Wants by Deana Tolstunov. National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor. National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30.
For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Many people pilgrimage to Uluru, but what is seen there often depends on where you've come from. Best Street Art of 2011. December 27, 2011 | 72 Comments » | Topics: Art, Pics Hot Stories From Around The Web Other Awesome Stories.
Miss Led Illustration. 3D Illustrations Come Alive on the Page. Figures come alive and jump off the pages in these illustrations by Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki.
By displaying simple pads of paper at special vantage points, the artist's amazing charcoal and pencil drawings form playful 3D optical illusions. The 21-year-old artist has quite a knack for perspective and each new drawing is more surprising than the next. Hideyuki identifies himself as an anamorphic artist, which is a style of art that stems from the early Renaissance. Marc Pagani Photography, specializing in adventure travel photography, portrait and headshot photography, mountaineering photography, and live music photography.
Rare and very interesting photos. Interesting and very rare photographs, you may never see.
The first McDonald’s. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. Capital of Brazil, on the beginning. Pius XII and Hitler. Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light. This is kind of flying all over the internet right now, but I couldn’t resist sharing.
Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls. The jaw-dropping light painting above, made with an array of colored airplanes is currently on view at the Fly to Baku exhibition at De Pury Gallery in London through January 29th. (via art wednesday, fasels suppe) - StumbleUpon. 10 movie poster cliches (with plenty of examples) Lady Gaga por Adrian Valencia. Depois que encontrei essas ilustrações pela internet virei 100% fã desse cara!
Pelo pouco que lí, diz aqui que ele é argentino e que vive e trabalha (com ilustrações) em Londres. A paixão foi tanta que pedi por email para ele me vender uma ilustração minha cheia de sapatos. Fazer um quadro disso seria a coisa mais linda para uma sala! Essas versões de Lady Gaga que encontrei por aí foram as que me chamaram a atenção para pesquisar sobre ele. Imagino que acontecerá o mesmo com vocês! Ele é MUITO bom né? Clica aqui pra ver! O que vocês acharam!? Já to doida imaginando um escritorio com uma parede cheio de quadrinhos pequenos com lady gagas diferentes. Beijos, Francesca. Some People by ~MumblingIdiot on deviantART. Words as Images by Ji Lee. Whenever we read a news story, book, letter, or any other form of text our brain relates specific words with previously seen images.
By accessing our past memories, like a hard drive, our brain is able to create a visual illustration simply out of words. Taking this one step further, Ji Lee eliminates the need for our brain to do this process. Ji Lee takes popular words and brings them to life by adding a sense of character, fun and playfulness to them. “When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. Today we will feature creative examples from Ji’s book titled “Word As Image.” “This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Anyone can create a word as image. Note: All Rights Reserved by Ji Lee. Check out our previous articles: Did you enjoy this article? Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images. Tree of Life. Design Seeds&: For All Who Love Color.
Mental_floss Blog & 11 Pencil Vs. Camera Images. 986 653Share10.7K Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and now living in Belgium, Ben Heine is an amazing artist who overlaps hand-drawn works of art with photos to create stunning images. I selected eleven of his Pencil Vs. Camera images from his site, but you should check out all his awesome work if you have time. Pictures of Moments Speak More than Thousand Words...... Picture can speak thousands of words.
Random pictures of insignificant moments always been the most important and most valuable. Photographers and painters beautifully imprint huge number of events, objects and types. Some do it by accident on the momentary desire. Others do it in order to fix the time for the future. For me they are really different and thoughtful, simple but speak lots of words……… 1.
Photographer – Zilvinas Valeika. The Big Caption. Watercolor: Painting & Mixed Media. Shapes of Conscious. Like a boss : Crazy Liver.