Tag: artFido
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Kaleidoscopic Floor Installations Made of Mirrors, Crystals and Glass by Suzan Drummen
In an act of patience and precision that boggles the mind, Dutch artist Suzan Drummen creates sparkling floor installations using an array of individually placed mirrors, crystals, chromed metal, optical glass and precious stones. That’s right, the thousands of objects in each of her artworks are placed and stacked by hand and sit completely loose during the…
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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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New York Children Hospital Installs A Pirate-themed CT Scanner
Hospitals are rarely a pleasant experience, and even less so for the kids. The New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, however, managed to make it at least a little less stressful, by installing a pirate-themed CT scanner. When the time came to replace the old scan, the staff was primarily looking for one that would…
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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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Gerardo Chierchia Paints Three-Dimensional Goldfish Embedded in Layers of Resin!
Italian artist now based in Australia Gerardo Chierchia paints three-dimensional goldfish using a complex process of poured resin. The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer. We really love the rich depth of the pieces and the optical illusion…
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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…