Ignacio Torres is a visual artist with a BFA in photography at the University of North Texas who is currently living and working in New York City. His most recent work, “Stellar”, has a creative approach on man’s relationship with the cosmos, illustrated in simple animated gifs. This project began from the theory that humans…
Book and sculpture seem to be the petals of the same art flower. And those art flowers find a very fertile soil in the UK apparently. Yvette Hawkins is one of the young British artists that does more than fold paper, she creates art. She folds paper and binds it together to create decorations and…
Award-winning photographer Clark Little was born in Napa, California in 1968. After making a name as a pioneer of surfing, it was believed that Clark had a unique talent for taking off on hopeless closeout shorebreak waves and surviving in one piece. Clark’s ”view” is a unique and often dangerous perspective of waves from the…
For many people, flies are unwanted, to say the least. But for Magnus Muhr they are very artistic, especially the dead ones. Photo by Magnus Muhr via Wes Funderberg He uses tweezers to place the flies in various positions on carton, making their presence feel more life-like. The saying ‘you’re as active as a dead fly’…
Amy Weston might just be the photographer to win the 2011 Pulitzer Award for Photography after immortalizing a woman jumping from a burning building, during the London Riots. Photo from The Telegraph Photo from The Guardian via The Telegraph Photo from The Mirror via The Telegraph Amy declared that she had arrived, parked her car and tried to…
From the series of written paper art comes another artist that deals with paper and words. But if Su Blackwell is a reader, Keira Rathbone is a writer. She typewrites all her works of art. At first, if you see her works from a distance (both in real life and on virtual media) nothing strikes…
I’m sure you all recognize the Super Mario game and also that you recall the Piranha Plants, one of the many enemies of Super Mario. Here is a small video reminder of the ever popular Super Mario: If you did remember the Piranha Plants, you’re going to love these earrings! If not, then you should…
Have you ever wondered what happens or what it looks like from up-close when tiny drops of water fall every day in your glass before you drink it or when you are pouring milk in your coffee? Using coloured surfaces such as aluminium foil, controlled light and with the aid of a high-performance camera the…
Remember Su Blackwell’s artistic books? When I first saw them I almost fell in love; they contain two of the things I personally couldn’t live without: books and art. And lately, her art seeped even in advertising. Photo from Wonderful Photos She started out by cutting out characters from old books and creating dioramas. But…
Certainly you are more than familiar with the theme song of the well-known game Super Mario. Now it’s time to get familiar with the works of some plastic artists that were inspired by the game’s popularity and created some rather interesting things. I found some interesting earrings representing Piranha Plants from Super Mario, and to…
On her full name, Amy Jade Winehouse, the famous singer born in London on September 14 1983, was found dead in her apartment, on July 23 2011. But as her fans and other music lovers say, at the young age of 27, she still had a lot to offer, she was talented and if not…
Standard maps are not that interesting anymore and that’s why these extremely creative people – photographers, designers or random people with a vast imagination – decided to give world maps a new twist. Some are carved, some are painted, while others are edited pictures of different objects. Funny, interesting or simply amazing these maps are…