It's the age old question: What do you get the person who has everything? If that person is your father, the task becomes even more difficult. Lucky for us, the internet gives us access to an almost unlimited amount of resources where we can find something for everyone. So whether your father is passionate about keeping up with all the latest gadgets or loves spending…
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Blue, Australian Kelpie, Age 19 from Elderly Animals
While we'll always have a love and fascination for baby animals, like those taken by
Sharon Montrose, or even majestic creatures that are in their prime, like those shot by…
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Added by alice on June 6, 2011 at 11:00am —
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My Hand with Glow-in-the-Dark Paint, 2010
Going on from now till June 11 at the Michael Mazzeo Gallery in New York is an exciting exhibition from one of our most beloved artists, Caleb Charland. Back in July 2010, we wrote about how Charland makes us believe in magic through his… Continue
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Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz
If you're looking for some art to challenge everything you believed was true, then make sure to drop by the Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York for a show opening tomorrow called Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities. The exhibition features recent work and site-specific installations by contemporary artists around the…
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While we're completely blown away when we see
paintings that look like pictures, we're even more excited when we come across pictures that look like paintings! Such is this set, called
Painted Ladies, by Barbara Cole. The self-taught photographer not only challenges our reality, she does it…
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"I'm curious and like to explore with my camera," says Ben Canales. "The night skies captivate me."
The Portland, Oregon-based photographer has a love and passion for the stars. Growing up between three major cities in the Northeast of the US, Canales hardly saw any of them at night. Then, a few years ago, he left the East Coast cities for the darker, less poluted night skies on the…
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In our book, no one creates more clever design (or advertising) like Noma Bar. A new series of ads were just released by the illustrator as he continues his work for IBM's Smarter Planet. The idea? To visually communicate a complex story in a simple way that deserves a second look.
Smarter Planet is a corporate initiative of IBM whereby they seeks to highlight how forward-thinking…
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Challenging us to think about the way we view time, Pep Ventosa creates photo collages of famous cities around the world that resemble surreal paintings. By assembling dozens to several hundred separate photographs together, he turns life's moments into puzzle pieces. It's as if he reconstructs a whole new reality.
As his website states, "His work is focused on an exploration of the…
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Added by alice on June 2, 2011 at 6:00am —
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Back in 1995, Alex Queral was just an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle who loved to paint. What he enjoyed the most was creating self portraits using a "heavy impasto technique," which required a lot of paint and sometimes even wax to make the faces a bit more sculptural. Suddenly, he hit a wall. Queral was using so much paint that it was costing him a fortune. As luck would…
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Who wouldn't love to bump into sculptures like this? Bright orange and blue umbrellas, a red light bulb, a huge hammer, and a white gate are all currently on show at Roche Court's New Art Centre in Wiltshire, UK. These 3D sculptures by Michael Craig-Martin are meant to look as though they're "great drawings against the sky." Does anyone else feel like they'd be trapped in an alternate… Continue
Added by alice on June 1, 2011 at 10:00am —
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Thank God someone captured that magical moment! Danish photographer Peter Funch was on hand when Sony let loose 250,000 colorful bouncy balls into the streets of San Francisco to launch their BRAVIA brand. Do you remember
that commercial?
Interesting fact: A team of 50 interns was on hand to gather up the balls for the six…
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Visit the Palace of Versailles from June 1st through November 1st, 2011 and you'll get to see some fantastic contemporary sculptures surrounding the French landmark. The past few years we saw Takashi Murakami, Xavier Veihan and Jeff Koons display their works around the palace and this year they've invited artist Bernar Venet to display his stunning steel sculptures. The Palace of Versailles chose…
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