Category: Art
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Taking dog grooming and Sesame Street to a whole new level
When it comes to Extreme Dog Grooming, Kobe the poodle is the top dog. Transformed into a tribute to Sesame Street – one part Big Bird, another part Elmo with his own Oscar the Grouch in a trash can to keep him company, he won the Extreme Dog Grooming competition in Pasadena, FL earlier this year.…
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Cardboard Electronics Containing Absurd Miniature Dioramas
Artist and illustrator Kevin LCK works almost exclusively in black and white, so it comes as no surprise that as he’s ventured into sculptural objects the aesthetic has remained the same, while the dimensions clearly haven’t. In his new series Ordinary Behavior the artist builds dioramas into everyday electronic objects made from cardboard such as a computer, camera, and…
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Nick Brandt – The beauty of East Africa in black and white photography
Nick Brandt shoots exclusively in Africa and is one of the world’s most prolific wildlife photographers. His amazing black and white images of elephants, lions, and cheetahs can be found in galleries and private collections all over the world. At 26 he moved to Los Angeles from his home city of London to pursue a…
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Taking hyper-realism to the next level
We’ve showcased a number of seriously talented hyper-realistic painters in the past, but have just been introduced to one who has stopped us dead in our tracks. We cannot find words to describe the amazing talents of Italian artist Emanuele Dascanio, so we’ve chosen some of our favorite images from his most recent body of…
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Amazing Toilet Paper Roll Sculpture
If you’ve visited any art or design blog over the last few years you’ve almost certainly run into the artwork of Anastassia Elias who made waves in 2009/2010 with her wonderful back-lit paper dioramas inside of toilet paper tubes. Today she announced a new book titled Rouleaux containing photos of 67 original works spanning 2009-2012. You can pick it up over…
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Windswept images of dogs flying through space
USA-based Benjamin Grelle is a blogger known by his Internet moniker, The Frogman. He has recently published some pictures of dogs, that seem like they are flying through space in a spacecraft. The series is titled Warp Dogs, and in it, several different real dogs seem to be flying through a space orbit. These images were created by cleverly digitally…
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If Star Wars Characters Were Brands…
New Zealand-based illustrator – and ‘Star Wars’ fan, we assume- Barn Bococks imagined some of the characters and alliances of the galaxy far, far away as brands pitted against each other. In ‘Brand Wars: Rebel VS Imperial’, the logos of famous brands such as Nike, Reebok, and Pizza Hutt get reinterpreted with the likes of the Sith, Jedi, Han…
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An A-Z poster of great modern artists
If you are a fan of modern art, this print is made for you. English graphic designer Andy Tuohy has created a striking A-Z print where the letters are represented by 26 of the greatest modern artists in history. Including legendary personalities like Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso, this alphabet poster for art-lovers also features lesser known artists like…
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Amazing photos of baby animals in the womb
We’ve all seen ultrasound pictures of human babies, but the animal pictures that follow go way beyond the grainy, black and white images we are used to. These amazing photos of baby animals in the womb were captured by scientists using a combination of high-tech ultrasound scans, tiny cameras and computer graphics, and were featured on National…
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Hyperrealistic Rainy Winter Windshield Drawings by Elizabeth Patterson
As the Southern Hemisphere shivers through Winter, we thought we’d showcase the fascinating works of artist Elizabeth Patterson who has challenged herself to recreate the absurdly complex formation of water droplets on rain-streaked windshields. Her ongoing series titled Rainscapes blends drawing, hyperrealism, and traditional landscape techniques resulting in images that can be seen as both real and abstract. Patterson…