Archive for the ‘art’ Category

Aug

6

Vintage “Internet-age” posters

By akie


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Of Skype, Facebook and YouTube. Utterly brilliant :-)

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Jun

7

Sculpting

By akie

Artist Philippe Faraut shows how it’s done.

Mar

31

Disney meets Magritte

By akie


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I really like Brian Cook’s crossover between Snow White & Magritte.

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Actually, I like most of his work, like this “cavemen graffiti”:

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Check out his blog.

Jan

23

This is not a real volcano

By akie


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Matthew Albanese creates fake photorealistic pictures by building scale models and photographing them from a specific angle.

For example, this image does not show a real volcano:

Really, it doesn’t. Proof: (more…)

Dec

14

Salvador Dali + Simpsons = Apu

By akie


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Sep

21

Amazing image

By akie


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“Worth Enough?” by DeviantArt user Radoxist.

Be sure to view the full version to check all the intricate details. Wow.

Jun

28

Cool tattoos

By akie


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I like tattoo artist Yann Travaille’s style.

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Jun

11

Post-It stop motion

By akie

Bang-Yao Liu made this wonderful stop-motion animation.

May

20

Fossilized cassette tape

By akie


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I like Christopher Locke’s modern fossils.

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Via BoingBoing.

May

11

The Recreation

By akie


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Ok, I’m officially a fan of Kris Kuksi’s art.

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This is a piece called “The Recreation”.

Apr

19

Alice in Wonderland

By akie


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Artist unknown

Mar

20

Salvador Dalí-Star Wars tattoo

By akie


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Jan

30

Funny graffiti

By akie


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Source

Jan

3

East vs West

By akie


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I really like these illustrations by Chinese artist Yang Liu, who was born in China but schooled in Germany. They illustrate the differences between East and West.

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“opinion”:

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The complete set:

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Dec

25

Lego

By akie


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I wonder what the building instructions look like…

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Link to original.

Nov

7

Real-life Photoshop

By akie


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Via digg.

Oct

6

Creative ASCII/font art

By akie


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I really like this ‘font art’ of dead movie stars. Here’s Marilyn Monroe:

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Three more at Walyou.com

Sep

5

Asaf Hanuka’s comic book style cartoons

By akie


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I like Asaf Hanuka’s politically themed cartoons:

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About the growing tendency of manufacturers to cover toys with warning labels (for Forbes magazine).

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For an article about oil dependency (Rolling Stone magazine).

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Aug

29

Evolution

By akie


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I found this Banksy-esque drawing on Flickr:

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Aug

28

Nice visualizations

By akie


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Zefrank has a nice online tool to create stunning visualizations. Try it!

May

25

Spectacular time-lapse video

By akie


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Chad Pugh has taken a screenshot every 5 seconds, for 40 hours straight, while he was working on a project in Illustrator. The result is spectacular.

Link to hi-res version.

Apr

25

Super Mario in China

By akie


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I like this adaptation of the Chinese flag I found on Boing Boing.

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Apr

15

Spam = cartoon

By akie


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A spam a day turns spam into cartoons. I like it.

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Apr

15

X-ray photos

By akie


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Nick Veasey photographs everyday objects with an X-ray machine. The result is (quite frankly) amazing.

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Mar

5

Wonderful wildlife photos

By akie


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I like some of the entries in this photo contest.

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Photo by Robert Servranckx

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Photo by Cyrinda Hoffman

Mar

4

Cool egg cup

By akie


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Buy it at boystomengifts.com.

Jan

25

Robot arm copies Bible

By akie


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A robot arm has made a calligraphed copy of the Lutheran Bible

Jan

25

Understanding art for geeks

By akie


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Someone named Paul has put a nice photoset on Flickr: Understanding art for geeks

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Jan

25

Marc Anthony’s dream photo exhibition

By akie


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I found this intriguing photo by Chris Anthony on Boing Boing. Click to view full.

Jan

23

Ceci n’est pas une pipe

By akie


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I like this adoption of the Magritte classic:
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Buy the t-shirt at Threadless T-shirts.

Jan

16

Godvader

By akie


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I like this picture I found on Boing Boing.
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Jan

12

Bent objects

By akie


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The Bent Objects blog features pictures of common household objects in uncommon situations.

Office supplies in the jungle

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Dancing Queens

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Salad is murder

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Jan

8

Giant mechanical animals

By akie


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Check out these pictures of the giant mechanical animals. Great stuff.

Jan

1

Funny ads

By akie


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democrats08.jpgScary Ideas has a nice collection of ads, apparently solely collected for your entertainment. Really worth checking out.

I took the accompanying picture from this set of (real? fake?) ads for the US Democratic Party.

Dec

21

Formal apology

By akie


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I kind of like this form I found. Nice indeed :)

Dec

20

A Rembrandt for €50

By akie


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I like this picture of a mass production facility of fake artwork.

Nov

29

Clint tells it like it is

By akie


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Found on Miss Cellania. Click to enlarge.

Nov

28

User interfaces of the future

By akie


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Smashing magazine has a write up of these user interfaces of the future. Not yet ready for prime time, but interesting nonetheless.

Nov

23

Surrealist video

By akie


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Dali would be proud. Press play or go to YouTube.

Nov

23

New York City in ruins

By akie


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I don’t know the artist, but I really like this picture. Click to enlarge.


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