American Icons Revisited | The Steel Closet | Good to Go! Alicia Keys as Michelle Obama I found this on the Yahoo front page, which is surprising because they usually post up absurdity as news. As part of their 70th Anniversary issue, Glamour.com has new school does old school images of actresses, artists, and models portraying their favorite female American icons. Some of them were so-so. Emma Stone as Carrie Bradshaw Better than the original! Lindsay Lohan as Madonna Paula Patton as Billie Holiday I think the Paula Patton is one of the most underrated actresses out there. Odette Yustman, Spencer Grammer, and Rumer Willis as the Women of Woodstock Hayden Panettiere as Amelia Earhart Emma Roberts as Audrey Hepburn Camilla Belle as Mary Tyler Moore America Ferrera as Dolores Huerta Elisha Cuthbert as Brandi Chastain Chanel Iman as Althea Gibson Alexis Bledel as Rosie the Riveter [Photos by Brigitte Lacombe for Glamour.com] Browse Timeline Tweet Street Comments ( 17 ) Add a Comment
Body Painting by Craig Tracy | Pondly Article by James Pond I am the owner of Pondly.com / art lover / electrical engineer / software developer / MBA in e-business student. I blog for pleasure and love to share my Internet findings. Body painting is form of art in which Craig Tracy excels. Website You may want to check out Body Painting by Barbara Pichiecchio and Alessio Frederico Sample: Do you want more visual fun? You might also like
Art w/in Book Pages January 18th, 2011 Books of Art by Isaac Salazar, a simple idea well executed. found at ffffound Art by Typewriter British artist Keira Rathbone uses typewriters, instead of brushes and pencils, to create amazing portraits and drawings. Found on: Odditycentral.com Submitted by Joshua Riehl 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: A detail of a sprawling work by Andrew Scott Ross, Rocks and Rocks and Caves and Dreams: Lane Twitchell's Peaceable Kingdom (Evening Land): Béatrice Coron, WaterCity: Between the Lines, by Ariana Boussard-Reifel: A book with every single word cut out:
Drawing vs. Photograph This wonderful work has done by a very talented Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine. This creative artist was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He Studied graphic arts and sculpture and I also have a degree in journalism. Lets take a look at some of his awesome works that he calls “Drawing Vs Photography” or “Imagination Vs Reality”.
Portraits of Dogs as They Shake Off Water For her series “Shake“, pet photographer Carli Davidson photographed curious portraits of dogs shaking off water. Use a fast shutter speed and you can capture all kinds of strange expressions on your dog’s face. You can find the rest of the photographs in the series here. Shake (via Photojojo) Image credits: Photographs by Carli Davidson and used with permission 3D Portraits Après ces superbes sculptures 3D, voici l’excellent travail d’Andrew Myers. Un artiste sculpteur en provenance de Californie qui a réalisé des oeuvres et des portraits 3D grâce à plus de 10 000 trous qui sont après visés un par un à la main. Plus d’images de son travail dans la suite.
Carved Rubber Tire For his series titled "Pneu", Belgian artist Wim Delvoye created a series of decorative objects by hand-carving intricate patterns and floral motifs on used car tires. Through his manipulation of found objects, Delvoye transforms things that seem useful in everyday life into sculptural pieces that carry a different value from their original intended purpose. Delvoye calls his own approach to art ‘glocal’, referring to ‘local’ and ‘global’, which is his own ironical way of describing art. Find out more about Wim's work here.
Instagram Quote Rebuttals / Hipster Edits | Know Your Meme - StumbleUpon About Hipster Edits (a.k.a. Instagram Quote Rebuttals") are a series of image macros typically designed to ridicule “profound monologue” photos. It consists of a picture, usually taken with Instagram feature and hence the term “Hipster Edit”, an ostensibly meaningful quote and a buzzkilling remark denoted underneath in red text. Origin Artistic photographs with profound quotes have been circulating online prior to emergence of this series, most notably through online art communities and blog platforms like LiveJournal and DeviantArt. Self-uploaded vanity shots of emo, hardcore and hipster youths have been a staple subject of internet humor since the late 2000s, further boosted by the launch of Tumblr blog “Look At This Fucking Hipster” and Demotivational Posters. Spread On January 1st, 2011, MemeBase’s Go Cry Emo Kid posted an instagram photo of a crowd hanging out in an empty pool with the rebuttal highlighted in red text. Notable Examples Non-Photographic Variations Depressed Copywriter
One man, 100,000 toothpicks, and 35 years: An incredible kinetic sculpture of San Francisco Thirty five years ago I had yet to be born, but artist Scott Weaver had already begun work on this insanely complex kinetic sculpture, Rolling through the Bay, that he continues to modify and expand even today. The elaborate sculpture is comprised of multiple “tours” that move pingpong balls through neighborhoods, historical locations, and iconic symbols of San Francisco, all recreated with a little glue, some toothpicks, and an incredible amount of ingenuity. He admits in the video that there are several toothpick sculptures even larger than his, but none has the unique kinetic components he’s constructed. Via his website Weaver estimates he’s spent over 3,000 hours on the project, and the toothpicks have been sourced from around the world: I have used different brands of toothpicks depending on what I am building. See the sculpture for yourself at the Tinkering Studio through the end of June.
Glass Panes 3D Painting 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. Only when these pieces are combined on their floor racks do the images create the whole hologram like effect. 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
Papercuts by Joe Bagley: Amazing Hand-Cut Paper Art Fun Pic, Pop Culture — By Dave on 2011/05/29 6:52 AM Artist Joe Bagley hand cuts original paper art from a single piece of black paper. A single piece! Follow Daily Picks and Flicks via Facebook You can buy his papercuts here. Via Laughing Squid UPDATE: If you liked papercuts, don’t miss the amazing cutaway leaf art! Tags: amazing, art, artist Joe Bagley, arts, crafts, hand-cut, Joe Bagley, Joe Bagley art, Joe Bagley artist, Joe Bagley paper art, Joe Bagley papercuts, paper, paper art, papercuts, papercuts Joe Bagley, picture gallery, pictures