December 20, 2011

Giant Life-Like Statue of Confucius

Confucius is known as one of the greatest thinkers of all time. So, it's no big surprise that Chinese artist Zhang Huan turned to him when he started pondering a series of questions: “Faced with rapid economic and societal changes and energy and climate challenges, how can we achieve sustainable development? What responsibilities come along with China's rise in international importance? Where is the sense of spiritual belonging for contemporary Chinese?

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December 16, 2011

Top 10 Breakthrough Artists in 2011

The dictionary defines a breakthrough as any significant or sudden advance, development, achievement, or increase. (Yes, that sounds about right.) In listing this year's top breakthrough artists of the year, we not thought about their incredibly creative artistic achievements, we turned to our reports to see which posts all of you loved or appreciated the most.

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December 15, 2011

Magical Disney World Gifs

Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World After we first featured Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg's stunning cinematic gifs (or Cinemagraphs), we knew we had to continually follow-up with this creative team to see where they were taking their ideas next. In July, we caught up with them as they told the story of Dogfish brewery's strawberry beer, providing some mesmerizing images while giving us rare, behind-the-scenes look at brewing specialty beer.

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December 14, 2011

Elegant Elastic Cord Christmas Tree

We've seen a lot of creative Christmas trees this holiday season and here's another. Studio Roso made the V&A Christmas Tree 2011 as a part of an ongoing series of winter commissions. It currently graces the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with its beauty. The “tree” is made of 3.3 miles of elastic cord and reaches over 4 meters high.

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