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Awesome Art

Muhammad Ali Portrait

Muhammad Ali Portrait

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.

Live Free Or Die

Live Free Or Die

(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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Explosive Art

Explosive Art

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.

PsykoPaint

PsykoPaint

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.

The Ice Book

The Ice Book

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.

Mitoza

Mitoza

Think of this web timewaster as an animated choose-your-own-adventure. Throughout the short snippets, you get to select from two options, each resulting in crazy and unexpected outcomes.

Pop-Culture Calaveras

Pop-Culture Calaveras

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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Artist Series Wallets

Artist Series Wallets
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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.

Type Sandwiches Series

Type Sandwiches Series
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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.

Painting With Gravity

Painting With Gravity

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.

Exit Through the Pet Shop

Exit Through the Pet Shop

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.

Gamestorm

Gamestorm

This new website collects doodles, napkin sketches, scribbles and concept drawings from game developers. Some result in amazing games – like Cannabalt, while others never see the light of day.

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The Sanctuary of Truth

The Sanctuary of Truth

The Sanctuary of Truth is a huge one of a kind structure that’s a unique monument to Thai craftsmanship, handcarved and constructed entirely from teak wood, to be completed in 2025.

Google Art Project

Google Art Project

We’ve been able to explore the Earth, our streets and even our bodies all for free, thanks to Google. Their most recent project lets us visit museums and view works of art with just a few clicks.

Soviet Accident Prevention Posters

Soviet Accident Prevention Posters

The following posters precisely depict what might happen if you take it upon yourself to forget your common sense while performing manual or machine labor. TA needs these now. (Thanks S!)

Muppet Balloon Animals

Muppet Balloon Animals

We’re loving this Muppet balloon animal collection from the Black Cat Balloon Company; whoever has these friends at their birthday party will no doubt be the coolest kid in school. (Thanks John!)

Robot Taekwon V 3D Mapping

Robot Taekwon V 3D Mapping

This cool projection mapping artwork from Lumpens of Robot Taekwon V emerging from the Dome of Legend, aka Seoul’s National Assembly Building, jams to a entertaining soundtrack too.

Very Busy People

Very Busy People

(NSFW: Language) The Limousines’ single is a commentary on the temporary and shallow pleasure that we get from the artificial sources we consume. Let’s all live, get out and create more!

One Rat Short

One Rat Short

The CGI wizards at Charlex created this brilliantly animated film about a day in the life of a rat who finds himself in an extraordinary situation on his quest for an elusive bag of Cheezy Poofs.

Octopus Chair

Octopus Chair

You can’t possibly call Maximo Riera’s truly impressive Octopus Chair a chair – it’s more like an Octopus throne, meant for underwater royalty or an evil overlord in a movie. (Thanks Matt!)

Rubik’s Cube x Sistine Chapel

Rubik’s Cube x Sistine Chapel

Cube Works Studio’s interpretation of The Creation of Adam, a highlight of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, is the largest of its kind, measuring over 14’H x 28’W and made of 12,090 Rubik’s Cubes. (Thanks Ben!)

Boba Fett x 300 Helmet

Boba Fett x 300 Helmet

Jon Wollack of Almost Dark Productions made this kick-ass Boba Fett helmet in the style of the ones worn by the legendary Spartan hoplites. A fitting crown for the Mandalore. THIS IS BOBAAA!!!

Dexter’s Victims (Infographic)

Dexter’s Victims (Infographic)

Shahed Syed created this illustration which explains exactly how Dexter has taken down each of his victims throughout show’s five seasons (and even before the show started.). Contains spoilers.

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