral uses a very sharp knife ...
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Beautiful Flowers Made With Splashes
American artist Jack Long not only has talent, but an immense amount of patience and vision to boot. Long is credited with the creation and photography of these beautiful images of flowers – each one compiled out of photographs the artist took of splashes, then put together to resemble flowers. The pots, stems, leaves and the flower heads are all photos of splashes (look closely…it’s true) ...
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Retro 8-Bit Zelda Fireplace Art
New York-based artist and Etsy vendor, James Bit, has created these hilarious pixelated paintings of the 8Bit fire from Nintendo’s Zelda for your decorative fireplace. Some people like to fill their unused or decorative fireplaces with candles or fake logs, but this would be much cooler. JamesBit will make you a custom-sized hand-painted 8bit flame for your fireplace insert for a fair price, but truly, the ...
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Photographs Of London Captured In Puddles
London-based photographer, writer, cartoonist, filmmaker, poem-writer, internet junkie and musician, Gavin Hammond, has managed to give everyone a taste of London Town in a unique and beautiful way with these photos of the city’s architecture and attractions as captured in the reflections of puddles. If there was ever a cool way to see London, we think this is it, besides, with all the rain those jolly ...
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Art Using Bikes, Google Maps & Gps
Christopher Wallace, we applaud you. Why? Because not only do you ride your bicycle enough for the both of us, but you also make cool art by tracking your path on google GPS. It takes a lot to get us to ride a bicycle, but to plan out a route, not get lost, and then create a fabulously cool work of art in the process is ...
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Brilliant Art Created With Shadows
Belgium-based artist, Fred Eerdekens, is known for his amazing shadow art. Eerdekens uses every day objects to create sculptures that are backlit to reveal intense shadows. The sculptures seem to reveal secret messages that can only be seen when positioned carefully and a light is shone on them. A wonderful way to work with light, shadow, and found objects.
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Jesus As A D.J.? How About The Pope? Or Obama?
These photos have absolutely no context or credits attached to them, but they are awesome. Totally awesome. And so, we had to share them with you. Ever wonder what any famous person would look like at the peak of their DJ glory? Of course you have. DJ Obama, aka Si Se Puede; and DJ Kim Jong Ill, aka The Bass Dropper and Albert Einstein better known ...
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Avengers Characters In Product Placement Art
Creative masterminds, Wieden + Kennedy, imagined what the characters from the Avengers would look like if they were made out of products available at Target. It was fitting that the company was attempting to come up with a print campaign for Target. “A Superhero in Every Aisle” was the resulting campaign that was led by art director Drew Dayberry, creative directors Guy Seese and Chris Mitton, ...
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Funky Art Made From Toy Soldiers
Artist Joe Black is known for his incredible mosaic-style works using unconventional materials. This particular work of art features an image of soldier that is a famous photograph taken by Robert Capa from the Sino Japanese War. Black has used 5,500 spray painted toy soldiers to create this work, each piece carefully placed to create a realistic appearance of the subject’s face when viewed at a ...
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Almost-Too-Accurate Dog Shaped Cakes
Novelty cakes are all the rage right now and while most of them strive to be over done and ridiculous (and who knows how they taste?!) but these cakes make us really happy. Cake Doggy Dog is a cake, cupcake and cake pop company that specializes in cakes that closely resemble dogs. Very closely. In fact, when looking at some of the photos, we figured the ...
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Freaky Artistic Versions Of Famous Characters
“Luke, I am your (undead) father.” is likely what this freaky zombie-like version of Darth Vadar would mutter. Watercolour artist Wednesday Wolf has created these fabulous pieces for your viewing (and purchasing) pleasure. Freaky Mario and Luigi from the Mario Bothers along with the piraña plants and Yoshi made us chuckle, but the freakishly weird collection of Star Wars folk (including Chewie, Yoda and Darth) take ...
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Creepy Realistic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Illustrator extraordinaire, Dave Rapoza, has created these terrifying zombie-like renditions of the beloved 90′s cartoon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The “hardcore” turtles, as they are affectionately dubbed on CG Hub, appear amazingly realistic with careful attention paid to the texture and detailing of the skin. The dead zombie eyes through us off a little, but what we do we know about hardcore turtles? Perhaps the only ...
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Nintendo Characters As Japanese Wooden Art
Japanese wood block art is known for it’s beautiful aesthetics and exotic Asian imagery, and these renditions of Nintendo characters as wood block art are no exceptions. Artist Jed Henry has created these images called Ukiyo Nintendo, featuring Samus, Link and Mega Man, aka Rockman, (not exactly made by Nintendo, as admitted by the artist, but included any way for his cool-factor). CHECK OUT THESE HILARIOUS ...
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Gale Force Winds + People’s Faces = Brilliance
Lithuania-based photographer and artist, Tadao Cern, has produced a hilariously cheeky photography collection entitled “Blow Job”, featuring 100 portraits of people’s faces as they endure gale-force windows blown directly at them. We love this series for so many reasons, and wish Cern would photograph us getting all gale-force-wind-blown, but for now we’ll just admire the affects on others. THINK THIS IS FUNNY? CHECK OUT THESE PHOTOS ...
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Planet Of The Apes Art Made With Lego & Ball Bearings
Artist Joe Black is known for his mosaic-style works of art, and this fabulous piece depicting an ape from famous movie, Planet of the Apes. To make this work of art, Black used 12,000+ pieces of black, white and grey Legos, assembled so carefully as to translate into depth and shading when viewed from a distance. His second set of Planet of the Apes art works ...
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An Artistic Anatomical Dissection Of Celebrities
The works of art by Dr. Frank Scali totally took us by storm (and yes, gasped WHOA! in the most sacrilegious of ways). Dr. Scali is a professional dissector of human cadavers. Creepy, yes, but utterly amazing at the same time. Dr. Scali is best known for his contribution to the 1st edition of Gray’s Anatomy Dissector, and has taken his enthusiasm for human anatomy and ...
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7 Gravity Defying Art Installations
German-based artist, Cornelia Konrads, works with natural materials and suspended wires in order to create amazing installations featuring gravity-defying works of art. The sense of weightlessness and ephemerality in her work has gained Konrads a fair amount of exposure. Her stacked logs, branches, suspended snow balls and beautifully arranged branches that form a doorway to a clearing are truly unique works of art. Plus, did we ...
