Photography
August 10, 2011

Past Meets Present

Remember Young Me, Now Me? Photographer Sander Koot has created a similar series, called Back from the Future, where he places old photographs of people next to pictures of their present selves. “In this project, I ask people to find old portraits of themselves, of which they have good memories,” says Koot. “When talking to them about the picture, you see them reliving the happy moment.

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Art
August 6, 2011

Banana Oxidation Art

Australian artist Jun Gil Park has the unique talent of carving drawings into bananas! He allows the natural oxidation of the scraped skin to bring the image out. What an incredibly creative way of making food art!

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Art
August 4, 2011

Shepard Fairey’s Guns & Roses

Earlier this year, Shepard Fairey hit Chicago with his massive album art mural gracing an underpass. Now he's been spotted all the way in Copenhagen, Denmark. His second piece there was captured by photographer Henrik Haven. Fairey's own version of Guns & Roses took two days to complete, and it is located at Nygrdsvej, 2100 sterbro.

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Uncategorized
August 1, 2011

Brainwashing Soldiers

Italian street artist Blu is no stranger to controversy. In fact, you may remember his mural at the MOCA that was taken down. In an area of downtown that neighbors a Veterans Affairs hospital and a war memorial to Japanese American soldiers, the provocative anti-war piece showed coffins draped with dollar bills instead of flags. Now in his home country, Blu is shaking things up once again.

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My Modern Met

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