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| Clarion Alley Mural Project |
| 2008-08-29 13:05:30 |
Clarion Alley has been an enchanted site of bohemian culture at least as far back as the early sixties when artists like the Cockettes and Terry Riley performed in the same warehouse that the Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) was based in until its demolition in 2001. CAMP was established in October 1992 by a [...]...
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| Kurt Wenner in London´s Waterloo Station |
| 2008-08-15 02:30:21 |
Loads of cash fall out and money notes flutter through the air.
Millions of pounds out of a vault at London’s Waterloo Station stopped many commuters . But ,obviously , was another work of Kurt Wenner. We have already featured Kurt Wenner in previous posts
. Kurt Wenner is former illustrator for the U.S. space agency NASA, [...]...
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| How to make a rainbow at home |
| 2008-07-21 15:44:30 |
Here is a tip to make your own Rainbow.
Fill a glass of water (almost to the top) and place it at the very edge of the counter in a dark kitchen. Place a sheet of plain white paper on the floor a few inches away from the counter. Put two pieces of masking tape over [...]...
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| Fractal trees |
| 2008-07-18 13:04:09 |
The Pythagoras tree represents simple fractal structure consisting of squares. Also, there are many variations of fractal trees, which are consist of lines and curves.
The three-dimensional fractal tree above is constructed from lines. It belongs to L-system class of fractals. Associated as trunk and branches brown lines of the tree are elements of low generations [...]...
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| David bailey , artist of tesellations |
| 2008-07-13 08:18:07 |
M.C. Escher was the first, who used figures of birds, fishes, lizards and other animals for artistic regular plane division. Many followers then created numerous tessellation images.
One of them is artist from England David Bailey. He creates his images in pen and watercolour.
The main motifs of his tessellations are birds.
The more complex constructions come in, [...]...
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| 20 Beautiful HDR Pictures |
| 2008-07-06 14:49:48 |
Looking around for some new HDR pictures and found this great one . You can see a serie of “20 Beautiful HDR Pictures“.
If you have good HDR pics feel free to send them in....
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| Impossible triangle? |
| 2008-06-29 13:14:48 |
This is a simple photo of impossible triangles formation. This impossible construction sure looks Escher inspired.
You presume it’s two triangles trapped in an impossible way, but actually it’s only one continuous line if you follow it closely....
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| Play Bingo on line at Bingosuit.com |
| 2008-06-17 14:01:38 |
You are on an assignment and it is finished, you want to go spend the rest of the day or night in a bingo hall but you find it is full of people who smoke away the entire place into a furnace, and you don’t smoke, what do you do? Well there is this place [...]...
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| Perspective in Renaissance art |
| 2008-06-15 10:36:22 |
In Rome , there are several wonderful examples of how Renaissance and Baroque artists were beginning to re-learn the lessons of perspective, which, had been discarded during the medieval period while artists focused on the social and religious dimensions of art.
Realistic perspective in paintings requires artists to understand a lot about the human vision system. [...]...
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| 3D wall paintings illusions |
| 2008-06-02 14:27:58 |
These are some really amazing 3 dimensional wall paintings that look real.
This could be a good option if you are running short of space & wish to give your limited space a much bigger look....
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| HD in your TV , Direct TV |
| 2008-05-09 02:44:09 |
DO you want to see all sports and your fav TV series in HD , well , you have two options Satellite TV and cable TV. Which to choice?
Of course , I prefer Satellite TV ; especially choising a great dealer like Direct Sat TV .
Direct Sat TVis an authorized nationwide operator for [...]...
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| Tree Optical Illusion |
| 2008-05-04 10:02:49 |
This look a unbelievable tree, isn’t in?. There are 2 trees, one is place back of the wall and the second one is in front of the wall, and a tree has been cutted so amazingly it look like an illusion...
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| Cave optical illusion |
| 2008-05-03 06:31:38 |
The pool reflection in this cave is one of those amazing optical illusions. With perfectly quiet water, a pool of water can give you a flawless mirror like reflection. In cases like these it´s hard to determine which side is the is the real side and what is the reflection illusion. Or maybe [...]...
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| Incredible photography. The art of Li Wei |
| 2008-05-01 05:29:53 |
Chinese artist Li Wei from Beijing started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei [...]...
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| Constructed Photographs (by Gillian Brown) |
| 2008-04-24 14:27:24 |
The photographs of Gillian Brown are specials; Why? you’d probably say at first. But look! don’t conclude things only at the first photo. Go reading and you’ll see few more photos of the same set - only seen from different perspectives.
The truth is that these aren’t just paintings painted over real life [...]...
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| Impossible figures on calendars |
| 2008-04-19 14:40:21 |
Designers in Russian company Gazdevice , which produces gas equipment, created company calendar with Reutersvärd-style impossible figures. The slogan of the company is “Unreal is real”....
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| 3D impossible object in flat shape |
| 2008-04-05 08:18:24 |
This wood work by Hans de Koning show an effect 3D to make the impossible figure but in a different way. Usually this kinds of impossible objects are three-dimensional shapes in which you must look from the correct angle to apreciate the effect.
His works, however are flat, but he uses different kinds of [...]...
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| Variation of Flotating rice illusion |
| 2008-03-26 04:49:12 |
Look this wavy collection, which consists of three different variations of well known Floating Rice illusion.
You have probably seen still images of this type before, and understand that they only appear to move (in a way of Rotating Snakes illusion), but the effect is non the less intriguing. To enhance the ripple effect of [...]...
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| Blue dot disappearing |
| 2008-03-14 03:21:19 |
Keep staring at the blue dot in the middle of the picture. The blue dot will shrink slowly and then disappear completely.
Nice illusion....
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| High Dynamic Range photography |
| 2008-03-08 09:14:00 |
Range">High Dynamic Range photography is a technique that allows a wade dynamic range of exposures which increases the tonal and colour detail in photos. HDR photos are new as thecnique of photography and requires good conversions to achieve a hiper-realistic and pleasing final photos. Above shows a HDR version of the Golden Gate Bridge.
HDR Photography [...]...
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| ¿Are the same? |
| 2008-03-06 14:31:57 |
Wich do you think are longer? the distance AB or CD. In fact, believe or not, they are the same long. You can use a ruler to prove it.
Sometimes is not easy to find the answer or the best option. Our friends at weber grills brought us information about how take the correct decision [...]...
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| Tape art illusions |
| 2008-03-05 11:46:44 |
The amazing portraits were made by sticking small pieces of tape one over another. The more layers author attached one over another, the darker was the shade he achieved. It struggles me how detailed all of the portraits are, and it must have taken time and great amount of talent to create something so [...]...
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| Car in street art |
| 2008-03-03 15:04:38 |
Most of the examples of street art at Optical illusion from Kurt Wenner or Julian Beever appear drop down into a hole, but not many where the image appears to pop up like this.This fine piece of art by Manfred Stader and Edgar Müller does just that....
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| Optical hidden technology |
| 2008-02-26 11:54:27 |
Тhe essence of the technology lies in plotting shade on paper surface by the electronic matrix containing one or several Hidden images that can be placed on a sheet quite independently from one another or can be applied one upon another. Hidden Image can cover a whole sheet or its definite places.
As per a customer’s [...]...
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| Impossible space. |
| 2008-02-15 02:52:43 |
Here, we see regular plane division using Penrose tribars. Tribars are fade out, while inreasing distance from center. Note that there’s reduced copy of the same fractal structure inside every triangle.
Artist’s deviantART profile http://zueuk.deviantart.com
Artist: Peter Sdobnov...
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| Impactants structures by Rinus Roelofs |
| 2008-02-13 15:23:46 |
Holland artist and mathematician Rinus Roelofs constructs charming mathematical structures. He constructs his structures in computer but some of them became sculptures in various Holland towns.
The sculpture above was erected in Borne (Holland) in 2005. It consists of 26 tetrahedrons or 104 triangles. Triangles are just slid together. Construction is stable and need no [...]...
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| Chewing gum sculptures by Maurizio Savini |
| 2008-02-11 12:20:38 |
Italian artist Maurizio Savini uses chewing gum as the material for his art and these sculptures are creatively well done. That’s a lot of chewing gums for the size of his sculptures and I wonder if he actually bought those from the supermarkets.
10 more pics
Source: Magical illusions...
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| Sun Tatoo |
| 2008-01-30 05:55:28 |
Inspired by the Moldy Body Object.
Sun Tattoo is a soft stencil which can be used for making the tattoo pattern on the skin by sunshine. It’s better to use it with sunless tanning cream....
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| How to add a little illusion to your tattoo. |
| 2008-01-24 15:08:57 |
If you’re thinking about a tattoo, here’s something for you . Scary animals with subtle drop-shadows look much better than those without. See the original image, that this man has had tattooed. Very cool, especially how the tail of the scary arachnid looks like it’s in the air and about to strike.
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| Modern elephant illusion |
| 2008-01-15 16:53:50 |
Original “Elephant Illusion“ is one of the most popular and oldest illusions that has been circulating the net. I saw it for the first time 20 years ago or so, but am not sure who the original author for this one is....
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| Creative graffiti illusions from all over Brazil |
| 2008-01-05 15:49:30 |
These people have done something really cool in here: they painted over every old wall they found. How they did it? They looked for familiar shapes on those walls and its cockles that might look like faces and then used their skills and paint to make their imagination look real. There is sure a [...]...
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| Moving rats illusions |
| 2008-01-05 10:22:46 |
Those rats like design seems to be move in this image.
by Kitaoka...
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