Michael Kalish took nearly three years to create this brilliant 360°, 22′ high portrait of Muhammad Ali, using 1,300 punching bags, 6.5 miles of steel cable, and 2,500 pounds of aluminum pipe.
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Usually street art involves spray-paint, graffiti or some form of defacing public property. But London artist Slinkachu simply creates intricate miniature dioramas and abandon them in public places.
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(NSFW: Language) A collection of works by Dan Tague, featuring messages composed using the letters found in dollar bills. Will be shown at the VOLTA NY Art Fair from Mar 3 – Mar 6, 2011.
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We’ve seen art made with explosives before, but never any with the precision of Alexandre Farto’s (aka Vhils) method using perfectly placed squibs on plaster and brick to create awesome street art.
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This nifty site lets you take your photographs and turn them into painterly masterpieces with a few simple strokes of your mouse. Once you’re done, you can share your creations with the world.
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Corrine Vionnet created her Photo Opportunities series by layering hundreds of the same picture of iconic tourist hotspots on top of each other, found by combing through assorted photo-sharing sites.
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Davy and Kristin McGuire’s The Ice Book is a miniature theatre performance that blends animation, puppetry, and film to bring a pop-up book vividly to life in front of a live audience.
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Inspired by calaveras de azúcar, the sugar skulls that adorn altars during the Day of the Dead, artist Johnathan Koshi has captured the sprit of Dia de los Muertos, but with pop culture icons.
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Stephen Mallon’s Next Stop Atlantic series is an eerie, gorgeous documentation of the dumping of old NYC Subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean; the other work in his portfolio is starkly poignant too.
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Todd McLellan takes a dual approach to making exploded pictures of objects. While he did shoot the disassembled objects in the usual chaotic fashion, he also took pictures of the parts neatly laid out.
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Etsy seller tinymeat’s vinyl artist series wallets feature cool images from all kinds of talented folks on the inside and out. At $16 each, you’ll probably have some cash left over to keep in them too.
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The Type Sandwiches series, a typographic series of food created using only color and the Helvetica font, is part of David Schwen’s MSCED project and was inspired by his original Burgervetica design.
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The process behind Holton Rower’s paintings – made by pouring paint and letting gravity take over – is far more fascinating than the finished product. We wonder how long these things take to dry.
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Artist Liu Bolin paints himself to blend in with any background, from stacks of cans to the woods and urban environments; he spends up to 10 hours at a time perfecting his camouflage for a single photo.
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This extraordinary image by Jack Crossing, of a dude in a fiery spacesuit at Radio City Music Hall, was a concept for a band who decided not to go with it. The only thing we can say to that is huh?
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Photographer Brian Roach finds haunting beauty in these desolate and decaying settings. Each of his HDR photos is comprised of numerous exposures to create an even more ethereal effect.
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If Exit Through the Gift Shop made you wonder about the real identity of elusive street artist Banksy, we now know the truth. It turns out the graffiti artist is actually Keyboard Cat.
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