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Julian Opie | The Burning Man Project :: Welcome Home. Antony Gormley. Tips for Designers, Bloggers and Tech Users. Absolutely Incredible Art made with Old Cassette Tapes | NoiseAddicts music and audio. I’ve got 2 large boxes completely full of old cassette tapes (remember those?) In my closet. There are probably over 400 tapes sitting there, degrading, losing their magnetic information, slowly dissolving into silence, or perhaps more correctly, white noise. Will I ever listen to any of these again? Probably not. Heck, I don’t even own a tape player. I have no idea why I still keep them. Well, artist Erika Iris Simmons has definitely done something useful with her tapes.

She is an artist who specializes in using non-traditional media such as old books, audio cassettes, playing cards, magazines, credit cards, basically whatever he can find. It feels great to work with strange, older materials. What she’s created with some old cassette tapes and reel tapes is simply remarkable. Jim Morrison: The “Reel” Marilyn Monroe: Robert De Niro: Ian Curtis Bob Dylan: Jimi Hendrix Incredible, aren’t they? Tristan Manco. 44 Amazing Julian Beever’s 3D Pavement Drawings. Ready to kill boredom again? This time we present a wonderful collection of amazing 3d sidewalk chalk art by Julian Beever (+- all of his works).

But first of all, who is Julian Beever? According to Wikipedia: “Julian Beever is an English, Belgium-based chalk artist who has been creating trompe-l’œil chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. His works are created using a projection called anamorphosis, and create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle.” Remember panda’s recent post called 20 Incredible Eye Macros? Pre-modernist and post-modernist Push the boat out Swimming-Pool In The High Street (Glasgow, Scotland) “Wrong” side: These drawings only work from one viewpoint otherwise the image appears strangely distorted. Waste of water… Lobster Babyfood… Spiderman Spiderman to the rescue above and below this London street. Self-Portrait Of The Artist Arctic Street Conditions with Soft Drink DHL Boy (Image credits: Jonathan Dann) Let’s be friends Dungeon. Banksy.