Another artist who gets great results with unusual material - in this case Andrew Myers, who uses thousands of screws to create a 3D portrait. First seen here.
Another example of the well-known Absolut vodka advertising campaigns or variations thereof - depicting the vodka bottle shape. This one is by New York advertising photographer Steve Bronstein. Perhaps more subtle, but the shape can be distinguished if you look hard enough. First seen here.
An interesting experiments: from numerous shot of women from one country/region, a software programme calculated the average face - to surprisingly beautiful results. A sample is shown above. First seen here.
Rather than making money with his art, Won Park makes art with his money. Amazing structures folded from dollar bills, such as this camera. First seen here.
A cool idea, well executed. Natsumi Hayashi photographs herself floating around Tokyo. To achieve the look of levitation it is crucial that you do not appear to be jumping: a controlled facial expression and lack of apparent movement, a moment frozen in time, rather than mid-jump.
Back from Shanghai, and I will start posting here again. Maybe at a slower pace at start though. Love this one, a great example of how our mind can quickly recognize and match a simple pattern. First seen here.
I started my main blog, Art for Art's sake, in 2006, to share my taste in photography, fine arts, architecture and music. In 2009, I started this counterpart blog, Art's Potpourri, as an outlet for other interesting matter and some chatter, which do not quite fit in the main blog.
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Last December, Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) passed away (see a previous blog
entry). She was an important figure in the American abstract expressionist ...