Tag: Art
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The Best Perfectly Timed Photographs Ever
It’s okay. You can blink. Life is full of jaw-dropping, inspiring, and unbelievable moments. We’ve posted a few of these in blogs in the past (see HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE) and they’ve been extremely popular. So here is another one! What image is your favourite? And if you’re craving more and want your very own…
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A Monumental 11-Acre Realistic Portrait in Ireland
Unveiled several days ago in Belfast, Northern Ireland as part of the Belfast Festival, WISH is the latest public art project by Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, known for his monumentally scaled portraits in public spaces. The image depicted is of an anonymous Belfast girl and is so large it can only be viewed from the highest points in Belfast…
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Ai Weiwei’s ‘Forever Bicycles’ Installation in Toronto
On display from October 6 – 27 at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Canada, is renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei‘s Forever Bicycles installation. The 3,144 interconnected bicycles served as the centerpiece for last weekend’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche art festival, a dusk til dawn celebration with installation and performance artworks located around the city. Having just…
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Photos of Unhappy Boyfriends Modeling Their Girlfriends’ Etsy Creations
Sad Etsy Boyfriends is a Tumblr blog dedicated to photos of unhappy boyfriends who have been roped into modeling their girlfriends’ creations on Etsy. Not much else to say here… just scroll down and grimace… HandmadeHarvest Medicinew1 freeravin LivingThreadsVintage And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to hang…
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Artistic Mom Turns Meals into Masterpieces
When Lee Samantha was pregnant with her second child, she began making food art in an effort to encourage her elder daughter to eat independently. If she could achieve this, it would make the impending birth easier to manage. That was 2008, since then Lee’s food art has evolved and garnered her a massive following. With a…
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Breathtaking Street Photography by Maciej Dakowicz
Currently based in Mumbai, Polish street photographer Maciej Dakowicz abandoned a career in technology to instead focus on his street photography, a decision that has lead him to far-flung communities around the globe seeking incredible once-in-a-lifetime encounters. Sorting through his staggering library of some 5,500 photos is to take a journey through vastly differing cultures, miraculous visual coincidences, and…
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BANKSY vs KING ROBBO (STREET ART vs GRAFFITI)
UPDATE: according to TEAM ROBBO and confirmed by banksy.co.uk, Robbo passed away on 31 July 2014 due to health complications. R.I.P. http://youtu.be/0z3_-JoEQ1M With Banksy taking over the streets of New York City during October 2013 as part of his “Better Out Than In” residency (follow it all HERE), we thought we’d look at the history of…
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The Latest Chinese Beach Craze: The Face-kini
A new kind of swimwear trend is sweeping the Chinese beaches in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province. As the weather get hotter, both men and women are seen appearing on the beaches wearing full body suits that cover from head to toe. The upper part of the swimsuit has a ski-mask with holes cut…
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Halloween Costumes From Years Past – Vintage and Classic
Halloween Costumes. We all love them. Who can forget the Karate Kid’s “Shower Curtain”? Or ET’s very convincing bedsheet inspired ghost? Each year at around this time people start thinking about costumes that will out surprise, out spook, out inspire and out do their friends’ and families’. And no doubt there will soon be hundreds…
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Amazingly Detailed Sculptures Carved from Single Lead Pencils
Hungarian artist Cerkahegyzo creates amazingly detailed miniature sculptures from single lead pencils. He says that it’s a form of relaxation and most importantly, a fun hobby to take his mind off the daily grind as a professional tool-maker in Hungary. Cerkahegyzo says he started carving after coming across the highly detailed sculptures of artist Dalton Ghetti…