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The Girl with Seven Horses

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:10:00 +0000

'The Girl With 7 Horses' is a creative project by photographer Ulrika Kestere based on a fairy tale about seven imaginary horses that come to life within her photographs.

The fairtale story goes: Once upon a time there was a girl who had 7 invisible horses. People thought she was crazy and that she in fact had 7 imaginative horses, but this was not the case. When autumn came the girl spent a whole day washing all her clothes. She hung them on a string in her garden to let the gentle autumn sun dry them. Out of nowhere, a terrible storm came and its fierceful winds grabbed a hold of all her clothes and all seven horses (authors note: since they are invisible they obviously didn't weigh much). The girl was devastated and spent all autumn looking for each horse spread around the country, wrapped in her clothes.

Via: ulicam

Victorian Portraits Turned into Super Heroes Trading Cards

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:22:00 +0000

LA-based artist Alex Gross takes photographic images of antique Cabinet cards and then repaints them into portraits of pop culture personalities like Aquaman, Bride of Frankenstein and Godzilla. His work will be exhibited at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City next month, so if you’re in town, stop by and support a great geek artist.

Via: Arrestedmotion

Famous Photographers Posing With Their Iconic Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:47:00 +0000

San Diego-based photographer Tim Mantoani has an awesome project and book titled “Behind Photographs” that consists of 20×24-inch Polaroid portraits of famous photographers posing with their most iconic photographs.

Via: Wired

The Pothole Gardener

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:01:00 +0000

Londoner Steve Wheen brings greenery and miniature scenes to the streets of east london in his 'the pot hole gardener' project. Wheen describes his endeavors as "part art project, part labour of love, part experiment, part mission to highlight how shit our roads are – the pictures and gardens are supposed to put smiles on peoples faces and alert them to potholes!"

Via: mymodernmet

Money Portraits by Senseteam

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:28:00 +0000

Chinese creative agency Senseteam came up with these portraits, using thin strips of different currencies from around the world. The series of portraits are for a book/poster series entitled Big Business 3. Which is meant to “reflect the subtle relationships and influences across money, desire, society, nations, and human beings.” The project won a gold award for communication at the Design for Asia Award 2011.

Via: designboom

Classic Black and White Photos Colourised

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:25:00 +0000

Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway works on colourization of old black and white photos. Dullaway's color restoration project breathes new life into these aged, colorless images. Though many of them are wonderful, in their own right, there's something new and fresh about the photographs after the artist has reworked the coloring in Photoshop.

Abraham Lincoln

Anne Frank

August Strindberg

Charles Darwin

Theodore Roosevelt

Charlie Chaplin

Fridtjof Nansen

Harvest of Death

Karin Boye 1933

Mark Twain

Operations Cross Road Baker at the Bikini Atoll

Attack on Pearl Harbour

Canada Dock, Liverpool, 1909

Source: imgur

‘City Silhouette’ Portraits by Jasper James

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:03:00 +0000

Over the past decade Jasper James, currently based in Beijing, has lived and worked in New York and London covering assignments around the globe for some of the world’s leading magazines, design and advertising clients. Of this series, City Silhouettes, he writes:

‘These photos are part of an ongoing project that I have been shooting for the past few years in various cities around Asia. Sometime in 2008, the number of people living in urban areas outnumbered those living in rural areas for the first time in history. I thought it would be interesting to shoot portraits of these city dwellers combined with the image of a cityscape.’

Source: featureshoot

Written Portraits by Van Wantern Etcetera

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:49:00 +0000

“Written Portraits” is an amazing advertising campaign where the pages of autobiographical books were carved in the shape of the author’s face. The Van Wantern Etcetera agency started this campaign as a part of Dutch Book Week which is organized by CPNB (Collective Promotion Dutch Literature) every year. The artist Souverein did an impressive job of creating realistic images on the pages of each book. They feature the faces of Louis Van Gaal, Anne Frank, Vincent Van Gogh and Kader Abdolah( the writer of the biographic Book Week give away).

Anne Frank

Kader Abdolah

Louis van Gaal

Vincent van Gogh

Source: behance

Fast Food - Ads vs. Reality

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:47:00 +0000

The true reality of the advertisements of McDonald's Big Mac, Burger King's Whopper, McDonald's Angus Deluxe TP and Taco Bells' Crunchy Taco versus the reality of what you get in the bag. One valiant photographer, Dario D., has chosen to challenge these contradictions of the senses head on. He set out on a small quest to compare the advertising images distributed by fast food providers with the products that are actually served in those notable establishments.

Reading Landscapes by Kyle Kirkpatrick

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:04:00 +0000

UK-based artist Kyle Kirkpatrick transforms books into beautiful landscape sculptures, complete with miniature figurines. The layering in Kirkpatrick's work is remarkable and the text on the pages add an interesting visual to the swirling cuts.

"My practice is primarily concerned with the notion of the imagined landscape. I present man-made objects and natural materials simultaneously to form carefully and meticulously composed installation works. I capitalize on intrigue taking objects out of context reinventing their use, pushing the viewer to see beyond what I present before them, a glass could be interpreted as a lake or a metal bracket a cliff".

Via: saatchionline, Colossal

Recycled Skateboard Deck Sculptures

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:58:00 +0000

Japanese artist Haroshi turns old skateboards into impressive sculptures. His skill is epic, and yet, he’s had no formal art training. His education comes from skating.

His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece. Haroshi became infatuated with skateboarding in his early teens, and is still a passionate skater at present.

The new set features astounding and colorful carvings of a fire hydrant, a full length arm, an enormous skateboard wheel, a playable guitar, and an unfinished dog head.

Via: dailydujour

Happy at One Hundred

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:38:00 +0000

The series entitled ‘Happy at One Hundred’ by well-known German photographer Karsten Thormaehlen shows that age is just a number. Consisting of a collection of photographs of men and women over 100 years old, this project is an extraordinary celebration of life.

These portraits are very sharp and detailed, clearly showing every wrinkle (and twinkle) present in the subjects' faces. The photographs are a nice reminder that a powerful emotion like happiness can be beautifully captured on people of any age.

Date of Birth: May 4, 1910

Date of Birth: March 30, 1909

Date of Birth: September 13, 1907

Date of Birth: January 13, 1906

Date of Birth: October 9, 1906

Date of Birth: September 6, 1908

Date of Birth: August 22, 1909

Date of Birth: December 3, 1908

Date of Birth: January 18, 1910

Date of Birth: June 17, 1911

Date of Birth: August 7, 1909

Date of Birth: December 5, 1903

Via: mymodernmet

Batman Meets Dr. Seuss In Mashup Art

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:38:00 +0000

Australian illustrator DrFaustusAU created this wonderful series of Dr. Seuss-inspired Batman illustrations. See his versions of Batman, Catwoman, the Riddler, the Joker, and Harvey Dent in the style of Dr. Seuss illustrations.

Packing Tape Portraits by Max Zorn

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:12:00 +0000

Using only brown packing tape and a scalpel, Dutch artist Max Zorn creates unbelievably realistic portraits. He then hangs them on street lamps across Amsterdam at night to place his scenes in their original dark, urban environments.

To show exactly how he does what he does, he’s just recently released this superb time-lapse video.

As seen at My Modern Met

Women of the Future, According To 1902

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:19:00 +0000

Generals, marines, lawyers, coach drivers, politicians, and even artists! These were “Women of the Future,” as imagined in a series of 20 French postcards from 1902.

Several if not all of the pictures seem to mock the idea of women entering the professional sphere, but this was only one year before Marie Curie shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, so perhaps there was a bit of cultural intimidation at play here.

Conscript

Rural Guard

Policeman

Fireman

Drummer Boy

Infantry Soldier

Marine

Non-commissioned Officer

Second Lieutenant

General

Student

Coach driver

Jockey

Master of Arms

Artist

Journalist

Barrister

Doctor

Mayor

Politician

Full story at fantaisiesbergeret via retronaut

Portrait Made From 5,500 Toy Soldiers

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:29:00 +0000

Made in China is an impressive piece by artist Joe Black depicting a portrait of Chinese soldier that appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine in 1938. Black glued over 5,500 multi-colored toy soldiers to a vertical surface to achieve the pointillistic effect. The artwork was on display last October at the Moniker Art Fair in London.

Source: thisiscolossal

Sensational Sculptures Made Using Matchsticks

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:37:00 +0000

UK-based artist David Mach used thousands of matchsticks to create incredibly detailed sculptures, then burns them and leaves them charred. Mach uses Japanese matchsticks because their heads come in all sorts of different colors, and color is definitely an important part of his works.

Source: mymodernmet

Dream Big by Peter Fecteau

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:50:00 +0000

Dream Big was a year-long project in which artist Peter Fecteau created a mosaic of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. using 4,242 Rubik’s Cubes. Dream Big was on display for the 2010 ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan placing in top 50 out of 1,700 artists.

For a short time it was the world’s largest Rubik’s Cube mosaic. He created it with the help of YouCanDoTheRubiksCube, First Park Congregational Church, The Student Advancement Foundation and Cooley Law School.

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Rainbow Toy Car Installation

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:15:00 +0000

The Toy Atlas Rainbow is a wonderful installation of 2,500 old toy cars by UK artist David T. Waller, who won the People’s Award at the Arts Depot Open last year. The cars in the installation are arranged in a circular pattern according to their color, making a beautiful rainbow out of Hot Wheels cars.

Source: mymodernmet

2011 National Geographic Photo Contest Winners

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:28:00 +0000

National Geographic has announced the winners of its 2011 Photography Contest, and the images are nothing less than stunning.

Shikhei Goh of Indonesia was named the grand prize winner for his image of a dragonfly entitled "Splashing." Goh will have his photo published by National Geographic and receive a $10,000 prize and a trip to National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to a press release.

National Geographic reported that they received over 20,000 submissions from both amateur and professional photographers in over 130 countries. Submissions were judged in one of three categories: nature, people and places.

Source: theatlantic

Reuters Best Photos of the Year 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:48:00 +0000

From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. Reuters photographers covered the breaking news events as well as captured more intimate, personal stories. In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year.

Source: reuters

3D Street Art Illusions by Eduardo Relero

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:57:00 +0000

The 3D street artist Eduardo Relero from Argentina has created optical illusions around the globe. There's a certain life-like quality to the visuals he produces, because of their three-dimensional appearance, yet he maintains an illustrative aesthetic.

The unusual illusions are even more interesting as real people and animals interact with them, breathing life into the pieces. The balance between surreal imagery and realism that Rolero has attained is really noteworthy.

Source: mymodernmet

30 Incredible Illustrations by Enkel Dika

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:27:00 +0000

Here is a nice compilation of seriously awesome artwork of Enkel Dika who incorporates pop culture tidbits into all of his works.

Mosaic Portraits of IT Giants

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:23:00 +0000

Greek visual designer Charis Tsevis created mosaic portraits of IT icons for an upcoming book titled Gadgets, Games, Robots and the Digital World. Japanese videogame developer Tomohiro Nishikado, who is best known for creating the intergalactic shooter Space Invaders, is composed of the game’s graphics. Grace Hopper, Bill Gates, Cynthia Breazeal, and Sir Clive Sinclair are also represented.

Sources: behance, flavorwire

Aqueous Fluoreau: Paint Dropped In Water by Mark Mawson

noreply@blogger.com (Fresh Pics) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:02:00 +0000

British photographer Mark Mawson drops paint into water and photographs the beautiful results for his Aqueous photo series entitled Aqueous Fluoreau. The images are stunning not only for their vibrant colors but their almost sculptural appearance.

Source: behance