Annette Jung recreates the opening scene of Michael Jackson’s legendary video for ‘Thriller’ in stunning brick-o-vision.
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The squeeful results of a collaboration (a little like Axe Cop in reverse) between Illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks (who drew the heads) and her four year old daughter (who took each one to another level). Finally, colour, highlights and texture were added by Hendricks to complete each piece. She sez:
Sometimes I would give her suggestions, like “maybe she could have a dragon body!” but usually she would ignore theses suggestions if it didn’t fit in with what she already had in mind. But since I am a grownup and a little bit (okay a lot) of a perfectionist, I sometimes would have a specific idea in mind as I doodled my heads. Maybe she could make this into a bug! I’d think happily to myself as I sketched, imagining the possibilities of what it could look like. So later, when she’d doodle some crazy shape that seemed to go in some surrealistic direction, or put a large circle around the creature and filled the WHOLE THING in with marker, part of my brain would think, What is she DOING?!? She’s just scribbling it all up! But I should know that in most instances, kids’ imaginations way outweigh a grownup’s, and it always ALWAYS looked better that what I had imagined. ALWAYS.
After learning that 5,500 shelter dogs are put down every day in the United States, artist Mark Barone decided to paint 5,500 portraits of actual shelter dogs, recording their names and the dates they were killed.
Two years into the project, Barone has completed over 3,500 portraits for his ‘memorial museum’, passing on all donations to save and re-home other strays.
MORE: An Act Of Dog
Featuring captivating, petulant melodies such as: ‘Tale As Old As No’, ‘When Will My No Begin?’, ‘Circle Of No’, ‘A Whole New No’ and ‘Part Of Your No’.
By Eric Proctor
On Monday, students and staff of Dickinson High School in Milltown, Delaware broke the world record for the tallest LEGO tower with a 112ft 11.75in (34.4m) skyscraper made from half a million bricks.
The previous record, set last year by a school in Prague, was 106ft (32.3m).
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An ongoing project (since 2006) by London photographer Carl Warner, who uses deli meats, fresh fish, fruit, vegetables and bread to create incredibly plausible (and highly nutritious) landscape dioramas.
If you like this, you may care to peruse his Bodyscapes series, where he does something similar with the human form.
MORE: Foodscapes: Stunning Landscapes Made of Food by Carl Warner (Bored Panda)
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Just some Regular fan art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZLaH2qU2K4
Robert Sheehan and Rory from Showbizgeek attempt their own versions of Captain Picard’s recent drunken masterclass.
(Thanks Showbizgeek)
Ariana Page Russell has dermatographia – a disorder that causes her skin to become raised and inflamed even when lightly scratched.
In this photoseries, entitled ‘Skin’, she creates temporary art by inducing patterns of welts (which, despite their angry appearance, are painless and fade away after about half an hour)
V12 Laraki by Eric van Hove is an incredibly detailed sculpture of a Mercedes V12 engine made from 53 different materials.
Made possible by a Cda Projects Grant, the sculpture represents an imagined dynamic between German technology and North African ingenuity.
Over nine months, each individual constituent part of a dismantled Mercedes V12 engine was sent to one of thirty five master craftsmen from various regions of Morocco who recreated them in different locally sourced materials before the engine was reassembled.
What materials, you ask?
…white cedar wood, high Atlas red cedar wood, walnut wood, lemon wood, orange wood, ebony wood of Macassar, mahogany wood, thuya wood, Moroccan beech wood, pink apricot wood, mother of pearl, yellow copper, nickel plated copper, red copper, forged iron, recycled aluminum, nickel silver, silver, tin, cow bone, goat bone, malachite of Midelt, agate, green onyx, tigers eye, Taroudant stone, sand stone, red marble of Agadir, black marble of Ouarzazate, white marble of Béni Mellal, pink granite of Tafraoute, goatskin, cowskin, lambskin, resin, cow horn, rams horn, ammonite fossils of the Paleozoic from Erfoud, Ourika clay, geometric terra cotta with vitreous enamel (zellige), green enamel of Tamgrout, paint, cotton, argan oil, cork, henna, and rumex.
TLDR: It’s like that episode of Futurama where Bender remakes himself in wood.