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Check out www.limpfish.com this guy has some hilarious photoshop chops!

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Theo Janssen Pt. 2

Ive featured Theo Janssen’s kinetic sculptures before but I recently found a longer video presentation. This youtube film by TED (www.ted.com) features more of his work and an in-depth presentation of his vision, ideas and creations. Taking a look won’t hurt!

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Chris Jordan is an unusual photographer in the sense that his images consist of numerous repetitions. Conventional rules of photography and composition definately aren’t applicable to his works but still they are the more striking.
 Through numerous repetitions and the use of massive prints, Chris Jordan draws us into the message that is conveyed in his [...]

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Ever heard of stipple art? I didnt. Roy Lichtenstein is the first person that came to my mind when i read about it. This woman takes a whole different approach though. Her technique must require a great deal of patience and some powerful wrists!

visit her site at: http://www.nolinovak.com/

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Motion Art must be one of the most technical forms of art around. Motion Art, as the name already suggests, moves. Theo Jansen calls himself a Kinetic Sculptor and his works are predominantly inspired by his engineering background. Most of his works are powered just by wind yet the forms that he creates suggest otherwise. It [...]

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Featured Artist: JR

 
A few days ago I bought the new edition of FOAM magazine. An international photography paper published quarterly by the FOAM photography museum in Amsterdam. The issue contained a couple of portfolio shots from a photographer I hadn’t heard of before but whom I have greatly come to admire after reading about his work. His name [...]

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Peter Callesen is an artist with a very unique style. His work is cut out of plain A4 paper and always has a part that sticks to its origin. The paper figures are very fragile and this definately says something about the artist.

 The precision of his working methods allows him to construct very fragile yet very playful [...]

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Define, Conceptual Photography. Its a hard question to ask, because conceptual photography doesn’t really allow itself to be put into a box that has its definition imprinted on it. Conceptuality changes over time, what is considered conceptual a decade ago might not be conceptual any longer. Dave Nitsche is a modern photographer with a very [...]

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 To some of you he might be known as the world famous graffiti artist but certainly not everyone knows about Banksy although they definately should. Banksy’s work takes us far beyond the borders of traditional art or even graffiti. His work consists primarily of using a stencil key set to quickly spray his works on [...]

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