Photographer Irina Werning has a series of photographs where she borrows old pictures from people and creates new versions of them, posed exactly the same way in exactly the same conditions as they were in the original photographs. Instead of relying on the magic of photoshop, she even uses the same camera, lens, and film [...]
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Benetton’s ads are well known for promoting diversity, usually cultural diversity. This has been noted, studied and also parodied, such as in Family Guy when Stewie is adopted, he remarks that he’s been placed in a Benetton ad. However, Benetton’s latest ad campaign is definitely their most shocking yet. Their new ad campaign features various [...]
Created for the Sarasota Chalk Festival in Florida, this amazing mashup of Legos and Terracotta warriors is magnificent in every sense of the word. Founder and Director Peter Westerink told us that it took a team of four artists, five and a half days to complete it. “We started on Tuesday morning November 1st and finished [...]
Brian Dettmer is a sculptor of books. He works with pages and paper rather than clay, and he does a darn fine job at turning used books—science books, yellow pages, and other old, unused and otherwise trashed literature—into modern sculptures that defy description. Working with a deft hand and an x-acto knife, Dettmer spins trash [...]
Oleg Shuplyak is a painter whose works involve portraits of famous personalities—from Adolf Hitler to Karl Marx—drawn in such a way that common objects and scenery make up their distinctive faces in amalgamated form. The pictures are brilliantly, and evocatively multilayered with uncommon depth.
Adobe, Inc. teamed up with Canadian art blog Booooooom! to create a competition for students to win Adobe CS5.5. The challenge was to submit photographs that re-imagine and recreate classical works of art. There were a lot of great submissions to the contest. Here’s some of the best classic works of art re-imagined in photographs.
Now, when most people think of pumpkin carvings, they thing of cutting out the center of the pumpkin, and then removing some pieces of the skin to create a pumpkin carving. Then, they put a light or candle in the middle, and it glows, illuminating the face of the carving they created. However, there are [...]
Yuki Matsueda, a Japanese artist who specializes in three dimensional glass art has produced an amazing gallery titled “Escape,” which depicts various typically two dimensional forms attempting to escape into three dimensions, but blocked by glass.