How To: Robin Rhode Knows How To Play With Himself
South African born artist Robin Rhode combines street art with optical trickery, resulting in a cumulation of performance, graffiti, drawing, film and photography.
South African born artist Robin Rhode combines street art with optical trickery, resulting in a cumulation of performance, graffiti, drawing, film and photography.
As a tribute to video game classic, Street Fighter, Hongkiat has compiled a collection of impressively done artwork on the theme. My favorites below; click through for the whole series of 60 (and artist credits).
Take a lesson in mitosis (or cell division) with artist Kevin Van Aelst's Krispy Kreme explanatory photography series. Mmm... I think my stomach's growling.
Heads up, dance party in San Bernardino a couple weekends from now. Kid Cudi, Bassnectar, Talib Kewli, Daedelus, and Nosaj Thing are just a few of the DJs/artists on the main stage. Check out this link for the full lineup.
It's amazing what you can do with an ordinary material like cardboard... or a truckload of discarded pizza boxes.
This is a music video for British artist Jesse Rose that I DP'd for Scion A/V and director Chris Cruse. Filmed over 2 nights on the Canon 5D, we mixed rear screen projection with live action shot on a street corner in downtown LA. Here are a few behind the scenes photos:
Instead of taking the standard approach of writing a show review about how amazing or horrible a band played, I thought I'd turn around and review the crowd for each show that I go to. I'm interested in the types of people and demographics each artist/band attracts. In the end, crowd response is pretty clutch.
Some great quotes from the most renowned artists. This should help you in your search for inspiration.I thought this was a really great post that I just had to share. More to come!
Singer/Songwriter Alain Klingler is a rising star in France. We were lucky enough to get the chance to catch up with him while he was touring in Canada. Here is a glimpse into the inspiration behind the heartfelt music of this talented artist.
I'm totally drooling over artist Azuma Makoto's insanely lush, decadent floral arrangement-sculptures. Drop. Dead. Beautiful.
May have already been posted before, but this is a great, growing resource for title sequences. Many of them have interviews with the designers/artists as well.
Artist Frank Boelter created a life size paper boat: 9-meter-long, 25-kilogram using 170-square-metre piece of 'Tetrapack' paper normally used in milk packages.
Artist Andrew Lewicki's takes the iconic LEGO brick and reinterprets it as a handsome concrete sculpture.
In the spirit of dessert...
When two houses were scheduled for demolition, artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck of Art League Houston decided to take advantage of the situation and create the super trippy Tunnel House.
Artist Julia Randall's photorealistic colored pencil drawings of disembodied lips, tongues, and spit bubbles kinda give me the creeps (in a perfectly good way, of course).
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Jason Freeny is an amazing artist that does all sorts of humorous schematics like this.
Wow. Really fantastic fire illusion by WonderHowTo favorite, BrussPup. Hang in there, the magic starts to happen at 0:34. Previously, Jerry Andrus and His Impossible Box.
French artist Alexandre Dubosc celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival with this stop motion animation of baking a cake in a laboratory-like kitchen.
Via Eat Me Daily,
All this from Little Artist.
The iconic Girl With a Pearl Earring, by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, is widely considered one of art history's most seminal paintings. Artist James Mylne spent 90 hours copying the image, using just one Bic Cristal pen. Kudos. That shading took some serious skill (and patience).
Here is a video of what i think is an awesome drummer, his full name is Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh. He doese really interesting stuff because he loops his drum tracks so that he can overlap different beats, and create cymphonies of percussion! i think hes great, he's played alot with Andrew Bird, one of my favorite artists, check it out.
Wow, I guess cakes need to eat, too. And they like to eat... babies? Interesting cake sculptures by artist Scott Hove.
Artist Giles Walker's robot peep show/DJ installation piece gives us a little glimpse of what strip clubs could look like in the future (well, let's really hope not, guys). Walker also teams up with Frank Barnes and his robot drummers (second video in the gallery below, check it out - pretty sweet). Previously, Sexxxy Roxxy: World's First Sex Bot (NSFW).
Hmm, what to do with all those old comic books lying around... How about a little Manga farming?
Princess Peach poses as the Madonna, cradling Mario (as Jesus), in artist Kordian Lewandowski's sculptural rendition of Michelangelo’s “La Pietà”.
San Francisco artist Klari Reis takes inspiration from science with her beautiful petri dish paintings. Entitled 'Petri Projects', Kari has posted one per day on her blog for the past year. A selection below, click through to view them all.
Remember the room with a rotating view? Dutch artist Zeger Reyers brings us an equally interesting installation, created for the exhibition Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany. The kitchen has been rotating since November 27th, 2009, and will continue to do so until February 28th, 2010.
Amazing work by artist Walee for BEAUX ARTS Magazine. Photoshop tricks? Photograph manipulation? Papercraft sculpting?
Massive bouncy ball installation by Australian artist Nike Savvas. Entitled "Full of Love and Full of Wonder", each bouncy ball "represents the very atoms that are the fundamental structural units of all things".
Taking the idea of the classic terrarium a couple steps further. Artist Naoko Ito's urban nature project.
Looks good enough to eat. Artist Olle Hemmendorff was asked to interpret the Nike Air Max 90 for an exhibit.
International burlesque artiste Kittie Klaw shows us all how to make the most of feather fans. This is a video on Burlesque by Uk authority the Ministry of Burlesque. This video will get you into your showgirl exotic prop use of the fan and the dance that goes with it. Fan dance in Burlesque.
Check out this video to learn how to refinish your mantle, even if you're an artist. Refinish your mantle.
See step-by-step how to create a fused glass vase with artist Lilia Megyei. With a few colored pieces of glass, she shows how she creates gorgeous and unique vases. Make beautiful fused glass vases.
This eye shadow master class, presented by make-up artist Lisa Glassock, gives you a guide to applying eye shadow to define and enhance your eyes. Apply eye shadow to define and enhance your eyes.
This video shows you a great make-up tip for men who want to reduce the size of their nose. Professional make-up artist Jo Reid shows you the techniques to create shadows and contours with subtle make-up to reduce your nose size. Apply makeup to men to reduce the size of their nose.
Make-up artist Jo Reid shows you how to make the most of your eyes using under-eye concealer Brighten men's eyes.