Category: artist
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Artist and Hair Stylist Paints Hair After Famous Paintings
Artist are often inspired by the Great Masters when they create their own works. One such artist, hairdresser Ursula Goff, has taken the inspiration into the hair arena by bringing the colour swatches from famous paintings into her client’s hair. She spends many hours ensuring that her color scheme roughly approximates the hues in Van Gogh’s Starry Night or…
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Nikon Awards Photo Prize to Photoshopped Photo, Hilarity Ensues
With the increasing use of Photoshop and other photo editing programs to make your photographs look ‘just right’, every now and then someone gets caught out taking a bit too far. This was definitely the case with Nikon Singapore when they posted an announcement on its Facebook page on the weekend (since deleted), congratulating a photographer named Chay…
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Budapest Artist Creates a Series of Self-Portraits Called Animeyed
There’s something hypnotically captivating about Budapest artist Flora Borsi‘s latest photography series titled “Animeyed”. In it, Flora takes takes a series of self-portraits where an animal’s eye is used in place of her right eye. Here are some of our favorites. What’s yours? And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to…
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Fancy a Floating Bonsai Tree? Now You Can!
Ever dreamt of owning your very own floating Bonsai Tree? Now you can, thanks to a brilliant new Kickstarter campaign called “Air Bonsai“, flying its way out of Kyushu, Japan. It’s pretty ingenious really: attach a system of magnets to the bottom of your bonsai, then levitate that above a small electrified pedestal – simple! You…
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This Photo of a Potato Sold for Over $1,000,000
You might not think much about this photo of a potato (maybe you do?), but it’s one of the most expensive photos in the world, selling for in excess of $1,000,000 last year. The work, titled “Potato #345 (2010),” is from photographer Kevin Abosch’s, latest series called ‘iconic black backdrop’. This series has captured the interest…
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Artist Carves a Miniature Train Into a Pencil
We admit it: we love miniatures! However when we recently came across this amazing miniature train carved into a carpenter’s pencil by Cindy Chinn, we were blown away. Here’s what Cindy told Bored Panda about here work: I’ve been seeing carved pencils online for the past few years and REALLY wanted to try my hand…
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Rare Monkey Orchids to Celebrate the Year of the Monkey
To celebrate the Year of the Monkey, which officially commences on February 8th, 2016, the Aquamarine Fukushima in Japan has opened a spectacular exhibit featuring the extremely rare Monkey Orchid. “Can a flower look like a monkey?” we hear you ask. Look at the photos below and we think you will conclude they definitely can!…
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Photographer Creates Book Documenting Her Naked Walk Through New York (NSFW)
There’s been quite a bit of nude performance art around lately. Milo Moire has made an art form out of it (pardon the pun), with performances such as walking to Art Basel naked (see HERE), plopping an egg out of her vagina at Art Cologne (see HERE), and walking around an art exhibition naked while…
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Hot Dudes With Kittens Instagram Account is So Hot Meow
2015 saw the birth of many weird and wonderful things in the art world. One of the cutest was the Instagram account hotdudeswithkittens, which, as the name suggests, shares images of hot dudes with kittens. We think you’ll agree it’s a killer combo. Enjoy! And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of…
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An Enchanted Forrest of Light Created by an Amazing Chandelier
Imagine an enchanted forest, with swaying branches and the howls of the animals around you on a moonlit night. That’s the effect of the incredible Forms of Nature chandelier, created by Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz. When you turn it on, a tangled roots and branches casts 360 degree shadows transforming your entire room to look like an enchanted forest.…