Tag: fetching art
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Hilarious Dog Portraits of Famous People in History by David Imlay
David Imlay’s approach to painting draws influence from twentieth century American Contemporary Realism as well as Photorealism which both emerged in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. It is David’s hilarious dog portraits based on famous portraits by other artists, however, that caught our eye and brought a smile to our face. Our mascot Fido…
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Halloween Pumpkin Carving Timelapse titled “Pumpkin Lobotomy” by Chris Soria!
Happy Halloween everyone! To celebrate this wonderful day, check out the amaze-balls pumpkin carving timelapse titled “Pumpkin Lobotomy” by Brooklyn artist and carver Chris Soria. Apparently it took over 15 hrs to carve! The video is by Joe Vaughn. And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to hang on your walls, check…
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Amazing Pumpkin Arrangements at the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in New York!
Update: be sure to also check out the Amazing Pumpkin Carvings from Villafane Studios HERE! Held every year in New York, the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze is a 25-night-long Halloween event featuring some 5,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins arranged into dinosaurs, sea monsters, zombies, and other spooky sculptural forms. Via Instagram: Although only associated with Halloween as we know…
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A New Light Painting Stop Motion Video About a Skateboarding Skeleton by Darren Pearson
Light painter Darren Pearson has a new stop motion short that follows the adventures of a skateboarding skeleton. In the making for nearly a year, the video involves over 700 individual photographs that were painted in camera using a small flashlight. And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to hang on your…
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The Best Perfectly Timed Photographs Ever
It’s okay. You can blink. Life is full of jaw-dropping, inspiring, and unbelievable moments. We’ve posted a few of these in blogs in the past (see HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE) and they’ve been extremely popular. So here is another one! What image is your favourite? And if you’re craving more and want your very own…
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40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s
Between 1910 and 1930, a series of 2500 ‘special photographs’ were taken by the New South Wales Police Department. As curator Peter Doyle of the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney explains: These ‘special photographs’ were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station in Sydney and are of men and women recently plucked from…
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A Monumental 11-Acre Realistic Portrait in Ireland
Unveiled several days ago in Belfast, Northern Ireland as part of the Belfast Festival, WISH is the latest public art project by Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, known for his monumentally scaled portraits in public spaces. The image depicted is of an anonymous Belfast girl and is so large it can only be viewed from the highest points in Belfast…
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Ai Weiwei’s ‘Forever Bicycles’ Installation in Toronto
On display from October 6 – 27 at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Canada, is renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei‘s Forever Bicycles installation. The 3,144 interconnected bicycles served as the centerpiece for last weekend’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche art festival, a dusk til dawn celebration with installation and performance artworks located around the city. Having just…
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Shake: Hilarious High-Speed Photographs of Dogs Shaking by Carli Davidson
Published yesterday, Shake is a new book of photos from Portland-based photographer Carli Davidson who used a high speed camera to capture hilarious freeze-frame shots of various dogs mid-shake. The amusing portraits seem to transform ordinary pets into strangely distorted animals right out of a cartoon. Known for her candid and heartfelt portraits of pets and wildlife, Davidson first…
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 Winners and Honorable Mentions
The results of the 2013 Wildlife Photographer of the Year were announced yesterday and a number of phenomenal images made the shortlist of 100 photographs. The annual competition is now in its 49th year and is led by two UK institutions, the Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide, who collectively received 43,000 photos from 96 countries this…