Tag: colour
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The Most Interesting Looking Corn in the World
The story of Glass Gem corn begins with Carl Barnes, a half Cherokee, half Scottish-Irish farmer living in Oklahoma. According to nativeseeds.org, Barnes had an uncanny knack for corn breeding and excelled at selecting and saving seeds from cobs that exhibited vivid, translucent colors. In 1994, Carl met Greg Schoen at a native plant and herb gathering in…
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Spectacular Photography Created With a Drill, Paint, and Centripetal Force!
“Black Hole” by Fabian Oefner is a series of images, which shows paint modeled by centripetal force. The setup is very simple: Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod, creating these amazing looking…
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Rainbow Toy Car Installation Made from 2500 Cars
OK toy car collectors, kids, everyone else, maintain yourself. The Toy Atlas Rainbow is a wonderful installation of 2500 old toy cars by UK artist David T. Waller. The piece won the People’s Award at the Arts Depot Open in 2010. As absurdly beautiful as this thing is, don’t you just want to take a running slide into it and start playing with…
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A Colourful Canopy of Umbrellas in Sunny Portugal
For the second consecutive year, the town of Agueda, Portugal, has brought out an installation of colourful umbrellas for their Agitagueda art festival on now. Although the installation doesn’t differ much from last year, the colours have gotten, well, more colourful! Photographer Patrícia Almeida captured some great shots this year, many more of which you can see here.
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Classify art by colour? How dare we.
Delicious is one of the biggest social bookmarking sites in the world. If you’re not familiar with it, you should be. Delicious allows users to bookmark websites that catch their fancy and tag them appropriately, all in the hope of sharing those sites with others in the Delicious community. And the most popular art site…