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Words That Explain Themselves

July 11th 2012 03:14
images that explain words - balloons



clarity in words. clock drawing




stock market explained in the spelling of the word



The moon as a word image. One o rising.



the word parallel explained graphically


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Do The Dishes Flash

January 2nd 2012 01:41

comic flash do the dishes
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Phone Book Carvings

July 29th 2011 06:23
Phone Book Art

As seen on the Web Designer Depot (link above to original article), Alex Queral is a Philadelphian sculptor best known for using old phone books to carve their pages into celebrities faces.
celebrities carved into phone books
Patrick Swayze

Some of the celebrities he’s made sculptures of include Barack Obama, Jack Nicholson, Frida Kahlo and John Goodman.
sculptures from a phone book
Jack Nicholson

The process takes at least a couple of weeks to complete.
He begins by sketching the famous person’s face on a piece of paper and laying it over the phone book, after that he uses a razor blade, patiently carving away at the thousands of pages that lie within phone book to create the 3D portrait.
He then paints each face with a monochromatic wash to distinguish the portraits from the pages.
Famous Faces carved into a phone book
Willie Nelson

Queral says that creating these portraits is a very tense process because it takes so long to do, and if you “cut something away you can’t get it back again.”
Politicians in phone books
Barack Obama
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Civil War Posters

June 15th 2011 04:21
In the mid 1800s posters were about the only option for mass media advertising appealing to the masses.
It's interesting to see the marketing techniques used back then and compare them to modern times.
These posters would be far too wordy and less colorful and catchy than contemporary versions.

american civil war posters




Men of color. Civil war poster



US civil war recruitment posters



Civil war union recruitment posters



reward for the murderer of Abraham Lincoln
eward poster for the capture of the men responsible for President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, April 1865.



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There are many famous statues in existence today, from the Statue of Liberty to Christ the Redeemer or even Michaelangelo's David.

However, statues in honour of well know fictional characters are also common place. As seen on Blastr, below are some well known examples. See the full photoset here.



Statue of Yoda
Yoda

Yoda is enshrined as part of a fountain at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in Presidio, San Francisco, home to Industrial Light & Magic, LucasArts and other components of Lucasfilm Limited.



Sherlock Holmes statue in Baker St, London
Sherlock Holmes
Located just outside the Baker Street station in London, the statue stands 9 feet tall and was installed in September 1999.



shrine to the starship enterprise
Starship Enterprise
The people of Vulcan, keenly aware of the connection of their town's name and the Star Trek franchise, put up the sculpture to attract tourists. In addition to other attractions, and a local Star Trek convention, it pulls in fans from all over the world.




Nerd statues of the world - Godzilla
Godzilla - Chiyoda, Japan





fantasy character statues
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll's creation of Alice, the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit has been given sculpture treatment in New York City's Central Park. Based on the original book's illustrations by John Tenniel, the statue was built by José de Creeft in 1959, commissioned by George Delacorte.



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Little People

April 13th 2011 06:55
The "Little People Project" has been abandoning little people on the streets of London since 2006.
Some of the scenes are extremely clever as can be seen below.
Click the top link above to visit the project's website


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How Muppets Work

February 28th 2011 02:04
the muppets

The Muppeteer or Muppet master always holds the Muppet above his head or in front of his body, with one hand operating the head and mouth and the other manipulating the hands and arms, either with two separate control rods or by "wearing" the hands like gloves.
how to use a muppet

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American Brands in China

February 23rd 2011 03:44
As reported on UPI, trends are changing in China as a nation of young shopaholics is born. Salaries for young, urban Chinese have almost tripled in less than a decade. This new generation is embracing some popular American brands in their own country.


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Post-it Notes

January 5th 2011 02:48
As reported on Newsweek, this year the humble post-it note turns 30.
Below we take a look at the product's history, and its cultural influence.
Read the full article here
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How Life Should Be

September 22nd 2010 04:46
“In a perfect world” is what artist Catrin Dulay has tried to express using illustrations with fun and creative messages.
View the full collection on This Blog Rules here.

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Visions of the Apocalypse

September 6th 2010 05:37
Visions of the Apocalypse by Steve McGhee

As everyone knows by now after the movie 2012. The Mayan calendar precincts the end of the world will be upon us very soon


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Police Sketches

August 23rd 2010 04:01
Police sketches are facial composites of an eyewitness's memory of a face, as recorded by a composite artist. In modern times advanced software can be used instead of a trained artist. Facial composites are used mainly by police in their investigation of (usually serious) crimes.
The sketches can be seen at post offices, newspapers, tv and internet reports around the country.

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Egg Art & Emotions

August 9th 2010 02:13
Egg Decorating has been a popular art/craft form for centuries because of the attractive, smooth, oval shape of an egg.

TheWondrous.com put together this clever collection of eggs displaying emotions when faced with everyday situations and dangers


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Li Wei is a contemporary artist from Beijing. His work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. Wei started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

Below are some of Li Wei's most imaginative and gravity defying images. More can be seen here
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