Tag: Art
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London’s Natural History Museum Announces The Best Wildlife Photos Of 2018
London’s Natural History Museum has just announced the winners of the ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ contest for 2018, and the images reveal the abundance, beauty, resilience and vulnerability of life on Earth The winning photos were chosen from more than 45,000 entries from 95 countries for their artistic composition, technical innovation and truthful interpretation…
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Banksy Investigation: Was The Sotheby’s Shredding Real Or Did We All Get Banksy-ed?
We’ve all seen and heard the news by now. The British street artist Banksy pulled off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday 5 October when one of his trademark paintings appeared to self-destruct at Sotheby’s in London after selling for $1.4 million at auction. Because Banksy is the art community’s biggest troll, his dramatic…
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This Amazing 16th Century Book Can Be Opened And Read In Six Different Ways
Today we have Kindles to save us from lugging heavy books around, but how did avid readers cope back in the 16th century? Some revealing new images of an antique book that can be read six different ways show how Germans in the 1500s managed to condense their reading material. A small medieval book from…
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A Japanese Fashion Designer Combines Traditional Kimonos With Modern Streetwear
From bushido pants to samurai sword umbrella sheaths, we’ve seen a lot of hybrid fashion ideas come out of Japan in recent years. Now, as the weather begins to cool, it’s time for a new range of garments to make their appearance, and this year everyone is scrambling to get their hands on the Hanten…
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Artist Reimagines What Would Happen If Disney Characters & Superheroes Faced Ecological Disasters
In the drawing world, October is better known as “Inktober”. For Inktober, artist The Baptman created a series reimagining what it would look like if Disney characters and superheros faced ecological disasters. Scroll down to see our favorites… [zombify_post]
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Hilarious Illustrations About Women That Show How Cool It Is Just To Be Yourself
Before becoming an illustrator, Cécile Dormeau was a pixel pusher in Hamburg and Berlin. She also worked as an art director for an ad agency in Frankfurt. Now this wonderful French woman brings joy to thousands of her fans with her bright and ironic illustrations, published on her Instagram and Tumblr. She tries to discover…
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Artist Turns Life-Size Origami Into Dramatic Paper Costumes Worn For Ballet Dancers
Origami, fashion and ballet dancers are an unlikely trio. Except if you’re Montreal-based artists Melika Dez and Pauline Loctin who have combined their imaginations into a creative collaboration called PLI.Ē Project. The project fuses Dez’s skills as a movement photographer with Loctin’s expertise in paper art, and showcases dancers around the world wearing hand-folded paper…
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Cheeky Illustrator Reimagines Iconic Artists as Modern-Day Hipsters
Ever wonder what your favourite artists would look like as hipsters? Wonder no more, as illustrator Amit Shimoni has just released a series of portrait paintings documenting this exact thing as part of his ongoing series, aptly called HIPSTORY. From Frida Kahlo to Salvador Dali, Amit has managed to hipster-ise all of them. Scroll down…
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The Japanese Art of Creating Unusually Useless Inventions
Back in the 1990s, we remember flicking through the pages of the Unuseless Japanese Inventions series at bookstores. Each one features about a hundred ostensibly real Japanese devices, photographed and described with a disarming straightforwardness, that mash up other consumer products in outwardly bizarre ways: chopsticks whose attached miniature electric fan cools ramen noodles en route…
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Photographer Takes Heartwarming Photo Of A Newborn Baby Surrounded By The Thousands Of IVF Needles That Created Her
An Arizona photographer turned one couple’s fertility struggle into an arresting piece of art that’s going viral. Patricia and Kimberly O’Neill, a couple from Sun City, Ariz., approached family photographer Samantha Packer with an idea. Inspired by other newborn shoots they’d seen, they wanted to photograph their new daughter, London, surrounded by every syringe —…