Tag: painting
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The Art of Magic – Zach King Needs Only 6 Seconds to Melt Your Brain [video]
Vine star and filmmaker Zach King may not perform magic in the traditional sense, but his expertly-edited six-second videos could put David Blaine to shame. The Vine star’s absorbing videos show off his sharp editing skills. A bit of post-production magic lets King pull a kitten from a desktop photo, pour Nerds candies from his laptop and jump…
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Incredibly Realistic Rainy Day Paintings by Karen Woods
On a rainy afternoon, artist Karen Woods observes large raindrops as they transform windshields and window panes into beautiful formations. She then converts those meditative moments into mesmerizing oil paintings that capture the tranquility of a quiet, stormy day. In her paintings, Woods turns everyday urban scenes into impressive moments filled with captivating distortions. She…
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Portraits of Totally Unrelated People Who Have Found Their Doppelgangers
Fascinated with the idea that two totally unrelated people can look like twins, photographer Francois Brunelle set out to take portraits of 200 doppelgangers. This beautiful black and white series began when he photographed a pair of friends who looked as though they were identical twins that had been separated at birth. Although most of his photos so…
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37 Things You’ll Regret When You’re Old
As we enter a new year, it’s always good to reflect on the year that just passed. Anything you shouldn’t have done? Anything you SHOULD have done? As the saying goes, “Life is Short”, so let 2014 be the year that you go and do those things you’ve always wanted to do. Hopefully this list…
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15 Of The Most Majestic Caves In The World
These stunning caves aren’t part of some fairy-tale world or horror movie – they can be found in some of the world’s most remote places in Asia, North America and Europe. Some of these caves form when water seeps down through cracks in limestone rock. The limestone rock dissolves into the water bit by bit,…
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Cai Guo-Qiang at QAGOMA With an Amazing Installation “Falling Back to Earth”
When we last featured Cai Guo-Qiang’s amazing installations (see HERE), it proved to be one of the most popular blogs we’ve ever written. We were therefore extremely excited to learn that Cai is back with an even more spectacular installation entitled “Falling Back to Earth” at the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art. Our favorite two…
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The Most Amazing Sand Sculptures by Carl Jara
These probably beat any of those sand castles you made at the beach with your dad, right?! Carl Jara is an award-winning, professional sand sculptor from Cleveland, Ohio. Jara says he has known since high-school that he wanted to be an artist. After studying Illustration and Graphic Design at the Myers School of Art, Jara realized he did not…
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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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artFido’s North American Artist Showcase – artFido blog
artFido is less than two years old. Yet in that short amount of time, this little puppy has developed quite a bark, becoming one of the most visited art-related sites in the world. In fact, by total visits we now rank in the top 0.01% of all websites globally and in the United States we…
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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,…