35-year-old Kobi Levy, who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, has a radically different taste in footwear. Levy’s creations are often bizarre and awesome at the same time. Take his chewing gum shoes for instance. It may look like this person has unwittingly stepped on a blob of chewing gum on the pavement - but the sticky mess is actually a part of the shoe.
Checkout some of his others designs. Also see Part 2
Vienna-based choreographer Willi Dorner presented a public art series called ‘Bodies in Urban Spaces’ in the Lower Manhattan area last Sunday and Monday. This human architecture is made of 22 dancers and performers in orange hoodies, purple tights and bright green who turned themselves into human sculptures that complement the surrounding architecture.
Licia Ronzulli, an MEP from Italy, took her seven-week old daughter Victoria to work at the European parliament this week at Strasbourg. And this wasn’t even Take-Your-Child-to-Work day. She kept her baby carefully cradled against her in a sling and occasionally leant to kiss her on the forehead. Photographs of Ronzulli cradling her daughter in a sling as she voted on proposals to improve women's employment rights were broadcast around the world and published in newspapers from the US to Vietnam.
Robert Capa (October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954), was a Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist who was famous for his spectacular and powerful scenes from war. His action photographs, such as those taken during the 1944 Normandy invasion, portray the violence of war with unique impact.
One of three boxes containing negatives by Robert Capa.
In1939, Robert Capa was in Paris at a time when the whole of France was under siege by the Nazi. Robert Capa decides to flee to America but in his haste leaves behind three small suitcases filled with negatives made between 1936 and 1939 during his coverage of the Spanish Civil War. This cache of historic film, known as the "Mexican Suitcase," was smuggled out of Europe early in World War II, then lay hidden and forgotten for decades. After nearly 70 years, the International Center of Photography acquired the three suitcases and with it 3,500 lost photos in about 100 rolls of films.
Photographers Jean-Louis Klein and Marie-Luce Hubert, both from the Alsace, France, spent the year snapping the elusive harvest mice in a project that ended with their release into the wild. Laying patiently in meadows and reed beds, the pair were able to capture the fascinating images. A stunning and rare insight into the secret tiny lives of adorable harvest mice is revealed in incredible pictures captured painstakingly over 12 months.
An inquisitive mouse balances on two ears of wheat to take a close look at one of the cameras
The visually stunning field of tilt-shift photography became a fairly big thing in the Web a couple of years ago. It uses a special lens that gives a real-world scene the illusion of being a miniature model. You've probably seen examples by now.
The guys over at Artcyclopedia decided to simulate this effect on the works of Vincent van Gogh. Using Photoshop they adjusted the photograph's contrast, colour saturation and depth of focus to produce some really stunning and amusing results.
The clean waters around the island of Palawan in the Philippines Sea have attracted investors to pearl farming for decades. There are several pearl firms actively operating at Palawan, but only one cultivates the exquisite and rare golden pearl – Jewelmer,
Jewelmer is the only pearl producer in the world that has successfully produced pearls with a rich, natural golden color. Through decades of research and biotechnology, Jewelmer was able to perfect the breeding process that produces gold-lipped Pinctada maxima pearl oysters capable of growing large, lustrous, golden pearls. This deep, rich color can only be found in South Sea pearls produced in the Philippines.
Ivan Lovatt is a professional sculptor who has been creating amazing sculpture for the past 6 years. Ivan initially worked with driftwood and reclaimed timber, which he fashioned into exquisite representations of birds and wildlife. Later he turned to chicken wire. By layering, twisting and shaping this very ordinary medium Ivan recreates portraits of famous people such as Michael Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and The Beatles. Ivan received a great deal of publicity and public acclaim for this work and won the Swell Festival People’s Choice in 2004.
American artist Jason Freeny creates quirky 3D posters and sculptures depicting the insides of well known cartoon characters such as Mario, Lego man, Nemo the fish and others. His prints are available for sale at his company Moist Productions.
The lower reaches of the southern slopes of Khasi and Jaintia hills, in Northeastern India, are humid, warm and streaked by many swift flowing rivers and mountain streams. On the slopes of this hill, among the dense undergrowth, a species of Indian Rubber tree – (Ficus Elastica) - thrives and flourishes. These trees shoot out many secondary roots from their trunks. The trees, supported by these secondary roots, can comfortably perch itself on huge boulders along side the riverbanks or in the middle of rivers and send its roots down to the riverbed.
On Saturday, September 18th, with the tapping of the first keg by Munich Mayor Christian Ude and a cry of "O'zapft is!", Oktoberfest 2010 officially started in Munich, Germany. This 17-day festival is held each year in Munich, running from late September to the first weekend in October. It is one of the most famous events in Germany and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year.
While this year marks the 177th Oktoberfest to be held, 2010 is the 200th anniversary of the very first Oktoberfest in 1810 (some years were missed due to war or cholera outbreaks). The Oktoberfest tradition started in 1810 to celebrate the October 12th marriage of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. The citizens of Munich were invited to join in the festivities which were held over five days on the fields in front of the city gates. This year, festivities will run until October 4, 2010.
Collected here are a few images from this opening weekend.
A young woman wearing a traditional Bavarian "Dirndl" smiles as she receives a mug of beer in the Hofbrauhaus tent after the opening of the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany, on September 18, 2010. (Thomas Kienzle/AFP/Getty Images)
French photographer Alain Delorme became fascinated by the piles of stacked products migrant Chinese workers loaded into their bicycles. The precariously overloaded packages often assume unusual forms. His documentation of the packed bicycles forms a series of photographs entitled Totems, which are both aesthetically glorious and astoundingly indicative of daily life in China.
The images were captured during two art residencies in Shanghai throughout 2009 and 2010.
A swimming competition for babies, aged 0 to 3 years, was held in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province on Aug 22, 2010. This is so adorable.
Adrian Gray has been developing his art of stone balancing for many years. His ability to create almost impossible to believe compositions has created wonder and left witnesses in awe and mesmerized.
By very carefully feeling the balancing point of each rock he handles - a process that requires awesome skill and patience - Gray is able to arrange them in ways that seem incredible. 'The trick is putting together stones which look like they couldn't possibly sit on top of one another. Only then can you you make something extraordinary' , Gray explains.
Extra tight, figure hugging clothes had just become easier to obtain. A Spanish fashion designer has developed the world's first spray-on clothing that can be worn, washed and worn again. Manel Torres joined forces with scientists at Imperial College London to invent the spray, which forms a seamless fabric on contact with the body.
Torres took 15 minutes to spray a T-shirt onto a male model in a demonstration today, ahead of his spring/summer collection at the Science in Style fashion show in London next week. The spray consists of short fibres that are mixed into a solvent, allowing it to be sprayed from a can or high-pressure spray gun. The fibres are mixed with polymers that bind them together to form a fabric. The texture of the fabric can be varied by using wool, linen or acrylic fibres. The fabric, which dries when it meets the skin, is very cold when it is sprayed on, a limitation that may frustrate hopes for spray-on trousers and other garments.
Lüneburg, a German city in the state of Lower Saxony, is known as the salt capital of Germany. For more than 1000 years salt has determined the history of the city and made it powerful and wealthy. It was not until 1980 that the production of salt in the Luneburg Saline saltworks finally closed its gates.
Today, the former saltworks houses the German Salt Museum. The museum brings Luneburg's history and its significance as a salt town to life. It recalls the history of the oldest and, at one time, the greatest industrial operation in central Europe.
66 Drives consists of photographs made while traveling 50 to 70 mph in Los Angeles and other parts of the Southwestern United States. Needless to say, it’s a fantastic photographic document by Andrew Bush. Here are some of my favorites.
Chinese artist Li Wei’s work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. Li, who is from Beijing, started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.
A Slovenian tourist on a visit to the Ahtari zoo in Finland captured these remarkable images of a female brown bear practicing Yoga. The female bear, called Santra, performs routine stretching exercise for about 15 minutes every day she wakes up from a nap.
"She held her legs with her hands for a minute or two in a V position and then put them down and relaxed," said Meta Penca, a 29-year-old web programmer to The Daily Mail. "Then she put up her left leg and put it straight with her hands and held it with her left hand for a bit. Then she lifted the other leg, straightened it and held it with her right hand for around two minutes and then had a little rest and then all over again.”
Norwegians have their own way of going green, and quite literally. For hundreds of years houses in Norway have been covered with turf. And they come in different varieties. Some are bright green and almost velvety. Others are golden and look like they’re growing wheat or oats. A number of turf roofs have flowers mixed in with the grass, and a few have small trees.
The advantages of turf roofs (also called sod roofs) are many. They are very heavy, so they help to stabilize the house; they provide good insulation; and they are long-lasting.
Made by various artists, these jaw dropping digital illustrations are some of the top notch you will find on DeviantART. Do checkout the profile page of each illustrator.
Photographer Benjamin Norman photographed various tennis players' serves during the anticipatory moments between the toss of the ball and the point of contact at this year's U.S. Open.
David Ferrer serves against Benjamin Becker on September 3, 2010.
These incredibly huge concentric forms were created by American artist Jim Denevan by carving out ice from the frozen lake of Baikal in Siberia. The artist, who created similar massive art on sand in the Nevada desert last year, headed out to Siberia this year to draw these beautiful patterns on ice with a team of helpers and a broom. Denevan is known for creating expansive, meditative works with repetitive patterns and endless scale. The Baikal artwork spans an area of nine square miles!
Ribbonesia is the brainchild of Japanese artist and illustrator Baku Maeda, an art project of beautiful three-dimensional animals created using ribbons and other fabric. Maeda’s adorable ribbon origami sculptures can be used to decorate gift boxes or just about anything.
Last month, a 100 Km (60 miles) long traffic jam was created on the Beijing-Tibet expressway. The jam had entered its10th day when reports first broke out on international media on April 23, 2010. The congestion which started on April 13 along the outskirts of Beijing was stretching toward the border of Inner Mongolia ever since roadwork on the Beijing-Tibet Highway started.
Local authorities had to dispatch essential supplies, such as food or flammables, around the main bottleneck as vehicles crawled along little more than a third of a mile a day. Fortunately, the jam seemed to have been cleared by August 25, according to a Yahoo report.
Subodh Gupta is an artist based in New Delhi, India. His work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance and video. Gupta chooses signature objects of the Indian sub-continent such as stainless steel cooking utensils and tiffin-boxes, and relocates them as art objects in monumental installations.
The following installation named Spill is an overbearing work of great scale that has at its centre a larger than life stainless steel water vessel, with many smaller steel utensils spilling over the edge like water pouring out.
Of course, advertisement is still sexist but early print advertisements were more blatant, some of them downright offensive. Could you imagine what the reaction would be if any of these advertisements were put up today?
Randall Rosenthal is an amazing artist who creates incredible wooden sculptures. His wood creations are so realistic and so detailed that it is very easy to be mistaken. Look at this image below. It’s not paper.
The interesting thing about these realistic looking sculptures is the fact that these are hand carved from just one block of wood. Using trompe l'oeil painting techniques, Randall Rosenthal makes his works look just like the real thing, by creating a three dimensional reality. In his shows, he usually allows only just one of his sculptures to be touched; while the rest are left for guessing whether they are also made of wood. His sculpture called "Lunch Money" took six weeks to carve and another six to paint. It was later sold for 25.000$.
In his latest series called Aqueous (I and II), artist Mark Mawson from London drips several drops of coloured paint into a tank of water and captures the results on camera. Some people see toadstools and others see huge fiery mushroom clouds like the results of an atomic bomb - but these images are just splashes of paint dripped into water.
The best thing about art is that they can show up in any form in the most unusual places. The food industry is one of the places where we have seen plenty of examples. Here are some more food art, this time in the form of delicious sandwiches.
Every year, on the first Sunday of September, the Historical Regatta is held in Venice. Hundreds of Venetians pile into the long boats that have plied the city's canals for centuries for the 'Regata Storica' (Historical Regatta), a historical procession that commemorates the welcome given to Caterina Cornaro, wife of the King of Cyprus, in 1489 after she renounced her throne in favour of Venice.
The spectacular historical water pageant is driven by gondoliers wearing historic costume carrying the Doge, the Doge’s wife and all the highest ranking Venetian officials up the Grand Canal in a brightly coloured parade. This is followed by four separate boat races. The winners are awarded flags in place of medals. Until few years ago, together with the symbolic prizes, there were also some kind of awards; the most famous of them was a little living pig, that would parade on a gondola of its own. The pig ceremony has been abolished since few years ago after protests by some animal protection organizations. PETA is always ruining the fun.
Most people can’t resist when they see a dirty unwashed car window and end up scrawling funny figures or clever messages like “wash me”. But one artist in San Marcos, Texas is elevating these dust-covered canvases to the level of high art.
Scott Wade uses filthy car windows as canvases to create incredible but temporary masterpieces. He could spend up to four hours perfecting his dirt drawings but one heavy downpour is enough to destroy his hard work.
Mr Wade first rubs oil onto the window and sprays it with Fuller's earth, the type used on film sets, and uses a hair dryer to blow the dirt on. The process takes ten minutes, much quicker than the seven days Mr Wade said it would take to build up a 'natural' canvas by driving a car up and down a dirt track.
A few week ago we posted a couple of Lego creations inspired by the movie Inception. The latest recreation blows all of them to pieces, because not only it looks impressive, it creates the movie’s one of the most visually impressive scene. Using forced perspective, Flickr user -infomaniac- executes it flawlessly.
Car accessory manufacturer Turbo Style Products has invented a ridiculous new product - fake eyelashes for your car!
The guys at the Westwood Flea Market deserve applause for making their mobile burger truck look so real. The truck was spotted near Kansas by the photographer while on a road trip across US.
Attempts To Fly is a photo series by photographer Conan Thai in which he freezes people as they leap into the air.
This set features photos depicting figures in motion at heights trying to find transcendence within the normal humdrum of life. Each image serves as a record of the “attempt” to fly. This stems from my desire to not become a cog in the clockwork of the waking life but, as we grow older, the actions we take become habitual and ritualized. It becomes necessary to do so to streamline our activities and provide for a minimum of bumps in the road. In doing so, we neglect the paths that diverge and intersect our intended direction.
People usually throw away the bottle cap and never think twice, while some collect them and create jewelry out of it. But will you wear these when you go out for dinner? On the other hand, if you will, then checkout the Coca Cola Jewelry store where you can buy all sorts of trinkets for as less as 4 bucks.. And you might even like jewelry out of human teeth, or food shaped earrings and other ridiculous collection.
Brooklyn-based artist Alex Roulette creates oil based paintings that look incredibly real. In his most recent series titled Fabricated Realism, all the landscapes and subjects that Alex paints are actually invented. They appear to be painted versions of existing photographs, but Roulette is creating events and places and people that never were.
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Only PETA knows how to draw public attention – plastic wrap half naked women in a pool of artificial blood, paint coat celebrities, or get them to pose nude. Last week, PETA hired a couple of gorgeous beauties in bird costumes to distribute egg-less sweets and pastries made from purely vegetarian ingredients, on the streets of Washington
PETA activists Ember TeGantvoort and Ashley Byrne, in playful costumes, even handed out booklets in which tell about a recent massive contamination of eggs with Salmonella. Last month, the the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. recalled 550 million eggs from farms around the country after a salmonella outbreak, which lead to 1,900 cases of salmonella poisoning.
The 12th Buenos Aires Tango Festival and the 8th Tango Dance World Championship came to a close this August. The annual competition featured 400 couples from 23 countries. This year Chizuko Kuwamoto of Japan and Diego Ortega of Spain took the grand prize. Here is a collection of pictures from the competition.
French painter and collage artist Anastassia Elias creates tiny scenes with paper inside cardboard toilet paper tubes. Anastassia uses paper the same color as the cardboard tubes to build up the intricate pictures of people, which gives the illusion that the scene taking place inside the walls are actually part of the roll itself. The models, which sell for £90 each, come alive when light is shined through the roll from one end. The details and depth of each piece is impressive.
The talented Ukrainian artist Vladislav Erko has created an absolutely amazing deck of playing cards based on authentic traditional Ukrainian costumes.
The Baltimore Comic Con show is considered to be the younger brother of San Diego Comic Convention. It was founded on in 2000 by Marc Nathan, the owner of Cards, Comics, and Collectibles of Reistertown, MD. The first Comic Con lasted only one day and was held at the Sheraton Hotel in the Baltimore. This has now become a 2-day affair and the venue shifted to the Baltimore Convention Center in downtown Baltimore.
Annually various comic publishers, writers, charitable organizations and companies producing genre-related items including comic book back-issues, limited edition collectible items such as Toon Tumblers and clothing, videos/DVDs, etc gather at Baltimore. More than 100 contestants for best costumes expressed their love to comics and individuality. These pictures are from 2010 convention.
Photo-blogger Russos on the way to the Crimea stopped near an abandoned airfield in Ukraine for a night in tents. Early in the morning he was amazed at the number of aircraft at the airfield and started shooting.
The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event which since 1964 has taken place on the streets of Notting Hill, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , London. The event is held each August, over two days and is led by members of the British African-Caribbean community, particularly the Trinidadian and Tobagonian British population or 'Trinis', many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s. The carnival has attracted up to 2 million people in the past, making it the second largest street festival in the world after the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival held in that country.
Every year, during this time, the usually peacefully trickling River Windrush is invaded by two boisterous teams of local players, battling it out for victory in the annual Bourton-in-the-Water Football in the River match. Hundreds of spectators gather around the grassy river banks to watch the teams fight it out among themselves, in a tradition that is over 100 years old.
Two teams of six from Bourton Rovers Football Club compete in the unique football match trying to control the ball in knee to ankle deep water. Plenty of waters are splashed about and spectators are advised to wear waterproof clothes if they plan on getting very close to the action. Splashing is all part of the fun.
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