Back when I had aspirations of being an artist one of my favorite medium to work in was pencil. There was something about the contrasting colors of the pencil against white paper canvas that I found incredibly interesting.
Because of ...
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If there is one thing that famous people are use to, other than pain in the ass paparazzi, it is turning up in print with really big head and other exaggerated features thanks to some talented artists. Among those ...
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As completely awesome as this anatomical sculpture of Nintendo's mascot Mario is, I do have to wonder where his, y'know ... Baby Mario is. His Bullet Bill. I'm being pretty subtle here, so I should probably explain: ...
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Artists are incredible people. They can take even the simplest and most mundane things from everyday life and create something intricate and beautiful. However I am betting that most people wouldn't think of the lowly used toilet paper ...
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We all laugh over the old Tom and Jerry cartoons where Tom never stood a chance against Jerry but imagine how your great feline hunter would react if they came up against a mouse with armor.
While this ...
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Origami is an ancient art of folding paper into little sculptures of everything from dragons to abstract creations. I remember as a kid being really interested in origami and even tried my hand a the standard swan ...
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I want a Yoshi horse and GODDAMN IT I WANT ONE NOW.
[Warkitty, via That Girl's Site]
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This majestic Mario mosaic, shaped like a glorious 1-UP mushroom, claims to show every depiction of Nintendo's famous videogame plumber ever. In truth, some are missing, but it's still a splendid bit of work.
By the way, you ...
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Banksy is one of my most favorite graffiti artists but not the only one as much of the street art that is happening out there is some pretty incredible stuff. Unfortunately that kind of art takes a ...
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Maybe next time you should think twice about throwing that game controller against the wall. Concept artist Mads Peitersen has peeled back the plastic surface of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 controllers, and revealed what's really inside ...
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As a kid I loved playing in the sandpile that sat at the front of our house right beside the rhubarb patch. My Matchbox cars and trucks traveled many a sandy mile there but never in my ...
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To help promote its DSiWare application Art Academy in Spain, Nintendo sent a chap into a Madrid gallery with a Nintendo DSi XL to copy a few of the old Masters. It's a cute marketing trick (it's ...
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Hyperrealism is a term used in the art world to describe the work of sculptures like Ron Mueck and Carole Feuerman. I have seen Ron's work before as have many people but Carole is a new name ...
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I know when I was growing up the idea of having a van with a beautiful airbrushed painting was all the rage but then as vehicles got smaller this form of mobile art seem to fade into ...
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Of all the villains that inhabit our world of fantasy and imagination none is more iconic than The Joker. From the comic books to the graphic novels and on our movie screens The Joker has become ingrained as a ...
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This tabletop Pac-Man arcade cabinet is constructed entirely out of LEGO blocks (the electronics aside), which by my estimation makes it roughly 643 times as awesome as the real thing.
This even plays a bunch of stone-cold '80s ...
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Ya, ya I know. Your mother always said not to play with your food. Something about it being impolite or some such nonsense. Well I would bet that if you showed what real playing with food looks ...
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Twitter gets used for a lot of things and a lot of people, and things, use Twitter so I guess in the end it should be no surprise that someone with an artistic bent would look at ...
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It's one thing to built a sand castle as a kid with nothing more than a plastic shovel and pail but another thing altogether to create works of art like these that can vanish with the next ...
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I had to laugh to myself when I saw this post show up in my feed reader. It seems that some talented Russian photoshop artists decided to have some fun with some of the classic paintings. There's ...
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Twice now here at The Inquisitr your intrepid blogging crew, myself and Kim, have brought a really cool way to mess with your neighbors by making your garage look like there was anything from an elephant living ...
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Of all the things that one can have done to one's body the idea of painting it up in some hyper-realistic look of clothes - or even animals - is pretty amazing to see; especially when done ...
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