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20 Awesome 3D Pavement Illusions
On 3/1/2009
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Using a projection called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle, these four artists create some of the finest 3D pavement illusions we've seen. Four artist, one art.
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12 Pedestrian Crosswalk Artworks
On 2/22/2009
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Artist Peter Gibson --aka Roadsworth, often referred to as Canada’s own Banksy-- creates fascinating artworks over pedestrian crosswalks; meet some of his finest works.
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15 Greatest Works of Light Graffiti
On 2/5/2009
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Light graffiti, also known as light painting, is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. Meet some of the best light artworks we've found.
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Pencil Art: using pencils as canvas
On 1/25/2009
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All artists use pencils to draw and paint over their canvas, all but one.
By the name of GhostPartol, this australian artist creates beautiful works of art the other way around: using the pencils as canvas!
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Electrickery: High-Voltage Sculptures
On 1/21/2009
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Created by Tesla coils --a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891--, its fascinating sparks
come from discharges of very high voltage, low current, high frequency alternating current electricity. Australia's Peter Terren built a fully functional Tesla Coil in his back garden and has become an "artist of electricity", creating fascinating photographs using long exposure and a lot of creativity. Meet his High-Voltage Sculptures.
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Wonderful Milk Bottle Art
On 1/18/2009
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Residents of Stourbridge, West Midlands (UK) and surrounding villages were having a pleasant surprise when they took their milk bottles.
They would find pictures of animals, often cows or mice, carefully carved onto the glass in astonishing detail. Who did it?
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10 Famous Paintings Recreated in LEGO
On 1/11/2009
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Born in Turin some 56 years ago, he's an italian photographer with a fascination with Lego.
An art lover himself, his recent works recreates celebrated paintings of the past in perfect detail, using the ubiquitous bricks. Meet Marco Pece.
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World's Most Incredible Human Towers
On 12/18/2008
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- 61,674 views
Every summer in Catalonia, Spain, teams of "Castellers" can be seen competing against each other to see who can build the highest human tower. Meet the best Human Towers ever made.
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15 Most Incredible Face Paintings
On 11/22/2008
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- 153,443 views
This self-described drag queen, former nudist, born again Christian, and 46-year-old artist from Michigan
creates some of the most incredible and bizarre masks ever seen.
Meet James Kuhn's face paintings.
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Still-Life Levitation by Johan Lorbeer
On 4/30/2008
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Johan Lorbeer is a German street performer. He became famous in the past few years because of his “Still-Life” Performances, which took place in the public area. His installations includes “Proletarian Mural” and “Tarzan”, which are famous in Germany. Several of these performances feature Lorbeer in an apparently impossible position.
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Ron Mueck's Incredible Human Sculptures
On 4/18/2008
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Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi's living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say, Mueck's one of the leading contemporary artists of today.
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Smallest Works of Art on Earth
On 4/15/2008
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Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. From being a traumatised and unrecognised dyslexic child, he is now emerging as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time and is literally capable of turning a spec of dust into a vision of true beauty. Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle, on the head of a pin, the tip of an eyelash or a grain of sand. Some are many times smaller than the fullstop at the end of this sentence.
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Arthur Mole's Extraordinary Mass Photography
On 4/14/2008
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Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community. In these mass ornaments, thousands of military troops and other groups were arranged artfully to form American patriotic symbols, emblems, and military insignia visible from a bird's eye perspective.
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20 Most Fascinating Prehistoric Paintings
On 3/4/2008
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Cave Paintings are paintings on cave walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times. The earliest known European cave paintings date to 32,000 years ago. Join us to discover the top 20 Most Fascinating Prehistoric Paintings.
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50 Greatest One-hit Wonders
On 10/16/2007
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- 196,257 views
In the music industry, a one-hit wonder is an artist generally known for only one hit single.
The hits of many one-hit wonders are novelty songs that are, to an extent, deliberately short-lived, recorded for humor or to cash in on a fad.
The following is a list of the 50 greatest One-hit wonders of all time!
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Papercut Sculptures from single sheets of A4
On 9/11/2007
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Peter Callesen is a sculptor who works in paper. Most of his work seems to be made from single sheets of A4 paper, 80gsm - the sort of paper you probably have lying around for your printer.
Some of his greatest works ahead, enjoy!
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