Category: Art
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aMOzing Mustaches from Around the World to Celebrate Movember
With Movember just around the corner, it’s time for blokes around the world to start thinking about their health, and their facial hair. For the uninitiated, Movember is an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and other male cancers. In preparation for this…
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Stunning Before & After Photos of Butterfly & Moth Transformations
The animal kingdom is full of beautiful and mysterious processes, but there are few that are more captivating and wonderful than the metamorphoses that caterpillars undergo to become moths or butterflies. Perhaps even more amazing than the drastic transformation is how it happens. Inside their cocoons, the caterpillars are completely liquified, retaining only rudimentary “plates”…
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Street Artist Rone Knocks ’em Dead With a Sold Out Show
Australian street artist Rone has been coloring the streets of the world with his signature style since the early 2000’s… long before other street artists like Banksy were household names. The fact that he has a fairly extensive Wikipedia page attests to this fact. Famous for his sumptuous paintings of glamorous women, in particular an…
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Enormous Sculpture Crawls Out of the Ground in Budapest!
Artist Ervin Loránth Hervé created an impressive sculpture called “Popped Up” that depicts a giant man crawling out of the earth. The polystyrene sculpture is located at Széchenyi Square in Budapest, Hungary, and was one of the highlights for the Art Market Budapest 2014 international contemporary art fair. Art Market Budapest is an annual exhibition and…
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An Origami a Day for a Year by Ross Symons!
Following on from the very popular blog we posted on the amazing kinetic origami by Jo Nakashima HERE, we also stumbled across an amazing 365 day origami project from Ross Symons. Ross decided to fold one origami model every day for a year. He described how this obsession with origami started on Instagram’s blog: “I started with the crane…
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Amazing 360 Degree Photography of Abandoned Architecture
German photographer Sven Fennema captures his architectural subjects in a full 360 degrees. He travels to abandoned places in Europe like churches, cemeteries, and even cooling towers to show all sides and angles of them. Sometimes, these locations are well kept, while other times we see that they’ve fallen into disrepair. Fennema’s photos of these…
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Fabulously Surrealist World of Little People in Pictures
Surreal scenarios are commonplace in the world of artist and macro photographer David Gilliver. The Guernsey-based photographer, who began producing the little people series at the tail end of 2011, uses a DSLR camera and a macro lens to capture his unique snapshots of life in Smallville. He sources most of the figurines from the internet, many…
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Street Artist BANKSY Arrested? Again?
The interwebs was all aflutter today with news that elusive graffiti artist, political activist, film director, painter and long time fugitive that for years has gone by the pseudonymous name of Banksy, was arrested early this morning by London’s Metropolitan Police. According to reports, after hours of questioning and a raid of his London art studio,…
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Spectacular Moving Animation Love Story on iPhones and iPads
Sometimes a video clip makes a song, and sometimes a song makes a video clip. In this little beauty, called “Knock Knock” by “Brunettes Shoot Blondes“, its a dead heat. In a clip that would have taken who-knows-how-long to make, various mobile devices, tablets and phablets are used to create a moving, technological love story all…
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Do-It-Yourself Kinetic Origami That Will Blow Your Mind!
Brazil-based origami artist Jo Nakashima has created a method for building an amazing origami object using a system of 40 paper cubes. For those of you ambitious enough to give it a try he shared a set of instructions on Instructables. Just 45 steps! If you’re not familiar with Nakashima, he runs the most popular instructional origami channel on YouTube, with…