Tag: Art
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Amazing Light Festival in Portugal!
The LUMINA Light Festival is an international event that transforms urban space with color and light shows, multimedia projections, giant light sculptures and installations. Based in Portugal and free for all ages, more than 20 national and international artists are set to surprise visitors “with grandiose spectacles of light and color, video mapping, 3D effects,…
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Abandoned House in the Woods Taken Over by Wild Animals
Finnish photographer Kai Fagerstrom presents unique photo series, where he captures wild animals making themselves comfortable in abandoned houses in the woods of Finland. Titled The House in the Woods, the photo series is set in cottages near Kai’s summer house, which were abandoned by their tenants after the owner of the place died in a fire.…
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Artist Collaborates with her 4-Year-Old Daughter to Create Amazing Illustrations
In one of the best collaborations we’ve ever seen, professional illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks has been collaborating with her 4-year-old daughter on a series of wonderful drawings that pass back and forth between mother and daughter until reaching an always unexpected final form. Each drawing begins with Hendricks drawing a detailed retro-ish head, after which her daughter…
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Secret Paintings in 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa
Colleen Theisen, who helps with outreach and instruction at the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa, recently shared an amazing gif she made that demonstrates something called fore-edge painting on the edge of a 1837 book called Autumn by Robert Mudie. Fore-edge painting, which is believed to date back as early as the 1650s, is a way of hiding a…
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Ballerina Wears Knife Shoes to Perform En Pointe En a Piano!
Ballerinas are often associated with beauty, grace, and elegant human forms. In his video En Puntas (‘On Points’), however, artist Javier Perez has managed to preserve all of these elements while also portraying the dark intensity, dedication and even violence that this graceful art form can represent. En Puntas features ballerina Amelie Segarra dancing the…
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Foodscapes: Stunning Landscapes Made of Food by Carl Warner
Food posts are always a special treat for the eyes, but this selection of Foodscapes by London-based photographer Carl Warner is definitely something different. Yes, that’s right – all of the pictures in this blog are actually created out of fresh foods! The artist uses a wide variety of different ingredients, such as deli meats, fresh fish, fruit, vegetables…
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Fallen Princesses: When The Happily-Ever-After Doesn’t Happen
One of the nicest childhood memories is how every fairy-tale we heard would always end in words “and they lived happily ever after”. But what if these fairy-tales were continued past this line, and we could learn what actually happened to the beautiful princesses and their knights? Photographer Dina Goldstein imagines what their lives could have…
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36 More Perfectly Timed Photos
Last time we asked you to send in the best “perfectly timed photos” you’ve taken during your photography career or seen on the Internet. Thank you to everyone who emailed and posted their pictures in our comment section! As we said before, you may be the best photographer in the world, but sometimes all it takes…
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Morning Dew on a Beautiful Lady Beetle
One of the most popular blogs we have ever posted featured macro photos of dew-covered insects by David Chambo which you can see HERE. It didn’t take much therefore to share this amazing dew-soaked photo of a lady beetle by German artist Jens Kolk. You can check more of their work out at WORDPRESS and via…
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artFido’s featured artist – Bijan Soltani
artFido’s featured artist for this month is Bijan Soltani. Born in Kerman/Iran in 1986, Bijan now lives in Perth, Australia, working full time as an architecture visualiser and Revit modeler, and part time as a character/environment designer & animator. In his spare time he manages to put together some amazingly complex and striking pieces of art…