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Incredible Origami Art Created With Money
Get creative and practice the art of paper folding by using up measly dollar bills or foreign currency souvenirs you've got lying around the house to create money origami masterpieces featuring famous people wearing all manner of headpieces from around the world. You'll definitely find some inspiration in our collection of pictures...
Continue reading...The Rainbow Tunnel of Tel Aviv
Monday, June 8, 2009
A visit to Isreal may now include explicit stops at the open underground tunnels of Tel Aviv, where artists Bar & Shay have been hard at work installing colourful lights to the once dull underpasses. The new makeovers brighten up an otherwise unmemorable experience, and have already received acclaim as a great street intervention project.
Continue reading...20 Most Creative Environmental Ads
Monday, June 1, 2009
Like it or not, we're bombarded with advertisements from companies encouraging us to purchase the latest and greatest products they have to offer. Slick magazine ads and tv commercials try to lead us into temptation, but more recently, some of that advertising space has been filled up with a different kind of message to ask us to buy into something else: the protection of the planet. Read on, and you'll discover 20 awesomely creative environmental ads from around the world.
Continue reading...This Is Why It’s COOL To Play With Your Food
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Artist Ju Duoqi loves to play with her food by using vegetables that re-create famous historical scenes and form familiar self-portraits. Carefully chosen and painstakingly positioned by Ju, potatoes, ginger root, tofu, cabbage, onions and cucumbers all come to life as actors instead of eats. The Last Supper gets a whole new meaning when the supper - and those eating it - are edible too.
Continue reading...Environmental Graffiti Interviews Light Graffiti Artist Vicki DaSilva
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Vicki DaSilva is a light graffiti legend. Influenced by the birth of graffiti in NYC, she decided to develop her own more ephemeral but no less inspiring take on the art form, making thin air instead of subway cars her canvas, swapping spray cans for light sources, and capturing the play of light in long exposure photography. Here the artist herself talks exclusively to EG.
Continue reading...99 Wolves Run Headlong into a Glass Wall [PICS]
Monday, April 27, 2009
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Like a deer caught in headlights or moths to a flame, these wolves are doomed. It's almost like the artist took a snapshot of them in time, just as the front runners of the huge pack meet with a clear glass wall that painfully stops them in their tracks. Where did all these wolves come from, and why are the rest of them following their leaders to the same horrible fate?
Continue reading...The Swirls and Waves of Antelope Canyon
Monday, April 20, 2009
Gaze for too long at these rock formations, and you begin to drift off and forget whether you're looking at a geological phenomenon or a vast, abstract oil painting. The swirls seem to envelop you, and in Antelope Canyon they actually do. Let's take a ramble down this most gorgeous of gorges and lose ourselves in the wonderful play of light and patterns that captivate its many visitors each year. Here lies one of the planet's greatest natural art galleries.
Continue reading...Giant Plastic Animals Appear Across Europe [Pics]
Monday, April 20, 2009
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Since 1983, colourful giant animals have been spotted emerging right out of the water, while others hang in the balance like some kind of animal laundry between close-knit buildings. Created using recycled plastic bottles by Cracking Art Group, these amazing animals represent the art collective's strong social and environmental ethic while bringing accessible contemporary art to the masses.
Continue reading...18 Incredible Umbrella Art Installations From Around The World
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Spring has sprung, and so have all the umbrellas! Our good friends over at Crooked Brains wrote an article about colourful umbrella art; we were so inspired that we compiled our own list of 18 examples of wonderful umbrella art to help you get through those dark, dreary days when the sun just doesn’t want to show up.
Continue reading...Exclusive Pictures of the Havana Biennial 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Jazz. Salsa. Rumba. Hip-hop. The list of music and dance forms for which Havana is a hotbed goes on. Cuba’s capital is a place of effervescent creative energies, and visual art too has long held a place in the city’s heart. The acclaimed Havana Biennial, now in its tenth year, celebrates all this and more – and this feast for art lovers worldwide kicked off earlier this week. Check out some of the highlights of the ground-breaking work that has been on show.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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