1924 Chicago Car Wash

1924 Chicago Car Wash:

After 90 years, things really haven't changed all that much, all things considered.

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Old Hubcaps Recycled Into Stunning Animal Sculptures

Old Hubcaps Recycled Into Stunning Animal Sculptures:

For over twelve years now, Brighton, UK-based artist Ptolemy Elrington has been morphing discarded hubcaps into amazing animal sculptures. Within his work he concentrates on creating sculpture of natural forms from found and re-cycled materials. At the moment he is working with a variety of materials including shopping trolleys, scrap metal and car wheel trims […]

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Tiny Whimsical Porcelain Creatures

Tiny Whimsical Porcelain Creatures:

Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev is a duo of Ukrainian artists creating tiny whimsical porcelain creatures. Each sculpture is painted with a wildly imaginative and creative array of painstakingly detailed and brilliantly colorful designs. Given the tiny size of these creatures (most measure anywhere from 4 to 40cm), it was all the more surprising that […]

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Super Heroes in the Renaissance

Super Heroes in the Renaissance

What if Superman was born in the sixteenth century? And what if the Hulk was a Duke? How might Van Eyck have portrayed Snow White? French photographer Sacha Goldberger's discovery of these characters, which goes back to childhood, gave birth to a desire to re-appropriate them, to take them back to a time forming the […]

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Insects build carapaces of gold and pearls

Insects build carapaces of gold and pearls:

Artist Hubert Dupras observed that the aquatic caddis fly begins its life in a larval stage and must build an artificial carapace in order to survive into adulthood.

He wondered what would happen if the caddis flies were given gold flakes and pearls to build with rather than their customary sticks and rocks.

Above and

below, the results.

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Hidden Landscape — Sculptures by Matthew Simmonds

bookofjoe Hidden Landscape — Sculptures by Matthew Simmonds

From ufunk:

"The sculptures of the artist Matthew Simmonds,

who carves marble and stone to create fascinating architectural fragments, letting appear colonnades, arches and hidden inside rocks dome...."

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Beautiful Street Art by Natalia Rak

Beautiful Life Beautiful Street Art by Natalia Rak

Natalia Rak is one of the most exciting painters and street artists to emerge in Poland's contemporary art scene. Born in 1986, Natalia received a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Lodz, Poland, specializing in graphic arts. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, and she has made waves at some of the […]


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“Free Your Skin” Advertising Campaign for Schick

Beautiful Life "Free Your Skin" Advertising Campaign for Schick

Beards have been trendy for a while nowю But like with every fashion, it comes and it goes. So it's good timing for razor company Schick to launch a "Free Your Skin" campaign. Advertising agency Y&R New Zealand has created a humorous ad campaign that features men who have unfortunate animal beards. It carries the […]


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Turning Impressionism into Hyperrealism

Beautiful Life Turning Impressionism into Hyperrealism

Take a look at this hilarious ad campaign – an eyewear company set to show their customers just how good their lenses are. The campaign was created by Y&R Paris, and features a series of ads for eyewear retailer KelOptic, showing impressionist paintings brought into focus. The tagline states: "Turning impressionism into hyperrealism." These ads […]


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Recycled Art by Jane Perkins

Recycled Art by Jane Perkins

UK-based artist Jane Perkins obtains her inspiration in found objects. She uses anything from toys, shells, buttons, beads, jewelry etc. as material for her re-interpreted contemporary art. Perkins states that she doesn't add any color, her work comes out of spontaneously placed small pieces of right size and shape. Inspired by impressionist artist and famous portraits, Perkins achieves a mesmerizing effect in her creations. Her work keeps your eyes attached from a distance view and a close-up as well. So many interesting small pieces perfectly arranged to masterpieces.

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