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Zombies Spawned from World's Heaviest Pumpkin - My Modern Metropolis
What master sculptor Ray Villafane does with pumpkins is more than just carve a typical holiday jack-o-lantern. We've seen his past pumpkin sculptures before but his latest creation for The New York Botanical Garden is otherworldly. Or should we say... UNDERworldly! (Because he carved out zombies.) Over the course of two days, Villafane used two giant pumpkins to publicly sculpt this masterpiece.Posted on 25 April 2011 by Roy Pessis The whole contraption is comprised of 20 “Great Ball Contraption” modules and an incredible attention to detail. While it doesn’t actually end up performing a function by the end, it is truly stunning and insanely complex.
LEGO Great Ball Contraption | It Is Monday
culdesac: URBATEK showroom READER'S SUBMISSION a 900m2 showroom designed for the presentation of porcelain tiles. the space functions as a working tool to deliver product inform... mutterliebe by studiotomtom
ben heine: pencil vs. camera
L’artista spagnolo Lorenzo Duran si avvale delle foglie come tela per le sue incisioni. Dopo il lavaggio e l’essiccazione, rimuove con precisione chirurgica ed estrema cura i segmenti in eccesso, usando una tecnica simile a quella del tradizionale paper cutting . Quest’ultimo passo è ovviamente il più difficile vista la fragilità del materiale scelto, il risultatò di questo processo è una serie di affascinanti disegni geometrici incredibilmente belli e dilicati. Art Director con oltre 10 anni di esperienza nel campo dell'advertising, alla costante ricerca di nuove fonti di ispirazione.
Lorenzo Duran — Designaside.com
Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
There are lots of ways to create swirls in Illustrator, you can even download vectors from sites such as bittbox and dezignus , and if you are using Photoshop you can download brushes with those sorts of symbols. However in this tutorial I will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors. 1st Way - Arc, Circle, and Path tool Select the Arc Tool and create an arc. You can change the arc's properties by holding the mouse button and pressing the UP and DOWN keys for the angle of the arc, SPACE to move it, and ALT to change the center point.