Tag: artist
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You’re Never Too Old… 97 Year Old Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows 95
Meet Hal Lasko, mostly known as Grandpa, a 97-year-old man who uses Microsoft Paint from Windows 95 to create artwork that has been described as “a collision of pointillism and 8-Bit art.” Lasko, who is legally blind, served in WWII drafting directional and weather maps for bombing raids and later worked as a typographer (back when…
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Artist Face Paints Models Eating Food in Their National Flags
If you’re looking for some art to hang in your kitchen, this could work. In a recent photo project by Jonathan Icher, a French photographer, body paint is used on models to transform them into national flags while eating primary foods associated with their countries. Anastasia Parquet, a skilled makeup artist, is the mastermind behind the art…
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Photography Project Takes “You Look Just Like Your Mother” to a New Level
Think you don’t look like anyone in your family? French-Canadian photographer Ulric Collette might just be able to prove you wrong. Collette created mashups in which he takes photographs of two family members, edits half of each face and creates one seamless portrait. He calls it the “Genetic Portraits” series. Turns out gender differences and…
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Cats are Male Models and Pinup Girls… and Here’s Proof!
For some reason, cats didn’t have a great year on the internet. But while our collective attention continues to shift to sloths, pandas and otters, a few meme makers out there were determined to make cat memes happen again. Because if there’s one thing that cats (and cat owners) hate most, it’s being ignored. Full…
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Magnificent Surreal Photos by Erik Johansson
Swedish photographer and retouch artist Erik Johansson has one of the craziest photography portfolios we’ve ever seen. Erik is completely self-taught in retouching his own photographs to make impossible and extraordinary images. He says his inspiration came from both growing up with a grandmother who painted and having a penchant for escaping into the other worlds of…
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Illuminating the World with National Geographic
National Geographic recently shared a few images from their gallery entitled Illuminating the World. The 33-image gallery was compiled from National Geographic’s online photo community Your Shot. The photos span the entire globe even including a few holiday-themed shots. Be sure to check out the entire gallery on National Geographic. To learn more about National Geographic’s photo community,…
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19 People Who Are Having A Way Worse Day Than You
Having a bad day? Well hopefully this blog will cheer you up. In no particular order, here are 19 people who are having a way worse day than you… 1. Anyone that started their modeling career during a rough storm: 2. Anyone who lost to themselves while arm wrestling: 3. Anyone caught crumpin’ way too close to a…
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Light Hearted Paintings by an Unknown Denmark Artist Called S.E.M
Following on from Banky’s recent “New York Residency” during October (read HERE), one would be forgiven for thinking that “to make it” in the art world, you need to have a huge support team with tens of thousands of dollars to splash around to get yourself noticed. It’s been a breath of fresh air, therefore,…
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Some Kids Graffiti-ed This Man’s Garage Door. His ‘Revenge’ is Simply Awesome!
Some wannabe graffers tagged all over redditor Elusive92‘s garage door hired local graffiti artist “Lake13” to come and create a work of art over the graffiti tags. When life gives you lemons terrible graffiti make lemonade awesome art! Hopefully the local graffiti writers respect this work of art and don’t come back to tag all over it…and if so, we’re sure…
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The Top 75 Pictures of the Year for 2013
Update: if you liked this post, you’ll adore our latest post on the 38 Most Haunting Abandoned Places on Earth HERE. Following on from our very successful blog “100 of the Best Street Art Images of 2013” (see HERE), we’ve widened the net and thanks to the guys over at Sifter, we bring you the Top…