Celebrity Buzz Gregg W., aside from the extra “G” in his name, is a completely normal engineer, author, and teacher of the subject of physics, according to his Tripod.com page. And like most engineer-teacher-authors, he also dabbles in paintings of his favorite female pop stars, or at least he did in the late '90s. Below are some examples of some of the best damned art I have ever seen. I've also never been to an art museum.
Photographer Kyle Monk partnered with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to create these stunning portraits of children with Cystic Fibrosis.
Culture Buzz Photographer Cara Phillips takes photographs of people with ultraviolet light, which brings out the interesting “imperfections” on their skin.
Blow Job is the work of Lithuanian photographer Tadao Cern. It's… a little less sexy than the title might imply.
Culture Buzz Thank goodness somebody found a use for floppy disks.
Culture Buzz These pictures are definitely worth the ensuing vertigo. (via mymodernmet.com).
Culture Buzz A few vintage portraits of superheros that would fit right in with most decor.
Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park creates these portraits by layering meticulously snipped wires. The effect is stunning.
Culture Buzz Star Wars Identities is an interactive exhibit set to open up in Montreal this April. Here are the mosaics they just released to promote the show. (via mymodernmet.com).
Martin Schoeller is best known for his “Close Up” series of celebrity portraits. Here is another series he did of female bodybuilders.
Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini created this imaginative series entitled “Cardboard Ladies”. (via petapixel.com)
David Palmer uses an art medium associated with hunting or war. Looking at the bullets he saw a different intention for them.
Culture Buzz The Minnesota State lottery takes pictures of each of all of their “big” scratch off winners and posts them online. Here's a collection of some of my favorites. (via stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com)
Culture Buzz It's not the holidays until you start receiving Christmas cards from your boss's family that make you feel uncomfortable. So, here's 26 of those to make you feel even weirder!
The Argentinian art collective Mondongo delicately drips and molds plasticine to create these astounding portraits. This amazing art must have taken ages to make.
Joel Brochu has the definition of patience and dedication by creating this huge picture of a beagle using 221,184 hand placed nonpareil sprinkles. He used only 6 colors, and it took 8 months to complete.
Yigal Ozeri shoots photographs of his models and digitally works on them in his computer using Photoshop. Then he prints the photos and uses them as a guide to paint with oil on large canvas.
That's pretty impressive. Krzysztof Łukasiewicz of Poland drew these impressive pencil sketches of celebrities.
From an interesting collection of vintage photoshops on Etsy.com, could this be any more bizarre? (via visualnews.com)
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Looking to satisfy your mild narcissism and your desire to be a patron of the arts? Then you’ll want to head over to Twitter and follow British artist Greg Burney.
Culture Buzz Tarik Mikou is a graphic designer, photographer, and artist based out of Montreal. In his latest series, “Be a Kid Again”, he takes black and white photos of iconic celebrities and colors them giving it the pop art effect. (via)
Do not look at this if you've been drinking. It will make your brain hurt way too much.
Born and raised in New York, Lori Earley is a contemporary surrealist figurative artist. Her passion for expressing mood and emotion on canvas and paper along with her mastery of technique in oil and graphite is remarkable. (via)
The only thing that could make this portrait by Jon Defreest more awesome would be the addition of bacon.
Movie Buzz Digital artist Jace Wallace made these stunning portraits of Ariel, Jasmin and company. More princess at the Swedish Bed.
In this new flame-kissed portrait-based installation, artist t-radya pastes bandages on wooden panels and pelts the canvasses with molotov cocktails. As the fires burn out, the charred surfaces that appear create shading and outlines of faces of well known Russian soldiers. (via thesuiteworld.com)
Culture Buzz Artist Nick Agin gives the vintage, “There Will Be Blood” treatment to 3PO, Yoda, and a few other intergalactic friends.
Culture Buzz This is a PSA to all bars that have photo booths: Let dogs into your establishments. We need more photo booth pictures featuring cute puppies.
Culture Buzz Ron Swanson is a man who deserves to have his portrait hanging on every wall in America. Wait, wait, I worry what you just heard was, “Ron Swanson's portrait should be on a lot of walls in America.” What I said was, “Ron Swanson's portrait should be on ALL walls in America.” Do you understand?
Culture Buzz Brazilian artist Lucas C. Simões created these by overlapping layers of the same photo on top of each other. You can see more at the artist’s Flickr page. (Via Official Hype)