Category: Art
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Flashing Lights Make Budapest Tram Look Like it’s Traveling Through Time
If you ever find yourself in Budapest, Hungary for the winter holidays, don’t miss the wonderfully festive Christmas trams, local streetcars decorated with over 30,000 twinkling LED lights. People of all ages and nationalities marvel at the special trolleys each winter, mesmerized by the sight of thousands of blue-and-white lights glittering like stars in the…
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Powerful Animal Ad Campaigns That Tell The Uncomfortable Truth
Following on from our previous post where we featured a performance artist that was restrained, force-fed and injected with cosmetics in a high street shop window as part of a hard-hitting protest against animal testing (see HERE), we’ve put together a collection of powerful advertisements designed to raise awareness about the world’s animals. After all,…
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Fantasmical Photos of Playful Pups by Kaylee Greer
Black noses, grey noses, long tongues, short tongues – these many different noses and tongues, in all their shapes, colors and sizes, are what make Dog Breath Photography so wonderful. Kaylee Greer – the mastermind behind these creative photo shoots – is a 28-year-old full-time dog photographer from Boston, Massachusetts, who’s made her greatest dream…
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Surprising Before-And-After VFX Shots From Your Favorite Movies & TV Shows
We all know that movie and TV producers use VFX (short for visual effects), but you’ll be surprised to learn just how extensively they’re used to create movie magic! These photos reveal just how much your favorite shows and movies rely on the magic of VFX. Green-screens aren’t always green – they are also often…
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Artist Photoshops Her Fat Cat Into Famous Artworks
Svetlana Petrova is the proud owner of a fat cat by the name of Zarathustra. According to Svetlana, only the great artists can appreciate the “generous body and sublime soul” of the chubby feline, who weighs about 22 pounds (10 kg). At fatcatart.ru, Petrova photoshops her muse into famous artworks, from classics like the Mona…
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Artist Gets Tortured Like an Animal to Raise Awareness for Animal Cosmetics Testing
Following on from our previous post where a performance artist showed her lady parts in front of the painting “The Origin of the World” at the Musee d’Orsay (see HERE), another performance artist has gone to great lengths to make a point. A young woman was restrained, force-fed and injected with cosmetics in a high…
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Amazing Color-Matching Pen Can Write in Any Color on Earth!
If you’ve ever wanted to capture the exact color of something, now you can. The amazing Scribble pen makes it possible to match any pigment you see by using an RGB sensor and a five-color ink cartridge, and it will allow you to translate the beautiful hues of real life onto paper or your digital…
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Amazing Surreal Photoshoot at an Underwater Shipwreck in Bali
Taken recently off the coast of Bali, these surreal photos are the creation of Montreal-based director and photographer Benjamin Von Wong, known for his exceedingly difficult photoshoots. Where it might be more practical to create the complex aspects of these photos digitally, Von Wong took a different path and assembled a team of two models who…
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Inventor Spends 5 Years Trying to Determine if Vermeer’s Paintings Are Color Photos
It has long been suspected that some of the old masters may have relied on optical devices such as the camera lucida to help with scale and proportion in their paintings, leading to more lifelike interpretations of landscapes and portraits. Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor and computer graphics specialist, became obsessed with one such painter:…
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Mesmerizing Examples of Spiral Staircase Photography
Stairs are probably the last thing that would come to mind if someone were to ask you about potentially interesting photography subjects, but these spiral and helical staircases beg to differ. They are standing proof that, with the right perspective, even a set of stairs can make for an absolutely stunning photograph. The historical applications…