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Mind-Boggling Overly Aggressive Anamorphic Robot



TSF Crew recently created this incredible anamorphic painting of a huge robot that looks like it's marching towards you! The talented French street art duo that was behind the amazing floor-to-ceiling tree and the…

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Added by alice on July 27, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

Incredible Photos of America's Space Shuttle Program



Despite space travel being a reality for decades, it has truly comes to people's attention nowadays. With the Curiosity rover landing on Mars, people's interest in space, science, astronauts, and flight directors with mohawks has piqued. While the robot on Mars has been making headlines with its fascinating image captures, there are numerous remarkable photographs taken on our home planet of other…

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Added by Pinar on August 15, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Dazzling Pen Portraits by Josh Bryan

While at first glance these stunning black and white portraits look like they were created in Illustrator, you'd be surprised to find out they're actually pen drawings. 20-year-old England-based artist Josh Bryan has a set called Triangulations where he's taken some well-known celebrities - like Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Helen Bonham Carter, and Johnny Knoxville - and…

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Added by alice on August 18, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

Melbourne's Stunning Feathered Girl Mural



Street artists Adnate and Shida recently collaborated on this stunning, large scale mural in Melbourne. According to Gage, "Adnate’s flawless photorealism melds right…

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Added by Eugene on August 30, 2012 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Awesome Movie Mash-Up: The Birds x Up



It's been a little while since we've posted on mash-ups and this one was just too awesome not to share. Video game designer and illustrator Derek Chatwood created this spooky double feature poster that shows what would happen if Alfred Hitchcock's dark movie The Birds was mashed up with Pixar's sweet movie Up. He's even got a great little story on…

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Added by alice on September 1, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments

Extraordinary Cinematic Series: The Pilot's Melancholy



Every so often we come across something that is so visually compelling and tells a story so impeccably without text to narrate and guide the viewer that it transports us deep into its fictional world and takes hold of our emotions. The Pilot's Melancholy is one of those rare photo projects that masters the art of powerful storytelling through pictures.

The series…

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Added by Pinar on September 11, 2012 at 8:30am — No Comments

12 Stunningly Surreal Sculptures

In the dictionary, the word surreal is defined as something unreal and fantastic or "having a oddly dreamlike quality." If surreal art can do anything, it can make us feel like we haven't woken up from a nightmare or a dream. More than that, however, it has the power of making the impossible suddenly seem possible. Though the cultural movement started back in the 1920s…

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Added by alice on September 17, 2012 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Man-Made Rainbow Delights Cape Town

"As the earth spins you're given a window period in each day where it'll allow you the possibility to orchestrate nature to do its little dance." Artist Michael Elion has created a gorgeous, man-made rainbow in front of Commune1 Gallery in Cape Town.…

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Added by alice on September 28, 2012 at 8:00am — No Comments

Ordinary Pumpkin Transforms Into Awesome DJ Sculpture



Artist Andy Bergholtz has worked for over 14 years in the toy and collectible industry, sculpting sci-fi and comic book character for clients such as Marvel Comics, Disney, Warner Bros and Lucasfilm. “You know all those cool statues and toys from Star Wars and Marvel Comics that you see in stores?” he says. “Every one of those pieces started out as a clay sculpture, and that’s where I come…

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Added by alice on October 9, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Ghost Trains Roar Back to Life in Modern England



Though we've seen the present merged with the past in everything from Sergey Larenkov's WW II series to Shawn Clover's San Francisco earthquake blend, we're still incredibly…

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Added by alice on October 26, 2012 at 8:30am — No Comments

The Guardian Mural Mystically Appears in Culver City



Street artists Bumblebee and Zio Ziegler recently collaborated to create this awesome new mural titled The Guardian. The piece was completed in Culver City, California for the Branded Arts exhibition. With Bumblebee using bright colors and Ziegler using complex black lines, it's…

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Added by Eugene on November 10, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Plastic Toys with Funny Captions: Christmas Edition



It's been almost two years since we came across Aled Lewis's hilarious series, called Toy Stories, where he pairs miniature plastic toys with hilarious captions. However, it was only just last month that he…

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Added by alice on December 21, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

Magical Reflections on Soap Bubbles



Though Richard Heeks first caught the world's attention when he captured the exact moment when a bubble bursts (see Reflection Perfect, immediately below), you'd be surprised to find out that the Huddersfield, UK-based photographer…

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Added by alice on January 20, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Powerful Written Portraits of Congolese Victims of War



For photojournalist Sarah Fretwell, photography is an outlet that goes beyond art—it is a medium through which the world is given insight into the lives of people who would otherwise never be heard. For her powerful The Truth Told Project, the photographer has ventured out to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 50 days to capture portraits and statements from young…

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Added by Pinar on February 11, 2013 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Colorful Origami Flowers Change with Shadows and Light



Kota Hiratsuka is a paper artist living in Japan that takes the art of paper folding or origami to new heights! With shadows and light in mind, he creates three-dimensional works, like these origami flowers, that change their appearance depending on the viewer's angle. With just a ruler and a cutter, he cuts and folds paper, by hand, into geometric patterns until he creates these gorgeous…

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Added by alice on February 17, 2013 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Enormous Hand Drawn Mural Shows an Artist's Struggle



Today is the last day to see an impressive and quite enormous hand drawn piece by visual artist Kim Anderson at the Scotch Oakburn College in Tasmania, Australia. Called I Am My Own Prisoner, the 2.4m x 10.5m drawing was created with just pens and pencils. It shows a person lying…

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Added by alice on April 19, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Bringing Old School Video Games to Life - "Tetris Art" by Justin Sachtleben

If you love old school video games, you'll appreciate this picture set by Justin Sachtleben. It's almost like a dream after playing too much Tetris. By shooting these jumbo blocks in a narrow alley, it really enhances the sense of scale. Can't you just hear the music, too?…

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Added by Eugene on January 17, 2009 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Art Gallery Show With Met Member and Wonderful Friend, Charles Kang Showing! Sat 11/8

Our friend and talented photographer, Charles, has organized an art show in Los Angeles for next Saturday! In fact, we love Charles' work so much, we're also a sponsor! Here's the post from the last time we saw… Continue

Added by alice on October 31, 2008 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

New Banksy's and More at MOCA's Art in the Streets

Banksy's Stained Window



Today, we witnessed history being made. As the very first major U.S. museum exhibition of graffiti and street art, MOCA presented the media preview of Art in the Streets, an epic visual feast you must experience for yourself! Tracing the…

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Added by alice on April 14, 2011 at 7:30pm — 14 Comments

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