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17/05/2012 in Photography by admin

Last week, visitors to the TADAO CERN studio were invited to participate in a crazy photo shoot where Lithuanian photographer Tadas Černiauskas aimed a powerful leaf blower at their faces creating some incredibly funny facial expressions.

“Everyone (and there were more than one hundred!) who dared to stand up in front of my camera lens that evening will remember this photo shoot for a long time and have an extraordinary photo in his album,” said Tadas Černiauskas.

16/05/2012 in Photography by admin

Deemed the cultural or often arts quarter this designated area in a particular city is thriving with artists, galleries, theatres and dance halls. These areas are often encouraged by public policy-making and planning, including the injection of money into these areas. However, at the root of them is the artists and creative’s themselves. This acts as a honey-pot affect and once creative people settle there it only serves to pull in more like-minded people who strive to push creative boundaries. Let’s take a look at a selection at these unique cultural hubs.

14/05/2012 in Architecture, Photography by admin

An infinity edge pool also goes by the name of negative edge, zero edge, infinity pool, disappearing edge, or vanishing edge pool. Infinity pools are simply swimming pools which give the illusion that they go on into the horizon, as if they go on forever. In reality, the water flows over one or more edges creating this ‘vanishing’ effect. The infinity pool design concept is said to have originated in France, where one of the first vanishing edge designs was utilized in the “Stag Fountain” at the Palace of Versailles in the early 1600s.

13/05/2012 in Art, Photography by admin

If you are tired of posed, stiff and cheesy family portraits, then take a look at these incredibly creative pictures taken by Jason Lee.

08/05/2012 in Photography by admin

Éric Valli is a French photographer and film director. Valli spent most of his career as a geographical photographer working for the National Geographic Magazine and The Sunday Times, capturing more inaccessible locations in the world on camera. Valli has shot a documentary with Diane Summers on the Honey hunters of Nepal documenting honey hunting by the Gurung tribesmen of west-central Nepal. In it, they enter the jungle in search of wild honey where they use indigenous tools under precarious conditions to collect honey.

06/05/2012 in Art, Photography by admin

May the Fourth Be With You – 25 Star Wars-Inspired Graphic Designs
by: Rafael Rivera May 4, 2012 Smart Design No Comments
The Star Wars franchise had given graphic designers countless opportunities to showcase their talents. And since it’s May 4th, I figured this would be the best time to share with you some of the better Star Wars-inspired artworks we’ve seen online. Not only would these make great canvas prints, these images can also be used as inspiration for other projects as well.
Here are some fan-made artworks for you to draw inspiration from:

15/03/2012 in Photography by admin

Argentinian artist Manuel Archain doesn’t limit his imagination to pure photography and creates some insanely comical photo manipulated scenes which are usually impossible in real life. He’s a perfect example that with Photoshop you can pretty much create whatever you like, the only limit is your imagination.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1983, he started his studies when he was 5, sculpture, drawing and painting at his mother’s studio, the artist Silvina Viaggio. At the age of 13 he ads to his drawing studies a comic background, studying with Carlos Pedrazzini. At the same time he starts his work as a photographer in a practical way, working with different professionals, from here he evolves in his art achieving a personal style.

At age of 17 he started to work on commercials, movies and video clips in the art department and as a photographer. Has been assistant photographer of Peter Rad, Blinkk, Samuel Bayer, Tony Kaye. Since 2004 he works as a professional photographer for advertising and cinema.

10/03/2012 in Art, Photography by admin

Brian M. Viveros is a surrealist fetish artist, famous for his paintings and erotic drawings. For the creation of his paintings using a combination of oil paints, acrylics, and airbrush. Start with a graphite pencil sketch and then build the color with the use of oil, then use acrylics and airbrush for details. Brain says: “The cigarette is a part of me that I try to convey through my work, my signature, has become a sort of brand, it is also much easier to paint that a can of beer in every fucking picture. ”

06/03/2012 in Photography by admin

Anka was born on December 4, 1980. She spent her childhood with books on art and her mothers’ drawing tools, covering acres of paper with her drawings. In 1997 she entered the Moscow Architectural Institute deciding to follow in her mothers’ footsteps. But at the end of 1997 her mother was diagnosed with cancer and died in less that a year. Then her father died in 1999.

05/03/2012 in Photography by admin

The series broken houses by Ofra Lapid is based on photographs of destroyed and neglected houses. However, these buildings were recreated as small, precise scale models and again photographed in the studio: a mock-ups of destruction.