Artist Peter Root’s Ephemicropolis is a city built entirely out of stacks of metal staples of varying heights. The cityscape consists of over 100,000 staples that took over 40 hours to assemble. The largest stacks are about 12 cm high and the whole installation takes up a floor space of about 6m x 3m.
Pencil Vs Camera is a clever photo series by Belgium born artist and photographer Ben Heine where he completes a part of the scene with hand drawn sketches. I absolutely love this.
A few days ago, Beijing Auto Show 2010 kick started, which has already gained a reputation as one of the leading auto show in the world. This year the exhibition takes on a special scale: it involves more than 2 thousand automakers from 16 countries. It is expected that the exhibition, which runs through May 2, will be visited by about 700 thousand people.
The following sculpture was made using steel, Cat5 cables and other data cables by Los Angles based artist Kasey McMahon.
A little fishing village on the coast south of Oamaru has become famous for a geological wonder on its windswept sands.
The Moeraki Boulders are huge spherical stones that are scattered over the sandy beaches, but they are not like ordinary round boulders that have been shaped by rivers and pounding seas. These boulders are classed as septarian concretions, and were formed in ancient sea floor sediments. They were created by a process similar to the formation of oyster pearls, where layers of material cover a central nucleus or core. For the oyster, this core is an irritating grain of sand. For the boulders, it was a fossil shell, bone fragment, or piece of wood. Lime minerals in the sea accumulated on the core over time, and the concretion grew into perfectly spherical shapes up to three meters in diameter.
This unusual inverted house was designed by Polish architect and businessman Daniel Chapevski in the village of Shimbark, Poland. The designer believes this house symbolizes the communist era, and overturning it is his way of saying that communism is over in Poland. Hmm…
Lake Retba or Lac Rose lies north of the Cap Vert peninsula of Senegal, north east of Dakar. This lake has an unusual color – it’s pink. Lake Retba’s pink waters are caused by cyanobacteria in the water. The color is particularly visible during the dry season. The lake is also known for its high salt content, which, like that of the Dead Sea, allows people to float easily. The lake also has a small salt collecting industry and is often the finishing point of the Dakar Rally.
Previously we featured works of some brilliant artists like Alyssa Monk, Linda Huber, Eric Zener, Rob Hefferan and others all of whom specializes in creating paintings that you can’t tell apart from photographs. If you loved those works, you will definitely love Richard Estes.
Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter who is best known for his photorealistic paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with painters such as Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, and Duane Hanson. Author Graham Thompson wrote "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs.
István Orosz was born in 1951 and after training as a graphic designer, he first gained recognition as a stage designer and for his work in animated film as animator and director. His posters and graphic art have featured in countless international design exhibitions, and he is well-known as a printmaker and illustrator too. He is perhaps best known for his renewal of the technique of anamorphosis.
Anamorphosis is an art of distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. The art of Anamorphosis was invented in China and brought to Italy in the 16th century, about the time Renaissance artists like Leonardo da Vinci were mastering 3-D and discovering slant anamorphosis.
István Orosz specializes in mirror anamorphosis, where a conical or cylindrical mirror is placed on the drawing to transform a flat distorted image into a three dimensional picture that can be viewed from many angles. He also does slant anamorphosis.
István Orosz’s best creation is probably the one called Mysterious Island. It’s a sketch of a seashore with a sail pushed along by the wind, and two men trekking.
The Red Bull Air Race, started since 2003, is an annual international series of air race event organized by Red Bull in which competitors have to navigate a challenging obstacle course in the fastest time. Pilots fly individually against the clock and have to complete tight turns through a slalom course consisting of pylons, known as "Air Gates".
The races are held across several countries mainly over water near cities, but are also held at airfields or natural wonders.
The following images are from the event held in Perth, Australia. Hannes Arch of Austria won the Red Bull Air Race on Sunday with Matt Hall of Australia getting a career-best second place in front of an enormous crowd of 140,000 watching from the banks of the Swan River in Perth, Australia.
Tim Tadder is an American advertising photographer specialized in dramatic sports photography involving people, actions and concept.
In my early years, I explored ravines and woods near my house. Often being late for dinner lost in another world. A serious interest in painting developed at 11 years old. As I recall, my first painting was of a rainbow trout. My parents hired local artists to instruct me privately during my teen years. A person who really taught good basics was Carl Christophersen. In painting lessons, Carl taught me to divide objects into shapes and planes with hard and soft edges.
This mirrored figure may look like a sculpture, but there is actually a man inside this extravagant costume. This amazing street performer was spotted outside the Griffith Observatory in LA.
Origami Toilet Paper : It is said the toilet is the best place to think. This toilet role with plenty of origami instructions will keep you busy while you are in the loo.
Yorkshire sculptor Marcus Levine uses nails to express the human form. Recently he hammered more than 50,000 steel nails into white wooden panels to create sculptures of male and female models and portraits of two children's faces in a London show.
Argentinean artist Martin Di Girolamo creates figurative sculptures of molded epoxy representing an array of seductive, young women. With perfect bodies, provocative smiles and sexy clothes, his doll-like girls are playful, candy colored, anatomically correct sculptures, around 4 feet high, standing goddess-like on pedestals at eye-level with the viewer.
Marathon Des Sables is a grueling 6 day / 151 mile (243km) endurance race across the Sahara Desert in Morocco, normally taking place at the end of March or beginning of April. The distance covered is equivalent to five-and-a-half marathons, but it is run in several stages. One thousand athletes from 43 countries aged 16 to 73 years came to took part in this year’s competition.
Max Gadney is a master of infographics. He works for the BBC in London commissioning digital products and experiences. Before that he worked at the BBC News website, where he looked after graphics and design. Gadney also designs beautiful inforgraphics for the WWII Magazine that looks beyond the simple mechanics of military technology into their development and use.
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Voted the most influential Czech artist of the last 20 years, Jiří David, unveiled an impressive work of art at Franz Kafka Square in Prague, on March 9.
Before the advent of corporate communications and architectural uniformity, America's built environment was a free-form landscape of individual expression. Signs, artifacts, and even buildings ranged from playful to eccentric, from deliciously cartoonish to psychedelic. Photographer John Margolies spent over three decades and drove more than 100,000 miles documenting these fascinating and endearingly artisanal examples of roadside advertising and fantasy structures, a fast-fading aspect of Americana.
His book Roadside America brings together approximately 400 color photographs of Main Street signs, movie theaters, gas stations, fast food restaurants, motels, roadside attractions, miniature golf courses, dinosaurs, giant figures and animals, and fantasy coastal resorts. Magazine LIFE.com picks up 11 most wacky attractions from among it.
Saimir Strati, an artists from Albania, uses tens of thousands of nails and toothpicks which he hammers into a wooden board to create awesome mosaic art. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest nail mosaic is a 2 meter by 4 meter portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, which consist of about 500,000 industrial nails and weighs 400.
Love-love is a perpetually sinking boat created by French artist Julien Berthier. The boat appears to be sinking but never actually does, thanks to its clever design.
Vipula Athukorale creates extremely detailed sculptures from butter. The level of detail in his work is so fine that he cannot even breathe on the butter before cutting figures. 'If you breathe, it moves your hand,' he said. 'You can't do that. So I lean in, take a deep breath, hold it, do what I need to do and then lean back and breathe out.'
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