Man-Eater

For four years Daniel Disselkøen took the same tram to art academy. He wondered why you would look out the window with curiosity when there is no reason to expect anything new. He decided to change the daily journey for his fellow passengers and himself. He didn't move the tramway track, but he added something. Man-eater, a pedestrian-head eating creature. Man-eater is part of his graduation project 'Remake Reality' for the Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands.



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France In The Year 2000

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France in the Year 2000 is a series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the year 2000.

There are at least 87 cards known that were authored by various French artists, the first series being produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.

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Marks & Spencer Create World's Largest Union Jack Flag from Unwanted Clothes

Marks & Spencer has created a giant piece of clothing art at West Ham Park. Using 2,100 unwanted items of clothing donated to the Shwopping initiative, M&S, local volunteering group Elevation Networks and charity partner Oxfam they made the world's largest Union Jack flag clothes mosaic. All items used in the creation of the flag will be reused, resold or recycled by Oxfam.



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LEGO Army 3D Street Art

Street artists Leon Keer, Peter Westerink, Ruben Poncia and Remko van Schaik of the Netherlands created these LEGO soldiers marching down the street at the 4th Sarasota Chalkfestival in Florida, USA. The LEGO men are meant to resemble clay figures as a reference to the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.

The beauty of such a realistic perspective drawing such as this one is that the image only makes sense when viewed from a particular angle. Perspective-based street drawings of this scale require plenty of mathematical precision.

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The Coolest Nesting Dolls Ever

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Matryoshka dolls or 'nesting dolls' are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other. Much of the artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be very elaborate. The dolls often follow a theme.

Irene Hwang makes these super-detailed 'matryoshka' doll sets for the pop-culture junkies and cult-film fanatics. From Reno 911 to The Royal Tenenbaums, these sets of nesting dolls span practically the entire geek oeuvre.

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Hartman's Historical Rock Garden

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Hartman's Historical Rock Garden in Springfield, Ohio, USA, is an art project that dates from 1932, when Harry George Hartman lost his job during the Great Depression. The molder occupied his time with creating rock sculptures in his back yard, spanning all sorts of themes. Religion, historic buildings, recreations of famous battles and hundreds of thousands of stones.

Mr. Hartman died in 1944, but his wife Mary took over custodianship of the Rock Garden, welcoming visitors from around the world. When she died in 1997, the garden fell into decline, but was rescued and re-opened in 2010.

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Flower Bouquets Made With Discarded Spray Cans

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Designer Hillary Coe makes bouquet sculptures using parts of discarded spray cans. The sculptures are part of a series of works, which she has been creating for the 'Can Love' recycling program.

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There Goes The Neighborhood: Mobile Victorian House Sets Sail for Desert

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Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event begins on the last Monday in August, and ends on the first Monday in September. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance.

Burning Man is flipping weird. It's not uncommon to see giant moving sculptures and 'art-cars' exhibiting all kinds of mechanical wizardry. Yet none are quite so magical as a nomadic 19th-century structure called the Neverwas Haul, equal parts locomotive, steamship, and Victorian house.

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Mademoiselle Maurice's Amazing Origami Street Art

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Mademoiselle Maurice is a 28 year old French artist. After she grew up in the mountains of Haute-Savoie, studied architecture in Lyon and worked in Geneva and Marseille, she lived one year in Japan. Actually based in Paris, she devoted herself entirely to colorful creations, whose thought process was initiated few years ago.

In the past years Mademoiselle Maurice created complex and numerous urban installations, but she is mostly known for her origami installations placed throughout Paris, Vietnam and Hong Kong.

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Wine Cork Portraits By Scott Gundersen

Grand Rapids-based artist Scott Gundersen makes large scale portraits from wine corks. Starting with a large photograph that's transferred to a drawing, Gundersen pins each cork to the canvas, creating a correlation between the hues of the wine-stained corks and the value of light or shadow in the portrait.

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Joshua Harker's Stunning Filigreed Skulls

Chicago-based artist Joshua Harker's awe-inspiring and intricately designed skulls are digitally sculpted, and then printed on Polyamide nylon using 3D printers. Harker's offer to make these skulls ended up being the #3 most funded sculpture project on Kickstarter.

(thanks Sara)

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The World's Smallest Museum

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New York-based artist Filip Noterdaeme -who was born in Belgium - created the 'world's smallest museum,' The Homeless Museum of Art. The museum consists of its director Noterdaeme, a booth and a small collection of objects - and only two people can visit the museum at a time. The booth of the Homeless Museum of Art functions as a reception, front desk, director's office, and exhibition floor.

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Entire Home Made From 1 Billion Decommissioned Euro Notes

Ever wonder what happens to misprinted currency? In the case of decommissioned Euro notes, the money gets shredded and formed into a papery brick. The blocks hold no monetary value and are likely viewed as useless hunks of paper by the masses, but not to Irish artist, Frank Buckley.

Buckley collected the pulped bricks totalling over 1 billion euro's worth of paper shredded to build his art installation.

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Hang On A Minute Lads, I've Got A Great Idea

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If you have ever seen the original version of the Italian Job you will be familiar with those famous words. Uttered as the back of the mobsters' bus is left teetering over a cliff. Now, in the run up to the London Olympics the situation has been reproduced. Only this time it's on top of an art deco building in Bexhill rather than a winding mountain road in Switzerland.

'Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea' opens to the general public this weekend. It will be on display throughout the summer as part of the Cultural Olympiad, which runs alongside the Summer Olympics.

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13 Works Of Art Made With Teeth

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Where would we be without teeth? Haggard and full of soup - that's where we'd be. Funnily enough, the culinary world would not be the only sphere of interest to suffer were we all to awaken tomorrow to find the tooth fairy had been on a pixie dust-fuelled rampage, and left us all as gummy as a Haribo factory. The art scene, believe it or not, would also be reeling from this terrifying scenario.

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9 Examples Of Awesome Prison Art

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A prison is not only a cage for the body, but also the mind; the oppressive surroundings are designed to crush an individuals spirit, making them a more malleable product to control.

Whereas the art world outside of a prison restricts an artist, forcing them to create products whose only purpose is sale, a prisoner is free from monetary constraints, which allows them to create art for art's sake. Here are 9 examples of awesome prison art.

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Telephone Boxes Invade London

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The UK has just had the Queen's Jubilee which was a great success and the celebrations continue. The London Olympics are just around the corner and to anticipate that and simply to keep the flag flying, British Telecom have launched an art project the aim of which is to revitalize that most British of icons, the telephone box. And, of course, to raise an awful lot of money for charity.

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World Record: Most 'Sword Swallows' In One Minute

Sword swallowing is an ancient performance art in which the performer passes a sword through the mouth and down the esophagus to the stomach. This feat is not swallowing in the traditional sense; the natural processes that constitute swallowing do not take place, but are repressed in order to keep the passage from the mouth to the stomach open for the sword.

American performance artist and President of the Sword Swallowers Association International Dan Meyer set a new world record by swallowing 13 swords in one minute.



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More records at RecordSetter.

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Human Hair Necklaces

Kerry Howley is a contemporary jeweller and jewellery artist who is fascinated by the power materials have to influence our emotional response to jewellery, with a particular interest in how these emotions can be conflicting. Attraction/Aversion is Kerry's award winning graduate collection.

It's a material exploration of how people can feel seemingly opposing emotional responses simultaneously. The necklaces are made of human hair, a familiar material that we take pride in. However once off of the body hair becomes an innate source of aversion. Kerry wanted to see if she could make discarded hair attractive again.

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The Benevolent Bears Of Burlington

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If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of no surprise at all. That's because the bears, in the Vermont city of Burlington, have all left the woods to go shopping. In fact the fourteen bears have been created by local artists for an event organized by a number of local organizations called Burlington Bears Its Art.

The first of the bears was unveiled last month and now all fourteen line the marketplace of Burlington and will be there for the greater part of the summer. As well as drawing people to the marketplace it is hoped that the bears will raise more than ten thousand dollars for charity when they will be auctioned online in the middle of October.

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