Italian artists Mirco Pagano and Moreno De Turco, have created collages of musicians using CD covers released by each singer called “Piracy” to highlight the damage caused by music piracy.
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Bob Marley
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Freddie Mercury
"After picking our musicians, we found their most memorable image."
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Jimi Hendrix
"We looked through their original CD covers and made a rough composition before printing enough copies of each CD cover onto blank discs."
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Elvis
"Then we composed each portrait on the floor and took these pictures of them."
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The duo even made a video of pop king Michael Jackson using 1,100 of his CDs to make him move.
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"We worked for 200 hours over three months to finish the collection."
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James Brown
"We are music lovers and wanted to do something memorable against music piracy."
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Jim Morrison
"Piracy, like a virus, infects and destroys the music from the inside and prevents the artists from succeeding and become idols like they did in the past. Our copies represent the pirate CD and we hope it makes people take notice."
CD Collage by Mirco Pagano & Moreno De Turco
Miniature Pasta Models by Sergey Pakhomov
[link]"It all started with my work on an advertising campaign for a macaroni making factory. The campaign developed into a hobby."
[link]Pakhomov was working for an advertising campaign, and was asked to do a creative advertisement for “Krasnokamsk” a Russian macaroni company.
[link]He came up with the idea of creating various thing out of macaroni. The advertisement campaign did not taken place, but the idea remained.
[link]Sergey has completed about 30 miniature pasta models, each one taking 20-30 hours to complete.
[link]His hardest work yet is a small car with reclining front seats, doors that actually open and lots of other small details, and his most time-consuming project was a small town which took three years to complete.
[link]All of his creations are stored in his home with a certain temperature and humidity.
[link]Pakhomov has patented his pasta model-making technique to be able to receive commercial revenue from his art.
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[link]Source: odditycentral
Incredible Realistic Pencil Drawings
Scottish artist Paul Chiappe, creates 'old-fashioned photos' in such stunning detail that you'll need a magnifying glass to tell them apart from real photographs.
Paul gets his inspiration from old pictures. He spends up to two months at a time sketching miniature portraits, some as small as 2mm, using mainly pencil but others are done using paint which is then airbrushed.
"I find it particularly interesting looking at people in old photographs and appreciating the differences and similarities, across different periods, cultures and personalities."
"My interest is captured by the naive charm and androgyny of the children in the images I use, who display obvious personalities."
"Using old photos allows me to play with the idea of memory more than a very current image would and works as a device to force people to cast their minds back."
"I also like working on a small scale for technical reasons - it makes sense for me to produce small work because it wouldn't be practical to produce large works with the same level of detail."
Check his website: http://www.paulchiappe.co.uk/
Artist: Rajacenna
Rajacenna, an 18-year-old Netherlands artist draws these realistic portraits using only pencils.
She needs 40 hours or more to finish a single drawing.
Animal Bone Guns by Bruce Mahalski
Most of Mahalski’s works reflect his interest in firearms and Pacific and African carving styles.
This life-size AK-47 (330mm x 940mm) is made of rabbit, stoat, ferret, sheep, hawk, pheasant, wallaby, snapper, snake, blackbird, tarakihi, hedgehog, broad-billed prion, shear water, thrush, seal ,cat and possum bones, plus a single bone from the extinct moa he found in a cave. It was auctioned for $3,500.
“Once my mum even tried to send a weaver bird’s nest to New Zealand when we were on holiday in Africa but customs weren’t too keen on letting it into the country! Most of my collection I found myself on beaches or roadsides. Some people might consider it ghoulish to collect bits of dead animals but to me it isn’t about death – it’s about life. Like a sympathetic magician I hope that by possessing an animals bone a little bit of its life force will rub off on me. It’s also a tribute – a form of recycling – a lot of these things are just too good to leave lying around and I have to take them home.”
All images are © Copyright of Bruce Mahalski
Check his website: http://www.mahalski.org/
Source: Odditycentral
Native American Paper Sculpture by Allen and Patty Eckman
Allen and Patty Eckman create detailed cast paper sculptures inspired by Native American culture, using a special technique they themselves invented, a proprietary trademark registered as the Eckman Method®.
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They first mix an acid -free paper pulp in the studio (“hydro-pulper” from two raw stocks, cotton and abaca), then cast it into silicone rubber molds taken from original sculptures created by them earlier.
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The paper is then pressed under vacuum pressure—or by hand—in the mold, where most of the water is extracted at the same time. The drying process is completed by evaporation while the paper is still in the mold. After the dry and hard casts are removed from the molds, the exclusive process of chasing, cast additions, cast alterations, sculpting in paper and detailing begins.
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It takes a great amount of time and experience to create each piece. Some works are so painstakingly detailed; they can take many months to complete.
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The cast paper process is similar to the cast bronze method in many ways. Of course, the finished cast paper product is white, lightweight, and can have an enormous amount of detail due to its properties and the artists’ own inventiveness.
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Allen Eckman is fascinated by his Indian heritage. His great, great, great grandmother was a Cherokee.
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“I really am interested in the Indian’s materials, physical and spiritual culture and that whole period of our nation’s history, which I find fascinating. From the western expansion, through the Civil War and beyond is of great interest to me.”
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While Patty is inspired by wildlife, birds and flowers.
“Ever since I was a child I have had a great appreciation of wildlife. I can sit for hours and watch the birds come to my feeder. When I look at a flower I don’t see just color, I see form and grace. Wonderful shapes that the color tries to overpower.”
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Patty also has a deep interest in the Native American culture, and since has been sculpting beautiful Indian women and children.
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All images are © Copyright of Allen and Patty Eckman
Check their website: http://eckmanfineart.com/
Source: http://eckmanfineart.com/
Toothpick City by Stan Munro
[link]He used six million toothpicks and 172 liters of glue to create his amazing Toothpick City.
[link]It took him from one day to six months to make each building.
He downloads as many technical drawings and satellite images as possible from the internet and scales the rest himself.
[link]His toothpick replica of Cambodian temple Angkor Wat is the most complex structure he has ever had to build. “Oh man, there was swearing and tears over that one.”
[link]His favourite piece is the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. “That's where I married my beautiful wife.”
[link]“I'd much rather be known as an architectural historian than an artist.”
All his models are on display at the Museum of Science and Technology, in Syracuse, New York.
[link]Check his website: http://www.toothpickworld.com/
Source: dailymail
