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Jim Dingilian is one of those rare artists who stretch the limits of creativity with their amazing creations.
The Bottled Smoke Art of Jim Dingilian | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities
The image of Paris
Among the several photographers capturing the accident at Gare Montparnasse, Henri Roger-Viollet (1869-1946), with whose photo we started the previous post, was certainly the most renowned and most refined one.As a hopeless lover of maps , creative cartography and, especially, maps as art , I was utterly enchanted by the work of mixed-media visual artist Ingrid Dabringer , who uses acrylic paint to draw — or, more precisely, find — extraordinary, playful characters and vignettes in ordinary maps.
Ingrid Dabringer's Map Paintings: Finding Whimsy in Geography | Brain Pickings
Using a style known as pictorialism, Chinese artist Dong Honh-Oai was able to create a series of amazing photographs that look like Chinese traditional paintings.
Don Hong-Oai Takes Photographs That Look Like Traditional Chinese Paintings | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities
For 17 days this past June, timelapse cinematographer Joe Capra traveled across Iceland, capturing its natural beauty during the months when the sun never sets and never rises.
Iceland in the Midnight Sun | Open Culture
Artist and illustrator Glenton Mellow, who writes the Flying Trilobite blog, also co-authors a new blog for Scientific American called Symbiartic , along with scientific illustrator Kalliopi Monoyios. The tagline for Symbiartic is “The art of science and the science of art”, and topics range freely across that nebulous and fascinating intersection. In a recent post Mellow gives a nicely succinct overview of The Chemistry of Oil Painting , with a bit of history, discussions of the principal types of oil used and a mention of artistic concerns such as glazing and “fat over lean”.
lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts » The Chemistry of Oil Painting on Symbiartic
Maybe it’s their gooeyness or their unsettling curvature, but these sculptures carved from ripe bananas by Japanese artist y_yamaden are wonderfully creepy.
Wonderfully Creepy Sculptures Carved From Bananas
A tornado has scrambled the contents of a small town square, leaving upturned automobiles, lopsided telephone poles and a confused cow planted smack in the middle of very unfamiliar patch of grass.
A very controlled chaos » Scienceline
Cocktail Party Physics: i am a camera
It's Halloween! Jen-Luc Piquant has donned her usual vampire costume for the occasion, although she was tempted to dress up as Lady Gaga this year, just to mix things up a bit.'The Brothers Bloom' "The Taj Mahal taken by a fat tourist with Diarrhoea and a point and shoot camera can be the flattest, dullest, "Here's us at the Taj Mahal, Oh lovely, lets go stick o ur thumbs up our arses" picture, but you can look at the most menial every day thing, and depending upon how your pinhole eats the light, its warped and peculier and imperfect. Its not reproduction, its storytelling." - Penelope (Rachel Weisz)
Pinhole photography by Justin Quinnell