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Jenny vs. Spencer JENNY vs. SPENCER: SPENCER RESPONDS! I'm sure that everyone has seen Jenny quitting via dry-erase board, but now Jenny's mysterious boss has responded the same way. A Stunning, Intricate Maze Made From 2,200 Pounds of Salt | Co.Design Motoi Yamamoto has to be the most patient man in the world. A Japanese artist, Yamamoto uses salt to create monumental floor paintings, each so absurdly detailed, it makes A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte look like child's play. He calls them, fittingly, his Labyrinths. Yamamoto's latest labyrinth creeps out from a brick tunnel at the Fondation Espace Ecureuil, a gallery in France. He made it -- as he makes all these installations -- by sprinkling salt on the floor through a plastic bottle used for machine oil, starting at the back of the tunnel, then moving forward to avoid stepping on the designs he's already drawn. The whole thing took 50 hours over the course of five days and a whopping 2,200 pounds of salt. Here's an older installation at Sankt Peter parish in Cologne: The story behind Yamamoto's salt sculptures is sweet and sad. Yamamoto takes pains to extend the metaphor beyond the walls of the art gallery.

3D Paintings on Panes of Glass Using multiple layers of clear glass, Canada based David Spriggs and Chinese born Xia Xiaowan, transform flat artwork into 3D sculptures. Viewers are treated to different shifting perspectives of the works based on where they stand in the art space. Spriggs work revolves around powerful explosive imagery, often resembling storms, cosmic blasts or firework like explosions. Xiawan’s “spatial paintings,” which often feature distorted figures, are drawn individually using colored pencil on tinted glass. See Also INCREDIBLE 3D ILLUSTRATIONS JUMP OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK For more on David Spriggs see his beautiful website at davidspriggs.com or for more on Xia Xiaowan see Wikipedia Above and Below: Xia Xiaowan’s distorted 3D figures Artist: Xia Xiaowan Below: David Spriggs beautiful paintings fill the room with stormy emotion. Artist: David Spriggs Artist: David Spriggs Source: amusingplanet.com

Fascinating Living, Growing Architecture ( 185 Votes ) Still-living plants can themselves be shaped into bridges, tables, ladders, chairs, sculptures - even buildings. Known variously as botanical architecture, tree sculpture, tree-shaping, tree-grafting, pooktre, arborsculpture, and arbortecture, the craft is, essentially, construction with living plants. Includes pictures from the root bridges of India to living islands! 1. In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built -- they're grown. (images credit: Vanlal Tochhawng) Grown from the roots of a rubber tree, the Khasis people of Cherapunjee use betel-tree trunks, sliced down the middle and hollowed out, to create "root-guidance systems." The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they're extraordinarily strong. One of the most unique root structures of Cherrapunjee is known as the "Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge." (image credit: Marcus Fornell) 2.

Some People by ~MumblingIdiot on deviantART Spotlight: Batman In The Spotlight is a weekly showcase of art created with a particular iconic character in mind. These characters, fictional or real, are from famous literature, film, or various other forms media. What they all have in common is that they have an impact on artists and provide them with inspiration. Enjoy a new showcase every Friday! Ivan Tao Melike Acar Erik Von Lehmann Anton Kokarev Jung Park George Patsouras Thomas Radcliffe Manny Clark Markus Leal Yildiray Cinar Arie Monroe Guillermo a.k.a. Sno2 Skottie Young Justin Norman Chris Stevens Dustin Nguyen Mitch Breitweiser Andy Kuo Andy Jones David Lecossu Garrett Hanna Francis Tsai Danny Araya Find this post useful?

yong ho ji: mutant mythos tire sculptures may 14, 2010 ji yong ho: mutant mythos tire sculptures ‘deer head 3′ tire, steel, wood, styrofoam 29x21x38 in. (74x53x97 cm) 2007 (image: gana art) ‘mutant mythos‘ is a collection of sculptures by korean artist ji yong-ho. the pieces are made by hand from recycled tires and include animals, humans, and combinations of both. ji calls his variations ‘mutants’ to refer to both their hybrid forms and the mutation of media that their creation requires. sizes vary from an eleven-inch-high dog, to a wild goat with horns that is five-feet-tall to a 10-foot-long hammerhead shark. the pieces were first exhibited at gana art, new york in 2008 and have since been shown around the world. ‘rhino head 1′ tire, steel, wood, styrofoam, 2008 (image: gana art) ‘my concept is mutation—mutants. the product is from nature, from the white sap of latex trees but here it’s changed. the color is black. the look is scary. rubber is very flexible, like skin, like muscles’ – YHJ via kitsunenoir

99 Excellent Examples of Forced Perspective Photography | Photography Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera. There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. When it comes to inspiration then there is no limitation on resources. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts that our readers may find helpful. Don’t forget to and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography Photography can serve as a nice source of inspiration. Further Resources! Find Something Missing?

The 6 Crappiest Interview Questions All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP Kelly Reemtsen - Paintings Indiesart .com Daily illustrations and graphic stuff for alternative art lovers Kelly Reemtsen<< Back to artist's profile Paintings <Page 1 of 3> Next Quick View Inconspicuous by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View Green.with.Envy by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View Purple by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View Axe by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View Hot by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View This.is.for.you by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View Monkey.Wrench by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View My.Summer.Accessory by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View Not.ever.pill.is bitter by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View Orange by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View Pieces.of.You by Kelly Reemtsen View The Image - Artist Profile Quick View Quick View Quick View Quick View Quick View Comments

Amazing San Francisco sculpture made of toothpicks Rolling through the bay is an abstract toothpick sculpture of San Francisco. It has about 100,000 of toothpicks. The amazing part, is that it has four ping pong ball paths that roll through different landmarks of San Francisco. Scott Weaver has spent about 3000 hours on it over a period of 34 years. Here are the individual components of this toothpick sculpture. Bay Bridge Fullsai Dragon Painted Ladies Palace of Fine Arts Palace of Fine Arts and Painted Ladies Ferry Building Coit Tower Alcatraz Sky Banner Background See also:

50 Most Strange and Unusual Buildings arround the World The world is full of beautiful strange and fantastic buildings that are the examples of amazing architecture. Architecture Photography brings this beauty to the world, and for this reason, architectural photography is as thrilling as it is heartwarming. In this roundup, we have compiled an amazing collection of some bizarre yet interesting buildings that are reflected through architectural photography. Enjoy! The UFO house in Sanjhih The Device to Root Out Evil Krzywy Dom Dom postawiony na glowie Anomaly Stata Center Container City 2, Leamouth, London Strong Children’s Museum The Ufo House Dancing House Blur Building Frank O. Un museo del futuro Stone house Library Parking Garage United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel Wonderworks – Pigeon Forge, TN Dan and the house View of the Luxor from The Strip Updside Down Building: City Hall, Tempe AZ Solar Furnace at Odeillo Font-Romeu, France Cube Houses Erwin Wurm: House attack Chapel-in-the-Rock Atomium Expo Zaragoza 2008, Pabellón de Aragón Eden Le Futuroscope

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