If American foreign policy had a gift shop, what would it sell? American photographer, Phillip Toledano, has gathered a series of souvenirs that reflect the US foreign diplomacy in the past eight years, from the Dick Cheney Shredding Documents Snow Globe to the Abu Ghraib Coffee Table.
Using Processing (A programming language created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context ), video artist Glenn Marshall has created a mesmerizing 100% programmed/generative computer art: Metamorphosis.
Inspired by one of his previous works named “butterfly”, Marshall spins delicate visuals that show some of the power of programmed animation.
Marshall says:
These kind of ambitious concepts where difficult for me to implement back then within the practical limits of traditional 3d/2d software. So I wanted Metamorphosis be symbolic of my passing over into 100% programmed/generative computer art, where perhaps these kinds of ideas can reach more of their potential.
Talented French artist, Pierre Beteille, is skillful in manipulation of portraits (specially his own self portraits) using photoshop.This is how he describes himself:
I am not a photographer or an artist, I just make images … I shoot very average or even bad photos that I try to improve thanks to Photoshop …
Not only a photoshop guru, Pierre Beteille also works as art director, web designer and flash designer.Here are just some his brilliant Photoshopped portraits:
Celebrating it’s 30th anniversary, Lego has created a new set of Legos featuring celebrity figures.We wonder whether all of them deserve that but Fortunately the Lego celebrity series are not be public and would not find their way on toy sellers’ shelves.
Lego Madonna
The lucky tiny figures include David and Victoria Beckham, Madonna, Simon Cowell and the judges from the UK series X Factor, Amy Winehouse, Angelina Jolie, and Brad Pitt with two of their babies.
The Danish company who has already made 4billion plastic pieces was first created in 1978. Continue reading ‘Lego Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Celebrity Figures’
well we do love BUGS here at Sooth Brush and so does NY Artist, David Roger who has created these giant wood sculptures.“Insects play a vital role in a garden, but are unnoticed, so I put them on such a large scale that you can’t help but notice them,” says Rogers.
Project Transformers is the latest art project by the French-Swiss award winner artist, Guillaume Reymond, who has won the Youtube Video Awards 2007 with his Game Over Project (Tetris).
Project Transformers utilizes different types of vehicles, gathering them in a precise choreography to create what looks from the sky like gigantic robots.
The project is conducted in three parts.The first part of project took place Tuesday, August 26 on the big square of Vevey, Switzerland, where a ballet of ambulances, fire trucks and vehicles on the roads was performed under the “eyes” of Photo Zeppelin.