Tag: america
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This Is What Happens When You Blow Soap Bubbles at -12 degrees
With the Northern Hemisphere freezing and the Southern Hemisphere melting, we thought we’d post a weather-related art blog today. When the weather dropped to -12°C last week, Washington-based photographer Angela Kelly decided to take an advantage of it in one truly creative way. Together with her 7-year-old son, Kelly combined the home-based remedies – dish…
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Artist Face Paints Models Eating Food in Their National Flags
If you’re looking for some art to hang in your kitchen, this could work. In a recent photo project by Jonathan Icher, a French photographer, body paint is used on models to transform them into national flags while eating primary foods associated with their countries. Anastasia Parquet, a skilled makeup artist, is the mastermind behind the art…
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Fleeting Glimpses of Love on the New York Subway
Street photographer Matt Weber has been documenting life in New York City since 1984 when be bought his first camera, a Canon AE-1 with a 50mm lens. Since then he has taken thousands of photos that run the gamut of human emotion; from anger and hatred to love and compassion. You can go through his extensive archives…
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Amazing Pumpkin Arrangements at the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in New York!
Update: be sure to also check out the Amazing Pumpkin Carvings from Villafane Studios HERE! Held every year in New York, the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze is a 25-night-long Halloween event featuring some 5,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins arranged into dinosaurs, sea monsters, zombies, and other spooky sculptural forms. Via Instagram: Although only associated with Halloween as we know…
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The Most Interesting Looking Corn in the World
The story of Glass Gem corn begins with Carl Barnes, a half Cherokee, half Scottish-Irish farmer living in Oklahoma. According to nativeseeds.org, Barnes had an uncanny knack for corn breeding and excelled at selecting and saving seeds from cobs that exhibited vivid, translucent colors. In 1994, Carl met Greg Schoen at a native plant and herb gathering in…
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Banksy is Back and in New York! Keep Updated With EXACT Artwork Locations Here!
SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES! The world’s biggest street artist Banksy has announced that he is undertaking a residency on the streets of New York during October 2013 called “Better Out Than In”. The above artwork was the first installation. He’s even created a hilarious audio tour which you can listen to by dialing (800) 656-4271…
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Artist Uses Dirt For Her Latest “Dirty Little Secrets” Project!
American photographer and illustrator Sarah Rosado has been working on Dirty Little Secrets, a poetic and meaningful project that makes us ponder on the fragile beauty of our surroundings and the positive aspect of life. Using dirt as a medium, Sarah shapes this raw material into ephemeral illustrations that speak for themselves. With a goal…
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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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Geography You Weren’t Taught at School: Frequency of Red Heads in Europe…
By the time we finish high school, we realise that a lot of the time the things they taught us weren’t that useful or interesting. Sure, you might be able to name the European countries or point out major landmarks on a map, but does that give you a real understanding of how the world…
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Colorful Riverbeds Drawn with Pencil by Ester Roi
California artist Ester Roi works colored pencils to create drawings of imagined riverbeds that exhibit a superb understanding of the interaction between light, color and water. Roi uses a special drawing device called the Icarus Drawing Board that allows her to effectively create warm and cool “zones” underneath a wax-based medium. According to her website “the warm zone is…