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Artist Hong Yi aka ‘Red‘, who has a knack for creating art with everyday objects in unconventional ways, creates a portrait of Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg out of books. She stragically cuts out slices of paper at the edges of many thick books to slowly create his image. Facebook!
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Mark Mawson is back with a new series of photos titled, ‘Aqueous Electreau’. His previous photo set was similarly titled as ‘Aqueous Floreau‘. Using neon-bright ‘electro’ color themes, Mawson creates billowing flora of colors with incredible results.
(via The Telegraph)
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I’m a really big fan of photographs of liquid manipulation as seen in my previous posts HERE and HERE, and this latest series of pics taken by Milwaukee-based photographed Jack Long takes this art-from to another level.
Titled ‘Vessels and Blooms‘, Jack captures a split-millisecond moment in time of water splashes colored and manipulated in a way to resemble a blooming flower in a flower pot. I can’t imagine that amount of time it took to capture the perfect moment, but the results are remarkable.
(via Colossal)
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Ever wondered what you look like if you stuck your head out of the window of a speeding car? Well look no further than a recent series of photographs titled, ‘Blow Job‘ by Lithuanian photographer and artist Tadao Cern. The concept is simple, blast your subjects with violent winds and take their mugshot in all their glory. As for the results, I’m gonna be laughing in my sleep tonight. đ Pretty much any of these portraits are prime candidates for “Caption This Photo” material. Check out over 100 more pics HERE.
(via Colossal)
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Last weekend on May 6th to close out the Tokyo Hotaru Festival (Tokyo Firefly Festival), 100,000 LED lights were sent drifting down the Sumida River to imitate a stream of fireflies. What a spectacle. I wonder what the fish were thinking? đ Having personally visted Tokyo, Japan, I can say that it really is a special place with some deep rooted cultural values.
(pics via Tokyo Hotaru Festival & Mai Suzuki)
(source via Laughing Squid)
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The average person spends about 3 years of their lifetime sitting on the toilet so why not make it more exciting? In Guadalajara MĂ©xico, architects Hernandez Silva Arquitectos designed a bathroom in a Guadalajaran penthouse to be situated on top of an old abandoned 15-story Elevator Shaft! Crazy! One step in there and you’ll be glad that they provide more than one toilet paper roll đ More about this penthouse HERE.
(via Colossal)
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This is just clever fun. Tyler DeAngelo, a creative director at ad agency Devito/Verdi, setup some cameras overlooking 5th Ave in NYC and wrote a code to map the cars on 5th Ave into the actual game Frogger in real time! It sure beats jaywalking đ
(via Laughing Squid)
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Eric Franklin sculpts a glass structure titled, “Embodiment” into a shape of a human skeleton. This sculpture is hollow and filled with ionized krypton, causing them to glow similar to a neon light. The resulting pictures almost look like I am looking at a digital rendering of a liquid, glowing skeleton.
Every glass seal has to be perfect, and this piece contains hundreds. Everywhere one tube joins another, or a tube terminates, glass tubes were sealed together. They have to be perfect in order to preserve the luminosity of the krypton. If one rogue molecule gets inside the void of the glass tubing it can eventually contaminate the gas and it will no longer glow. There are times when the holes in the seals are so small that you cannot actually see them with your eyes without the help of a leak detector. Once the glass pieces are ready to get filled with gas, I pull a high vacuum while the glass is hot in order to evacuate any dust or water vapor from the interior surface until there are literally no molecules inside the void of the glass. Then the krypton can be introduced and the glass sealed off. Itâs an extremely tedious process, one I have somewhat of a love/hate relationship with. -Eric Franklin
(via Colossal)
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Italian photographer, Alberto Seveso has a new series of underwater ink photographs titled, “a due Colori”. He manages to capture these flowing, billowing masses of ink in such a way that it almost looks outer-worldly. Like a deep-space nebula of some sort. Very cool!
(via Colossal)
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If you’re a fan of movie posters, then you may be interested to hear of an interesting discovery which has recently been made in Pennsylvania! However, the bad news is that unless you have a spare $250,000 lying around, you’re unlikely to be able to purchase these classic posters for yourself, as this is how much they are currently expected to fetch at auction.
There are nearly three dozen posters in total, most of which have been designed to advertise movies from what is considered to be Hollywood’s Golden Age. From Dracula to Ten Cents A Dance, the posters are thought to be originals, and a very rare find indeed. Whilst many of us might think of film posters as something which we might simply use to brighten a bedroom, or to place above the desk where we might work or play online Party Poker, it is unlikely that this rare examples of movie history will end up simply tacked to a wall. Yet, at the time of their release, these posters would not have been thought to be anywhere near as valuable as they are now.
The poster would originally have been used to advertise the latest movie released, and as such they were glued one on top of another as each new movie was announced. However, since their discovery, the posters have undergone a careful separation and restoration process. One advantage of the posters have been stuck together over so many years is that the images have not faded with long-term exposure to sunlight.
One of the posters in particular, which is for a remake of The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart, is currently thought to be the only one in existence. All the posters, however, are thought to be likely to sell for a significant value at auction. Results of the sale can be found at Heritage Auctions.
