Category: artist
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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…
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Artist Doodles with Sharpie Pen on Husband’s Nissan Skyline GTR
While tuning up his Nissan Skyline GTR sports car, one auto enthusiast, together with his talented and artist wife, accidentally stumbled upon an amazing way to give their sleek silver vehicle an unforgettable paintjob. The car enthusiast, who is a member of the U.S. Military, hated the car’s silver color. One evening, his wife surprised…
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Artist Uses Magnifying Glass and the Sun to Create Stunning Artworks
Jordan Mang-osan, an award-winning Filipino artist, has harnessed the sun’s power to create beautiful artwork. By using a magnifying glass, he focuses the sun’s rays into a super-hot point that he uses to burn beautiful drawings onto wooden boards. Mang-osan draws upon the culture, history and environment of his native Cordilleras region and of the…
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Father Takes Heartwarming Photos of His Sick Son
Following a health scare involving his son, Adrian Murray made it his mission to capture his children’s beautiful childhood moments through his lens. Adrian and his wife Michelle woke up one morning to find their 10-month-old son unresponsive in his crib – a nightmare for any parent to go through. Emerson was rushed to the…
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Graphite and Oil Paintings Spectacularly Merge Nature and Anatomy
Italian artist Nunzio Paci works with pencil and oil paints to create strange amalgamations of plants and animals in what he describes as an intent to “explore the infinite possibilities of life, in search of a balance between reality and imagination.” Paci currently has a solo show including several of the pieces you see here at the Palazzo…