19 Pencil Drawings That Trick Your Mind Into Thinking They're 3-D
Anamorphic drawings are two-dimensional drawings that, when viewed from a single point of view, seem to leap off the page. Graphic artist Alessandro Diddi has mastered them.Diddi is an Italian designer...
View Article‘Reverse Perspective’ Painting Appears To Move Before Your Eyes
A new clip of a "reverse perspective" painting by Brian Williams is making the rounds online, and it will blow your mind.Currently on display at The Gallery Ice in Windsor, UK (and which we first saw...
View ArticleThis Startup Wants To Bring Museum Collections To The Walls Of Your House
Electric Objects, a startup that makes picture frame-like computers that can display high-resolution artwork from the internet, launched its Kickstarter campaign Tuesday morning.Jake Levine, Electric...
View ArticleWhy One Professional Photographer Ditched Her Camera To Shoot Full-Time With...
18 months ago, Kat Sloma made a decision: She would start only be using her iPhone to take photographs and make art.Sloma, an artist based in Oregon, has been using a 35mm camera for over ten years,...
View ArticleThese Uncanny Paintings Of The New York City Subway Will Give You Chills
The best artists take something familiar and completely transform how a viewer sees it. Among the contemporary masters of this is Japanese artist Hisaya Taira, whose works were on display this weekend...
View ArticleAn American Artist Shares 30 Years Of Life's Work In 30 Paintings
Richard Reitz Smith grew up in the Appalachian foothills of rural Pennsylvania, where the changing seasons became a metaphor for where and how he lived.“The hills simultaneously protected me from the...
View ArticleOne Man Made Art From His WiFi Signals, And The Results Are Stunning
Luis Hernan was always curious about how wireless technologies like radio are transmitted through the air.So after finishing up his studies in architecture, computer science, and design, Hernan decided...
View ArticleStunning Images Capture Alcohol Under A Microscope
It's not just to drink any more.Instead of getting wasted, a company called Bevshots is using alcohol to do something amazing: They're crystalizing your favorite beer, wine, cocktails, and liquor and...
View ArticleAward-Winning Images Taken By Scientists At Work
The Princeton University Art of Science exhibition isn't your average art show.True to Albert Einstein's quote — "the greatest scientists are artists as well"— which sits on the exhibition's home page,...
View ArticleAlibaba Is Selling A Knockoff Version Of Jeff Koons' $58 Million 'Balloon...
Jeff Koons' orange "Balloon Dog" sold for $58.4 million at auction last year, making it the most expensive work ever sold by a living artist.But if you don't have that kind of cash lying around, you...
View ArticleAn Incredible Number Of Important People Have Moved To Paris, New York, And Rome
When researchers attempt to chronicle the movement of ideas about the Earth's surface, there are a few ways to go about it.One is to look at the the mass movements of large groups of people. Another is...
View ArticleThis Framed Screenshot From A 4chan Message Board Just Sold For $90,900 On eBay
A framed screenshot of a 4chan message board has sold on eBay for $90,900, Re/Code reports.The piece is titled “Artwork by Anonymous” and bidding started at $500. By August 1st, "human and automatic...
View ArticleGet Ready To See Classic Art Everywhere Around America
Starting Monday, passersby around the country will stumble across classic pieces of art on their daily commute.A project called Art Everywhere is coming to the US after launching in the UK last year....
View ArticleGerman Artists Claim Responsibility For White Flags Placed On Brooklyn Bridge
A pair of German artists, Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke, told the New York Times they placed a pair of white flags on the Brooklyn Bridge last month to celebrate "the beauty of public space." The...
View ArticleA Professor Created A Single Tree That Can Produce 40 Types Of Fruit
Syracuse University professor Sam Van Aken spent nine years growing a single tree."The idea is that I could collapse a whole orchard and put it into one tree," he told Business Insider.Each of the...
View ArticleWatch 'Laser Makeup' Transform This Model's Face In Real-Time
Here's a pretty mind-blowing combination of art and technology. Using highly precise light projectors, a person's face can be make to look like it's being altered in real-time through...
View ArticleHow One Wall Street Bank Put Together One Of The Biggest Art Collections In...
Wall Street has become one of art's biggest patrons, with the major corporate collections that some investment banks have gathered over the years.J.P. Morgan, UBS, and Deutsche Bank were listed in...
View ArticleWatch Japanese Artists Paint Dragons With A Single Brushstroke
At Studio Kousyuuya in Nikko, Japan, there are men known as sumie (wash drawing) painters who can paint the body of a dragon in a single brush stroke. We first read about them at This Is Colossal.The...
View Article12 Stunning Images Of Intricate Art Pieces In The Middle Of The Desert At...
The 27th annual Burning Man — a crazy, week-long festival in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada — starts this Monday and everyone is already buzzing about it.In preparation of the Labor Day...
View ArticleThis Video Game Is So Hard, You Need To Go Around The World In Order To Win
For the most part, even the hardest video games can be completed from the comfort of your own home. Or sometimes even on the train on the way home from work. It might take you hours or days or weeks,...
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