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The Flat Streets of San Francisco

admin1 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:23:45 +0000

The city of San Francisco is famous for it’s hills and impossibly inclined streets. But what would San Francisco be without its steep hills? Photographer Dan Ng attempts to “level” the streets of San Francisco by photographing it with a tilted camera, resulting in an altogether unique gallery of the city.

Dan Ng

Papercraft Self Portrait

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:28:23 +0000

3D Self Portrait made from Paper.

Inspired by big-head mode seen in video games, Eric Testroete has created this cool 3d paper head Halloween costume. Modeled in 3ds Max, the head was designed so that it could fit over Eric’s real head, sit on his shoulders and then be held down by a jacket.

For more creative projects by Eric Testroete, visit testroete.com

Li Weis Artistic Performance

admin1 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:35:15 +0000

Artist Li Wei’s work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of an unusual interesting reality. His favorite works are the ‘Mirror’ and the ‘Falls’ series; the ‘Falls’ series shows the artist with his head and the upper body embedded into the ground. According to the artist these images are not computer montages, these works are created with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics. Using a large mirror with a hole in the center large enough to accommodate his head and neck, he places his head through the hole and “projects” his image onto various historical and urban places.

The Fungi Miracle in Russia

admin1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:33:12 +0000

A miraculous image done by fungi appeared on the wall.

And then what’s interesting almost the same thing happened in another town nearby. Probably they just looked better in search of something alike and bingo here it is. Maybe your city has something similar too?

Mona Lisa comes to life

admin1 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:45:57 +0000

This Mona Lisa chats with you in Bejing.

A visitor looks at a three-dimensional, holographic version of the 16th century portrait “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci as it indicates not to move any closer in Beijing’s Alive Gallery August 21, 2009. This Mona Lisa is a digital re-creation courtesy of the Alive Gallery in Seoul, South Korea, and is traveling to China on a three-city tour, along with a collection of other walking, talking masterworks from throughout the ages