From Dusk To Dawn: Photographer Creates Amazing Cityscapes Showing The Transition From Night To Day
These stunning photographs are not just colourful depictions of city life – they are also part of a visionary attempt to capture the passage of time in still images. Artist Fong Qi Wei was keen to invent a way to show how scenes change over time, without resorting to a video camera or time-lapse photography. So he captured multiple pictures of the same sites over the course of a day, before splicing them together into a single image taken over several hours. The series is entitled ‘Time is a Dimension’, and aims to prove that skilled photography can show the passage of time just as easily as a video. Continue reading »
Self-Taught Baker Creates Incredibly Realistic Cakes That Look Like Bowls Of Pasta, Donor Kebabs And Junk Food
When it comes to crazy cake decoration, Pintrest is the place to go for inspiration, tutorials, and just awe-inspiring creations. Cakes made by Laura Loukaides fall in the latter catagory. Her baking creations are incredibly detailed and impeccably crafted, leading to a lot of love on social media. What’s more is that 23-year-old Ms Loukaides, who is from the Hertfordshire, is self taught and has never attended professional baking classes. Continue reading »
Georgian Car Club Creates The Rainbow With 76 Dodge Challengers
Skittles might want to make you taste the rainbow, but one car club in Georgia will make you want to be the rainbow. During a gathering of the Peach State Challengers, a Georgia-based car club that is all about the—you guessed it—Dodge Challenger, the members put together their 76 Challengers in the ultimate display of color. Continue reading »
An Artist Creates Mesmerizing Kinetic Sand Drawings Coffee Tables
Bruce Shapiro is an artist standing behind this unusual tables which will mesmerize you few moments after you start watching them. This kinetic sand drawing machines in a form of tables trace beautiful patterns in thin layers of sand by a movement of a metal ball. He named this project Sisyphus, alluding to infinity of motion and struggles of the hero from the Greek myth, just like a ball seems to roll endlessly creating beautiful patterns in the sand under the surface of a coffee table. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Impressive Paintings By Using His Boxing Gloves
Photo by Antonio Calanni/AP Photo
When he creates art work, Omar Hassan doesn’t get out paint brushes. He gets out his boxing gloves. Hassan, a 29-year-old artist and boxer, has combined his two passions, with the goal to bring the disciplines closer. Hassan, born in Milan to an Italian mother and Egyptian father, creates the works by dipping his glove in paint, and punching the canvas stretched over cardboard to keep it from breaking. He calls the series “Breaking Through Milano.” His paintings sell from 8,000 to 40,000 euros, which he calls “a great satisfaction, but not the goal”. Continue reading »
This German Artist Creates Cartoons And Comic Series About Travel Adventures And Cultural Discoveries
Mr. Fopa is a comic series about travel adventures and cultural discoveries centred around a friendly and native German artist Katarina Harth, who is fascinated with diverse cultures and places around the world. Accompanied by Max, a cowardly sausage dog that finds exploring the wide world terrifying, but faces his fear to back up his best friend’s adventures. Continue reading »
Polish Fashion Artists Creates Beautiful Felted Animal Scarves
Polish fashion designers Maja and Celina Debowska have cleverly crafted these felt animal scarves and stoles. While the sisters make a range of cold-weather accessories such as hats and gloves, the critter stoles really steal the show—the level of detail is pretty astounding. Continue reading »
This Pastry Artist Creates Absolutely Beautiful Minimalist Cakes Inspired By Architecture And 3D Shapes
Originally trained as an architect, Dinara Kasko is a Ukranian pastry chef who approaches the design of her desserts as though they were ultra-modern buildings. Continue reading »
Assisted Living Facility Creates Mock Town To Help Residents With Alzheimer’s
Check this out: after a user on Reddit posted a photo of an assisted living facility “designed to look like a golf course community,” the internet ate it up. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Edible Replica Of A House From Tim Burton’s Newest Movie
Los Angeles-based artist Christine McConnell (previously here and here) created this astounding replica and she made it by using gingerbread. The gingerbread house is supposed to be a replica of a house from Tim Burton’s newest movie “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children.” Not only does it look cool, but it’s 100% edible. Continue reading »
Oakland-Based Artist Gabriel Schama Creates Precisely Layered Wood Relief Sculptures That Are A Delight To Explore
Each 1/8 inch piece of laser-cut mahogany plywood stacks into an exquisite union of overlapping geometry in mandala-like forms. Recently, Schama has been placing these patterns within human silhouettes for a striking contrast. Using his trusty laser cutter (which he named Elsie) he uses vector illustrations to define each layer. After cutting, each piece is assembled, glued and finished by hand. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Unusual Jewelry From Silver Forks
Nick Greco has a really original method of jewelry creation. The jeweler chose to make his products from old silver forks. The result is very impressive. Why silver forks? There is no univocal answer. Nick Greco is from Greek. He lives and works on a small Greek archipelago of Cyclades. When you look at these rings and bracelets, it is very hard to believe that before you are recycled forks. Here is a small collection of works by this author so you can see it yourself. Continue reading »
Photographer Creates Imaginative Images Of Her Daughter And Her Shadow
Self-taught photographer Kelly Tan has an ongoing series, titled ‘I Have a Dream’, which features her young daughter casting shadows that are shaped like magical creatures and scenes. These imaginative shadows are cast on a plain gray wall, reflecting an alternate reality that is innocent and fun through the eyes of her daughter. All the images are shot and edited on her iPhone and iPad. Using apps like ArtStudio, Snapseed and PSExpress to edit and integrate them with stock photos and fairytale-inspired compositions. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Exploding Trash Sculptures To Remind Us How Much Stuff We Own
Argentinian artist José Luis Torres has been taking out the trash, painting it in vibrant colors and putting it back in cities across Canada as sculptures. No, it’s not some compulsive disorder, he’s been doing this to demonstrate just how much stuff we own and the insane amount of waste we produce. Continue reading »
An Artist Creates Dreamy Illustrations Out Of Clouds
Few things are more beautiful than puffy white clouds floating in the bright blue sky. Do you remember the time when you would lay on the soft green grass, look up at the sky, and try to recognize shapes in the clouds floating overhead? Wasn’t it wonderful, just lying there, letting the wind caress your skin, as you imagine that the clouds in the sky are actually mystical or not-so-mystical creatures? Dragons, ducks, teddy bears, dinosaurs, everything was up there. Continue reading »
This Girl Creates Magically Awesome Crowns Out Of Seashells
Chelsea Shiels is a 27-year-old Australian accessories designer who has always been in love with the sea and collected seashells. Sometimes you can find a brilliant idea right beneath your feet: Chelsea, inspired by the elegance of the seashells, started to create awesome crowns with them, and she posted them on her Instagram and Facebook. At first it was a hobby for herself, but soon the beauty of these accessories conquered the Internet. Fashion magazines wrote about the crowns, worthy of a Sea Queen. Now, people buy them for photo sessions and parties. Continue reading »
Artist Creates A Giant Anamorphic Tribute Portrait Of James Conway Farley Using Thrift Store Clothing
In a site-specific installation for Family Day at the Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, artist Noah Scalin used thrift store clothing to create a giant anamorphic portrait of James Conway Farley, a renowned African-American photographer in the 19th century Continue reading »
Artist Creates Monster Sculptures That Look So Real They Ruined Your Sleep Forever
Take a look at what modern art has brought upon us. And you thought Dr. Frankenstein had a knack for creating monsters. This Arizona-based artist is a master of creating pure terror. Continue reading »
Sculptor Creates A Mutant ‘Concept Human’ To Survive Car Crashes
Here we have sculptor Patricia Piccinini’s ugly baby, Graham, a high-concept mutant designed to withstand car crashes. Graham’s unsettling physiology was created in collaboration with trauma surgeon Christian Kenfield and road safety engineer David Logan in order to emphasize how incredibly fragile our (comparatively attractive) human bodies are, and as far as public safety service announcements go, he really gets the point across. Our mushy little brains are so vulnerable in our (more or less) normal-sized heads! Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Organic Plastic Woven Threads Sculptures
Designer and architect Sui Park, based in New York and born in Seoul, creates plastic black and white sculptures with organic flexible 3D shapes. With a notion of movement, she considers her works as sometimes mystical and illusionary, like mirages. She can make a group of sculptures similar to aquatic organisms or jellyfish, or suspended works like swimming fish. Continue reading »
GIF Of Thrones: An Artist Creates A Weekly GIF That Corresponds To Each Episode Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 6
Thanks to artist Eran Mendel (website / Facebook). Warning: potential spoilers! Here: The Red Woman Continue reading »
This L.A. Studio Creates Fun And Colorful Balloon Installations
With her mission statement being to bring “a little piece of wonder” into the lives of others, Jihan Zencirli created Geronimo Balloons. Started in 2011, Jihan and her team use giant colorful balloons to create elaborate decorations, backdrops, and company branding. Rather than focusing on just creating a beautiful or aesthetically pleasing visual product, Jihan aims to create a feeling of wonder and delight inside of her audience by producing creations they don’t see everyday. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Gorgeous Silk Dragon Scarves
According to an artist MyDragonSpirit: “I have always been fascinated with the worlds of fantasy and fairy-tales. With places where imagination can run free and nothing is impossible.” Continue reading »
Optical Illusion Graffiti Creates Portal To A Parallel Universe On The Side Of A Building
Parisian graffiti artist Astro contorts flat architectural facades into illusory vortexes with a vibrant graphic twist. His painted patterns combine smooth, swirling curves and calligraphy with sharper shapes in dynamically detailed designs that are eye-catching on their own; and, as if to suck his viewers farther into each piece, he adds the appearance of dark, receding chasms, tunneling deep into the walls. Continue reading »
French Artist Creates Mind Blowing Trompe-L’oeil Illusions
Patrick Commecy, a talented street artist from France, makes these mind-bending hyper-realistic wall paintings. The before and after photos show the big difference these murals create. It is true that sometimes walls of a building can look really dull and boring, but Patrick has some mad skills to transform them into something amazing and beautiful. Continue reading »
