All Blog Posts Tagged 'art' (385)

Enjoyable Art of Giant Soap Bubbles

Found out about Ebullitions today, a french company bringing the art of giant soap bubbles to special occasions. Check out this session of making huge bubbles by Sylvain Letuvée as photographed by …

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Added by rd on January 19, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Hyper-realistic Pictures with Hidden Lego Sculptures

This amazing collection dubbed as In Pieces was created through the collaboration of Australian conceptual photographer Dean West and renowned LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya. In each picture are hidden hyper-realistic LEGO sculptures that are cunningly disguised and can only be seen if you would look at them in much detail. You may want to check…

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Added by C. on January 19, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Inspired Drawings on Earth by Andrew Rogers

Lion's Paw, Kenya 2010

The world is an inspired canvas for acclaimed sculptor Andrew Rogers who created “Rhythms of Life”. This collection is the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of 48 massive stone structures, or…

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Added by rd on January 18, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Unbelievable Miniature Creations as Small as the Eye of a Needle

Facing a difficult situation has always been like getting yourself through the eye of a needle. Miniaturist Nikolai Aldunin literally got himself into the ultimately tiny eye of a needle and saw its potential in making a jaw-dropping work of art. Seriously, Aldunin had tons of patience in keeping his hands perfectly still while working…

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Added by C. on January 17, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Street Art Mathematics by Aakash Nihalan

You've probably seen all kinds of street art but have you stumbled upon one that involves mathematics? Artist Aakash Nihalani offers a simple yet brilliant street art that will definitely make you look.

This project called 'Sum…

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Added by rd on January 16, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

Walk Through a Brilliant Interactive Maze

Design studio LIKE Architects made an illuminating installation for IKEA in Lisbon, Portugal this year. The said project was composed of 1,200 pieces of LEDARE lamps attached to HEMMA floor bases in varied heights. A brilliant way to introduce IKEA's new project, the LEDARE.…

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Added by rd on January 14, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Wondrous 760 Stacked Bicycles by Ai Weiwei

Artist Ai Weiwei has come up with an interesting installation composed of 760 stacked bicycles that have been physically attached resulting to a single cohesive structure which can be explored from within. It seems that the artist has an unusual bond with bicycles since he also had similar work in 2011 dubbed as…

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Added by C. on January 12, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Awesome Poster Images Created from Handwritten Movie Scripts and Album Lyrics

These posters seem ordinary but actually they are not. Artist Mike Matola puts a little twist to his artwork by writing down the lyrics of a song or a script of certain movie in order to form a picture. Among his posters include images of members of The Beatles as well as characters from the movies such as The Shining. Remarkably, he does not draw these portraits and instead writes down words and the…

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Added by C. on January 10, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Amazing Portraits Rendered Using Discarded Jeans

Who would've thought of making portraits made entirely of jeans? That would be British artist Ian Berry, also called Denimu. At first, you wouldn't think that these portraits and urban landscapes were created by weeks and weeks of cutting,…

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Added by rd on January 8, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Stunning Palette Knife Paintings by Kathryn Trotter

What's with a palette knife that makes a painting look so elegant? A palette knife is a blunt tool used for mixing or applying paint, with a flexible steel blade. The "palette" in the name is a reference to an artist's …

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Added by C. on January 8, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Pedestrian Path Lets You Reflect On Your Life Choices

This installation will make you feel nostalgic and think, what did you want to be when you grow up? Was there anything you wanted to change about your career now?

Candy was commissioned to create public art for Finland’s 2011 European Capital of Culture events. For this…

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Added by rd on January 7, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Captivating Macro Photography by Wil Mijer

Last Christmas, we posted macro photos of snowflakes, but what does macro photography really mean? Accordingly, macro photography refers to extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects, in which the size…

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Added by C. on January 7, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Splendid Watercolor Paintings by Grzegorz Wrobel

Grzegorz Wróbel's interest in drawing and painting from the early years of childhood but he found fascination in the watercolor technique only in 2002. You'll find that his paintings mostly features buildings and the urban landscape, that's because he works in architecture and everything that is connected with…

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Added by rd on January 5, 2013 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Lovely Carpets Made From Plastic Clothes Pins

Check out these adorable Peg Carpets designed by We Make Carpets and commissioned by the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, The Netherlands. Just imagine how many clothes can be pinned up using these colorful clothes pins, amazing isn't it? ♥

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Added by C. on January 5, 2013 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Giant Colored Pencils Appear in Matsudai Joyama

Reverse City is a giant colored pencils installation hung in rows in Matsudai Joyama created by Cameroon-born artist Pascale Marthine Tayou. On each pencil is written the name of one of the countries of the world.

The giant pencils are variously colored; some are short, some are tall. This town of pencils is…

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Added by rd on January 5, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Extremely Detailed Cardboard Sculptures Inspired by Movie Sets

With the use of surgical scalpel and wood glue, Melbourne based artist and filmmaker Daniel Agdag makes these extremely detailed cardboard sculptures guided with only pure intuition and imagination.

The artist calls this collection 'Sets for a Film I’ll Never Make'. He likens the process of creating every piece to sketching 3d objects with…

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Added by rd on January 4, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Awe-inspiring Aerial Land Artwork Spanning Two Football Fields

In honor of female activists, Cuban-American contemporary artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada was commissioned by the feminist organization Mama Cash for their campaign, Vogelvrije Vrouwen - …

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Added by C. on January 4, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Intricately Handcrafted Topographic Maps

Maps are usually made of paper. Then there was something else. How could anyone carve out something so detailed from a wood? Yes, that's right... everything is possible. You might want to check out these topographic maps dubbed as Below the Boat, which literally means that they reveal the world below the boat, primarily prominent locations such as Nantucket, Long Island…

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Added by C. on January 3, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

7 Million LED Lights at Nabana no Sato Annual Winter Illumination

If you happen to be in Nagoya, you'll definitely enjoy the Nabana no Sato Annual Winter Illumination. Nabana no Sato Flower Park is a botanical garden on the island of Nagashima in Kuwana. This ethereal display of over 7 million LED lights are light every night until end of March 2013.…

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Added by rd on December 31, 2012 at 9:00am — No Comments

Fascinating Feather Art by Chris Maynard

Artists can be so genius! Take a look at these miniature artworks made from feathers by American artist Chris Maynard. With feathers as his canvas and tools such as eye surgery scissors, forceps, scalpels, and magnifiers, the results are truly incredible. Plus, what's more special with his pieces is that he only uses feathers from private…

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Added by C. on December 31, 2012 at 8:00am — No Comments

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