Friday, September 30, 2011

Mini Manhattan Carved Out of 2.5 Tons of Marble by Yutaka Sone

“Little Manhattan” by Japanese artist Yutaka Sone is an exquisitely detailed 2.5 ton marble model of Manhattan. To ensure accuracy, Sone looked at photographs, satellite images from Google Earth, and flew over the city on helicopter rides to view the buildings, streets, bridges, and topographical nuances of the Big Apple. The eight foot long model is on display at the David Zwirner gallery in New York City through October 29, 2011.










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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Miss Universe in Ugly Mug Shots

You won't find this rare moments on your TV screen. Here's the ugly mug shots collection of Miss Universe. But I think, they are still looks cute.








California Woman Helps Hundreds of Stray Cats

During the 19-year-old woman from California, rescues stray cats and keep them at home. Fortunately, her four hectares of land in allows you to live a carefree hundreds! cats. At the moment, maintenance costs are 5000 dollars a day, a woman gets money from good people – the donation.









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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Realistic Embroidery Portraits by Cayce Zavaglia

Originally a painter, Cayce Zavaglia still thinks of her embroidered portraits as paintings. Zavaglia might use wool, but her work borrows techniques from drawing and painting. Frustrated by the limitations of the range of colors available to her, she created a system of sewing the threads in a particular sequence that give the allusion of specific colors or tones.

Zavaglia explains:
Initially, working with an established range of wool colors proved frustrating. Unlike painting, I was unable to mix the colors by hand. Progressively, I created a system of sewing the threads in a sequence that would ultimately give the allusion of a certain color or tone. The direction in which the threads were sewn had to mimic the way lines are layered in a drawing to give the allusion of depth, volume, and form. Over time the stitches have become tighter and more complex but ultimately more evocative of flesh, hair, and cloth.























15 Famous Photographs Recreated In Lego

The recreation of events have been achieved in many media formats from photographs to movies but in this post, we showcases something a little different. Each of these Lego setups recreates a famous scene, yet are just as easy to recognize as the original piece, showing that Legos are just as culturally relevant to adults as they are to kids.





























Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Famous Brand Slogans on Condom Packages

New Condoms is a Tumblr blog to watch. It's dedicated to original photoshops of well-known corporate slogans as condom wrappers, effectively classing up the "that's what she said" jokes with professionally-done photo editing. The site is maintained by Max Wright, a 19-year-old photographer in Los Angeles who also runs several other sites.

After the jump are all of the New Condoms so far along with our color commentary.