Category: Art
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Ballerina Wears Knife Shoes to Perform En Pointe En a Piano!
Ballerinas are often associated with beauty, grace, and elegant human forms. In his video En Puntas (‘On Points’), however, artist Javier Perez has managed to preserve all of these elements while also portraying the dark intensity, dedication and even violence that this graceful art form can represent. En Puntas features ballerina Amelie Segarra dancing the…
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Fallen Princesses: When The Happily-Ever-After Doesn’t Happen
One of the nicest childhood memories is how every fairy-tale we heard would always end in words “and they lived happily ever after”. But what if these fairy-tales were continued past this line, and we could learn what actually happened to the beautiful princesses and their knights? Photographer Dina Goldstein imagines what their lives could have…
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Puppies and Kittens Have Imaginative Adventures With Household Objects
Now here’s an ultimate explosion of cuteness: a creative advertising campaign, that features both adorable puppies and kittens! Titled Life is Adventure, the photos series portray little fellows embarking on various adventures, set up from props on the ground. Created by graphic designer and art director Marek Farkas and photographer Miro Minarovich, the series was created as…
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Artist Spends 5 Years Covering Entire Kitchen in Millions of Glass Beads
You might think you know what patience means, but American artist Liza Lou clearly has a bit better understanding about what meticulous work really is. Her first large scale work Kitchen took 5 years to complete (1991–1996), and is, as the title suggests, a life-size replica of a kitchen, covered entirely in millions of glass beads. Liza…
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A Transparent Traffic Signal Box Painted Street Art Style by Mona Caron
We recently showcased the traffic signal boxes painted by some of Australia’s most amazing street artists including Kaffeine, Lucy Lucy and Makatron HERE. So we were super-excited to see that illustrator and muralist Mona Caron has also helped de-uglify traffic light boxes in the USA as well! Titled Manifest Station, the small mural was painted on a standard traffic…
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Toddlers Hilarious Reactions to Trying a Lemon Slice For The First Time
Most people will agree that all toddlers are cute – but, as a group of photographers have undeniably proven, they’re even cuter when they’re tasting a lemon for the first time. Photographers April Maciborka and David Wile have compiled a series of photos of adorable toddlers sucking down lemons – and the priceless facial expressions the…
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A Robot That Can Create Art Forgeries
The collision of art and technology takes many forms. One recurring, especially straightforward one is a robot with a paintbrush. It’s easy to see the fascination; there’s something poetic about the idea of imbuing a machine with the soul of an artist. But while many of these projects involve some sort of effort to approximate…
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The Most Beautifully Terrifying Spiders You Never Knew Existed
Wow! Ick. Oooh. Whaaaaaaat. No. No. NOPE. That pretty much summarizes our reactions while looking at these incredible macro shots of spiders photographed by Nicky Bay who lives and works in Singapore. The boundless biodiversity found on the country’s 64 islands includes a vast array of insects and arachnids, many of which Bay has painstakingly documented up close…
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Planetary Structural Layer Cakes Designed by Cakecrumbs
Self-taught chef Rhiannon over at Cakecrumbs has been working on a fun series of planetary cakes that are designed to be scientifically accurate with different types of cake representing various layers within Earth and Jupiter. For her Jupiter Cake the center is the theoretical rock/ice core (mudcake), followed by a layer of liquid metallic hydrogen (almond butter), and finally…
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Stunning Before and After Makeup Photos by Vadim Andreev
While some artists have mastered the Photoshop brushes to give some of their models a much needed face or eye lift, Russian artist Vadim Andreev uses those from the make-up artist kit. And his results are sometimes so jaw-dropping it’s hard to believe the pictures weren’t retouched! Vadim claims that using only cosmetics, he transforms…