Coolest Finds of the Week #31
Cupcake ATMs Bring Sweat Treats to the Streets of New York (NY Post) The Grinning Skeletons of Peru’s 1000-Year-Old Nazca Cemetery (Environmental Graffiti) England’s Guerrilla Tree Sculptor (Treehugger) World’s Most Expensive Watch Costs $5 Million (LA Times) Common Heart Disease Drug May Also Cure Racism (Orange News) Kim Jong-Il Lookalike Has Problems Getting Dates (The Sun) Woman […]
Innovative Artist Creates Beautiful Dust Paintings
Los Angeles-based artist Allison Cortson collects dust from her art-subjects’s homes and uses it to paint the background of their portraits. She started her series of “dusty” artworks, called Dust Paintings, several years ago, but she’s only just now getting the online exposure she so rightfully deserves. Dust paintings…Now here’s something you don’t see every day, […]
Artist Twists Aluminum Wire into Beautiful Tree Sculptures
I find it fascinating how some artists can turn rigid materials into works of art that seem almost organic. Case in point, Kevin Iris, a man who creates beautiful tree sculptures exclusively from aluminum wire. A self-proclaimed “treenut” Kevin Iris has been making incredibly detailed tree sculptures from aluminum wire for the last 23 years. […]
Really Hang-Out at Tokyo’s Hammock Cafe
Who needs chairs when you can just relax and have a cup of coffee or tea in a comfortable hammock, right? That was probably the idea behind Mahika Mano, a popular Tokyo venue, better known as the Hammock Cafe. Located in the Kichijoji district of Tokyo, a place renowned for its chill-out atmosphere, Mahika Mano fits […]
Sarah Harvey’s Eerily Realistic Underwater Images
Most people love taking photos of themselves underwater, but English artist Sarah Harvey isn’t like people. She likes to take things to a whole new level by using photos of herself underwater as reference for her incredibly realistic paintings. Most often than not, Sarah likes to be both the artist and the subject of her artworks. She […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #30
Incredible Animal Treehuggers (Environmental Graffiti) Polish Ghost-Hunter Plans Census to Monitor Vanishing Ghosts (Austrian Times) 14-Year-Old Builds Working LEGO Printer (Bit Rebels) Chinese Man Builds His Own Plane Out of Junk (Metro) World’s Oldest Vacuum Cleaner Still SUcks after 108 Years (Mirror) World of Warcraft Full Back Tattoo (Geekologie) Portrait Made from 15,000 Push Pins […]
The Secret Life of Ants, Shot by Andrey Pavlov
We’ve seen insects used as art protagonists before. Mike Libby turns them into steampunk hybrids, and Ubyka creates armed insect cyborgs, but I haven’t seen anything like what Andrey Pavlov does with ants. This is the touching story of a man who found comfort in studying and immortalizing hardworking ants performing their daily routines. Andrey Pavlov wasn’t […]
Cuban Sculptor Proves Tobacco Can Be Used for Better Things than Smoking and Chewing
Janio Nunez is a talented Cuban artist who has the gift of making incredible sculptures exclusively from tobacco leaves. He creates works of art both tiny and life-size that prove there are better things to do with tobacco than smoking it. Janio’s fascination with tobacco began as a little boy, watching his grandparents roll cigars […]
The Amazing Shadow Paintings of Rashad Alakbarov
Using various everyday objects and back light, Azerbaijani artist Rashad Alakbarov creates mind-blowing shadow paintings. It always amazes me what some people can achieve by using the simplest materials and their imagination. Rashad Alakbarov is definitely one of these incredible individuals; using common items like empty plastic bottles, metal pipes or simple pieces of plastic […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #29
17 Spectacular Pictures of Siberia’s Altai Mountains (Environmental Graffiti) Couple Makes Lovely Art Out of Beach’s Plastic Trash (Laughing Squid) Write a Bike – Conceptual Bikes Made Incorporate Names (Behance Network) Wold’s Shortest Man Measures 55cm (Metro.co.uk) Slovaks to Name Bridge After Chuck Norris, making It Indestructible (AFP) Supermanning Is the New Planking (YouTube) White English Teacher […]
16-Year-Old Girl Is a Real-Life Barbie
Everyone meet Dakota (at least I think that’s her real name), she’s a 16-year-old girl who goes by KotaKoti and looks a lot like a Barbie doll. Recently, photos of her have gone viral on several Asia and Arabic social sites because of her incredible resemblance to Barbie. I stumbled upon some photos of KotaKoti […]
Seo Young Deok’s Bicycle Chain Sculptures Are Off the Chain
You’ve probably sculptures made from bicycle chains, but I bet they’re nothing like the ones created by South Korean artist, Seo Young Deok. The incredible ‘works of Seo Young Deok are clearly inspired by the shapes of the human body, but artists have been sculpting masterpieces based on our natural curves for hundreds of years. […]
Renowned Artist Creates Jesus Portrait from 24,790 Push Pins
World renowned artist Rob Surette has recently completed a mind-blowing portrait of Jesus Christ made out of 24,790 colored push pins. The amazing work of art measures 5.5 feet x 4 feet, and took the artist six months to finish. Rob Surette has been fascinated by pointillism ever since he discovered the art of Georges Seurat, who invented […]
Mind-Blowing Portrait Created from Thousands of Coffee Stains
Just weeks after she took the Internet by storm with her incredible portrait of Yao Ming, created only with a basketball and red paint, Malaysian artist Hong Yi strikes again, this time with a realistic rendition of Taiwanese singer Jay Chou made with coffee stains. The young artist begins her unusual creative process by taking […]
Ukrainian Artist Creates Fantastic Religious Icons from Millions of Knots
Using a special knot weaving technique called macrame, Ukrainian artist Vladimir Denshchikov creates mind-blowing religious icons made almost entirely of linen thread. Born on July 1, 1952 in Kiev, Vladimir Denshchikov graduated the Kiev Theater University and went on to become and actor. He worked his way up to director and artistic director of the Simferopol Crimea Maxim Gorky Academic […]