Tag: artist
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Photos of People Awestruck by the Beauty of Nature
Nature has a way of making our problems feel small and insignificant, an incredible view can change our whole perspective on life. While in Moab, Utah for a March photo shoot adventure, photographer Jerry Patterson captured a shot of the Milky Way through the arches of beautiful sandstone monuments (above). He calls the photo Stargazing Through…
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Glowing Bicycle Path In Netherlands Inspired By Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde has created a beautiful and innovative glowing bike path that, when illuminated at night by glowing pebbles and LEDs, looks like Van Gogh’s famous Starry Night painting. The kilometer-long bike path, which was created using both glow-in-the-dark technology and solar-powered LEDs, is located in Brabant, the Dutch county where…
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Hamsters as Shopkeepers Running Miniature Restaurants and Bars
In his free time, Twitter user @Kawanabesatou creates tiny restaurants and bars for his pet hamsters. The level of detail in the shops is simply wonderful. There are miniature sushi boats, tiny kitchen appliances and a very impressive selection of drinks! Kawanabesatou posts all of the adorable photos on Twitter where you can find nearly 500 photos and…
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Australian Artist Creates Magnificent Sculptures Using Spanners Only
When John Piccoli was a young boy, polio left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Determined not to let that stop him, the Australian artist took up perhaps the most active art form: large-scale metalworking sculpture. He starts with a pile of old wrenches. To most people, this looks like junk.…
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15 Year Old Artist Creates Amazing 3D Drawings!
Artist João Carvalho, a.k.a. J Desenhos, draws notebook pages, which might seem boring until you see how he manages to twist and turn these notebook pages into amazing 3D drawings. And he’s only 15 years old! Carvalho bends the blue “notebook lines” that he draws across the page and then adds shading to complete his drawings.…
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The Magical Rainbow Mountains of China
There is a reason why someone, somewhere, originally coined the phrase where “life imitates art“. We could not find a better example than these layer cakes of amazing colors is a real landscape located at Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province, China. Even for the undeniably powerful Mother Nature, creating something this arty wasn’t…
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Competition Showcases the Most Amazing Cakes You’ll Ever See
The Threadcakes online cake competition, which wrapped up on November 3rd this year, features some of the most stunning works of cake art we’ve ever seen. The contest, which has been running annually since 2007, invites both professionals and amateurs to create cakes in either the 2D or 3D categories based on art from the…
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Amazing Geometric Paper Animal Sculptures by Wolfram Kampffmeyer!
Wolfram Kampffmeyer, a talented artist based in Germany, creates beautiful geometric paper animal sculptures in elegant pastel colors that look like computer models that have come to life. These paper critters’ resemblance to 3d computer models is intentional. Kampffmeyer, who studies Computer Animation, writes, “if you are sitting in front of the computer all day…
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Have We All Gone Mad? Museum Paintings Taking Selfies
Museum of Selfies is a fun art project started by Olivia Muus that shows people in portrait paintings about to take a selfie. Muus explains: “This is a project that started when my friend aka. right hand and I went to the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen. I took a picture for fun and liked…
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An interview with BANKSY… finally!
One of Banksy’s greatest tricks in this selfie-obsessed, celebrity-hungry world, is that of anonymity. By remaining anonymous, Banksy takes the focus away from the artist or the source and puts the focus on the statement and the work. There is a reason that Banksy is the most infamous artist working today; Banksy represents an idea that…