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Public-Art-Concepts-Dan-Sternof-Beyer_7.jpg (JPEG Image, 1004 × 800 pixels) Enchanted Sky. Digital artist Rhads has updated his portfolio with dreamy images of a gondola and whales swimming over clouds.

Enchanted Sky

His work is magical and surreal, and it makes you want to sit down on the beach to watch the sky spectacle. See also: “A Home at the End of the World.” Cool and Scary Makeup Looks for This Halloween. After all the party food and decoration ideas on Halloween, now it is time for you to decide on your costume, hairstyle and makeup.

Cool and Scary Makeup Looks for This Halloween

For this year, pop-art and doll makeup are the hottest trends. If you are a rebellious type then you should try pop art to look extraordinary. But if you wanna scare your friends seriously then wearing a pair of all black lenses with extended eyelashes, bloody red lipstick on a cropse white skin would just do right. Here are some cool and scary Halloween makeup ideas worth wearing. iGNANT. Zack Seckler’s work is filled with humor and you can’t help but smile when you look at his pictures.

iGNANT

He plays with our expectations of the world often focussing on absurd clichés that seem surreal at times, yet totally plausible. The New York based artist states, that people view life through their own lens. ‘I enjoy refocusing that lens by putting an uncommon twist on common experiences, I create images that inspire humor and imagination’. With that, he hopes to expand each person’s view, at least for a moment. All images © Zack Seckler. Labs - Multicolr Search Lab. Secret Fore-Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa. Animals Dressed In Clothes That Fit Them Like a Second Skin. EmailEmail Madrid-based advertising and industrial photographer Miguel Vallinas presents a fashion photo series, titled Second Skin, where animals are digitally dressed in some super stylish outfits that fit them like a second skin.

Animals Dressed In Clothes That Fit Them Like a Second Skin

Anamorphic 3D Illusion Drawings. The Italian artist Alessandro Diddi questions the point of view and the relevance of the look at things we can have through its anamorphose.

Anamorphic 3D Illusion Drawings

From the point of view that one takes, sketches made ​​in pencil appear to be three dimensional. Some incredible trompe l’oeil to discover in images. Improbabilità – 25 strange objects by Giuseppe Colarusso. Improbabilità – 25 strange objects by Giuseppe Colarusso The series of strange and surreal objects, entitled “Improbabilità“, by the Italian artist Giuseppe Colarusso who hijacks everyday objects to make them deliciously unusable.

Improbabilità – 25 strange objects by Giuseppe Colarusso

Some improbable, but not impossible creations, exposed very simply as still lifes, which divert the functional codes of objects that surround us… Amautalab. Browse The NYPL Digital Picture Collection(P) One year in 40 seconds. Feel the rainbow. Artist Gabriel Dawe is showing his incredible new installation that just opened to the public last October 6 in Como, Italy.

Feel the rainbow

As part of Miniartextil, an annual exhibition of contemporary art, Dawe created Plexus no. 19, a stunning thread installation that’s beautifully spread across two balconies in the atrium of a historic villa. The early 19th century neoclassic house, called Villa Olmo, was acquired in 1924 by the municipality of Como and is now open to the public only during cultural events and art exhibitions like this. This year’s Miniartextil exhibition is called Agora, taking from the Greek word that describes an important public place where people come to share ideas. The visitor is invited to not just look at the artwork but to be actively involved in it. 374731359_b7d24f51ca_o.jpg (JPEG Image, 960 × 1280 pixels) - Scaled (95.

Artist Hong Yi Plays with her Food for 30 Days. For almost every day last month Malaysian artist/architect Hong Yi (who often goes by the nickname Red) created a fun illustration made with common (and occasionally not so common) food.

Artist Hong Yi Plays with her Food for 30 Days

Her parameters were simple: the image had to be comprised entirely of food and the only backdrop could be a white plate. With that in mind Yi set out to create landscapes, animals, homages to pop culture, and even a multi-frame telling of the three little pigs. The project, which still appears to be ongoing, has been documented heavily around the web, but if you haven’t seen it all head over to her Facebook and read an interview on designboom. Photos will also be appearing on her Instagram at @redhongyi. Brian Dettmer Book Carvings. Brian Dettmer, also known as “The Book Surgeon” uses knives, tweezers and surgical tools to carve old dictionaries and encyclopedias into incredible works of art.

Brian Dettmer Book Carvings

Born in 1974, in Chicago, Brian Dettmer studied art at Colombia College, where he focused mainly on painting. During his time working in a signage store, the artist started exploring the relationship between codes, text, language and art. He began producing paintings based on sign language, Braille and Morse Code, then moved on to layered works that involved pasting newspaper and book pages to a canvas, and it was just a matter of time before he would discover the talent he is now renowned for – expert book carving. Category:Paintings by painter. Ebstorfer-stich2.jpg (JPEG Image, 3571 × 3566 pixels) Spectacular Moleskine Doodles Explode with Energy. Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes proves that doodling can be so much more than scratching unintelligible scribbles on paper.

Spectacular Moleskine Doodles Explode with Energy

Through his Sketchy Stories blog, Rosanes shares his wonderful world of doodling in a simple Moleskine sketchbook. Equipped with an ordinary Moleskine, a few Uni Pin drawing pens, and his innate gift for drawing, the artist is able to transport viewers to a world where tiny, cartoonish creatures explode with gusto to make up larger entities. Daryll Peirce. Grey Expectations. Via thatscienceguy: I have always wondered what. Rafal Olbinski. 8 Ordinary Things That Look Insanely Cool Under a Microscope. A really powerful microscope is the sort of thing nobody would buy for entertainment, yet we can't shake the feeling that if we had one, we'd use it all the time.

That's because, as we've proven several times over, the most mundane crap in your house is transformed into surreal, freaky, trippy, and sometimes terrifying works of art when viewed at a microscopic level. Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1000-1900) Necessity brings him here, not pleasure. Negative space animal masterpieces on Behance. Isn't That King David? Nope, It's Just Dave : Krulwich Wonders...

Usually they're naked, ancient and stony. But all of a sudden, they could live next door. Photo and idea conception: Léo Caillard; Retouching: Alexis Persani The Paris-based designer Leo Caillard had, as he wrote me, "the idea conception" and took the photographs. "Accurate Candy Wrappers" by Chase Mitchell. If Candy Wrappers Were Honest About What's Inside. Pencil sketches that seem to stand up off the page [12 pictures]

Most of these drawings by Ramon Bruin seem relatively simple, but at the same time, because of their shadows and some intriguingly placed real-life props in the photographs, the sketched images appear to be almost magically leaving the bounds of the paper they’re drawn on… (via My Modern Met) Andrew Smith Gallery - Ansel Adams. Ephemeral Portraits Cut from Layers of Wire Mesh by Seung Mo Park. Using a process that could be the new definition of meticulous, Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park creates giant ephemeral portraits by cutting layer after layer of wire mesh. Each work begins with a photograph which is superimposed over layers of wire with a projector, then using a subtractive technique Park slowly snips away areas of mesh. Each piece is several inches thick as each plane that forms the final image is spaced a few finger widths apart, giving the portraits a certain depth and dimensionality that’s hard to convey in a photograph, but this video on YouTube shows it pretty well.

Park just exhibited this month at Blank Space Gallery in New York as part of his latest series Maya (meaning “illusion” in Sanskrit). You can see much more at West Collects. (art news, west collects, lavinia tribiani) Anamorphic drawings by Istvan Orosz. Article by James Pond. Girls On Blow Job (Video) on Behance. Activity Feed. Jon Foster Gallery. Painting on tree trunks. Jean Jullien's online portfolio: Allo? Imagination - Play with beautiful wavy lines. Perpendicular Dreams. Art History Timelines: Index. Art - Visual News. Untitled. Eugène Atget (9 Photos. The Art of Alex Gross - Paintings. Photographer's Girlfriend Leads Him Around the World. My Modern Metropolis. Art. Contextually it’s pivotal, an artistic exploration of the metaphysical, developed in the digital; all rhymes aside, Los Angeles based artist Anthony Gargasz,’s new collection ‘Metallic Faces’ simply cannot be ignored for these three reasons.

Photos: Walk Between The Raindrops At MoMA's New "Rain Room" Abstract Expressionism. Galería online. L’avant et l’après de peintures connues. Avant et après un jogging. The Beauty Of Cinemagraph GIFs - Page 2 of 5. Pitch-Perfect Celebrity Portraits by Mike Mitchell. Mike Mitchell is a master of media… and by that we mean the celebrities that make media worth watching. From remixed superheroes, to childhood memories and portraits of celebs, his sharp images bring a touch of class to the things which entertain us so well.

Now Mitchell is featuring a series of movie character portraits that are incredibly well done, each eliciting just the attitude you’d expect from each memorable individual. See Also MUGSHOT DOPPELGÄNGER: OLD MUGS GET CELEBRITY FACES The series is currently being shown at the Mondo Gallery in hip Austin Texas (April 26 – May 25). The 12 Most Strangely Satisfying Videos on the Internet. If you're anything like me, you'll go to YouTube looking for obscure turn-of-the-century girl bands and find yourself, five hours later, watching 12-minute-long videos of old men shaving sheep. DOUBLE EXPOSURE PORTRAITS on Behance. Incredible tattoo - Rotorama. Untitled. : David Padworny : Homepage : 2009 : Painting : Drawing : Photography : Sculpture : Assemblage : Unbelievable Metal Sculptures by David Kracov.

Article by James Pond. Dran - The French Banksy. Based in Toulouse, Dran is a multi-talented artist who uses a variety of media such as installations, paintings and drawings to convey his ironic viewpoint. 7 Tricks To Take Awesome Travel Pictures. EmailEmail. Tele-Present Water by David Bowen visualizes intensity and movement of the water in a remote location #maxmsp #arduino. Vintage political posters. Street Art by Mobstr. Mariel Clayton - Doll Photographer with a subversive sense of humour. Old man in the armchair 2, Rembrandt Wallpapers. Dream Anatomy: Gallery: Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica... Q5XetQeFu-0&autoplay=1 (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Anamorphic Installations by Bernard Pras. World’s Best Father documents what an amazing parent he is [30 pictures] BY ARTIST.