July 5, 2012

Chuck Close’s Unbelievable Fingerpainting Portrait

While you may already know Chuck Close as that incredibly talented American artist who creates those huge photorealistic paintings, you may never have seen this mind-blowing piece. Called Fanny/Fingerpainting, it's a beautiful portrait of Close's wife's late grandmother Fanny created with fingerprints!

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July 3, 2012

Documenting Wall Street Anxiety During the Financial Crisis

Dutch photographer Reinier Gerritsen finds great interest in observing crowds of people in everyday life. His series, Wall Street Stop, features passengers on subway cars as they ride through New York City's Wall Street subway station in 2008. During a time of financial strain, Gerritsen says, “It was so depressing. It was the last days of Bush, and the crisis was rampant.

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June 28, 2012

Colored Salt Dances with Sound Waves

Just recently, we were very impressed with Fabian Oefner's brilliant watercolor mosaics, and today, we focus on another one of his remarkably inspiring scientific experiments. Dancing Colors is a project where Oefner turns sound waves into visible sculptures and he says, “The idea of the series is to build a bridge between the acoustical and the visual world.

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