Heartwork | Allan Peters. Heartwork | Allan Peters. This isn't happiness™ Hairspray N Denim. Cutting-Soup, kkk-hrxxx: technohell: booby4649: ... Incredibly Elaborate Non-Photoshopped Scenes. FOX GAMES © 1989 Sandy Skoglund Decades before Photoshop was available, American artist Sandy Skoglund started creating surrealist images by building incredibly elaborate sets, a process which took months to complete. Her works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright, contrasting colors or a monochromatic color scheme.
Born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1946, Skoglund studied studio art and art history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1964-1968. Moving to New York City in 1972, she started working as a conceptual artist, dealing with repetitive, process-oriented art production through the techniques of mark-making and photocopying. In 1978, she produced a series of repetitious food item still life images. Skoglund was an art professor at the University of Hartford between 1973-1976. REVENGE OF THE GOLDFISH © 1981 Sandy Skoglund THE COCKTAIL PARTY © 1992 Sandy Skoglund RAINING POPCORN © 2001 Sandy Skoglund BODY LIMITS © 1992 Sandy Skoglund. Web-Based Email :: Mail Index :: Inbox. Slow by `betteo on deviantART. Cole rise. Exotic Gourd Lamps by Calabarte. If you’re looking for an original table lamp, look no further! Polish artist Przemek, also known as Calabarte, sculpts beautiful patterns on African gourds which later become heads of his exceptional lamps.
When you switch on one of his lamps, the light coming trough the cracks of the gourd turns a room into a dreamlike space. Przemek studied building engineering at a technical university and even worked in an architectural studio for 3 years. However, after 7 years of studies he decided that making lamps was his real passion, so he quit both his job and his studies. He traveled far away to Senegal and brought back some of the African gourds which he used as his main material to create his fascinating lamps. Website: calabarte.com Email: calabarte@gmail.com If you like these exotic lamps, don’t forget to check out 20 More Cool and Creative Lamp Designs. _ld4sqkhEgG1qza3e8o1_500.jpg (467×700) Layered Wood Pop Art. Mitch McGee calls what he does "somewhere between painting and sculpture. " First, he illustrates an idea and then he cuts, sands and stains individual wood pieces by hand. Then, he starts building - from top to bottom - assembling the final pop art piece, sanding and staining the exposed edges.
"The most challenging part of the process is figuring out the layering," he tells us. "The piece changes from the original sketch a little as I go because what works on paper doesn’t always work three dimensionally. I want everything to stack up in a way that makes sense so, even if most of a layer is hidden, the edges need to match the layer on top of it. " From illustration to framing, one individual work of art can take McGee, on average, between 35 and 40 hours to complete. The artist doesn't mind the laborious work, however, stating, "I love working on these.
If you thought McGee's art seems to be influenced by American pop art legend Roy Lichtenstein, you'd be right. Birch Stack Pieces. Incredible Action Sports Photography. After seeing Marcel Lammerhirt's amazing diving shot for Red Bull's 2010 photography contest, I knew I had to get in touch with him. Though he started shooting professionally in 2005, this photographer broke into the business a year before, in a very creative way. In order to gain connections with pro snowboarders, he rented a nice Austrian house in the mountains and invited those in the snowboarding business to come over for shooting.
"That mail disseminated all around the world so that in the winter, many well-known riders visited me and stayed for some days," he said. "I got my shots of the pros and they had the connections to the companies which was very useful for me. I started to send the first pictures to snowboard magazines in December 2004. " A year later, he invested in some basic equipment and the rest is history. Lammerhirt is now known for his action sports photography which includes not only skiing and snowboarding but skateboarding, biking and cliff diving. Modern Celebrities Photoshopped into Old Russian Generals. UK artist Steve Payne has created an awesome set of celebrity portraits by photoshopping their heads, quite seamlessly, onto the bodies of old Russian generals. The original paintings, by English portraits artist George Dawe, show Russian generals who had successfully fought Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812.
In over a nine year period, Dawe completed over 300 portraits. "One thing I’ve always wanted to try is to incorporate someone into a painting, mimicking the painterly brush strokes and making everything fit and work nicely and look natural and stuff," Payne says. "There’s an art to head swapping, I’ve seen so many awful attempts. Here are twelve of our favorites. Replaceface website via [DesignDon'tPanic] La Ligue contre le Cancer: La Magie du Don. Cute and Quirky Conceptual Photography.
Failed opportunities Finland-based photographer Jenni Holma has a gift for creating cute and quirky scenes. The 22-year-old photography student says that her "heart lies in conceptual photography" but that she's in awe by anything that makes her feel something. "I see things through child filtered glasses which sometimes seems to be against me and on better days not," she says. "I love observing things and making little notes to myself. I don't like thinking about photography as a bunch of rules one should follow...new ideas and fresh perspectives are way better than some straight horizontal lines and all that jazz.
I go by what I think looks or feels good...I can't claim I'm truly original, many of the ideas in my stream have been done a hundred times before. Lunch hour Learning to Fly It's raining hearts Lusty heart Kiwis in love My heart is yours Flowers for breakfast Invisible Walking in the Air Opposites Attract Remember to Say Jenni Holma' website and Flickr page. Pop Surreal Art Inspired by the French Aristocracy.
Nataly (Kukula) Abramovitch returns to the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California this Saturday, September 24, 2011 with twelve brand new paintings. Her second solo show at the gallery, entitled Lonely Opulent Things, celebrates the over-the-top ambiance of the French aristocracy. Drawing inspiration from her recent trip to the Palace of Versailles, the concept for Kukula’s new show revolves around “the beauty of objects and how we make them parts of ourselves. At the same time, as we collect more and more beautiful things, we end up isolating ourselves behind walls of decadence.” In this show, Kukula examines the idea of detaching from the ugliness of reality.
Elaborate surroundings such as lush floral embellishments, ornate pedestals, and classical cherubs provide the ideal escape from the rest of the world. Corey Helford Gallery. Recreating the Timeless Style of the 1960's. Sacha Goldberger just sent word about his new series for So Chic magazine that's based on the theme: Back to the Future. Notice the retro elements - the cars, the hairstyles, and the poses - but also notice the way he's made each model appear timeless. Though the cover shows the date of January 1964, the spread appears undeniably crisp, fresh and even classic.
What went into recreating the 1960's? "I did a lot of research," Goldberger told us. "I bought a few magazines from the 60's and looked at the type of light, the poses and the models. Sacha Goldberger's website. Danger Planet. Whimsical Childhood Daydreams. My Modern Metropolis Whimsical Childhood Daydreams To create such whimsical illustrations, one must have a rich and active imagination. London-based artist and designer Kareena Zerefos is a self-professed daydreamer with an unhealthy obsession with 2B pencils and the lust to escape into a world of make believe.
Zerefos has created a set of beautifully fanciful pieces. Within each portrait lies a hint of the famous children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. Kareena Zerefos' website via [Juxtapoz] You might like: Touching and Funny Photo Project: Kids Were Here Modern Tower House Camouflages Itself Among the Trees 70 Foot Giant Sculpture Breaks Free from the Ground Hilarious Photos of a Man with Random Objects in His Beard Recommended by Views: 5846 Tags: Kareena Zerefos, art Share Twitter Facebook Facebook Add a Comment You need to be a member of My Modern Metropolis to add comments! Join My Modern Metropolis Comment by sAm on September 16, 2011 at 2:36pm Such innocence, love it!
Sign Upor Sign In. Absurdly Deviant World. Though, culturally, we are all different, there exists some commonality between us that makes us all the same. Photographer Frauke Thielkin shares that we must learn to break free from internal order and explore new frontiers, which is what she does in this particular photo set. There is a lifelessness we settle for that needs to be changed. With a hope that we will free our minds and our habits, her photos are intended to inspire us to explore our world. The people in them are breaking the norm and creating a beautiful and artistic deviancy. Frauke Thielking's website.
With a Passion for Skateboarding: Creative Art Sculptures by Haroshi |... Now that’s a sick madness! If you have never heard about Japanese wood sculptor named Haroshi, go get the wind of his most original conceptual art. As a creator of amazingly beautiful wooden sculptures out of old, crashed and broken skateboard decks, Haroshi passed for a man of considerable resourcefulness. His multicolored and meticulously sculpted art pieces simply astound with lifelike affinity, so in whichever way it’s even possible to mistake them for being real! In his works he stacks many layers with all piece elements being connected either in their original form or in shapes to form wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels. Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source.
Package Design Blog. Golden Days of Summer. For some students, the start of school is looming but thanks to these photographs, we know that the fun doesn’t have to end. Los Angeles-based photographer Nicole L. Hill captures summertime fun with wonderful ease. Her photos encapsulate the feelings of a sweet summer's day, one that sees no end in sight. Nicole L. Brand Reversioning by Graham Smith. Do you remember Viktor Hertz who has shown us what logos would look like if companies were absolutely honest? This time, we want to show you another logo designer – Graham Smith, who created a project called ©Brand Reversioning, where he switched logo designs between different companies. In his words: “A Brand Reversion is a brand logo that has undertaken a creative change based on the visual style of another brand logo: Brand identities with a split personality.”
Some reversions focus on two leading competitive brands such as Google-Bing whilst others are based on what Graham feels to be working well aesthetically, or best displays a certain visual identity characteristic such as BlackBerry/Flickr. Even if it feels that something is off, the new reversed logos are so well executed, that one might easily fall for this trick.
Website: I’m Just Creative. Amazing Sand Drawings on California Beaches. American sand artist Jim Denevan (born 1961) spends hours to create the most beautiful and probably the most impermanent drawings on the North California beaches. A surfer, and a self-taught chef creates his breathtaking geometric sand sculptures freehand with a length of driftwood during the period of low tide. Over the past 17 years Jim has composed hundreds of unique sand drawings at beach locations in California and around the world, however you can only see them in pictures as they last only as long as the next high tide. So, if you ever wonder what to do with your spare time on the beach – just find a good stick and you’re set. Website: jimdenevan.com | facebook If you like Denevan’s works, also check out Snow Drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen and Sand Drawings by Andres Amador.
Make Something Cool Every Day. If you are a beginner photographer or designer looking for an easy way to success, then all you need to do is one project. That’s it! Only this one little “365 project”. 1 hour a day, for the rest of the year doing something creative, and nothing more! Everyone can sacrifice 1 hour a day, right? Of course, it’s not as easy as it sounds – those who’ve tried it know. So, before you start, you may need some inspiration, and I can’t think of a better 365 project example than Brock Davis’ “Make Something Cool Every Day”. Brock Davis is a Minneapolis-based artist and musician who works on primarily self-initiated projects in a variety of mediums.
Brock started his 365 project back in 2009 when he decided to make one piece of creative work every day for 365 consecutive days in 2009, from January 1st to December 31st. Websites: itistheworldthatmadeyousmall.com | flickr Rules Game Over Do You See The Ghost? Shattered Banana Peel Shattered Rubber Ducky Shattered Cap Shattered Pacifier Decowpitation Lamp Bat. Celebrity Spoof Fashion Spread. Looking Into the Past by Jason Powell. Pixel Fashion by Kunihiko Morinaga for Anrealage. Charlotte Gainsbourg featuring Beck "Heaven Can Wait" (Director's Cut) Director: Keith Schofield
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