The Secret Life of Everyday Objects (funny art)

Terry Border is a photographer who left the commercial world for story-telling. He takes objects from everyday life and turns them into art. From eggs to candles Terry finds their secret lives and he even published a book about it. Check Terry’s website for further details. link

What happens when a candle farts?

Marilyn Monroe

Dancing Queen

Love Connection

Banana Affair

Lactose Intolerant

The Pirate Marshmallow

Bread Tanning

MOM…is that you?

14 Extraordinary Beer Can Sculptures | can art

Another reason to love beer. Check Out these extraordinary sculptures made from beer cans. Most of them were part of a Turkish Beer Can Art Contest.

When Order Obsession Becomes Art | The Art of Clean Up

In his latest picture book, The Art of Clean Up, Ursus Wehrli (an artist and comedian from Switzerland) meticulously rearranges things we encounter in everyday life—alphabet soup, a sandbox, a parking lot—according to color, size, and shape.

The book is a follow-up to his previous Tidying Up Art books, where Wehrli used to “tidy up” famous artworks, such as Van Gogh’s room or Botticelli’s beach.

Coolest Scrap Metal Sculptures

Where some see junk, he sees raw material. Jose Duarte – a Paraguayan artist – builds works of art using scrap metal from Asuncion’s garbage heaps, recycling trash, discarded car parts and household goods to create his very own treasure. The items are then used to craft statues, models and even robots. link

Templar knight

Apache Helicopter

Jason from Friday the 13th

Fenix 2.  The capsule which was used to rescue the miners trapped in the San José mine, Chile.link

Don Quixote

A craftsman who weaves cloth

Grocery man

Male Gynecologist

Sculptor

Catholic Church altar

Soldier

Predator

Bike

8 Awesome Art Installations | art installatios

According to Wikipedia; Installation art describes an artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform a viewer’s perception of a space.
Here are some of the most impressive we could find.

Pixel Orca Sculpture

Douglas Coupland created this pixel sculpture which lives outside of the Vancouver convention center.link

The sculpture made of 5,500 footballs

Nike create a sculpture out of 5,500 footballs in Carlton Mall Atrium in Johannesburg. It was the centrepiece of a Nike installation promoting the firm’s kits and boots for the World Cup. The balls was held together using 10km of cable with the whole thing weighing in at 4.75 tons. link

The 2,500 Coke bottle Crates Sculpture

Also at World Cup, Coca Cola took advantage of the Crate Man craze and installed 54-foot CrateFan in Cape town at the Victoria an Albert Waterfront/harbor. It was built of 2,500 Coke bottle crates and weighed 25 tons.link

The Invisible Poster

The London poster campaign is specifically in support of Troy Davis, a man described as having “been on death row for 19 years in the USA, despite serious doubts about his conviction.”
The posters, depicting a close-up Davis’s face, are mounted on fence railings that disguise the posters so that the face behind the bars is revealed only when viewed from an angle.link

The Sculpture constructed of a thousand reclaimed pieces of plexiglass

New York artist Tom Fruin’s outdoor sculpture Kolonihavehus in the plaza of the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen has the appearance of a friendly and colorful stained-glass house, yet it also evokes thoughts of churches and Charles Rennie Macintosh.
Fruin’s sculpture is constructed of a thousand reclaimed pieces of plexiglass ranging in size from 2×2 to 24×36 inches. They originate from many sources, including a closed- down plexi distributorship near Copenhagen, a framing shop, the basement of the Danish State Art Workshops, and the dumpsters outside the Danish Architecture Center.link

Giant Number 4 Made From Discarded Umbrellas

Art installation ‘Shelter’, a giant number 4 made from discarded umbrellas by artist Stephanie Imbeau, winner Channel 4′s BIG4 public art competition, stands illuminated in front of the Channel 4 building on March 4, 2009 in London, England. The piece, a representation of channel 4′s logo, is constructed from unconnected blocks so that it only appears as the number 4 from a certain viewpoint.link

The 41.000 Led Nodes Art Installation

 
A massive installation by American artist Leo Villareal features approximately 41,000 LED nodes that run through a 200-foot-long tunnel in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..

As passerbyers move between the East and West buildings on an airport style people mover, the zillions of lights flicker on and off over head creating rhythmic patterns and abstract configurations. The custom designed software also has an element of chance built into it, so it’s unlikely that anyone will see the same routine twice.link

Millions of Dust Particles Floating in the Air

This art installation at Clark Shoes Headquarters in Street Somerset, South England and was commissioned by Mr Lance Clark and is the first phase of two, of the art work situated in the communal court yard in the heart of Clarks office buildings.
The installation itself was developed from a single observation – Light is only seen when reflected. A light beam coming through a window is only visible because light is reflected in the millions of dust particles floating in the air.
As wind and light changes during the day and the seasons, the dynamic of the installation alters – sometimes wild, illuminating the entire space, at other times calm reflecting the colors of the surroundings on grey
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You Think is a Photograph, Think Again

You would be convinced that you are looking at some high definition photography taken with some powerful camera but the truth is that all following photos are painted by Richard Estes. link

Awesome Recycled Hardware Art

Hard Drive Sculptures

Hard drives gone bad don’t always have to end up in the trash. Miguel Rivera, a systems administrator, took a pile of used drives, gutted some and turned them into beautiful sculptures.

“The overall concept was to make something out of just hard drive parts and pieces,” says Rivera. “I wanted it to look solid and heavy so I leaned towards just using metal — no plastic or gluing things together.”

The results are creations that almost take your breath away in their complexity and beauty. link

Motherboard Art

As seen in the entrance to ASUS’s headquarters in Taiwan, it’s the Mona Lisa made entirely of motherboards. Move over Leonardo da Vinci, there’s a new sheriff in town and his name is LeoNERDo da Vinci. link

Keyboard Art

Korean artist Choi Jung Hyun made this viper sculpture out of keyboard keys for a gallery show — it’s meant to promote awareness of recycling. And snakes
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CD/DVD Art

More Recycled Hardware Art

8 Incredible Works of Leather Art [ Carved Leather ]

Whith a knife Mark Evans pioneered something no one else in the world had done before. He carves pictures on cow hide with knives, and the result is pretty damned impressive.

“Art doesn’t get more primal than etching animal skins with a big knife. I don’t do ‘pseudo intellectual’ I make art.”

“Running Bulls – A Beautiful Irony”

“Ape Wall”

“The butterfly Who Stings” Ali vs Doug Jones

“Dobermans”

“Winston”

“Muhammad Ali and Bob Marley”

“Cinephile Cruxifixion”

“The Great Escape”

6 Wicked Beach Sculptures Placed Just To Scare You

Zombies on the beach, England

A beach in Liverpool is home to dozens of stationary, zombie-like statues, all facing out to sea in various locations.
The sculpture consists of 100 cast iron figures which face out to sea, spread over a 2 mile (3.2 km) stretch of the beach. Each figure is 189 cm tall (nearly 6 feet 2½ inches) and weighs around 650 kg (over 1400 lb).

Another Place is a piece of modern sculpture by Antony Gormley.In common with most of Gormley’s work, the figures are cast replicas of the artist’s own body. As the tides ebb and flow, the figures are revealed and submerged by the sea.

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Couple attempt to be smashed to death by waves, England

Sean Henry’s sculpture ‘Couple’ is England’s first permanent offshore sculpture, and was installed in Newbiggin Bay on August 17th 2007
Just how many panicked emergency calls have been made due to this bizarre statue causing people to believe two giants are about to be smashed to death by waves is unknown.
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"The Hand", Korea

This is not a “beach sculpture”, but.. is really cool and creepy
This sculpture of a hand is made from a series of roof-like tiles wired together. The sculpture stands as tall as a man and can be found in Yongsan Family Park.

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Dead Whale Exploded on Beach, The Netherlands

On July 10th, 2008, a 18 metres long life size sculpture of a sperm whale made from wood, aluminium and polyester lies on the beach of Scheveningenis. This gigantic state of the art was made by artist Zephyr (alias of Dirk Claesen) and is meant to promote the collection of the museum Muzee Scheveningen.

The sperm whale (Physeter Catodon) is the largest of all toothed whales, making them the Earth’s largest living carnivore and largest living toothed animal. The whale was named after the milky-white waxy substance, spermaceti, found in its head and originally mistaken for sperm

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Una habatacio on Sempre Plou

Juan Munoz’s “Una Habatacio on Sempre Plou” (translated as ‘a room where it always rains’) consists of 5 stone weebles trapped in a cage on a strip of sand.
Seemed to be one of the more popular and creepiest piece of beach art on earth, if somewhat disturbing, pieces of public art along Barcelona’s waterfront

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The Hand Of Harmony

Wicked sculpture off the coast of Korea. The Hand Of Harmony has been worrying tourists in Korea since 1999

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