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Unbelievably Realistic Paintings

Posted on 27 November 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

At first I thought this was real black and white photographs, but then I realized it was paintings. Amazing is the perfect word for Spanish painter Juan Bautista Nieto’s work. And if you wonder how he can draw such perfect human bodies, the answer is: he studied medicine before studying art. He uses a combination [...]

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Stunning And Delicate Toothpick Art

Posted on 05 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Most of us use toothpicks after eating or maybe for some detailed work like nail art. This guy is using it to make art. Amazing! His name is Steven J. Backman and for him every toothpick can be made into a famous landmark replica. The sculptures are so small that it’s ridiculously difficult to even [...]

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Small Things Get Really Big

Posted on 01 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Spanish artist Romulo Celdran wanted to make small things look bigger, a lot bigger. He turns everyday objects like gloves, sponges and match sticks, and turns them into oversized items that are overwhelming. He has taken a lot of photos where himself is sitting next to the things. This of course makes him look so [...]

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Artists Celebrating 20th Anniversary Of Edward Scissorhands

Posted on 24 May 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

It has been 20 years since Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder played in Edward Scissorhands. The romantic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton was a sensation. It’s the story of an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands. He falls in love with a teenage girl, but it gets complicated. [...]

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Realistic And Stunning Cinematic Paintings

Posted on 05 May 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

These are oil paintings, some very realistic ones too. The talented artist Joe Simpsons is the one that’s painting these breathtaking pieces of art, you have probably heard of him already. It looks like different scenes from movies, and that is the effect he wanted. Theatrical lighting and wide screen format is the tricks that [...]

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Cool Illustrations Of Zelda Bosses

Posted on 27 April 2011 in: Featured Articles, Funny&Crazy

Canadian artist Matt Cumming has drawn some bad-ass illustrations of Zelda bosses. If you don’t know what Zelda is, let me explain. Zelda is a high fantasy action-adventure video game series created by Japanese game designers. It is one of Nintendo’s most important franchises, and it consists a mixture of action, adventure, and puzzle solving. [...]

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Paintings of Skype models

Posted on 10 March 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Not a Still Frame is the name of an exhibition that show portraits of persons that are on Skype. German/Newzealander artist Sandro Kopp is painting different people on Skype; everyone from his friends to the more famous personalities. You can somehow see the quality of Skype and how it is not perfect because that other [...]

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Super Mario Appears In Nintendo Fanart

Posted on 24 February 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

After already representing some Super Mario works, like the one where they made a huge Super Mario Panel out of 17 000 push pins, we want to represent you something new. The US-based illustrator and cartoonist Andrew Dobson has drawn something he is calling Nintendo Fanart, where he is drawing Super Mario in different Nintendo [...]

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Old Skateboards Becoming Artistic Skulls

Posted on 23 February 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Mixing skateboards with skulls mus to look bad-ass, and it really does. Designer Beto Janz has taken old used skateboards and created them into awesome skull art. This was actually done to promote a skate shop in Brazil, and you have to admit that the skulls are a cool idea. They promoted it in an [...]

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17 000 Push Pins Make a Huge Super Mario Panel

Posted on 09 February 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Some creative students from the CIS Student Association gathered and started a project that is out of the ordinary. They used colored push pins to create a Mario Bros panel, like in the famous video game. It is said that they used 17,000 push pins and that it took them two and a half semesters [...]

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Detailed Graffiti of Famous Movie Characters

Posted on 24 December 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Graffiti artist MTO knows how to rock up Berlin. He is known for his amazing graffiti of famous movie characters. He concentrates mostly on stars from movies in the 70′s to 90′s, like Hannibal, Ace Ventura, etc. The art work is mostly done in black-and-white with some red here and there. You will definitely notice [...]

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Pablo Picasso’s Hidden Work

Posted on 22 December 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

The famous Pablo Picasso. Everybody has heard about his work, and we all know how it looks. But what about his private notes and other art pieces he never published? It has been discovered that he left some of his precious work at a French electrician named Pierre Le Guennec and his wife. Picasso used [...]

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LOTR Fans Watch Out – Minas Tirith in Matchsticks

Posted on 08 December 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

For those of you that are Lord of the Rings fan there is no need to explain what you see on the photos, but for those who are not familiar with this name; it is a matchstick version of Minas Tirith, also known as Tower of Guard, which is a fictional city in the movie [...]

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Dark Side of The Social Network

Posted on 30 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Martin Ansin, an Uruguay artist, created these awesome illustrations on the famous movie The Social Network. This could be know as the dark side of the Social Network, what really happened during it and what really was Zuckerberg’s beginning of the Facebook.

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Funny drawings of Bill Murray as different characters

Posted on 26 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

American actor and comedian, had a role in Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Lost in Translation among others, and a winner of Golden Globe. Of course we are talking about the one and only Bill Murray. On these pictures you can see how Casey Weldon has drawn different personalities based on Bill Murray’s face. This piece [...]

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Paper Sculptures That Will Leave You Speechless

Posted on 25 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Those amazing paper Sculptures are made by Jeff Nishinaka. For a 28 years he made some of the most beautiful paper sculptures that currently exists. His works includes some projects for Sprint, Visa, Paramount and C and probably one of the most recognizable brands in the world, Coca Cola.

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Stunning Winter Wonderland Illustrations

Posted on 15 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

At first glance these illustrations really look like they’re made on a computer, some look almost like old cartoon pictures. The truth is that they are all drawn by hand using a simple pencil. Now it is perfect because of the winter season; who doesn’t like snowy days like those on the illustrations?Just imagine how [...]

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Take a Look at Pac Man’s Interesting Skull

Posted on 14 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

The epic old arcade game Pac Man that will never be boring, and that we all love so much. It is simply a little ball with a mouth (Pac Man) that is running through a maze trying to eat up all the pac-dots before the enemy ghosts eat him. Well, have you ever wondered how [...]

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Cartoon Characters Showing Their Anatomy

Posted on 22 October 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

On a previous article the art work of Hyungkoo Lee was represented, where he made skeleton sculptures of famous cartoon characters. A similar thing has been done by the American artist Jason Freeny. He chose to 3D sculptures as well as posters that show the inside skeleton of famous cartoon legends like Nemo, Super Mario [...]

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When Fruit Transforms Into Sculls

Posted on 17 October 2010 in: Featured Articles, Food

How the Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov managed to capture the contrast between the fruit and the sculls is really interesting. Health and freshness against tragedy and sadness is the main key words for this piece of art. He can make the most delicious fruits like watermelon to an ugly and creepy scull with no sign [...]

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