Category: Art
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Artist Luke Cornish Stencils a HUGE Rhino On Melbourne Tram
Forget looking at a timetable while you’re waiting for your tram in Melbourne, Australia. You can instead check out this HUGE rhinoceros stenciled all over the exterior of a tram coming to a stop near you. The work is by award-winning stencil artist Luke Cornish (aka E.L.K), whose 2012 layered portrait of Father Bob Maguire…
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Sir Mix-A-Lot & the SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Perform ‘Baby Got Back’!
Once upon a time, a picture was worth a thousand words. If that’s the case, then this video is worth a million words. Maybe a billion. We won’t bother you with words on this one. Just sit back and relax as Sir Mix-A-Lot, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and a number of women from the crowd…
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Jaw Dropping Mother of Pearl Shell Skull Carvings!
Born and raised in the Philippines, New Jersey-based artist Gregory Halili is deeply influenced by the vegetation and wildlife he experienced as a child. His latest series of work involves a fusion of the human form with the natural world in these amazing bas-relief shell skulls. Halili carves and then paints with oil on raw, gold-lip and…
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Performance Artist Reenacts the Painting ‘The Origin Of The World’
Following on from our previous post where a performance artist 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), another performance artist has gone to great lengths to make a point. Background: if you’ve ever gazed into the beautiful void…
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Hair Stylist Creates Realistic Hair Portraits!
Hair stylist extraordinaire Rob Ferrel has taken the simple hair cut to a whole new level with amazing photo-realistic portraits. From his studio Rob the Original Barber Shop located in San Antonio, Texas, Rob has combined his passion for drawing and combined it with his professional skills as a barber with amazing results. Check out his work below and…
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Creative Tattoos That Make Clever Use Of The Body!
The rising popularity of tattoos and the easing of the taboo surrounding them means that more and more people are choosing to express themselves with creative body art ideas that are meaningful to them. Although tons of new styles are being developed by tattoo artists, we wanted to explore a specific type – tattoos that…
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Cute as a Button Ink Drawing by Maria Tiurina!
Maria Tiurina is an artist based in London, UK – working as a games artist at Mediatonic LTD. She is spending most of free time expanding her illustration, character art and graphic design portfolio. Her latest drawing is called; The Companion. It’s an A1 format ink in cardboard – a drawing that took almost half a year to complete. Also she…
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Anatomically Correct & Fully Animated Lobster CARVING!
Ryosuke Ohtake, a young 25-year old sculptor, caused quite a stir recently when he boldly took on the challenge and created an immaculate and animated lobster from wood. What stunned many was that not only was the piece carved from wood (which is considered far more difficult than using copper) but the fact that this…
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Giant Realistic Flowers Created Entirely Out of Glass!
Jason Gamrath, a master glassblower based in Seattle, creates enormous detailed orchids and carnivorous flowers to help people who see his art appreciate the minute details of the plant kingdom. “The purpose of creating this series on a macro scale is to bring to light the beauty that exists within the micro scale of nature,”…
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Photographer Uses His Daughter’s Lego to Recreate the Works of Banksy!
A photographer has used his seven-year-old daughter’s Lego to recreate the works of street artist Banksy. Jeff Friesen has recreated many of the mysterious street artist’s iconic works from the plastic bricks. The 42-year-old from Halifax, Canada, used his daughter June’s Lego to complete the project he calls Bricksy. Each scene takes Jeff about a day…