Tag: fetching art
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A King Cobra Folded from a Single Sheet of Tissue Paper Plus Much More!
This accomplished king cobra designed by Ronald Koh was recently folded by origami artist Matthieu Georger from a single piece of specially treated tissue paper. The detail is amazing, especially the hundreds and hundreds of scales that individually require multiple folds to create. The artist also folds a wide range of other exotic animals, mythological beasts, and insects worthy of…
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Ballet Dancers in Everyday Situations!
Following on from our extremely successful blog post about a ballet dancer that danced en pointe on knife shoes on a piano (see HERE), it’s quite clear that an ordinary day as a ballet dancer is never ordinary. Ever wonder what a ballet dancer does on their downtime? With all of those muscles toned and trained…
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A Reflective Six-Legged Wolf Covered in Glass Mirror Shards!
As part of her current exhibition titled Earthshine at Gallery Wendi Norris (which is also her American solo debut), Japanese multidisciplinary artist Tomoko Konoike explores various crystalline structures in sculptures and drawings. Drawing inspiration from manga, Shinto animism, Noh drama, and pop culture, the artist creates surreal, otherworldly artworks that encompass sculpture, drawing, photography, and animation. Among one of her most…
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The Amazing Art of Tree Shaping
Tree shaping is the practice of training living trees and woody plants into artistic shapes by carefully orchestrating how the tree and the branches grow. Techniques such as grafting, bending, creasing, framing, weaving, twisting, braiding, pruning and ring barking are employed to archive the unnatural shapes. According to Wikipedia, tree shaping is a form of…
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Literally Fly Like an Eagle Through the French Mountains
Earlier this week, artist Srachi strapped his GoPro camera to the back of his pet eagle and set him free through a mountain range near Chamonix, France. The results are absolutely breathtaking. This is an absolute MUST WATCH… guaranteed to blow you away! http://youtu.be/r8vSmjskZr8 And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to…
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Decommissioned GUNS Turned into a Musical Orchestra by Pedro Reyes!
Artist Pedro Reyes has recently produced an amazing display where he transforms decommissioned weapons into musical instruments to form a fully mechanized orchestra. Titled Disarm, the collection of eight new instruments was built through a collaboration with several musicians and Cocolab, a media studio in Mexico City. The team acquired a variety of rifles, pistols, and shotguns seized from drug cartels…
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Amazingly Realistic Color Drawings of Everyday Objects by Marcello Barenghi
YouTube and Instagram is abuzz with Italian artist Marcello Barenghi‘s incredibly realistic drawings of everyday objects. They’re so good, that at first glance you might think you were looking at a photo. Here are some of our favorites, but be sure to check out Marcello’s work on Instagram and his YouTube channel where he documents the process of almost…
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AMAZING Pumpkin Carvings From the Guys at Villafane Studios
Update: be sure to also check out the amazing Pumpkin Arrangements at the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in New York HERE! With Halloween fast approaching, we thought we’d look into pumpkin carving. We didn’t have to look too far before we discovered Ray and the team at Villafane Studios. Wow. These guys know how to carve a…
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Eccentric Yet Amazing Body Art Done by a 19-year-old Japanese Girl Choo-San
Her boredom with the digitally enhanced photographs drove a 19-year-old Japanese girl to work on her artistic talent in body art. Student Choo-San from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan left an incredible impression when she painted attention-grabbing images on the human body. Choo-San discovered her body art talent after sketching eyes on the…
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NYC Artist Shows Us What Famous Celebrities Would Look Like as Normal People
Update: This Post Was Viewed Over 1 Million Times in 1 Week So We Had to Give you more! CLICK HERE to see Danny Evan’s “What Famous Celebrities Would Look Like as Normal People” Part 2! Thanks to the power of Photoshop and the skill of artist Danny Evans, we get to see what some famous celebrities would…