Category: artist
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For Dummies: How to Be a Cat
Can’t stand the rat race? Need a career change? A sea change? A tree change? What about being a cat? What a great job! You get to sleep most of the day, be nonchalant and care-free, and only give two f#@ks when it suits you. Just ppppurrrrfect! “Where do I apply?” we hear you say. Luckily, Lisa Swerling…
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It’s Happening Again: What Color is This Nail Polish?
Remember that whole thing about the dress? You can read all about it HERE. What color (or colour!) was it? White and Gold or Blue and Black or Who The Hell Cares? In any case, the internet is all aflutter today about some nail polish and a stiletto. Yup, the hashtag #TheShoe is all over…
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Artist Uses Food to Complete Her Fashion Sketches!
At artFido, our two great loves are art and food. We were therefore extremely happy to see our two loves combined in Gretchen Röehrs fashion illustrations which she combines with a variety of fruit, vegetables and other food items. From bananas to slices of bread, Röehrs manages to brilliantly transform foods into fashionable clothes in her…
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When 2 Becomes 1: Artist Splits Photos And Combines the Results
Photographer Stephen McMennamy has an ongoing series of photographs on his Tumblr page called “Combo Photos” where he splits two photographs and joins them together to form some pretty interesting combinations. Here are some of our favorites. What are yours? (h/t Twisted Sifter) And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art…
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Cliff House Has an Amazingly Terrifying View
Greece’s economy may be going through some issues at the moment, but that hasn’t dulled the creativity of Greek architects Laertis Antonios Ando Vassiliou and Pantelis Kampouropoulos from Opa Works who have up with an amazingly terrifying cliff house. The concept design is called “Casa Brutale”, and it is designed to mesh well with nature. The building is completely…
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Spine Chilling Animal Drawings by Paul Jackson
We shared Paul Jackson on our Instagram page some time ago because there was something different about his amazing drawings. Something dark and immediately alluring. It’s hard to put your finger on it, but they sure are spectacular. What do you think? (h/t demilked) And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to…
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93-Year-Old Grandma Shares 30 Years of Embroidered Temari Balls
Back in 2009, NanaAkua uploaded an incredible 468-picture gallery on Flickr that featured the amazing embroidery work of her then 88-year-old grandmother over a span of 30 years. Her grandmother practices a folk art form known as Temari. Meaning ‘hand ball’ in Japanese, the art form was introduced to Japan by China around the 7th century A.D. Traditionally, Temari…
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Comic Strip Brilliantly Explains the Difference Between Rape And Consent
In 2013, Zerlina Maxwell ignited a firestorm of controversy when she strongly recommended we stop telling women how to not get raped. Here are her words, from the transcript of her appearance on Sean Hannity’s show: “I don’t think that we should be telling women anything. I think we should be telling men not to rape…
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Teeny Tiny Miniature Hand Thrown Pottery by Jon Almeda!
A few days ago, we were scanning through the artFido instagram feed when we came across a video of Jon Almeda throwing a teeny-tiny clay pot as the sun set in the background. We featured this work on our instagram page, and before you knew it, Jon’s amazing works were being thrown about all over the…
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Street Artist and City Worker Have Year Long Exchange on a Red Wall in London
Street artist Mobstr recently shared a photo story that took place over the course of a year. The artist explains: “I cycled past this wall on the way to work for years. I noticed that graffiti painted within the red area was ‘buffed’ with red paint. However, graffiti outside of the red area would be removed via pressure…