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∞ | Seeing the world through “The Collective Snapshot” →

Spanish photographer Pep Ventosa‘s layered snapshots are shizophrenic, to say the least. The photographs, part of a series entitled “The Collective Snapshot”, are comprised of multiple images of several landmarks, ranging from the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge to Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal, layered on top of the other and rendered with varying degrees of opacities that constitute a spectral play of shifting horizons, half-structures, and fluctuating streams of pedestrians. 

Sydney Opera House

The Palace of Westminster

See more of Ventosa’s amazing photos.


Tags: photography art Pep Ventosa
April 07, 2012
Money Pieces. International Currency Sculptures by Kristi Malakoff

Money Pieces.

International Currency Sculptures by Kristi Malakoff


Tags: art sculpture currency origami
April 04, 2012
At world’s end: Artists reveal stunning post-apocalyptic images of the world’s major cities via Mail Online Artists Lucie and Simon have taken the world’s most familiar and populous cities and removed all but one or two people to create the illusion of a lonely world.

At world’s end: Artists reveal stunning post-apocalyptic images of the world’s major cities via Mail Online

Artists Lucie and Simon have taken the world’s most familiar and populous cities and removed all but one or two people to create the illusion of a lonely world.


Tags: photography art cityscapes cities apocalyptic
April 02, 2012

∞ | Animals as the alphabet →

Casey Girar’s Alphabet Animals on the Behance Network. 

G - Giraffe

L - Lion

Z - Zebra


Tags: design illustration kids art animals lion zebra giraffe
April 02, 2012

∞ | Dain Fagerholm: Creature in Cube with Gem (stereographic drawing) →


Tags: art stereographic drawing monster
March 30, 2012
Alberto Seveso shared these stunning photos of ink in water, a due Colori, on the Behance Network.

Alberto Seveso shared these stunning photos of ink in water, a due Colori, on the Behance Network.


Tags: art photography abstract
March 29, 2012
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This Is a Fingerpainting. Needless to say, it was not completed by a kindergartner. 

This Is a Fingerpainting. Needless to say, it was not completed by a kindergartner. 


Tags: art fingerpaint
March 27, 2012
Art History Through Sci Fi-Colored Glasses

Art History Through Sci Fi-Colored Glasses


Tags: art sci-fy star wars
February 17, 2012
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Countries & Colour by Jerod Gibson This is an ongoing series of geographic prints. I’ve been wanting to do a series with a digi-watercolor style for awhile as well as doing something that involved countries. The two parts seemed to go hand in hand very good, and melded into a nice minimalistic abstract designs. I picked the USA one, but there are more here.

Countries & Colour by Jerod Gibson

This is an ongoing series of geographic prints. I’ve been wanting to do a series with a digi-watercolor style for awhile as well as doing something that involved countries. The two parts seemed to go hand in hand very good, and melded into a nice minimalistic abstract designs.

I picked the USA one, but there are more here.


Tags: art design
February 16, 2012
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Anatomical paper craft The method of creating this Anatomical Cross-Sections in Paper is quite fascinating: These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books. They are constructed by a technique of rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper called quilling or paper filigree. Quilling was first practiced by Renaissance nuns and monks who made artistic use of the gilded edges of worn out bibles, and later by 18th century ladies who made artistic use of lots of free time. I find quilling exquisitely satisfying for rendering the densely squished and lovely internal landscape of the human body in cross section. Check out all of Lisa Nilsson’s work in this series.

Anatomical paper craft

The method of creating this Anatomical Cross-Sections in Paper is quite fascinating:

These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books. They are constructed by a technique of rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper called quilling or paper filigree. Quilling was first practiced by Renaissance nuns and monks who made artistic use of the gilded edges of worn out bibles, and later by 18th century ladies who made artistic use of lots of free time. I find quilling exquisitely satisfying for rendering the densely squished and lovely internal landscape of the human body in cross section.

Check out all of Lisa Nilsson’s work in this series.


Tags: art paper craft anatomy
February 12, 2012
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“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” 50mg: Marius Roosendaa

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

50mg:

Marius Roosendaa


Tags: typography art design
September 14, 2011
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Superheros are like the rest of us.

azizalbraik:

Super Heroes


Tags: art photography comics spiderman batman superman captain america lol
September 08, 2011
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remediosthebeauty:

Ulric Collette’s photo essay, Portraits génétiques, examines genetic similarities between family members.

via NOTCOT

Ulric Collette


Tags: art photography
August 23, 2011
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glueyourfingers:

Included in the preface to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is the now famous and often misconstrued line, ‘All art is quite useless’. In fact, following the novel’s original publication in 1890, Oxford undergraduate Bernulf Clegg was so intrigued by the claim that he wrote to Wilde and asked him to elaborate. The following handwritten letter was Wilde’s response.

My dear Sir

Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression.

A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.

Truly yours,

Oscar Wilde


Tags: art oscar wilde beauty letter handwriting philosophy
August 23, 2011
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