Michael Paul Smith is an expert model builder who uses his talent to recreate different instances of the town he grew up in. Once again, I’d like to point out from the beginning that these photos are not “photoshopped”.
I know, they look so real, but I assure you they are only miniature models made of [...]
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Artists like Courtney Love and Kelly Osbourne fought with their drug addictions for a long time, while Michael Jackson and Heath Ledger lost their lives because of them. By creating their portraits out of pills, Mecier tries to emphasize the dangers of drug abuse.
Jason Mecier’s pill-portraits will be a part of his Celebrity Junk Drawer [...]
Katheryn’s style is one that I love–pictures that compositionally don’t have a lot going on but somehow capture your attention anyway. There’s this hazy feel in her shots, usually accompanied by this distinct air of mystery, that really makes you wonder about the story behind the picture. I appreciate photographers who make people think with [...]
Clockwork Love by Tjep.Dutch designers Tjep. are demonstrating a collection of jewellery comprising overlapping symbols at art Gallery Ra in Amsterdam.
Named Clockwork Love, the range includes 6 designs each representing a different emotion, and the symbols are layered to create what look like mechanisms frozen in time.
Light Trail Photography is just an amazing way to catch a moving light. Light trails occur when a Photo is taken including stationary and moving subjects including a slow shutter speed to capture the movement of the light which create some beautiful trails. Long exposures are easiest to accomplish in low-light conditions, but can be [...]
An artist from Pittsburgh named Cliff Maynard, that’s also a tattoo artist, is making portraits by using marijuana joint ends. The portraits are of famous people like Bob Marley, Snoop Dog and John Lennon, to mention a few.
Artists by Movement:
Photorealism
1960’s to 1970’s
Photorealism is a movement which began in the late 1960’s, in which scenes are painted in a style closely resembling photographs. The subject matter is frequently banal and without particular interest; the true subject of a photorealist work is the way in which we interpret photographs and paintings in order to [...]
This monument called Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa) was made for one of studios in VDNKH and first time displayed in Paris in 1937. There was hold a competition for the post of a chief architect and one of the famous Soviet architects at that time, V. I. Mukhina, won the contest. The [...]
In this article we are showcasing beautiful examples of smoke art, the very difficult technique of photographing smoke. Truly awesome and inspiring!
The Headington Shark is a sculpture situated at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a shark embedded head-first in the roof of the house.
The enormous fibre glass shark, created by sculptor John Buckley, was erected on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in August 1986, designed to [...]