Can You Explain the Creatures in this Photo?
100% Eco-friendly Artwork by Sandhi Schimmel
August 16, 2010 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Featured
American artist Sandhi Schimmel has mastered the art of transforming trash to treasure in her unique mosaics made of paper waste. Gold’s exquisite work includes paper waste from: menus, junk mail, greetings cards, advertising brochures, and much more. She sculpts various papers, images and text, to form portraits unlike any you have ever seen! Her purpose as an artist is to create unique, amazing portraits while helping the environment by re-using commonly wasted products. Schimmel used tax forms and political junk mail to create this stunning masterpiece shown below! Her collection includes many other amazing recycled art pieces, each unique and exquisite. All of her work is not only truly amazing but 100% eco-friendly!
The artist makes incredible portraits by recycling paper, canvas, frames and brings acid-free, water-based and non-toxic adhesives and lacquers to use. She creates the portraits by reusing the same images that arrive via mail by cutting them in a way that a completely new and interesting artwork can be formed. If you wish to see her extraordinary artworks, then they are on display at galleries in several cities in North America. Schimmel Gold is also featured in the recently released 2010 edition of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! annual book, “Seeing Is Believing.”
Anorexic Models don’t Always Look Like Models
he scientific name for anorexia is Anorexia Nervosa. People with anorexia become completely obsessed with weight and dieting. They develop a fear of becoming fat and have a distorted mental image of their body, always seeing themselves as fat, even when they are extremely thin. Common attributes of anorexic sufferers are under-eating, vigorous exercise, ritualistic food habits and abuse of laxatives cause excessive loss of weight. Most anorexic people have no history of being overweight.
Strange Art of Scary Zombie Face
August 2, 2010 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Lifestyle
Everyone loves a good Zombie movie, book or image and illustrators are no exception. Sometimes inspirations of Zombie Art go even further. That art slowly and insensibly come in our lifestyles, or we pretend to be like that. These photographs have similar aim. Inspiration of Zombie is presented by strange art of scary faces.
Smokers From All Around the World: Smoking Like A Chimney
It is a nasty habit, it is very unhealthy, you spend a lot of money on it, it leads to all kinds of health problems, makes you less attractive, smells bad, makes people avoid you, harms the people around you and yet everyone around the world seems to be doing it. Yes! I am talking about smoking of course.
After I said this, it is hard to imagine, but here we are. People from all around the world, different continents, different religions, different races, smoking cigarettes in any possible situation. At least photos of these smokers around the world will make a good laugh.
52 Funniest Geeky Scientific Tattoos
There are many noble people out there who donate their body to science. Some creative but geeky people, as it turns out, have dedicated to give their body to science in a different way way— ultra-geeky way of having science tattoos. Absolutely brilliant idea! Having a tattoo is all about expressing a certain lifestyle that you have chosen and this way these scientists are taking this to the limit. A funny limit I might add.
Imagine lab technicians sporting some of these funny scientific tattoos underneath their white coats. The periodic table is definitely hardcore, for example, while the DNA one is a bit played out. Anyway, all 52 funny tattoo photos are hilarious. Check them out:
Amazing Large-scale Drawings in Sand by Jim Denevan
May 24, 2010 by admin
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Have you already heard of Jim Denevan or seen his artwork? This guy, who is an artist and a surfer, creates large scale drawings in sand that are nothing short of amazing. The drawings are mostly created by dragging a stick on the ground. By using only this single stick of wood wet, Jim Denevan makes huge geometric shapes in the sand, which for some may take up to seven hours of work! Generally composed of circles and lines, it is a real mammoth task and patience.
His amazing drawings in the sand art is done on a very large scale. Everything Jim does seems to be 100% perfection like the images in this gallery show.
16 Famous Photoshopped Images Throughout History
March 29, 2010 by admin
Filed under Art and Design, Odd World
President Abraham Lincoln, circa 1860
This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body. Putting the date of this image into context, note that the first permanent photographic image was created in 1826 and the Eastman Dry Plate Company (later to become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1881.
Stalin, circa 1930
Stalin routinely air-brushed his enemies out of photographs. In this photograph a commissar was removed from the original photograph after falling out of favor with Stalin.
Benito Mussolini, 1942
In order to create a more heroic portrait of himself, Benito Mussolini had the horse handler removed from the original photograph.
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U.S. Olympic hockey team, 1960
In 1960 the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia to win its first Olympic gold medal in hockey. The official team photo was doctored to include the faces of Bill Cleary (front row, third from the left), Bob Cleary (middle row, far left) and John Mayasich (top row, far left), who were not present for the team photo. These players were superimposed onto the bodies of players Bob Dupuis, Larry Alm and Herb Brooks, respectively.
Fidel Castro, 1968
When in the summer of 1968 Fidel Castro (right) approves of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, Carlos Franqui (middle) cuts off relations with the regime and goes into exile in Italy. His image was removed from photographs. Franqui wrote about his feeling of being erased:
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The German Chancellor, September 1971
The German Chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt (far left), meets with Leonid Brezhnev (far right), First Secretary of the Communist Party. The two smoke and drink, and it is reported that the atmosphere is cordial and that they are drunk. The German press publishes a photograph that shows the champagne bottles on the table. The Soviet press, however, removed the bottles from the original photograph.
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Oprah Winfrey, August 1989
The cover of TV Guide displayed this picture of daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. This picture was created by splicing the head of Winfrey onto the body of actress Ann-Margret, taken from a 1979 publicity shot. The composite was created without permission of Winfrey or Ann-Margret, and was detected by Ann-Margret’s fashion designer, who recognized the dress.
Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, February 1994
This digital composite of Olympic ice skaters Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan appeared on the cover of New York Newsday. The picture showed the rivals practicing together, shortly after an attack on Kerrigan by an associate of Harding’s husband. The picture caption reads: “Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan, appear to skate together in this New York Newsday composite illustration. Tomorrow, they’ll really take to the ice together.”
Terrorist attack at the temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt, November 1997
After 58 tourists were killed in a terrorist attack at the temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor Egypt, the Swiss tabloid Blick digitally altered a puddle of water to appear as blood flowing from the temple.
Street Art Photography – Urban Mirrors
December 7, 2009 by admin
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Street art photography takes many forms. Photographers enjoy capturing magnificent beauty of urban areas of cities from around the world. This fine photo art has produced some wonderful series of images such as this amazing series here. The main motive of these images are Urban Mirrors that can be find in the city at night and low light conditions. A really nice usage of long exposure photography, I’d have to add.
Creative X-Ray photo artwork by Veasey
August 21, 2009 by admin
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“We live in a world obsessed with image. What we look like, what our clothes look like, houses, cars… I like to conter this obsession with superficial appearance by stripping back the layers and showing what it is like under the surface Often the integral beauty adds intrigue to the familiar. We all make assumptions based on the external visual aspects of what surrounds us and we are attracted to people and forms that are aesthetically pleasing. I like to challenge this automatic way that we react to just physical appearance by highlighting the, often surprising, inner beauty.”
The Artist – Nick Veasey
These are his composite photographs (as known as: artwork) using a combination of X-rays, back scatter, visible light photographs, and hand-drawn parts, combined together to look very interesting.
