Tag: artist
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Artist Folds a New Paper Crane to Describe Each Day of the Year
Some people like to have a coffee everyday. Some people like to go for a run everyday. Well artist Cristian Mariancius is a little different. Following a bit of a quarter life crisis in 2014, he decided to create an origami paper crane every day as a unique personal journal. According to Cristian, “As a…
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Stunning Photography Documents the Macro Details of Colorful Hummingbirds
Photographer Chris Morgan loves Hummingbirds and photography. However as Hummingbirds are notorious for flapping their wings so incredibly fast that they create an audible hum and appear as a blur of feathers right before your eyes, they can be incredibly difficult to capture using photography. Not to be deterred, during a trip to Costa Rica, the…
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LEGO Creates Slippers to End 66 Years of Stepping on LEGO Pain!
Let’s face it, unless you’ve lived under a rock all your life, you are well aware of the searing pain associated with standing on a piece of LEGO. Fortunately, there is now a way to protect yourself from these domestic minefields: LEGO, working together with French advertising agency Brand Station, has invented anti-LEGO slippers! It…
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Miniature Marvels From Aritst Shay Aaron
As the saying goes, good things come in small packages. This is definitely case for the sculptures of Israeli artist, Shay Aaron. Shay is obsessed with all things food, but chooses to make them in miniature. As small as the tip of your finger, miniature. We just love them. And now we’re hungry… See more…
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You’re Just Another Brick in the Wall with Brad Spencer!
We recently came across the creative brick works of artist Brad Spencer and haven’t been able to get that Pink Floyd song out of our head ever since! Brad works with bricks to produce eye-catching, figurative sculptures. Each piece of work in the sculptor’s growing collection is an intriguing look at a common medium used…
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A Man Plays Smooth Criminal on a Barrel Organ in a Wood Pile
Running the biggest art sales and blog site in the world, we get sent A LOT of content from artists all around the globe who ask us to share their work to our millions of followers. Sometimes, something truly amazing drops into our inbox which simply stops us in our tracks. This is one such item…
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Mother Illustrates Her Everyday Pregnancy Problems
We all know that being an expecting mother isn’t easy, but it doesn’t mean you can’t look at it with humor. Line Severinsen of Kos og Kaos (Cuddles and Chaos) comics illustrates what to expect while expecting. Drinking alcohol? Gone! Shaving, picking up stuff, and putting on shoes? Heroic struggles! These and many more adventure await…
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70 Year Old Seamlessly Integrates His Body with the Natural World
Long before selfies and photoshop, photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen was capturing self-portraits of his nude body in natural surroundings. For the better part of past five decades, the now 70 year old artist has blurring the lines between where the world ends and his body begins. Arno does this by relying on a simple 9-second shutter release that allows…
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Classic Painting Subjects Inserted Into Modern Day Life
In a different take on the ‘classic paintings remade’ series we’ve featured a couple of times recently, Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov unites the past and present by giving characters from classic paintings the chance to explore our modern world. Alexey uses Photoshop to insert vintage muses in stores, on buses, on stairwells, and in the midst of urban alleyways for his ongoing…
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Photographer Takes Amazing Portraits Of People Living on the Streets
We first happened across the stunning photography of Lee Jeffries when he tagged some of his photos to #artFido on Instagram. We were immiadetly in awe. Lee photographs homeless people to show the humanity that they possess. According to Jeffries: “When you see a Lee Jeffries image, it’s not a document of the life of a homeless…