(No Ratings Yet)These incredible PVC pipe sculptures by Korean artist Kang Duck-Bong appear to be perpetually motion blurred, like they might take off and fly away at any moment. Kang’s work is on display at Gallery 4Walls in Seoul through December 23 as part of his solo show, Disguise.
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(No Ratings Yet)These incredible PVC pipe sculptures by Korean artist Kang Duck-Bong appear to be perpetually motion blurred, like they might take off and fly away at any moment. Kang’s work is on display at Gallery 4Walls in Seoul through December 23 as part of his solo show, Disguise.
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(No Ratings Yet)French photographer and illustrator Sarah Esteje, illustrates these realistic portraits of animals using nothing more than a standard Bic pen. You can learn a bit more about the artist over on Beware and click through the drawings below to see some larger versions.
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(No Ratings Yet)Artist Lisa Nilsson creates beautiful anatomical cross sections of the human body by rolling and shaping narrow strips of Japanese mulberry paper in a technique called paper filigree or quilling. Nilsson talks about her “Tissue Series” in an interview with All Things Paper.
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(No Ratings Yet)As customers adopt more service based computing resources like cloud hosting, it’s only logical that they will also now ask more of their hosting provider to ensure they are getting the correct solution.
So we thought hey, let’s produce an infographic to take customers through a simple decision making process on a route to the solution that’s right for them.
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Infographic by Rackspace Hosting
(No Ratings Yet)Dame di Cartone (“Cardboard Ladies”) is a project by Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini in which he creates portraits of women that mimic the look of historical paintings. The styles include 17th century, fifties, and cubism. Dame Di Cartone is currently on display until February 4, 2012 at Diemar / Noble Gallery in London as part of Tagliavini’s Cut Out & Keep solo exhibition.
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(No Ratings Yet)Norman Saunders is an artist who painted trading cards, comic books and commercial works throughout the ’50s and ’60s. He created this amazing collection of Batman trading cards back in 1966.
While he might be best known for painting the infamously banned Mars Attacks cards, his work with Batman brings a level of shark-fighting, acid-throwing, sidekick-endangering action and a slightly off-model Joker that’s just fantastic.
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(No Ratings Yet)‘The Girl With 7 Horses’ is a creative project by photographer Ulrika Kestere based on a fairy tale about seven imaginary horses that come to life within her photographs.
The fairtale story goes: Once upon a time there was a girl who had 7 invisible horses. People thought she was crazy and that she in fact had 7 imaginative horses, but this was not the case. When autumn came the girl spent a whole day washing all her clothes. She hung them on a string in her garden to let the gentle autumn sun dry them. Out of nowhere, a terrible storm came and its fierceful winds grabbed a hold of all her clothes and all seven horses (authors note: since they are invisible they obviously didn’t weigh much). The girl was devastated and spent all autumn looking for each horse spread around the country, wrapped in her clothes.
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(No Ratings Yet)LA-based artist Alex Gross takes photographic images of antique Cabinet cards and then repaints them into portraits of pop culture personalities like Aquaman, Bride of Frankenstein and Godzilla. His work will be exhibited at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City next month, so if you’re in town, stop by and support a great geek artist.
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(No Ratings Yet)San Diego-based photographer Tim Mantoani has an awesome project and book titled “Behind Photographs” that consists of 20×24-inch Polaroid portraits of famous photographers posing with their most iconic photographs.
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(No Ratings Yet)Londoner Steve Wheen brings greenery and miniature scenes to the streets of east london in his ‘the pot hole gardener’ project. Wheen describes his endeavors as “part art project, part labour of love, part experiment, part mission to highlight how shit our roads are – the pictures and gardens are supposed to put smiles on peoples faces and alert them to potholes!”
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(No Ratings Yet)Chinese creative agency Senseteam came up with these portraits, using thin strips of different currencies from around the world. The series of portraits are for a book/poster series entitled Big Business 3. Which is meant to “reflect the subtle relationships and influences across money, desire, society, nations, and human beings.” The project won a gold award for communication at the Design for Asia Award 2011.
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(No Ratings Yet)Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway works on colourization of old black and white photos. Dullaway’s color restoration project breathes new life into these aged, colorless images. Though many of them are wonderful, in their own right, there’s something new and fresh about the photographs after the artist has reworked the coloring in Photoshop.
Abraham Lincoln
Anne Frank
August Strindberg
Charles Darwin
Theodore Roosevelt
Charlie Chaplin
Fridtjof Nansen
Harvest of Death
Karin Boye 1933
Mark Twain
Operations Cross Road Baker at the Bikini Atoll
Attack on Pearl Harbour
Canada Dock, Liverpool, 1909
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(No Ratings Yet)Over the past decade Jasper James, currently based in Beijing, has lived and worked in New York and London covering assignments around the globe for some of the world’s leading magazines, design and advertising clients. Of this series, City Silhouettes, he writes:
‘These photos are part of an ongoing project that I have been shooting for the past few years in various cities around Asia. Sometime in 2008, the number of people living in urban areas outnumbered those living in rural areas for the first time in history. I thought it would be interesting to shoot portraits of these city dwellers combined with the image of a cityscape.’
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(No Ratings Yet)“Written Portraits” is an amazing advertising campaign where the pages of autobiographical books were carved in the shape of the author’s face. The Van Wantern Etcetera agency started this campaign as a part of Dutch Book Week which is organized by CPNB (Collective Promotion Dutch Literature) every year. The artist Souverein did an impressive job of creating realistic images on the pages of each book. They feature the faces of Louis Van Gaal, Anne Frank, Vincent Van Gogh and Kader Abdolah( the writer of the biographic Book Week give away).
Anne Frank
Kader Abdolah
Louis van Gaal
Vincent van Gogh
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(No Ratings Yet)The true reality of the advertisements of McDonald’s Big Mac, Burger King’s Whopper, McDonald’s Angus Deluxe TP and Taco Bells’ Crunchy Taco versus the reality of what you get in the bag. One valiant photographer, Dario D., has chosen to challenge these contradictions of the senses head on. He set out on a small quest to compare the advertising images distributed by fast food providers with the products that are actually served in those notable establishments.
(No Ratings Yet)UK-based artist Kyle Kirkpatrick transforms books into beautiful landscape sculptures, complete with miniature figurines. The layering in Kirkpatrick’s work is remarkable and the text on the pages add an interesting visual to the swirling cuts.
“My practice is primarily concerned with the notion of the imagined landscape. I present man-made objects and natural materials simultaneously to form carefully and meticulously composed installation works. I capitalize on intrigue taking objects out of context reinventing their use, pushing the viewer to see beyond what I present before them, a glass could be interpreted as a lake or a metal bracket a cliff”.
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(No Ratings Yet)Japanese artist Haroshi turns old skateboards into impressive sculptures. His skill is epic, and yet, he’s had no formal art training. His education comes from skating.
His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece. Haroshi became infatuated with skateboarding in his early teens, and is still a passionate skater at present.
The new set features astounding and colorful carvings of a fire hydrant, a full length arm, an enormous skateboard wheel, a playable guitar, and an unfinished dog head.
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(No Ratings Yet)The series entitled ‘Happy at One Hundred’ by well-known German photographer Karsten Thormaehlen shows that age is just a number. Consisting of a collection of photographs of men and women over 100 years old, this project is an extraordinary celebration of life.
These portraits are very sharp and detailed, clearly showing every wrinkle (and twinkle) present in the subjects’ faces. The photographs are a nice reminder that a powerful emotion like happiness can be beautifully captured on people of any age.
Date of Birth: May 4, 1910
Date of Birth: March 30, 1909
Date of Birth: September 13, 1907
Date of Birth: January 13, 1906
Date of Birth: October 9, 1906
Date of Birth: September 6, 1908
Date of Birth: August 22, 1909
Date of Birth: December 3, 1908
Date of Birth: January 18, 1910
Date of Birth: June 17, 1911
Date of Birth: August 7, 1909
Date of Birth: December 5, 1903
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(No Ratings Yet)Australian illustrator DrFaustusAU created this wonderful series of Dr. Seuss-inspired Batman illustrations. See his versions of Batman, Catwoman, the Riddler, the Joker, and Harvey Dent in the style of Dr. Seuss illustrations.
