You don't have to go very far to find creative materials. In fact, you can use what's sitting right on your desk! Scotch proves this point in their recently concluded Scotch Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest.
The second annual contest challenged artists of every level to create original sculptures using just packaging tape. The winners were chosen by a panel of experts,… Continue
What a smashing start to his 365 day project! Shawn Van Daele of Renaissance Studios sent us a wonderful email this morning to let us know about his highly creative self-portraits. The Milton, Ontario, Canada-based photographer creates images that stand out from the crowd not just because of their surreal nature but because you feel as though they each tell a unique and interesting story.
Yesterday, Eugene and I attended the preview of MOCA's upcoming show Art in the Streets. At the gift shop (which displayed a nice piece by Shepard Fairey), we picked up three books with the same name.
Written by Jeffrey Deitch (the MOCA Director and Exhibition Curator) Roger… Continue
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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…
What a March! Now that we have some time to stop and catch our breath, we wanted to take a much needed look back on the most viral content on My Modern Met in March. Can you believe we had the most visitors to our site ever in one month with 2 million coming in to check out everything from a magic mud man to an Up-inspired floating house? Take a look back with us, if you will, to experience for the… Continue
Call it the sign of the times when you see a crazy cast of Western cartoon characters painted into Chinese art. Zhang Gong is an artist who is currently exhibiting at the Eli Klein gallery in New York. With paintings that range in price from $5,000 to $70,000, three-quarters of which were sold out after just three week, Gong is one of several Chinese artists who is making a mark in today's… Continue
London-based commercial photographer Dirk Rees knows how to capture the perfect moment. Having worked in film, Rees takes photos that have a cinematic feel to them which he accomplishes through careful lighting and thoughtful storytelling. Movement, shape, body and motion are all taken into consideration when he snaps a shot.
"A single image can represent everything; it’s the most… Continue
Miu and Kanna are two young sisters growing up in Japan. As their proud father, Nagano Toyokazu doesn't just take candid shots of his daughters, he enjoys making up fictional scenes that stretch their creativity. He come up with ideas, jots down some notes and then asks his daughters to ham it up for the camera.
"In this way, I hope that these pictures will remind my daughters of their… Continue
Our hearts go out to the people in Japan and all those affected by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake. It's the biggest earthquake on record to hit Japan and according to CNN it "unleashed walls of water Friday that swept across rice fields, engulfed towns, dragged houses onto highways… Continue
What a month! This past February, we discovered a new appreciation for Mongolian pop art, we were amazed by the amount of work and patience that went into Andrew Myers screw portraits and we all fell in love with a sweet-looking girl who just happens to levitate. To the creative people behind these amazing photos and works of art, we salute you. Thank you for making our world a wonderfully… Continue
Let husband and wife team Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison transport you to another time and place with their stunningly surreal photos. With degrees in Fine Arts, the duo construct mind-bending scenes and then ask you, the viewer, to imagine yourself in them. Robert is the main character in each of these photos, he wears a black suit to represent the archetype of the modern man.
On my recent stay at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas, I was taken aback by an incredibly cool experience in their lobby. Created by Digital Kitchen, the living art is made up of 8 columns, which have 12 individual screens on each side. Using a combination of photography, film, and 3D and 2D animation, Digital Kitchen presents several stories that are as beautiful as they are… Continue
There's no denying the fact that most of us have pretended to be actors. Our friend shouts out some creative story and in an instant we become these make-believe characters - drug dealers, CEOs, princesses or policemen.
Photographer Howard Schatz took this idea one step further. In 2006, he released a book called In Character: Actors Acting. He put himself in the director's… Continue
If written poetry could transform itself to pictures, it would look something like this. Thailand-based neurologist Sippanont Samchai has a beautiful collection of black-and-white photos that span the emotional rainbow. In fact, he even separates out his photos into positive and negative sets. If you visit his Flickr stream,… Continue
On February 1st, British filmmaker Oliver Wilkins decided to head out into Tahrir Square, Cairo to document the protests. Based in Cairo for the past 12 years, he says that he has a "great love of Egypt and the Egyptians." That being said, he tries to stay clear of Egyptian politics. What has been happening in Tahrir, however, is so "totally unprecedented," that he felt compelled to shoot these scenes.
"It’s amazing to see people making signs from anything… Continue
Are you looking at pictures of a boutique hotel? Not exactly. German creative agency Dan Pearlman redesigned the MTV Networks Headquarters in Berlin, making it one of the most modern office buildings we've ever seen! With wide open space, they clearly wanted MTV employees to enjoy a greater freedom of movement, thereby promoting a better work-life balance.
Not since Jason Lee have I found a father who could capture childhood is such a sweet and genuine way. Osaka, Japan-based photographer/web designer Hideaki Hamada shoots his curiously cute boys, Haru and Mina, as they make their way through life.
This very proud father has been shooting… Continue
Now this is a creative engagement shot! When undergraduate student Jeremy Blanchard was asked to take engagement photos of his friends, he decided to do something a little different. Instead of taking a boring old photo of two lovebirds wrapped in each other's arms, he made his friends look like ghostly figures walking toward each other, symbolizing them "falling" in love.
We've all seen the black and white version of this photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. It was taken on V-J Day in Times Square and was published in Life magazine in 1945.
Reddit user mygrapefruit colorized the photo using Photoshop CS 5 on a Wacom tablet.… Continue
Winners of the 'Art in the Streets' Books!
MTV's Ultra-Modern Headquarters in Berlin (10 pics)
