Tag: Art
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15 Unusual Animal Friendships That Will Melt Your Heart
There are some people out there that still believe that animals are just dumb beasts, but the unlikely animal friendships we’ve gathered here will prove that they are capable of feeling love and compassion just like we are. Naturally, all of these pictures are heart-breakingly adorable, but there’s more to it than that. Why did…
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Life Hacks That You Can’t Live Without for 2014
Our readers love life hacks. In fact, if you plug “life hacks” into google, artFido comes up first (CLICK HERE), second (CLICK HERE) and third (CLICK HERE). Why do people who love art and all things visually interesting also love life hacks? Because we’re smart cookies! :) So with a new year we put our…
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These 50 Photos Will Blow you Away
With our two recent blogs “The Top 75 Pictures of the Year for 2013” (see HERE) and “100 of the Best Street Art Photos for 2013” (see HERE) still being viewed at viral proportions, we thought we’d start a series of showcases that are meant to make the jaws drop! Here’s the first one of…
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The Strangely Wonderful World of JeeYoung Lee
Young South Korean artist JeeYoung Lee is generating quite a buzz for herself in the art world these days, and it’s not hard to see why. A recent graduate of Seoul’s Hongik University, the artist’s dreamy, highly imaginative work surpasses our traditional expectations of photography. Plus, it’s totally spectacular to look at. It’s hard to believe it,…
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Incredibly Realistic Rainy Day Paintings by Karen Woods
On a rainy afternoon, artist Karen Woods observes large raindrops as they transform windshields and window panes into beautiful formations. She then converts those meditative moments into mesmerizing oil paintings that capture the tranquility of a quiet, stormy day. In her paintings, Woods turns everyday urban scenes into impressive moments filled with captivating distortions. She…
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Portraits of Totally Unrelated People Who Have Found Their Doppelgangers
Fascinated with the idea that two totally unrelated people can look like twins, photographer Francois Brunelle set out to take portraits of 200 doppelgangers. This beautiful black and white series began when he photographed a pair of friends who looked as though they were identical twins that had been separated at birth. Although most of his photos so…
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Top 10 Blogs of 2013 – artFido
2013 was a big year for artFido. We went from a fledgling start-up with a healthy following in Australia and New Zealand, a puppy if you will, to a thriving international website with a prolific online community, a dog with a very loud bark, in the space of 12 months. With an average of around…
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15 Of The Most Majestic Caves In The World
These stunning caves aren’t part of some fairy-tale world or horror movie – they can be found in some of the world’s most remote places in Asia, North America and Europe. Some of these caves form when water seeps down through cracks in limestone rock. The limestone rock dissolves into the water bit by bit,…
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We Thought These People Looked Weird. A Closer Look Left Us Absolutely Speechless
OK well the title of this blog is a little misleading as we’ve known about Australian ex-pat Ron Mueck‘s works for some time and have been speechless every time we’ve had the opportunity to see them in “the flesh”. Ron continues to amaze with his sculptures. He used to be a model maker and puppeteer for…
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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…