Art
September 23, 2010

Interview: Van Gogh’s Paintings Get Tilt-Shifted

After seeing how tilt-shift photography could make real world scenes appear like miniature models, Serena Malyon, a third-year art student, decided to simulate the effect on van Gogh's famous paintings. Using Photoshop, she manipulated the light and adjusted the focus to make us see these paintings in ways we could have never imagined. Amazingly, nothing in these paintings was changed, added or removed. The incredible illusions are all created by the magic of Photoshop.

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September 20, 2010

Funny Logo Mash-ups (15 total)

Companies use logos to create global brand recognition. In fact, the tiny icon can be so powerful that, when we see them, we instantly think about their product or service. In this set, we take a look at company logos that we all know and love. But instead of looking at them individually, we mash them up with another, as though a fictional merger has taken place.

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Art
September 14, 2010

Banksy’s Back with 3 New Pieces!

Wooster Collective has tipped us off to three new Banksy pieces! Recently, Banksy gave the Sun newspaper a rare interview, where he talked openly about his teenage graffiti years and about developing his own style. He attributes a few, key events in his career, like sabotaging the launch of Paris Hilton's music album and staging an exhibition in LA with a live elephant, to bringing him a good amount of notoriety and fame.

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Art
September 9, 2010

Body Landscape Art (25 total)

Another series of beautiful black and white landscape photos? Not quite. Using his own naked body, Finnish-born artist Arno Rafael Minkkinen interacts with the outdoors, providing us with curiously interesting photos that are both humorous and inspiring. These unmanipulated photos show us that you don't always need Photoshop to create surprising, surreal-like images. All you need is a little imagination.

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