Friday, September 3, 2010

Early 20th Century In Color

September 2, 2010 by ivana  
Filed under Photography

Modern art refers to artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era.  The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.  Modern [...]

Really Cool Illustrations Of Pirates

September 1, 2010 by ivana  
Filed under Interesting News

Another day we posted a really nice collection of zombies. Then Fabio and I started to talk about it, and we realized how cool it would be to have a pirate collection. Then after lots of research, I managed to find 20 illustrations worth of showing you guys.I’m not saying that there are only 20 [...]

Amazing Artist Paints People’s Facebook “Portraits”

September 1, 2010 by ivana  
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Matt Held, a fine artist with a specialization in portraiture, has set out to paint 200 portraits of people’s Facebook profile pictures. It all started out as a skintone exercise for when he was painting a his wife’s Facebook photo.  Shortly after, the “I’ll have my Facebook portrait painted by Matt Held” group was created [...]

Pencil War Drawings

August 31, 2010 by ivana  
Filed under Art

Here’s a really simple but very nice art. For these works of art in addition to simply say simply and can be used two words that are the main tool for this drawing. Ordinary wooden pencil, a piece of paper and quite a lot of imagination. Specifically these images by the appearance probably caused by [...]

Adidas Star Wars Collection

August 31, 2010 by ivana  
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was originally released on May 25, 1977, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two planned sequels[citation needed, released at three-year intervals. Sixteen years after the release of the trilogy’s [...]

Amazing Carved Phone Book Art

August 29, 2010 by ivana  
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Some truly interesting facial artwork created by carving pages out of a phone book. In this day and age, this is probably the only thing phone books are good for.

Russian Cameras: Pure Fascination

August 28, 2010 by ivana  
Filed under Beautiful

The austere lines and peculiar look of a Russian camera during the Soviet Union times are unmistakeable. It’s a whole different world. Its weight, representative of it robust built, and indecipherable acronyms in cyrilic letters have nothing modern about them. They might have something of timeless though, as they were built to last. Whoever is [...]

Trespassing On Beauty – Photography Of Industrial Decay

August 27, 2010 by ivana  
Filed under Photography

Let’s say you knew where something really beautiful was, but somebody kept it locked away because their insurance company told them to. It’s not in anybody’s home. You didn’t want to steal or damage it. The only thing you wanted to take was pictures. Would you trespass to do it? A lot of people have [...]

Edward Quinn – Picasso, Photographs From 1951 To 1972

August 26, 2010 by ivana  
Filed under Weird News

With a complex and fascinating personality, Picasso had, however, bouts of prolongued bad humour, be it on account of his family problems or dissatisfaction with his work. During those times, he was unbearable – nothing was ever good enough! – which could explain his short-lasting relashionships, especially with women. However, he also showed a generous [...]

Nick Veasey: Photography And X-Rays

August 25, 2010 by ivana  
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As it happens with a lot of what eventually become serious, x-ray photography, which made Nick Veasey famous, started out as a joke. Veasey himself tells how the idea to use an x-ray machine, rented from an hospital to discover a prized can of Pepsi, from a pile of thousands more atop of a truck [...]

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