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Hip Hop Artists Sketched

rappin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:48:46 +0000

Those beautiful drawings of best hip hop artists were painted by graphic designer Mark 563, awesome artist, who has great taste in hip hop music. He done his drawings using only, paper and some color pencils. On those photos you can see some of the best rap singers: Tupac Shakur (Alias 2pac), Biggie Smalls (Alias Notorious BIG), Some NWA Members ( Easy E, Dr. Dre), Lots of Wu-Tang-Clan Members, Jay Z, Mobb Deep, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Doggy Dogg , Redman and others… Check those photos, leave comment bellow and tell us your three favourites, then after two days we will announce winners.

Glass Bone Skeletons

rappin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:54 +0000

melli ink editions’ at cramer + cramer

ganz unverhofft’, 2008

melli ink editions

cramer + cramer, geneva
september 19 – november 7, 2008

melli ink is a zurich based artist who explores nature in her work by transforming bone into glass.
her artwork consists of life size skeletons and bones recreated in glass. ink began her career as
a set-designer and also worked as a performance and video artist. the show will be held at
cramer + cramer, who’s founder philippe cramer studied with melli ink at parsons school of design
over 15 years ago. the two are currently collaborating on a project that merges their disciplines
together. the special edition should be ready by early 2009.

http://www.melli-ink.com
http://www.philippecramer.com

Finger on the car dream

rappin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:13:04 +0000

Fans there are two ways to realize their dream car, the first course is the most direct to the stores to buy various brands of the true heart-ying car, and then open all the way back to their garage.

The other fans, through the collection of posters or vehicle simulation model to meet their own collections to.

Therefore, it is clear that this is creative Ads Below is ready for the second type of crowd. Hot Wheels Cars well-known brand, you realize your dream car!

Halloween Pumpkins

rappin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:40:15 +0000

Halloween, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses”, carving Jack-o’-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden the All Saints’ official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.

Motorcycles maded from watches

rappin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:51:15 +0000

Most Fascinating Prehistoric Paintings

rappin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:21:21 +0000

Lascaux Caves: the prehistoric Sistine Chapel
Known as “the prehistoric Sistine Chapel,” the Lascaux Caves, a cave complex in southwestern France, contain some of the most remarkable paleolithic cave paintings in the world, from at least 15,000 years ago.

The cave was discovered on 12 September 1940 by four teenagers, Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas, as well as Ravidat’s dog, Robot. Public access was made easier after World War II. By 1955, the carbon dioxide produced by 1,200 visitors per day had visibly damaged the paintings. The cave was closed to the public in 1963 in order to preserve the art.

Altamira Caves: as Picasso famously exclaimed, “after Altamira, all is decadence”

The fabulous caves of Altamira are located near Santilliana del Mar in Cantabria, Northern Spain, about 30 kms. west of Santander. As is so often the case they were discovered by chance. In 1868 a hunter by the name of Modesto Cubillas stumbled across them but they were not properly explored until 1875 by a nobleman from Santander named Marcellino Sanz de Santuola but it was his daughter, Maria de Santuola who discovered the wonderful cave paintings of Altamira in 1879. However they were of such astounding quality and so well preserved that specialists doubted their authenticity and sadly the discoverer was dead before they were officially acknowledged as genuine. At the beginning of the 20th. centuary they were finally accepted as authentic after similar remains from the stone age were discovered in the area. However the cave paintings of Altamira remain the most exceptional evidence of Magdalénian culture (between c. 16,500 and 14,000 years ago) in southern Europe.

Chauvet Caves: spectacular artwork

The Chauvet Cave or is located in the Ardèche département, southern France. It became famous in 1994 after a trio of speleologists found that its walls were richly decorated with Paleolithic artwork, that it contained the fossilized remains of many animals, including those that are now extinct, and that the floor preserved the footprints of animals and humans. The Chauvet Cave was soon regarded as one of the most significant pre-historic art sites in the world.

The cave is uncharacteristically large and the quality, quantity, and condition of the artwork found on its walls has been called spectacular. It appears to have been occupied by humans during two distinct periods: the Aurignacian and the Gravettian. Most of the artwork dates to the earlier, Aurignacian, era (30,000 to 32,000 years ago). The later Gravettian occupation, which occurred 25,000 to 27,000 years ago, left little but a child’s footprint, the charred remains of ancient hearths and carbon smoke stains from torches that lit the caves.

Magura Cave: peeking into the prehistoric world

The Magura cave is in the Northwest of Bulgaria, some 180km from the capital of Sofia. Pearls of the cave are the unique paintings on stone, done in bat guano. They are multi layered and come from different epochs – The Epupaleolith, The Neolith, The Eneolith, the beginning of The Early Bronze Age. The paintings in the Magura cave represent dancing women, dancing and hunting men, disguised men, large variety of animals, suns, stars, instruments of labour, and plants. The Solar calendar from The Late Eneolith and some later additions, made during The Early Bronze age are quite accurate.

Through pictures information about religous events and feasts along with their smbols and particular personages were saved. Some of the images are very complex compositions and hint about the diversity of ideas in a world extremely rich in intellectual and spiritual aspect. The Magura drawings define its function as a temple for a long period of time – from The Neolith till The Iron age.

Cosquer Cave: an underwater cave from up to 27,000 years ago

The Cosquer cave is located in the Calanque de Morgiou near Marseille, France, not very far from Cap Morgiou. This cave, the entrance of which is located underwater nowadays, was discovered by Henri Cosquer in 1991. Today the cave can be accessed through a 175-meter long tunnel, the entrance of which is located 37 meters under sea level.

The cave contains several dozen painting and carvings dating back to Upper Paleolithic, matching two different phases of occupation of the cave: Older drawings of hand stencils and other related motifs, dating back to 27,000 BP (Gravettian); and newer drawings of signs and animal drawings dating back to 19,000 BP (Solutrean), representing both “classical” animals such as bisons, ibexes, and horses but also marine animals such as seals and what appear to be auks and jellyfish.

Font de Gaume: the best example of polychrome painting

Prehistoric people living in the Dordogne Valley first settled in the mouth of Font de Gaume around 25,000 BC. The cave mouth was inhabited at least sporadically for the next several thousand years. However, after the original prehistoric inhabitants left, the cave was forgotten until the nineteenth century when local people again began to visit the cave.

In 1901, Denis Peyrony, a school teacher from Les Eyzies, discovered the paintings inside Font de Gaume. The paintings date from around 17000 BC, during the Magdalénien period. However, many of the cave’s paintings were discovered much later. The cave’s most famous painting, a frieze of five bison was discovered accidentally in 1966 while scientists were cleaning the cave. Font de Gaume holds over 200 polychrome paintings and is considered the best example of polychrome painting other than Lascaux, which is now closed to the public. The paintings in Font de Gaume include depictions of more than 80 bison, approximately 40 horse depictions, and more than 20 mammoth depictions.

Exploring The Ghost Town of Rhyolite

rappin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:12:28 +0000

Located in the Bullfrog Hills, Nevada, Rhyolite is a ghost town which came into existence as the result of a gold rush that began in 1904.Rhyolite had its peak population from 1905 to 1910, when decreased gold production led to a decline that culminated in its abandonment by 1919.
Rhyolite has a number of crumbling, old buildings. But before you reach them, you’ll probably be distracted by a collection of odd outdoor art projects.

Perhaps Rhyolite’s most distinctive art exhibit is this re-creation of Jesus’ Last Supper.The sculpture was created in 1984 by Poland-born Belgian sculptor Albert Szukalski, based on the famous Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece.But instead of disciples wearing white robes, this version features only the white robes.

Although his Last Supper was built decades before the first Lord of the Rings movie was released, his ghostly white forms resemble the dark “Ringwraiths” in those films.He made the figures by wrapping live models in plaster-soaked fabric to achieve his Apostle o’ Shrouds effect.

Beside the last supper sculpture there’s a two-story-tall silhouette of a miner, and his penguin.This sculpture pays homage to the fact that, in Rhyolite, it was customary for the miners to keep penguins as pets.

Although Rhyolite is a religious town, a strikingly different sculpture stands slightly up the hill and across a wash from the Last Supper. It’s a 25-foot tall cinder block woman titled “Lady Desert: The Venus of Nevada,” built by Belgian artist Dr. Hugo Heyrman.The Lady’s yellow hair and pink skin are garishly eye-capturing in this land of brown and gray.Dr. Hugo says the pixels used in his electronic 2D art inspired him to pixelize a nude woman in cinder blocks.

December 14, 1906 at 7:00pm the first train pulled into Rhyolite station from Las Vegas carrying more than 100 people. (45 of them were from Los Angeles) Six years later, the town was abandoned when the mines played out. In its heyday, the town boasted over 3500 citizens. The railroad tracks now removed, ran on the opposite side of the bldg.

The highlight of Rhyolite is Tom Kelly’s Bottle House, made of 30,000 bottles by a prospector who used the only building material available. It took him six months to build in the winter of 1905-06, and was abandoned with the rest of the town when the gold ran out in 1912. It lived on as a desert landmark and was featured on vintage vellum postcards.

Preservationists rebuilt the Bottle House in the summer of 2005. It now stands behind a locked fence, along with a miniature bottle village that was also Kelly’s work.

And finally here is some photos from Rhyolite’s abandoned buildings:

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50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks

rappin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:11:42 +0000

Street culture and graffiti are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their territory in some urban area, graffitis have now become a rich medium for unrestricted expression of ideas and statements. In fact, creative designers and artists across the globe use this form of art to deliver their message and showcase their work.

Probably the most prominent graffiti artist is Banksy, a famous pseudo-anonymous British artist whose works focus on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His art has appeared in cities around the world; it’s worth mentioning that Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti or mount exhibitions of screenprints in commercial galleries. You can explore Banksy’s works in the Time’s slideshow The World According To Banksy. However, many different artists explore graffiti in a variety of ways.

In this episode of Monday Inspiration series we are presenting a tribute to street art and graffiti — over 50 examples of beautiful and impressive graffiti artworks. Hopefully everybody will find some inspiration at least in some of the works showcased below. Feel free to explore the works of artists by following the links to their sites.

Retna Saber Revok SeventhLetter

Mr Mucho

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Wall Spankers Project
Our goal is to bring together international artists and designers in a collaborative, sharing environment. The website serves as an online gallery showcasing the artists involved in the sticker swap. Currently 4 issues are released.

Muck

obey

Lady Pink: Sandra Fabara
Lady Pink is a legend. In the 1980s she made a name for herself as one of the only females capable of competing with men in the graffiti subculture.

Collective Graffiti, Chiado, Lisbon