LoFi-Fisheye Camera

This inventor describes himself as a Researcher, Writer, Socialist and lives in Wales.  Greg Dash was originally looking for a fisheye lens for his camera but found it to be too expensive. When researching, he found out that there are no fisheye cameras on the market, so he went about building his own one. He is now looking to mass produce, maybe for Xmas.  Originally raised the money for his first run from Indiegogo where you can find more information.

Missing Parts Sculptures

Bronze Sculptures that have parts missing and almost seem as they shouldn't be able to stand up as in most case the middle section is missing.  French Artist Bruno Catalano, with a background in sculpting, aims to capture his audiences attention with his work.  The work is called "Les Voyageurs" (The Travellers).
We have doubled up on some of the sculptures because of space constraints, for full size please refer to artist's original.

Smallest House in Italy

Smallest House in Italy is what Italian Architect Marco Pierazzi calls it.   He bought it in 2010 and started renovating so that he could live in it with his wife. The house is 75 square feet which is about 7 m2, very small but as you are going to see, they managed to fit all they need in it. The apartment is right next to St. Peter’s Square. The building is estimated to be about 300 years old.

Doughnut - Donut Art

Doughnuts with a difference, clever art to entice children and grown ups.  Floresta Nature doughnuts has also a strong ecological ethos, they use organic products, they try and reduce as much as possible the amount of packaging they use, they try and make as much as they can sell so that there is no waste and the product is as fresh as it can be, finally they are allergy friendly. Well done guys. More pictures in the article.

Animal Coffee Sculptures

Some people sometimes say I think I have had too much coffee.  If you start seeing images like this appear around you coffee, you have. Irina Nikitina, by profession a music teacher, lists as one of her hobbies photography and a love for the original and unusual.  These composition were made with coffee beans and cups of coffee.  Very imaginative figures (Coffee Fantasy).

Recycled Cardboard Sculptures

Yes guys that is exactly what they are, made of cardboard, these are really well constructed.  We have added details in the article so that you can appreciate the work even more.  Chris Gilmour originally from the UK, now lives and works in Italy.  He makes objects that have a function and memories for him and wanted to work with a material that doesn't have such a long artistic history such as, marble or bronze would have, no comparisons with the past. Chris Gilmour has now started using recycled cardboard for his work.

Hand Cut Paper Work

These beautiful and intricate hand cut paper images are the the work of Australian born Lisa Rodden.  The artwork marries pleasing curves and shapes with lovely colours with a very precise execution.  You can buy or commission art on her site.

Recycled Grass People Sculpture

Mathilde Roussel lives and works in Paris. she is interested in the relationship between the different factors that constitute the cycle of life.  Roussel tries to represent this relationship in her work by combining different materials and life, in her Art.
We have focused on her "lives of grass" in which she produces these human forms with the use of soil, wheat seeds, recycled metal and fabric.

Pen Doodles

Filippino Artist and Illustrator Kerby Rosanes creates these intricate and complex drawings during his spare time.  It is worth taking the time to appreciate all the different images that together form the bigger picture. Rosanes uses pencils and pens to create his Art.

Hyper-Realistic Portraits

Photograph like paintings / Portraits from Italian Artist Emanuele Dascanio.  It, apparently, took him 300 hours to complete the charcoal drawing above. We have included in the article a video of the portrait that shows off the details and level of reality.

TouchKeys Keyboard

I am not a musician but even I think this is really cool, please do a favour to any musician / piano player you know and send them a link to this article.  The TouchKeys makes your keyboard into a Multi-Touch Musical Keyboard, which means that every key can play a variety of sounds depending on where, you press on the key.  We have included 2 videos in the article that are going to explain it a lot better.  Currently Augmented Instruments Laboratory are trying to raise £30,000 on KickStarter to fund this product.  Hopefully they will be successful, hope you make it guys.

Recycled DVD Sculptures

Very talented, Australian multi discipline Artist, Sean Edward Avery is a writer and illustrator of children's books, graphic designer and sculptor.
We have chosen to focus on his DVD sculptures, for which he uses Recycled DVD shards, wire mesh, glue and paint on some of them. He takes commissions, if you want a personal sculpture from him, have a look at his site for prices.  Enjoy.
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Composite Portraits

Very talented Artist and Illustrator Victor Molev, designed these composite portraits that if viewed from afar, produce images of famous and historic people.
With the size image I have put you would have to step quite far from your screen to see it, so I put thumbnails in the bottom right hand corner for you to see. (I promise they are the same picture but smaller).  You have to see them full size in the article to get the full effect.

Paper Clips Sculptures

With a background in sculpting stone and metals, Italian Artist Pietro D'Angelo has constructed these sculptures using paper clips.  Just another example how you can create Art using even the most mundane and common use items.

Miniature Food for Dolls House

Miniature food for use in Doll Houses.  These very detailed and small sculptures.  These intricate pieces come from the hard work of Kim aka fairchildart.

If you like this article you might like these as well Miniature Food Rings and Miniature Food.

Quilling Paper Art

Incredibly pretty and accurate art form called Quilling. Lovely colourful and well detailed compositions from UK company PaperGraphic. Enjoy these relaxing and soothing patterns.

3D Typography

Picture frame Typography and four more examples of sophisticated artwork below in the article.  As 3D illustrators and CGI specialists Forge & Morrow produce realistic imagery for a variety of specialisations including Architects, Designers, Developers.

Young Star Wars Baddies

Very nice and very endearing illustrations of Star Wars baddies from Octopus Tree House where you can buy these and more prints.  Do you think that had they had a different upbringing, that things would have been different? I guess we will never know...

3D Pencil Art

3D pencil drawings created by talented Artist Nagai Hideyuki aka (Hide) 永井　秀幸. You can buy the full sized picture on his site, but even at this size they look very convincing as 3D objects, don't you think?

If you like these drawings you will like 3D Drawings.

Smartphone-Telescope Microscope Binocular

This is a long a goofy title but makes the point.  the Snapzoom is an incredible piece of kit, an attachment, that will allow your smart phone use the lens power of Telescopes, Microscopes, Binoculars.  No need to buy expensive lenses just use something you might already have. This is the brainchild of Daniel Fujikake Mac Nguyen Shawn "Doc" Boyd who all live in Honolulu (Lucky Guys).  We have added a videos in the article to show how it goes together.

Colour in 3D

Incredible ColarApp that lets you colour in images and then bring it to life in 3D using an iPhone or iPad.  The way you colour it and the colours you use are the ones that are going to be used in the final rendering.  Have a look at the videos they will really impress you kids and keep them busy for hours.

Foldable Furniture

A bit of history, the first recorded use of a a folding chair was in 2,000 BC in Egypt and our modern chairs are based on the same principle of those early ones. Folditure are bringing this concept to a higher level using modern, light and thin, materials to construct their furniture.

Old Age Stars & Other

Designer and Illustrator who goes by the name of Marcus Aurelius has produced these images depicting aged Stars.  We have added some of his other illustrations as they were too good to pass up.

Hyper-Realistic Sculptures

Avatar Sculpture Works is a company that produced Hyper-Realistic Sculptures.  The company represents the work of Artists Jamie Salmon and Jackie K. Seo.  I am sure you will agree that there are some stunning Sculptures above and in the article, well done guys.

Nail Art

Last week we had Art with Screws, this week we have Nail art, Kumi Yamashita calls this body of work, Constellation, which are portraits produced using, a wooden panel painted white, thousands of small galvanized nails, and a single, unbroken, common sewing thread.  We have included details so that you can appreciate, even more, the work that goes into it.

If you like this article you might like: Art with Screws and Bird Pin Sculpture.

Rubik Cube Art

Art made using Rubik's cubes.  Largest Rubik's Cube Mosaic consisting of 85,794 Cubes built in Macau, China. This Mural won the 2013 Guinness World Record.  Have a look at the video, it is impressive. Via cubeworks.

If you like this article, you might like "Rubik Cube 17x17x17" the biggest in the world.

Nightmare Jobs

A German Recruitment Agency came up with these very funny adverts to show what could happen, if you rush into a job without knowing all the details.  Jobsintown's slogan is "Life is too short for the wrong job".

Melting Ceramics

Very nice and different type of art installations.  Using Ceramic, resin, plaster, transfer-print, Livia Marin gives the impression that the ceramic object have melted.

Art with Screws

This artist mixes different disciplines by being a painter, sculptor all in one, but in a totally different way to what we expect.  Andrew Myers has a very varied background as he was Born in Germany, brought up in Spain and then moved to the US to attend College.  In the part of the work we will explore in this article which he calls " We Don’t Belong in the Shadows" he makes use of screws, oil paint, and phone book pages to depict portraits.  He makes use of shadow to complete his figures, very clever and look perfect when hung up, see Facundo 1.

Musical Rats

These very cute pictures were taken by Ellen van Deelen, of her two rats.  There are many pictures but we have choose to focus on the musical ones.  These pictures without the watermarks, are for sale for items including calendars, posters and many more items.
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The Evolution of Wolverine

infographic depiction of the evolution of the character Wolverine from 1974 to 2013.  With The Wolverine just come out, you can see the history of the character from birth to modern times.
This image and information was compiled by Halloween Costumes.  Enjoy looking at the different images and the explanations that go with it.