Hazardous Material
What kind of misery and chaos have the miniature people gotten themselves into? San Diego-based artist Enomeks has that answer. He's come upon four different yet very dramatic scenes. A hazmat team has been deployed to check out some foreign, fuming material. Banksy has struck again! Someone's been smuggling illegal goods while another man seems to…
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Added by alice on September 18, 2011 at 7:00am —
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Happy Friday, everyone! Time for another round of great links from all around the web. Also, revisit some of the top posts from right here on My Modern Met.
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Added by alice on September 16, 2011 at 4:00pm —
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You lug your camera with you wherever you go. In fact, people expect that of you. You're always looking for that authentic moment - that raw, real or priceless shot. You don't mind shooting strangers - you even prefer it. If this sounds eerily like you, you just may have what it takes to be the ultimate street photographer!
The London Street Photography…
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Added by alice on September 16, 2011 at 11:00am —
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The last time we posted about Sipho Mabona, we boldly called his work,
"the most beautiful origami art" we had ever seen. Though the Switzerland-based artist is known for his animal or nature pieces, he's starting to show more conceptual ones including this installation which was…
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Added by alice on September 16, 2011 at 10:00am —
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Though this new Neiman Marcus campaign, called
Art of Fashion, has shots that look overtly like advertisements, we couldn't help but want to share it with you when we saw who was the star. All-American actress Drew Barrymore dons decadent outfits by everyone from Gucci and Prada to Tom Ford and Carolina Herrera, all shot by Norman Jean Roy. Like a modern-day movie star, Barrymore looks…
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Added by alice on September 15, 2011 at 3:30pm —
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What happens to superheroes when they start to age? Andreas Englund has the answer. He's the creative artist behind this hilarious series that's been "flying" through the web. The Sweden born and based artist takes us on a wild journey through the life of an everyday superhero, one most of us…
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Added by alice on September 15, 2011 at 10:00am —
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With all of her effects created in-camera using the refraction of light and movement in different depths of water, Christy Lee Rogers creates pictures that look like Baroque paintings without the help of Photoshop. Her obsession with water as a medium coupled with her dedication to photography as an artistic medium, makes her work truly stand…
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Added by alice on September 15, 2011 at 9:30am —
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Added by alice on September 14, 2011 at 4:00pm —
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If you're a fan of retro video games and you love art, you're going to get a kick out of this new sculpture by Aled Lewis. Called
Double Discount, it pays tribute to the Game Boy title, Double Dragon II, and was made for the
Old School Video Game Show coming on September 16 to
Gallery 1988 in Venice,…
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Added by alice on September 14, 2011 at 3:30pm —
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New York just got another piece of incredible public art. This time it's a 26-foot-tall bronze elephant sculpture designed by Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo. The 15,000 pound wrinkly elephant arrived yesterday, September 15, in Union Square. The talented elephant is balancing upside-down on his long trunk with the help of a steel tube attached to a steel base.…
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Added by alice on September 14, 2011 at 11:30am —
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What exactly are you looking at? Come a little closer and you'll notice a familiar skyline. That's Manhattan, the most recent creation by Yutaka Sone, which he'll be presenting at the David Zwirner gallery in New York starting September 20 and through October 29, 2011. Sone's three-dimensional ode to New York is made from a 2 1/2 ton block of marble. Using both imagery…
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Added by alice on September 14, 2011 at 10:30am —
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If you were in Australia this past September, you may have checked out the 9th annual Swell Sculpture Festival, an event that brings together artists to display their unique sculptures on Currumbin Beach. This year, out of the 50 sculptures, this one caught our eye.
It's called
School and it's by artist Richard Howie. "There is something wonderful in the shining,…
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Added by alice on September 14, 2011 at 10:00am —
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“I wish that I could play her for the rest of my life,” says actress Michelle Williams about Marilyn Monroe. Wearing a Monique Lhuillier champagne satin dress and Harry Winston diamond jewels, as one of her outfits for the Annie Leibovitz's shot Vogue October 2011 editorial, Williams looks as though she's stopped being the girl-next-door and started embracing her drop-dead…
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Added by alice on September 13, 2011 at 10:30am —
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Dream Weaver
Using just metallic gel pens on the black, reverse side of an illustration board, Filipino artist John Paul "Lakan" Olivares creates incredibly detailed drawings that have a spiritual undertone. While in his earlier works, his pieces were based on the traditional, indigenous cultures of the Philippines, his later work focused more on the…
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Added by alice on September 13, 2011 at 10:00am —
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We'd seen Laura Laine's incredibly beautiful fashion illustrations before, but it surprised us that we actually never wrote a post about her work. The Helskinki-based illustrator studied fashion design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, but after her first course on fashion illustration, she decided that she had found her true calling. As she's said in a…
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Added by alice on September 13, 2011 at 9:30am —
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If Polaroid gave you unlimited use of their instant printer, the GL10, what would you create? What pictures would you take and how would you arrange their 3" x 4" print-outs to make something unique and interesting? Tasked with this challenge, a mix of today's artists, designers, photographers, actors and musicians came together in the name of charity. All pieces will be auctioned off with…
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Added by alice on September 12, 2011 at 11:00am —
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If you thought that hyper-realistic paintings always seemed a bit dry and uninteresting, then perhaps you haven't seen these works by Jeff Ramirez. The Los Angeles-based artist keeps his subject matters fresh, making his pieces feel alive and relevant. Currently, you can see some of Ramirez's work along with those by other realist painters, like Aaron Nagel and Jennifer…
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Added by alice on September 12, 2011 at 10:00am —
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If you're interested in seeing some actual Damien Hirst sculptures, you're in luck. Two new Hirst works will be shown for
The Beyond Limits sculpture exhibition at
Chatsworth House in Derbyshire,…
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Added by alice on September 12, 2011 at 9:00am —
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How do you get the most out of your iPad, especially when it comes to reading the news? In our last "tip" article for Intel's My Life Scoop we bring you the
top 6 iPad apps for quick news reading. Check them out.…
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Added by alice on September 12, 2011 at 8:30am —
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To commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the September 11 attacks, thousands of people this morning, at precisely 8:46 a.m. (the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center), joined hands and formed a human chain along the waterfront in Lower Manhattan.
People were then encouraged to visit Battery Park and post a message or memento on their Wall of Remembrance, portions of…
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Added by alice on September 10, 2011 at 11:00am —
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