Katie Hosmer's Blog (881)

Simon & Garfunkel: Wednesday Morning, 3AM

These photomontage images by photographer Bob Egan are a sea of nostalgia. The photographer is inspired by all kinds of historical pop culture events and, referring to himself as a "pop culture/rock and roll detective," Egan tracks down locations across mainly New York City to visually recreate…

In this series, Ukrainian photographer Anton Surkov creates a collection of perfectly timed black and white photographs. In the images, Surkov captures each unique jump, as clouds of white powder explode in the air around the remarkably fit, strong young models.

The photographs exude a sense of energy, and the models demonstrate all kinds of emotion in their…

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1972, internationally recognized artist Chiharu Shiota now lives and works in Berlin. In much of her art, Shiota utilizes old, worn out items that spark an intrigue both about the history of the things themselves as well as about the meaning of the installation in which they are placed. In Breath of the Spirit, the artist ties tangled red yarn to 600…

wolfgangstaudt



The power of the waterfalls at Niagara Falls, on an average day, is stunning. So imagine topping that immense beauty with a brilliant, colorful light show during the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights. Since 1860, lighting up the falls at night has…

Rrrrrrrroll is a project developed by a group of very talented artists in Japan. Taking inspiration from the recent trend of animated gifs—images that repeatedly display a sequence of frames in order to create an illusion of movement—the artists create pieces that involve people and objects rotating on a single axis.

The group of friends traveled together to create each piece featuring a series of minimalist photographs taken from one single perspective.…

In his Little People series, French photographer Jean-Joseph Renucci joins the ranks of Slinkachu and Christopher Boffoli in…

On these hot summer days, this floating playground would be a great place to relax and stay cool! Wibit Sports is a German watersports company that produces all kinds of fun and exciting inflatable water sports products. They offer varieties of buoyant modules that you can combine and configure into your own personalized pool party.

Sports Park 60 is one of their most massive…

Designed by Welsh designer Ross Lovegrove and manufactured by Artemide, Solar Tree is an urban lighting system created as a part of Clerkenwell Design Week 2012. This futuristic design uses panels and LED lighting units to provide environmentally friendly illumination powered by solar energy.

Much of Lovegrove's work is inspired by nature, and he says his work possesses "a…

Talented welder Matt Ludwig recently installed this Drum Kit Chandelier as the central focus of JJ's Red Hots, a restaurant featuring hot dogs and located in Charlotte, North Carolina. When the place was first being built, co-founder and friend Jonathan Luther immediately kept an eye out for a great place to feature Ludwig's incredible abilities as a welder.

According to…

This work by self-taught visual artist Fabio Selvatici should not be missed! His incredible talents for digital processing, combined with traditional interventions like acrylic paints and inks, result in these stunning and unexpected destructions of the human form. Focusing mainly on female figures, Selvatici says he finds bodies and faces that are, at first, pristine and perfect, and then…

In his project Skindeep, French photographer Julien Palast studies the body and the human form in a very unique way. Generally an advertising and still life photographer, Palast went in a new direction with this portrait series. For each image, he wrapped male and female models in vibrant colors and gradients that created what he describes as "instant bas reliefs recalling of…

Chicago-based photographer Paul Octavious has a knack for finding unique trees that lean in odd directions. In this series, called Lean With It, he locates oddly slanting trees and photographs his friends leaning at parallel angles. Taken across different times of day and different seasons, the images are an intriguing question of nature and gravity. Presumably, the photographer has…

Working in collaboration with creative studio 254forest, Belgian artist Pierre Debusschere directed and photographed an incredible editorial film, called The Day the World Went Away. The piece was created for the sixth issue of Under/Current magazine, an issue that draws inspiration from the world of sci-fi, technology, and the space age. This futuristic piece visually embraces many of those concepts and Under/Current says, "Rising photographer Pierre…

London based artist Everton Wright works in all types of media from design, sculpture, and drawing, to film and public installations. Over the course of eight years, Wright has developed this project, Walking Drawings, as a series of live, interactive, large-scale drawings that take place in public spaces.

Covering at least one quarter of a mile, he creates patterned line…

On a weekly basis, graphic designer and artist Amanda Jane Jones introduces different creative couples on her website in this fun and playful project called My Better Half. Featuring photos of each individual half, the couple as a whole, and some fun facts about each person, the series is an incredible project about the love and friendship that defines all kinds of relationships.…

California-based artist Lauren DiCioccio hand-embroiders her pieces based off of imagery seen in old issues of The New York Times. From Gerald Ford's Funeral to Lady Gaga on the cover of The Arts section, DiCicoccio focuses her attention on the tangible beauty of printed news and media.

As the digital world continues to advance, newspapers, magazines, and printed materials are…

South African artist Robin Rhode uses everyday materials like chalk, charcoal, and paints to create these creative scenes. In his performances, he finds public spaces to create sketches on walls and then photographs himself interacting with the drawings. Promenade is a flipbook-style…

Soul Out is a series of paintings by Berlin-based artist Deenesh Ghyczy. Looking at his images is like looking through a frosted glass window. The artist uses optical filters to view his subjects as he paints the oils on canvas, so that parts of the figures repeat and cascade away from the central focus in hazy and dreamy distortions.

Ghyczy's subjects appear…

X-Fois Gens Chaise, or X-Times People Chair, is a site-specific piece created by German artist Angie Hiesl. During each performance, selected people between the ages of 60 and 70 float overhead on metal white chairs attached to the façade of various buildings. As the performers sit, perched in the air, they conduct normal, everyday activities such as reading…

Candy lovers will go just mad over this Alexander McQueen-inspired dress made out of gummy bears! The dress was created as a tribute to the late fashion designer and was used for the debut issue of Twelv magazine.

To build the design, stylists Hissa Igarashi and Sayuri Marakumi twisted steel wire into the shape of a dress and covered it with vinyl. They then spent three…