Tag: Fido
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Highlights from the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist
The World Photography Organization just announced the shortlist for the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards. This year’s contest received more than 140,000 entries from 166 countries. The judges will announce the final winners in March and April of this year, but for now here are a selection of highlights from the shortlist courtesy the World Photography Organization. Lightsnake.…
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Portraits Emerge from an Incredible Collage of Objects
New York-based artist Michael Mapes continues to expand his portfolio of meticulously assembled artworks made of thousands of collected specimens. Each piece in the artist’s newest and laboriously executed collection consists of countless materials that have each been pinned to a board to form a Dutch portrait. His unique method of creation is an astonishingly time-consuming process that…
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Scientifically Accurate Botanical Yarn Art in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s current exhibit, Knit, Purl, Sow, is an entire show devoted to knitting! At the exhibition, expert textile and knitting artists have created finely detailed botanical renderings of plants, flowers and vegetables. The exhibit has been two years in the making and contains 21 works with 19 provided by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky, who studied…
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33 More Perfectly Timed Photos
Following on from our original and extremely successful “33 Perfectly Timed Photos” (see HERE), we thought we’d scour the internet to bring you a second edition. With all the cameras and smartphones out there, it’s no surprise that, once in a while, someone captures a truly bizarre once-in-a-lifetime photo. Whatever you want to call them…
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Living Clay Sculptures By Johnson Tsang
In his Living Clay series, Hong Kong-based Johnson Tsang uses masterfully crafted organic and fluid forms to bring otherwise mundane stoneware to life. The sculptor mixes ordinary crockery, traditional face sculpting and an expressive splashing motif to create sculptures that seem to be frozen in time. Living Clay demonstrates Tsang’s extraordinary creativity, which leaves a…
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12 of The Coolest Offices In The World
Some offices can be boring and stifling, but definitely not these – we made a list of the coolest and most well-designed office spaces in the world. Not all work spaces were created equal – some can reduce worker’s morale while others can keep them happy and inspire them to be more energetic and creative.…
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Minimiam: Tiny People’s Adventures In The World of Food
Most of us start losing our wild childish imaginations when we grow up, but not Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle. Since 2002, these two professional food photographers have been shooting a playful series of dioramas called MINIMIAM (“miam” is French for “yum”) that place miniature people in a world of over-sized food. In their dioramas,…
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The Ceramic French Bulldog in Love With Coco Chanel by Vincent Agostino [video]
In October of last year, artFido had the privilege of auctioning off 13 hand painted ceramic French Bulldogs for charity with 100% of proceeds going to Wear for Success, an organisation that provides clothing and training to disadvantaged people seeking employment (read about it HERE). We’ve previously featured Outtie the cat-loving French Bulldog HERE, but his best…