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Featured Blog Posts – April 2010 Archive (246)

Stealing the Scene (10 photos)

Anna Di Prospero is a 23-year old photographer based in Italy. Her emotionally filled photographs are interesting because she becomes part of the background or architecture. With her choice of clothes and her body movements, she takes an ordinary place and turns it into something extraordinary.…



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Added by alice on April 5, 2010 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

Getting ourselves in hot water?

We have been constantly bombarded with the issue of climate change in a global scale. But to be remembered the message had to have impact and be engaging. The concept of rising tides due to rising temperatures isn't some kind of outlandish threat but actual fact.



To give the dire situation its due,… Continue

Added by Michael Wong on April 5, 2010 at 2:30am — 2 Comments

If Pink Floyd Were In A Video Game



It's Easter Sunday and there is not a whole lot going on so why not . A guy named Brad Smith has covered Pink Floyd's classic album Dark Side Of the Moon in 8-Bit. You can download the whole album… Continue

Added by Kevin on April 4, 2010 at 3:06pm — 2 Comments

French Summer Love (14 pics)



Gorgeously shot by photographer André Paul Pinces, this sweet love story was created as a lookboook for clothing line dace's Spring 2010 collection. Stylish and chic, it tells the story of a young, modern woman preparing to fall in a French summer love.…

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Added by alice on April 4, 2010 at 7:30am — 3 Comments

7 Simple Shakespeare Covers



How do you pare down a complicated Shakespeare story into its simplest form? Well, if you're graphic designer and illustrator, Mike Young, you create something like this. What great, modern-day minimalism.…

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Added by alice on April 4, 2010 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Storybook Surrealism

When classic cartoons and art history come together, sometimes you get something as clever as this. Called Storybook Surrealism, this was submitted by Chengui on Threadless as a possible t-shirt design. It references René Magritte's famous… Continue

Added by alice on April 4, 2010 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

20 Photorealistic Celebrity Pencil Portraits

Charlize Theron by Anna-Mariaa



It goes without saying that an artist who spends the time and energy to create a piece of art must have a love and fascination with their craft. Nowhere is this more apparent than with pencil art. Spending tens if not hundreds of hours on one piece, these…

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Added by alice on April 4, 2010 at 12:30am — 4 Comments

Rocked-Out Musical Chairs (11 pics)



New York-based Mikal Hameed aka M11X reinvents how we see, hear, and interact with art. Through his interactive “plug and play” musical chairs, he gives his audience the opportunity to plug in their smart devices (vinyl, phones, mp3, ipods, etc) and rock out in style.



Hameed’s imaginative and inspiring works utilize vintage sound components and transform…

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Added by Eugene on April 3, 2010 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Modern Architecture: Centre Pompidou-Metz (9 photos)



Inspired by the technical properties of Chinese hats and bridges, the nearly complete Centre Pompidou-Metz will be a satellite branch of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris.



Architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines designed the building to have a “superstructure” - a curved roof made of wooden hexagonal units supported by a central metallic…

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Added by Eugene on April 3, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

The Muppets: Stand By Me

I've been loving the music videos the Muppets have been coming out with lately. Right in time for Easter, this video features a big 'ole bunny eatin' monster singing Stand By… Continue

Added by Eugene on April 3, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

A Love Letter For You by Steve "ESPO" Powers

A Love Letter For You from Megawords Magazine on Vimeo.

Steve Powers is undoubtably a graffiti legend at this point. His "A Love Letter To You" is a 50 wall 20 block project in his home town of Philadelphia. Quite frankly every city in America should have an art project like… Continue

Added by Kevin on April 2, 2010 at 4:22pm — 5 Comments

Contemporary Dream State - Ian Francis (8 pieces)

UK artist Ian Francis combines elements of pop culture, youthful exuberance, and sexuality to explore day-to-day life, while projecting fantasies against the backdrop of war and global strife. The apocalyptic feel of his work is created by mixing painting, drawing, photography and layered textures with digital editing to create ultra-realistic layers almost hidden… Continue

Added by Eugene on April 2, 2010 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Clever Clay Creations (12 total)



An illustrator specializing in clay, Irma Gruenholz makes stories come alive through her clever and creative art. Her three dimensional illustrations have a wonderfully nostalgic feel to them and through her characters' simple yet subtle expressions you can really feel the emotions in each piece.…

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Added by alice on April 2, 2010 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Journalists are starting to get iPads for review



First some humor: in the video above Colbert shows off his new iPad to his audience. Then for something more serious (and actually showing a few apps in action) here is a report from Bloomberg:…



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Added by Mark Huckabee on April 2, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

"same HILL ...diFFeReNt day"

Captured on different days and time of the day, this hill tells a new story every time. Which is one of photographers Paul Octavious' strongest assets, the talent of telling a story with images.



This became so evident while I was browsing his website. With every project he was able to make me curious enough to see the next photo and the next, making me feel a little sad every time I reached the end of one set of photographs. Just like… Continue

Added by Inka Leoni on April 2, 2010 at 10:40am — No Comments

Expedition Wild - National Geographic (2 videos)

Premieres Monday, April 5 at 9pm ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel

In our ongoing partnership with National Geographic, I'm super excited to present Expedition Wild, a multipart look at North America’s mightiest carnivores, featuring naturalist Casey Anderson and his best friend Brutus, a 900-pound grizzly bear.



Trek to Alaska’s Kodiak Island,… Continue

Added by Eugene on April 2, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

sPy Opens in Spain! (10 pieces)



One of our favorite urban interventionists, sPy, opened his debut solo show last week in his home country of Spain. In Urbana, sPy features a collection of photographs chronicling his most recent works in New York City and Europe.



Instead of using the traditional…

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Added by Eugene on April 2, 2010 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

Superimposed into the 60s (10 photos)



Just how cool is this new ad campaign for Brooklyn Industries? Taking old 60s images and superimposing them with fresh, new photography, Brooklyn Industries not only shows off their stylish clothes, they make us smile with their wonderful creativity. You can also find out about how Brooklyn Industries' employees…

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Added by alice on April 2, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Art Scene in Brooklyn (7 pics)



This show at the Brooklynite Gallery in New York really caught my eye. Make It Fit opened last week and features the work of Brooklyn-based artist Specter and the German duo of Various & Gould. I especially like how Specter's three-dimensional pieces pop right off the wall...…

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Added by Eugene on April 1, 2010 at 8:00pm — 6 Comments

Stylish Celebrity Portraits by Tom Munro

Victoria Beckham



I've always believed that the best celebrity portraits give you an inside look into a glamorous world while maintaining a level of authenticity. The photos never stray far from the personality but they show you a slightly different side you may never knew existed.



Looking through photographer Tom Munro's work, that's…

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Added by alice on April 1, 2010 at 3:30pm — 5 Comments

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