Category: artist
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The Most Amazing Sand Sculptures by Carl Jara
These probably beat any of those sand castles you made at the beach with your dad, right?! Carl Jara is an award-winning, professional sand sculptor from Cleveland, Ohio. Jara says he has known since high-school that he wanted to be an artist. After studying Illustration and Graphic Design at the Myers School of Art, Jara realized he did not…
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Halloween Costumes From Years Past – Vintage and Classic
Halloween Costumes. We all love them. Who can forget the Karate Kid’s “Shower Curtain”? Or ET’s very convincing bedsheet inspired ghost? Each year at around this time people start thinking about costumes that will out surprise, out spook, out inspire and out do their friends’ and families’. And no doubt there will soon be hundreds…
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Puppies and Kittens Have Imaginative Adventures With Household Objects
Now here’s an ultimate explosion of cuteness: a creative advertising campaign, that features both adorable puppies and kittens! Titled Life is Adventure, the photos series portray little fellows embarking on various adventures, set up from props on the ground. Created by graphic designer and art director Marek Farkas and photographer Miro Minarovich, the series was created as…
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Artist Spends 5 Years Covering Entire Kitchen in Millions of Glass Beads
You might think you know what patience means, but American artist Liza Lou clearly has a bit better understanding about what meticulous work really is. Her first large scale work Kitchen took 5 years to complete (1991–1996), and is, as the title suggests, a life-size replica of a kitchen, covered entirely in millions of glass beads. Liza…
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A Transparent Traffic Signal Box Painted Street Art Style by Mona Caron
We recently showcased the traffic signal boxes painted by some of Australia’s most amazing street artists including Kaffeine, Lucy Lucy and Makatron HERE. So we were super-excited to see that illustrator and muralist Mona Caron has also helped de-uglify traffic light boxes in the USA as well! Titled Manifest Station, the small mural was painted on a standard traffic…
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A Robot That Can Create Art Forgeries
The collision of art and technology takes many forms. One recurring, especially straightforward one is a robot with a paintbrush. It’s easy to see the fascination; there’s something poetic about the idea of imbuing a machine with the soul of an artist. But while many of these projects involve some sort of effort to approximate…
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The Most Beautifully Terrifying Spiders You Never Knew Existed
Wow! Ick. Oooh. Whaaaaaaat. No. No. NOPE. That pretty much summarizes our reactions while looking at these incredible macro shots of spiders photographed by Nicky Bay who lives and works in Singapore. The boundless biodiversity found on the country’s 64 islands includes a vast array of insects and arachnids, many of which Bay has painstakingly documented up close…
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Planetary Structural Layer Cakes Designed by Cakecrumbs
Self-taught chef Rhiannon over at Cakecrumbs has been working on a fun series of planetary cakes that are designed to be scientifically accurate with different types of cake representing various layers within Earth and Jupiter. For her Jupiter Cake the center is the theoretical rock/ice core (mudcake), followed by a layer of liquid metallic hydrogen (almond butter), and finally…
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Stunning Before and After Makeup Photos by Vadim Andreev
While some artists have mastered the Photoshop brushes to give some of their models a much needed face or eye lift, Russian artist Vadim Andreev uses those from the make-up artist kit. And his results are sometimes so jaw-dropping it’s hard to believe the pictures weren’t retouched! Vadim claims that using only cosmetics, he transforms…
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More Incredible 3D Latte Art by Kazuki Yamamoto
Japanese artist Kazuki Yamamoto has got the Internet buzzing about his 3D latte art again – this time he’s back with a very impressive Salvador Dali-inspired foam sculpture. The latte foam in the cup is shaped as a melting clock in Dali’sThe Persistence of Memory. The clock, however, is not the only new 3D latte artwork…