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A man's burden: Apologizing for being offended. Rainbow Thread Art (8 pics) Though we can appreciate Gabriel Dawe's beautiful thread art by just looking at these pictures, we're certain that these photos will never quite do them justice. In fact, we can imagine ourselves walking around these rainbow prisms and just getting lost. I asked Dawe to tell us what he hoped others got out of his artwork including what they represent. "Conceptually, these works are about the human need for shelter," he tells us. "Fashion and architecture have many functions, but one thing they both share is that they protect us from the elements. I'm taking the main material that clothing is made out of—thread—to make an architectural structure. "Ultimately, what I want to give the viewers is an experience with light and color.

"What is very satisfying is that I hear all the time that people go back to see them and stay for half hour, experiencing the piece. 75 Exceptional Moleskine Notebook Artworks. Moleskine notebooks are a favorite among many artists, designers and writers.

75 Exceptional Moleskine Notebook Artworks

They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and with many different kinds of paper. The elastic closure and pocket in the back of each one adds to their utility. The popularity of Moleskines among the art community ensures that there are thousands of great examples of Moleskine art out there. Zombie-5-second-20100805-063017.jpg from laughingsquid.com. Art of Bent Objects. Online & Wall plays music when it rains&8230; Picture Diary. Funny-heart-brain-comic-bat.jpg from themetapicture.com. Visual Art by the Human Body. Visual Art by the Human Body.

Visual Art by the Human Body

The War on Video Games. Never Be My Friend. When I'm bored, I browse through my friends' Facebook images, choose my favorites, and draw them.

Never Be My Friend

Sometimes I take... liberties. Let's just call it artistic license. R.I.P. Chloe's grandma. I wasn't aware you were an actual corpse. Vh2.jpg from designboom.com. Masterpieces Painted By The Chinese TotallyCoolPix. A Van Gogh?

Masterpieces Painted By The Chinese TotallyCoolPix

You’ve got it. A Dali? You’ve got it. A Rubens? Story Behind Those Stunning Cinematic Gifs. Here at theMET, we're always looking for creative projects that catch our eye.

Story Behind Those Stunning Cinematic Gifs

More than anything, we love posting about work that pushes boundaries, showing our audience something that has been changed, flipped or spinned into something magically different. Then, we see it as our job to find out the story behind such projects. Lori Nix. Art Inspired Outfits II. 28 22 34 28 19 27 18 31 33 19 25 15 27 24 22 15 17 23 17 21 20 23 25 22 18 39 32 66 22 16 15 23 23 19 37 32 32 19 27 23 15 71 25 24 20 27 36 34 22 23 62 31 22 39 56 25 16 34 28 18 18 18 20 19 50 20 15 22 26 33 28 16 16 16 39 19 17 18 28 32 15 24 23 15 19 16 25 24 17 23 16 41 30 28 40 30 67 34.

Art Inspired Outfits II

14 Great Banksy Street Art Photos and Quotes! “There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.” – Banksy “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. ” – Banksy “Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” – Banksy “You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid.

14 Great Banksy Street Art Photos and Quotes!

You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.” – Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall) “Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. “People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.” – Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall) Au coin de ma rue. Where Children Sleep: A Diverse World of Homes. Histoires drôles de jouets. 77646_700b_v1.jpg from cloudfront.net. How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon. Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Buy the book: Amazon | B&N | More… Here’s what a few folks have said about it: “Brilliant and real and true.”

How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon

—Rosanne Cash“Filled with well-formed advice that applies to nearly any kind of work.” —Lifehacker.com“Immersing yourself in Steal Like An Artist is as fine an investment in the life of your mind as you can hope to make.” Read an excerpt below… 35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters. Putting together a great color palette for your design work can be one of the most challenging aspects of any project.

35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters

And many times, color palettes are built from some source of inspiration. So why not be inspired by some of history’s greatest master artists? Visit Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass at the MFA. "Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass" has closed.

Visit Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass at the MFA

The video is no longer available. Visit other exhibitions at the MFA. Tickle Kitten. 471513954602fa6505ca9a38c0e4b42d.jpg from llnwd.net. Surrealistic Paintings by Tetsuya Ishida (21 pics) Pics | 8 Jun, 2010 | Views: 22058 | Beautiful and Creative Origami Creations. The Art of OaKoAk. Some of the best street art has humor built into it.

In the case of French street artist, OaKoAk, they take what the city gives to them and creates a witty street piece. Who hasn't wanted to turn a tile doorstep into a piano, or a sewer cover into a Viking's shield? A lot of these pieces are simple statements done very well. We like the Gameboy one especially. Recycling Clothing Art.

Ana Somnia - lights out! H2O, too: Watch out for poisonous homophones. So mature. Interesting animal hand-drawn map. Elephant, the eagle, crocodile, a leopard, zebra, giraffe, you can see these animals are both hands with coloured drawing or pattern simulated? Tugboat Printshop: Printshop + Process.

Bespoken Art - Art that Speaks Volumes. 183.png from drawingboardcomic.com. GED_00000000.JPG from bm-lyon.fr. Oh snap - rosemary mosco. Exist2.jpg from youthblog.org. Anamorphic Drawings: Hidden Images Revealed. Fresh Visual Daily. The Loney Infermo - Ralph and Roll. StumbleUpon. The Beautiful Colors Of Holi: Pics, Videos, Links, News. List of colors. The following is a list of colors. A number of the color swatches below are taken from domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4. RGB values are given for each swatch because such standards are defined in terms of the sRGB color space.

It is not possible to accurately convert many of these swatches to CMYK values because of the differing gamuts of the two spaces, but the color management systems built into operating systems and image editing software attempt such conversions as accurately as possible. The HSV (hue, saturation, value) color space values, also known as HSB (hue, saturation, brightness), and the hex triplets (for HTML web colors) are also given in the following table. Colors that appear on the web-safe color palette—which includes the sixteen named colors—are noted.[1] (Those four named colors corresponding to the neutral grays have no hue value, which is effectively ignored—i.e., left blank.)

Hendrix portrait with 5000 guitar picks. 091011.jpg from americanprogress.org. 2009 Called. 1277801868.jpg from yayeveryday.com. Carnovsky02.jpg from designboom.com. Bruno Catalano - In Search of Missing Pieces. ‘In Search of Missing Pieces’ is a series of original sculptures by French artist Bruno Catalono. Caught my eye big time! Drowning Beautiful. Steen.jpg from thecoolhunter.com.au.

Bic pen - reinventing the most popular ballpoint. Explorations with space : cole rise. The-baffling-pinocchio-paradox-17605-1277075492-29.jpg from buzzfed.com. 21 Amazing Examples Of Shadow Art: Pics, Videos, Links, News. Symmetrical Faces. We__re_All_Mad_Here_by_Mesmeretics.png from deviantart.net. Harmony. STRANDBEEST. See . Saw on the Behance Network. Urban Painting Art: Some Fascinating Murals. 1281_aa9e.jpeg from soup.io. Going West. 800px-Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa2.jpg from wikimedia.org. Little People - A tiny Street Art Collection (1 of 2)

Before I Die & Candy Chang. What matters most to you. Medicine for your face&8230; Harsh but hilarious. The-United-States-of-Shame.png from pleated-jeans.com. Vik Muniz makes art with wire, sugar. Top 10 examples of brilliant shadow art. Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery. Snow Art in ColourSend Calvin and Hobbes Postcards Online! Calvin and Hobbes Fan Page. I phone, you tube. The artwork of Joshua Petker. Joshua Petker was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1979 and received a BA in Western History from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. While pursuing a degree in History he maintained a growing interest in the arts that developed out of a fascination with graffiti which Petker started creating at the age of 15. After studying abroad in 2001 at the Lorenzo de'Medici Institute of Florence, Joshua decided to pursue a career as a fine artist upon completion of his studies back in the U.S.A.

Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you. Grimm and Other Folk Tales : Cory Godbey. Forgot to study. Rebel:art & Blog Archive & Watchlist: Phil Jones. Everything but the Paper Cut: Eye-popping Ways Artists Use Paper. In the year since the Museum of Art and Design reopened in its new digs on Columbus Circle, they've been delivering consistently compelling shows--from punk-rock lace to radical knitting experiments.

The newest, "Slash: Paper Under the Knife", opened last weekend and runs through April 4, 2010. The focus is paper--and the way contemporary artists have used paper itself as a medium, whether by cutting, tearing, burning, or shredding. In all, the show features 50 artists and a dozen installations made just for the show, including Andreas Kocks's Paperwork #701G (in the Beginning), seen above. Here's a sampling of the other works on display: Mia Pearlman's Eddy: Ferry Staverman, A Space Odesey: TheWAREHOUSE web comic. Zoom.gif from threadless.com. Sistine Chapel. Comics and Cartoons by Ryan Hudson - Hide! Silk. MosesStopIt.jpg from saintcatherineofsienapreston.org. 290809053349.jpg from artdosug.ru. Zoom.gif from threadless.com.

Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery - Jonathan Ferrara Gallery at VOLTA NY Art Fair -... Sidewalk chalk guy. Super Sprayer. The Official Tim Burton Website.