Li Wi has some cool photography and art and such

RT @ryanpequin: So yeah, this is amazing and shows a pretty obscene level of talent: @mike_holmes

Awesome and nifty whiteboard drawings

Cool webcomic,

Artist and neat things

This made me smile.  -  S x D

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Hyper realism in art is mesmerizing. Take a photo in one hand and then take a look at one of these artists’ oddly perfect paintings and prepare to be shocked.

Victor Rodriguez

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The Mexican artist Victor Rodriguez is able to create stunning paintings that are both hyper realistic, and yet still exhibit a very unique styling. Victor’s work is known for its high contrast and wackily fun subject matter.

Tom Martin

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Many realistic painters like to show off by featuring food products that look good enough to eat. Few take it as far as Tom Martin, who is able to render a complicated food wrapper perfectly. That pile of candy bags takes on a whole new level of importance when it’s hanging on a gallery wall.

Steve Mills

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Steve Mills can render a scene like no one else. Everything is perfect, down to the most minute detail of a piece of peeling paint, to the point that no one would believe these were paintings if they weren’t told.

Roberto Bernardi

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Roberto Bernardi loves to play with light and reflections in ways that make one’s head spin. Mundane subjects are no longer mildly interesting in his paintings, as they form the crux of a gorgeous canvas.

Pedro Campos

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Pedro Campos’ work speaks for itself. Try grabbing a can of Coke and you’ll end up busting through an expensive gallery piece. Perfect marble spheres manipulate reflections with uncanny accuracy.

Mark Goings

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Mark Goings can make a trailer into a piece of art with a few strokes of his brush. Light and shadow interplay beautifully to capture a scene perfectly. The subjects seem to be in three dimensions, as if one could simply walk right up to them.

Eric Christensen

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Eric Christensen likes his wine! If a nice merlot sounds good right now, these paintings will be quite a tease. Eric loves to portray bright still life settings straight from the table of a vineyard.

Jason Degraaf

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Jason Degraaf will paint anything that is difficult to portray accurately, almost as if he delights in the difficulty. Splashing water, reflective surfaces, and finely detailed subjects are his bread and butter.

 



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Something about me loves my childhood meeting my teenage nerdery. If only it were real.

Grant Wood’s American Gothic is a bit ersatz — the artist recruited a Cedar Rapids dentist, B.H. McKeeby, to pose as the farmer, and his sister Nan plays the woman (conceived as the farmer’s spinster daughter, not his wife).

But the setting was inspired by a real cottage in Wood’s native Iowa, and by his admiration for “the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.”

“I tried to characterize them honestly, to make them more like themselves than they are in actual life,” he said. “To me they are basically good and solid people.”

Illustrator Benjamin Douglas created this chart as your guide to famous redheads. Link -via Buzzfeed

I can’t tell which document Lincoln is carrying. But I intend to do what it says. deviantART user SharpWriter made this image based on a historic photograph. Really.

Link via Everyday, No Days Off

Found at Distraction, via Bookshelf Porn.

In celebration of Day of the Ninja 2010, which is on Sunday. Think ninja thoughts this weekend!

Traveling Salesman Problem Art!

More incredible paintings by Alex Roulette.

We occasionally feature some really cool artwork and posters we find around the web (like Adam Sidwell's 52 Bad Dudes) and today I came across some posters that I just had to share with you guys. Designer Andy Helms recently put together a series of prints for Star Wars (the original trilogy) that are just fantastic. These were originally found by Collider on Helms' LiveJournal, and you can buy a series of all three or each of the prints individually on Etsy. I totally love the design of these, with that triangular shape being unique to each movie, it's a great concept and it's executed perfectly with this series (screw the prequels anyway!).





Click above to be taken to the Etsy purchase page and/or to see a larger version. If you like any of these, you better hurry up and order some, as they're selling out fast! You can buy 8.5"x11" prints for $15 a piece or the complete series for $40 (very good price). I'd love to see these printed in full 27"x40" poster size, as I'm sure they'd look gorgeous. Coincidentally, Helms says he's considering "a limited run of some offset prints made of all three." I also love that he chose great titles for each one: "You're Our Only Hope", "Never Tell Me The Odds", and of course "Fully Armed and Operational". Now I want to go watch all three movies back to back!

(if you don't get it, you're not watching)

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'the land of giants' by choi + shine architects
all images courtesy choi + shine architects


american firm choi + shine architects recently received the 2010 boston society of architects
award for unbuilt architecture for their project 'the land of giants', which they originally
designed for the icelandic high voltage electrical pylon competition back in 2008.





making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed pylon
design, the architects
created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn
and variable. these iconic pylon-figures
will become monuments in the
landscape.





the pylon-figures can be configured to respond to their environment
with appropriate gestures.
as the carried electrical lines ascend a
hill, the pylon-figures change posture, imitating a climbing
person.
over long spans, the pylon-figure stretches to gain increased height,
crouches for
increased strength or strains under the weight of the
wires.





the pylon-figures can also be arranged to create a sense of place
through deliberate expression.
subtle alterations in the hands and head
combined with repositioning of the main body parts in
the x, y and
z-axis, allow for a rich variety of expressions. the pylon-figures can
be placed in pairs,
walking in the same direction or opposite
directions, glancing at each other as they pass by
or kneeling
respectively, head bowed at a town.



the various configurations of the pylons


despite the large number of possible forms, each pylon-figure is made
from the same major
assembled parts (torso, fore arm, upper leg, hand
etc.) and uses a library of pre-assembled
joints between these parts to
create the pylon-figures’ appearance. this design allows for many
variations in form and height while the pylon-figures’ cost is kept low
through identical production,
simple assembly and construction.



sketch of the pylon design

“You gotta love living, baby. Dying’s a pain in the ass.” ~Frank Sinatra


LIFE magazine released a set of never-before-seen Rat Pack photos.

Tom Gauld, comic

The Man in the Hole, Tom Gauld

A superficial but well-executed student project that plays with typography, architecture and vantage point. I like it.

Many artists have used pencils to create beautiful pieces of work – but only one creates stunning masterpieces on the tip of one. Microscopic artist Dalton Ghetti spends up to two-and-a half years painstakingly crafting each handmade piece on the graphite of a pencil.









The New York Times reports

“Mr. Ghetti, who owns about as many possessions as a monk, is aware how unusual his craft is. He started carving tree bark when he was a child and experimented with everything from soap to chalk before settling on graphite. It’s second nature now, and for 90 percent of his work, all he needs is a sewing needle, a razor blade and a carpenter’s or No. 2 pencil.

‘The pencil tip is great; it’s like a pure, very homogenous material,’ he said. ‘It cuts in the same direction, not like wood, which has a grain. But when I tell people how long it takes, that’s when they don’t believe it. That’s what amazes people more, the patience. Because everything nowadays has to be fast, fast, fast.’”







It is really remarkable niche in the art world. There have been artists who use pencils as part of their craft, but none use the smallest and most fragile part: the pencil lead.



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Dust, an exhibition of photographs by Ujin Lee is pretty nice

Photos by Elmo Tide.

Art through code by Aaron Meyers.



Aaron Meyers made these elaborate works of art with Processing and laser engraving. The intricate patterns were computer generated from equations and instructions Meyers wrote into the code. The patterns were then converted into a suitable format for a laser cutting machine, which produced these amazing examples of laser engraving.

Laser cutting often gets most of the attention with laser engraving taking a back seat or used to supplement the the cutting. It’s refreshing to see someone focus so completely on the capabilities of computer controlled engraving. Be sure to check out Aaron Meyer’s Flickr stream and site.

There are some more images of his wonderful work after the jump.



For those that aren’t familiar with Processing, it’s an open source programming language developed specifically for creative applications. It is yet another wonderful idea to come out of MIT’s Media Lab.

Processing comes up periodically on this blog. There are a couple good examples of how it has been used here and here.

If you want to try out your own engraved patterns, visit our Make site for materials and instructions. Also be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2 of our instructions on How to Engrave.







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