Category: Art
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Rainbow Toy Car Installation Made from 2500 Cars
OK toy car collectors, kids, everyone else, maintain yourself. The Toy Atlas Rainbow is a wonderful installation of 2500 old toy cars by UK artist David T. Waller. The piece won the People’s Award at the Arts Depot Open in 2010. As absurdly beautiful as this thing is, don’t you just want to take a running slide into it and start playing with…
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Macro Photos of Dew-Covered Insects by David Chambo
Over the past few months photographer David Chambon has been working on a phenomenal series of macro photos featuring insects covered in tiny water droplets. The poor little insects covered in water and dew provide a truly magnificent subject which we haven’t seen before. These are a few of our favorites but you can see dozens more…
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Distorted Skies Made from Hundreds of Stacked Photographs by Matt Molloy
Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been taking photographs of for over three years. One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy…
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3D Pencil Drawings by Ramon Bruin
Even though Ramon Bruin has a degree in airbrushing, it’s his other skill that made our jaws drop. A Netherlands-based artist creates amazing 3D optical illusions all with an ordinary pencil. As he puts it, trying photo-realism was just another way for him to push his boundaries and add another technique to his portfolio. A 31-year-old Ramon…
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New Series of Nude Body Paintings by Emma Hack Depicting Beautiful Women
Not many young artists can say their work has been seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. Emma Hack can. The South Australian painter is the creator of the body art featured in the video clip for Gotye and Kimbra’s worldwide hit Somebody that I Used to Know. As at the…
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Photographer David Orias Makes the Pacific Ocean Look like Rainbows and Gold
Photographer David Orias relies on slow shutter speeds, precision camera movement and the rich light of dawn or dusk to capture these amazing images just off the California coast. Of these particular shots Orias says: I often use the camera to see our world in ways our eyes cannot see. I do this by using long shutter…
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Stunning Self-Portraits by a 14-year-old Photographer
Being 14 years old is the time when we are still fully entitled to be careless and unburdened, but 14-year-old Zev from Natick, Massachusetts will make you feel that you could’ve done more at that age. This teenager, now better known by his nickname ‘fiddle oak‘, has already become an internet sensation thanks to his ‘Little…
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Photographer Follows His Girlfriend Around The World
See part 2 of this photo series HERE! In his photo series “Follow Me To”, Russian photographer Murad Osmann is taking the viewer on an intimate journey together with his girlfriend who’s leading him around the world. The pose is almost the same in every picture: the girl never shows her face, and the guy almost never…
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Photographic Series Showing What 200 Calories Looks Like in Different Foods
See part 2 of this blog by clicking HERE! To celebrate its 1000th post since it started blogging about all things #foodporn in 1997, Foodporn just conducted a very visual and informative study and presented a photo series, which compares what 200 calories actually look like in different foods. You’d think that even with Summer…
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Snail slides across sleeping frog in slowest game of leapfrog ever
To go at a ‘snail’s pace’ is rarely considered a good thing. But when a snail decided to slide across a sleeping frog, it’s very slow and steady rate probably saved it’s life – because it didn’t wake the amphibian, which normally feasts on the molluscs. This snail enjoyed a long game of leapfrog as it…