Category: Art
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Artist Uses Everyday Objects to Create Stunning Landscape Photographs!
Matthew Albanese creates small-scale meticulously detailed models of outdoor scenes and landscapes using everyday, simple, mundane materials and transform them into an image through the lens of his camera making them look hyper-realistic. The amount of time and effort that goes into these is incaculateable, but the end product is truly awe-inspiring! You can see many…
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50 Perfectly Timed Animal Photos
Animal photography requires a great deal of time, patience, and some say luck… and this is where the debate starts. What part does luck play in photography? We rounded up 50 examples of perfectly timed animal photos which seem like pure luck. Most of these shots are so incredible that if you blinked you would have…
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Artist Uses Dirt For Her Latest “Dirty Little Secrets” Project!
American photographer and illustrator Sarah Rosado has been working on Dirty Little Secrets, a poetic and meaningful project that makes us ponder on the fragile beauty of our surroundings and the positive aspect of life. Using dirt as a medium, Sarah shapes this raw material into ephemeral illustrations that speak for themselves. With a goal…
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AMAZING Timelapse Showing The Effects of Ageing Created from Family Portraits
Ageing is fascinating thing to document in film and photography. This new clip titled Danielle from filmmaker Anthony Cerniello tries something we’ve never seen before and packs an amazing punch. Last Thanksgiving, Cerniello traveled to his friend Danielle’s family reunion and with still photographer Keith Sirchio shot portraits of her youngest cousins through to her oldest relatives with a…
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Kaleidoscopic Floor Installations Made of Mirrors, Crystals and Glass by Suzan Drummen
In an act of patience and precision that boggles the mind, Dutch artist Suzan Drummen creates sparkling floor installations using an array of individually placed mirrors, crystals, chromed metal, optical glass and precious stones. That’s right, the thousands of objects in each of her artworks are placed and stacked by hand and sit completely loose during the…
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Amazing Light Festival in Portugal!
The LUMINA Light Festival is an international event that transforms urban space with color and light shows, multimedia projections, giant light sculptures and installations. Based in Portugal and free for all ages, more than 20 national and international artists are set to surprise visitors “with grandiose spectacles of light and color, video mapping, 3D effects,…
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New York Children Hospital Installs A Pirate-themed CT Scanner
Hospitals are rarely a pleasant experience, and even less so for the kids. The New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, however, managed to make it at least a little less stressful, by installing a pirate-themed CT scanner. When the time came to replace the old scan, the staff was primarily looking for one that would…
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Abandoned House in the Woods Taken Over by Wild Animals
Finnish photographer Kai Fagerstrom presents unique photo series, where he captures wild animals making themselves comfortable in abandoned houses in the woods of Finland. Titled The House in the Woods, the photo series is set in cottages near Kai’s summer house, which were abandoned by their tenants after the owner of the place died in a fire.…
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Secret Paintings in 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa
Colleen Theisen, who helps with outreach and instruction at the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa, recently shared an amazing gif she made that demonstrates something called fore-edge painting on the edge of a 1837 book called Autumn by Robert Mudie. Fore-edge painting, which is believed to date back as early as the 1650s, is a way of hiding a…
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Gerardo Chierchia Paints Three-Dimensional Goldfish Embedded in Layers of Resin!
Italian artist now based in Australia Gerardo Chierchia paints three-dimensional goldfish using a complex process of poured resin. The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer. We really love the rich depth of the pieces and the optical illusion…