Tag: Art
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The Great Gatsby VFX – Behind the Scenes that Made this Movie a Visual Spectacular
Thanks to the rise of digital effects, the images moviegoers think they’re seeing on-screen are often misleading. For blockbusters, the belief is that bigger and flashier is better, and with Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, that’s exactly what we got. However you felt about the most recent adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, most agreed…
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The Art of Deception: Chinese Man Tries to Board Plane With Pet Turtle Disguised as Hamburger
The South China Morning Post just reported that a man tried to smuggle his pet turtle through customs by hiding it in a KFC hamburger container and between two slices of a bread bun. Yes, really. The incident occurred on the morning of July 29, when a man, surnamed Li, was about to board China Southern Airlines…
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Spectacular Photography Created With a Drill, Paint, and Centripetal Force!
“Black Hole” by Fabian Oefner is a series of images, which shows paint modeled by centripetal force. The setup is very simple: Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod, creating these amazing looking…
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Graffiti Removal Guy Comes Back to Discover Image of Himself in the Same Spot
Street artist DS recently added a couple of paste-ups to a wall in London. It didn’t take too long before a graffiti removal guy removed the paste-ups. Shortly after that, DS was back with a paste up of the graffiti removal guy removing the graffiti. Gold! Art imitates removal of art! And don’t forget, if…
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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…
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Artist Conducts Experiment Where he Draws Himself While on Different Drugs and Alcohol
Art, drugs and alcohol have gone hand in hand for centuries. Van Gogh was an avid Absinthe drinker and was known to finish a long day by taking a seat on a terrace with glass in hand, absinthe and brandy following each other in quick succession. Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas were also fans of the aquamarine…
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Like a Kid in a Candy Store – Inside The Artist Studios of Dianne Gall and Jim Thalassoudis
We were lucky enough to be invited inside the artist studios of art power couple, Jim Thalassoudis and Dianne Gall in Bowden, South Australia recently. The pair originally met at the South Australian School of Art in the 1980s and have been painting together ever since. Dianne paints in the style of contemporary realism, with her works evoking the memory…
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When Art and Technology Mix – Realistic Painting Using an iPad by David Kassan!
In an age of post-abstract representational painting, Brooklyn-based artist David Jon Kassan‘s stark realism separates him from the pack. With a critical eye for anatomy, he expertly captures the subtle nuances of his subjects through the use of oil on panel, charcoal, and graphite in his life-size paintings and drawings. David recently tried his hand at…
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Colorful Macro Photography of Coral by Felix Salazar
LA-based photographer and composer Felix Salazar recently captured some wonderful macro photographs of several inhabitants in his salt water aquariums. The shocking variety of color in his macro photographs makes the coral look like digital renderings, but Salazar assures us that each is a unique photo selected from hundreds of attempts to get just the right shot as he…
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2000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery
Spanish visual artist Ana Soler is known for working with a multitude of objects from dangling hundreds of pairs of scissors or spoons, to creating dense clouds of string, coins, and paper cranes. In her most recent work, Causa-Efecto (Cause & Effect), she hung 2,000 tennis balls in spaces throughout the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante, Spain. The balls are carefully…