Category: artist
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Breaking the “Crazy Cat Lady” Stereotype by Photographing Grown Men with Their Adorable Cats
The term “crazy cat lady” gets bandied around fairly regularly, but not in this series by David Williams who captures men and their felines. David’s project is titled Men & Cats and breaks the “crazy cat lady” stereotype by photographing men in their homes and on the street with their cat companions. According to Williams: “I wanted to…
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Photo Series Featuring the World’s Hardest Working Dogs
The working dogs of the world tend not to get as much time in the spotlight as their house-pet brothers and sisters. Photographer Andrew Fladeboe, however, is working to remedy this injustice by treating these dogs with the respect and artistry they deserve. Though his photo series is called “The Shepherd’s Realm,” the dogs aren’t…
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A Sickly-Sweet Photoshoot Featuring Nude Models Covered in Honey
In his sticky new photo series, LA photographer Blake Little covers his subject in honey and then captures the results. Although it doesn’t look like the most comfortable photoshoot ever, the pictures produced from the series are rather impressive, with the gooey, dribbling honey cascading to the floor and elongating the subjects body parts. You…
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3D-Printed Living Food That Grows before You Eat It
Edible Growth is an ongoing project by Eindhoven-based food designer Chloé Rutzerveld that blends food, gardening, and 3d printing. The concept involves a specially printed outer casing made from dough that contains “edible soil” and various seeds. Once printed, it takes a few days for the seeds and mushrooms to germinate after which they start to poke out…
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Performance Artist Walks Naked Through Gallery Holding a Baby For Art?
There’s a clear theme running through the works of performance artist Milo Moiré… nakedness. We’ve previously seen her sans clothes in her controversial work “Plop Egg” where she inserted eggs into her vagina to create a plop artwork (see HERE), and we followed her as she walked to Art Basel with the names of her outfit…
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Psychedelic Time-Lapse Shows Paint Poured Onto a Block
Watch what happens when artist Holton Rower and his team continually pour paint onto a block and let gravity do its thing! The result is like some kind of psychedelic, rainbow-colored interpretation of the rings of a tree trunk. Direction, Cinematography, and Editor – Dave Kaufman Music: Nick Lovell, “Lost Sick Tired” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfHqLNDkn4 And don’t forget, if…
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24 Place Names You’ve Probably Been Mispronouncing Your Whole Life
There’s nothing more irritating to a pedant’s ear and nothing more flabbergasting than realizing you’ve been pronouncing the name of so many places wrong, your entire life! Despite the judgment we exhibit toward people who err in enunciating, we all mispronounce a word from time to time, despite our best efforts. Likewise, almost all of…
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Portraits of Soldiers Before, During and After Going to War
Photographer, journalist and filmmaker Lalage Snow shot this series of portraits of British soldiers over a period of seven months, before, during and after their operational deployment to Afghanistan on Op Herrick 12. They speak of fear, being injured, losing a brother soldier, missing home, excitement, coming home, and what life is like on the frontline. Snow,…
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Cover of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ by Heart Brought Led Zeppelin to Tears & Left Obama Speechless
There are many covers on the internet, but this one of ‘Stairway to Heaven” by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart (with extensive accompaniments!) has something so magical as it brought Led Zeppelin to tears and left the whole audience speechless including Obama. It was part of the 35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala in Washington,…
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No More Coffins – Organic Burial Pods Will Turn Your Loved Ones Into Trees
The idea of coming full circle and returning whence we came from is one that appeals to many of us, regardless of our faith (or lack thereof), and this is an idea captured perfectly by this beautiful new burial method developed in Italy. The Capsula Mundi project by designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel has…