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Russian Photographer Takes Stunning Portraits With REAL Animals
What you’re about to see is not Photoshop – Moscow-based Russian photographer Katerina Plotnikova created these stunning images with the help of real live animals! While seemingly dangerous, these shots were made possible with the help of professional animal trainers. The bear, held by many as a symbol of primal strength and instinct, contrasts especially well…
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Artist Draws Unbelievably Realistic Eyes Using Just Colored Pencils
Jose Vergara (a.k.a. Redosking), a 19-year-old artist from Texas, is drawing close-ups of the human eye with the sort of hyper-realistic level of detail that one would ordinarily expect from experienced masters. Vergara draws using only colored pencils, which makes his work all the more impressive. Most of us use or have used, at one…
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The Bizarre World of Chicken Beauty Pageants Photographed by Ernest Goh
Photographer and visual artist Ernest Goh is known for his work photographing wildlife and other animals. His latest book documents the strange world of chicken beauty pageants in Malaysia where he encountered a breed of bird called the Ayam Seramas, an ornate chicken raised not for its meat but purely for its appearance. These chickens not only have…
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Artist Breathes New Life Into Old Disney Scenes By Painting Over Them
Most people bristle at the prospect of seeing updates or remakes of their favorite childhood books, shows or movies. Digital artist and Illustrator Tyson Murphy, however, has recreated a few scenes from a couple of classic Disney movies that will, despite their new look, reignite your love for the classics. To create the two remakes…
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Illuminated Cut Paper Light Boxes by Hari & Deepti
Deepti Nair and Harikrishnan Panicker (known collectively as Hari & Deepti) are an artist couple who create paper cut light boxes. Each diorama is made from layers of cut watercolor paper placed inside a shadow box and is lit from behind with flexible LED light strips. The small visual narratives depicted in each work often play off aspects of…
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Photographer Takes Intimate Portraits of Her Playful Dogs
Now this is the kind of post our mascot is definitely a fan of! You can check out his very own feed on Facebook and Instagram. German photographer Elke Vogelsang makes a living shooting weddings and portraits of people and animals, but some of her favorite subjects are none other than her own three dogs, named…
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Artist Paints Common Foods to Disguise them as Other Foods
In this fun series of painted objects titled “It’s not what it seems” by artist Hikaru Cho, common foods are transformed with deftly applied acrylic paints to look like other foods. A banana is turned into a near photo-realistic cucumber, a tomato becomes a tangerine, and even an egg is made into a glistening eggplant.…
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Origami Artist Creates Life-Sized Elephant From One Piece of Paper
He’s done it! Professional origami artist Sipho Mabona has created a huge, life-sized elephant with just one sheet of paper. His most ambitious work to date, the elephant took Mabona and a team of over a dozen people four weeks to complete. Standing just over 3 meters high (or 10 feet tall), the work is…
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The 2014 Sony World Photography Award Winners!
The 2014 Sony World Photography Awards have finally published the winners of their world-wide photo competition. This year, 139,554 images from 70,000 entries made it into the competition. The competition is separated into 4 major sections – Professional, Open, Student and Youth. Each category is filled with incredible submissions, and most of them are also…