Light Cathedral Made of 55,000 LEDs. Created by Cagna Illumiations, the light cathedral made from 55,000 LEDs, for the 2012 Ghent Light Festival is one of the most beautiful light displays you’ll ever see.
Designed as a symbolic entrance to the Ghent Light Festival, the colorful cathedral imagined by Italian company Luminarie De Cagna stole the show at this year’s event. The gigantic colonnade was adorned with around 55,000 colorful LED bulbs that shine so bright you’d think they consume enough electricity to power a small town, but in reality, the entire installation consumes only 20 Kwatt/h.
Inspired by Romanesque and Renaissance architecture, the LED cathedral towered 28 meters high. Photo © Stijn Coppens This project seems even more impressive when you think Luminarie de Cagna was founded in 1930, as a family business that illuminated buildings and squares with oil and carbide lamps, on festive occasions. Photo © Sacha Vanhecke Photo © Zeldenrust Photo © Rudy Denoyette Photo © Jeroen Fassaert via This Is Colossal Reddit.
Man Turns His House into Renaissance-Style Masterpiece. Robert Burns, a 63-year-old retired decorator from England, has turned the interior of his house into a modern-day Renaissance masterpiece.
After years of painting other people’s houses in boring, pastel colors, Burns got bored. He remembers thinking he had spent 15 years of his life applying the exact shade of magnolia with a paint roller, and was in desperate need of a creative outlet. One day, he bought two books about the Vatican at a car boot sale, and suddenly discovered the Italian Renaissance. Even though he had never been to Florence or Rome, he said to himself “How difficult can this be, I’m a decorator”, and that’s how it all started. When he started working on his Renaissance interior, the self-taught artist redid his first painting three or four times because he thought it didn’t look good enough, but he soon got the hang of it and began to understand how great classics like Caravaggio or Michaelangelo did their works. Via Daily Mail Reddit Stumble. EMPTY KINGDOM You are Here, We are Everywhere - StumbleUpon. 3d Murals by John Pugh. These are some of the most realistic trompe l’oeil murals I have ever seen.
John Pugh has to be one of the most talented trompe l’oeil painters in the world. He creates unbelievably realistic murals that trick the viewer’s eye into seeing a three-dimensional scene. Pugh’s works can be seen all across the world, from New Zealand to Hawaii. Photos by John Pugh/ BARCROFT via Telegraph.co.uk Reddit Stumble. A'shop Graffiti Crew Turns Side of Building into Work of Art. Montreal-based graffiti crew A’shop has managed to transform the bland side of a building located at the corner of Madison and Sherbrooke Street West into an amazing piece of art.
Graffiti artists Fluke, Guillaume Lapointe, Antonin Lambert, DoDo Ose and Bruno Rathbone spent two weeks researching the project and gathering tools they needed, and then worked 16 days from dawn till dusk in order to complete the incredible five-storey mural. Known as the “N.D.G. Project” (after its location), the giant graffiti artwork is a modern take on “Our Lady of Grace” and was inspired by the work of Czech art nouveau painter Alphinse Mucha.
To finish their masterpiece, the boys from A’shop used over 500 cans of paint, in over 50 different colors. Good thing the art project was sponsored by the city of Montreal, or that could have caused a serious dent in their budget. “The main thing that struck us was the public’s reaction while we were painting the mural. Reddit Stumble. Virtual Street Reality. Street Art. Amazing 3D Murals. Photorealistic Graffiti by El Mac.