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There are two extronidarily beautiful things happening in this iPhone video by Patrick Colpron . The first is a spectacular six-sail kite designed and flown by Steve Polansky , and second is a heart-achingly wonderful song called Lighthouse by Patrick Watson . What a perfect moment in time, sort of an impromptu video poem.
Painting On Water
This unknown artist seem to be taking the idea of watercolor quite literally. In fact, he's practicing the ancient Turkish art of Ebru, also known as paper marbling. Using water and pigment, he creates a stunning piece of art. Ebru is quite popular in Turkey and designs can be either abstract or figurative. He can watch his process in the video below: first, he deposits drops of blue color to form the background.
Van Gogh's Paintings Get Tilt-Shifted (12 pics) - My Modern Metropolis
After seeing how tilt-shift photography could make real world scenes appear like miniature models, Serena Malyon, a third-year art student, decided to simulate the effect on Van Gogh's famous paintings. Using Photoshop, she manipulated the light and adjusted the focus to make us see these paintings in ways we could have never imagined. How did the idea come about to tilt-shift Van Gogh's paintings? The actual concept came from John Malyon (my father), the founder of Artcyclopedia. He was playing with software that could simulate the tilt-shift effect and had the idea to try it on a painting.