Showing posts with label graphics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphics. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Xue Wang Artwork

Xue Wang was born in northern China in 1980, the year of the mischievous monkey. Painting and drawing, playing around with ideas, juxtaposing images and allowing her imagination free reign have all helped guide her development. The self-reflective intimacy of art, which has always been latent in her, forced Xue's transition from fashion to painting. Blog + Facebook.

quote "My creative impulse is driven by a fascination with childhood paraphernalia: dolls, toys, fairy tales, stage sets, fun fairs, found objects mixed with whimsy. These personal recollections are complimented by the cultural heritage of Victoriana, vintage fashion, film iconography, pin-up imagery etc. We cannot escape the past and our sweet yesterdays, whether imagined or real, are my repository".

Monday, April 06, 2015

If Disney took on Fifty Shades of Grey

An anonymous illustrator at DeviantArt gave Cosmopolitan a 50 Shades of Grey/Disney mashup...
[Thumbnail: Ariel and Eric from The Little Mermaid].
[Previously on... Disney at Unscathed Corpse]

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Mind-Bending Photography by Erik Johansson

quote [Erik Johansson is a Swedish-born artist based in Berlin who creates surreal images by recombining photographs and other materials. He captures ideas by combining images in new ways to create what looks like a real photograph, yet with logical inconsistencies to impart an effect of surrealism. Some finished images are the combination of "hundreds of original photographs" as well as raw materials, and Johansson spends dozens of hours using image manipulation software such as Adobe Photoshop to alter the image digitally and to illustrate his idea]. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Hyperreal Paintings by Mike Dargas

Provocative, hyperreal paintings from German artist Mike Dargas who transfers images of women's faces covered in honey onto the canvas.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

World Leaders on the Toilet by Cristina Guggeri

Italian artist Cristina Guggeri (a.k.a. Krydy) creates irreverent portraits of world leaders (Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Silvio Berlusconi etc...) ...engaged in their "duties"... The serie "Il Dovere Quotidiano" (The Daily Duty), in Facebook.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Eric Fortune Artwork

Eric Fortune is an artist based out of Columbus, Ohio.
quote [Lyrical, haunting, yet poignant at the same time, Eric Fortune’s paintings make lasting impressions. These are characters who are neither out of place in the world, nor at home in it — they are characters wrapped in their own worlds. The emotionally complex metaphors Fortune paints are richly evocative. His imagery is quiet yet dynamic, and seasoned with a touch of surrealism that takes us to captivating places, beyond our everyday experience but filled with truth].

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Drumond Art

quote [Drumond is a freelance illustrator based in Lisbon, Portugal. Picked a sketchbook and a pencil to draw while waiting 9 months to be born and his destiny was traced. Is currently working with NBA, magazines, newspapers and other brands and wants to do Comic Books. Accepts commissions until his head explodes]. Drumond @ Behance.

Thursday, January 08, 2015

8-Bit Watercolor Paintings by Adam Lister

quote [Artist Adam Lister continues his examination of pop culture and art history through these unusual watercolor paintings inspired by his love for 8-bit graphics found in old Nintendo and Atari video games.
(via Colossal)

Friday, January 02, 2015

Paintbrush Portraits by Rebecca Szeto

"These works are an homage to an often lost sensibility and quality, not simply the modernist stylings, found in Old Masters' works. They (con)fuse realities between politics (labor with leisure) and consumerism (trash and treasure), pointing to an endless loop of transformative regeneration. The brush and its action is also ripe for wordplay: Women's work and their brush off from prior annals of art history as well as material puns about bristling at waste and patriarchy" says the San Francisco-based artist Rebecca Szeto, referring to her ongoing series of Paintbrush Portraits.

Monday, December 22, 2014

Saturday, December 06, 2014

Teknari Photography

Teknari is an amazing and talented photographer from New York and an artist who works also with 3D shots and animated gifs.
quote [I hate meeting new people and getting involved in engaging conversations. Despise good food and wine. Living abroad sucked, and I don't miss it. Abhor well-written and enlightening literature. Love all forms of fundamentalists and their irrational faith. Hate the beach, fires in the fire pit, and autumn colors/smells/weather. Being surrounded by people I love really pisses me off. Motorcycles - you know, that whole freedom and wind thing... yeah, an odious experience. Animals are for kicking, not petting. And anything intellectually enrapting is for idiots. In fact, book-burners should be made saints; that library in Alexandria deserved to become a pile of ash. Cemeteries are ugly, and so are forests, rivers, deserts, canyons, seas, and sunsets. Sex is terrible, and cuddling is for pussies. Comfort is far and away better than truth. Beautiful women make me nauseous. And sarcasm, sarcasm is stupid. As is alliteration].

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Hidden Spaces by José Manuel Ballester

José Manuel Ballester takes classical pieces of art and by combining digital photography and painting, empties them of people. The removal of people creates a different effect in each painting. Espacios Ocultos and Hidden Spaces.

Monday, August 11, 2014

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Webdriver Torso: YouTube mystery



quote [On 23 September 2013 at 14:45, YouTube user Webdriver Torso quietly uploaded a video.
The mysterious 11-second sequence of red and blue rectangles could easily have been lost, unexplained and unappreciated among YouTube's plethora of kittens and music videos. But 28 minutes later Webdriver uploaded an almost identical video, and another an hour after that, and another, until eight months later - apparently happy with nearly 80,000 clips - they fell silent, with 236 hours of video to their name.
Almost all of the uploads follow the same pattern - 10 slides, each with a red rectangle, a blue rectangle and a computer-generated tone.
The shapes change size and the notes change pitch. Each video appears to be unique, but the format stays the same].

Spy messages?

Wednesday, May 07, 2014

The LIX 3D printing pen

Wow! now we can start "to draw" in the air ... The LIX 3D printing pen does not require paper as it enables you to doodle in the air. The pen functions similarly to 3D printers. It quickly melts and cools coloured plastic, letting you create rigid and freestanding structures.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Celebrities as Monsters and the "Flashed Face Distortion Effect"



Watch this video while staring at the cross in the center, and you'll see celebrities become monsters right before your eyes.

This is an incredible optical illusion called Flashed Face Distortion Effect that was discovered by Sean Murphy an undergraduate student at the University of Queensland.

Here’s a brief intro from Matthew Thompson, this is part of a research project by Matthew Thompson which investigates how the brain compares and exaggerates the differences between two faces when they're briefly flashed up on screen alongside each other.

Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Interactive Chart of Biblical Contradictions

quote [A few years ago, computer science whiz Chris Harrison created a beautiful visualization linking up every cross reference in the Bible. So, for example, if a verse in the New Testament referred back to a verse in the Old Testament, there was an arc drawn between the two chapters they were in (the vertical lines at the bottom represent the number of verses in that chapter). Turns out there are 63,779 cross references in the Bible (and that many arcs in the image)! If it’s any indication of how complex this image is, the high-resolution version is more than 100MB large.

In 2009, graphic designer Andy Marlow used Harrison’s work as his inspiration to created a similar visual for Sam Harris‘ Reason Project. This time, though, he only included arcs representing contradictions in the Bible.

Now, computer programmer Daniel G. Taylor has taken all that data and turned it into a visual masterpiece.
His website, BibViz (Bible Visualization), gives you the same linking arcs as before, but when you hover over one of them, it lights up and tells you in the upper right-hand corner of the screen which verses are being linked together. Click on an arc and it takes you directly to those verses as compiled in the Skeptics Annotated Bible]

(via Patheos)