The Key in the Hand by Chiharu Shiota
For the Venice Art Biennale 2015, artist Chiharu Shiota introduced an installation named “The Key in the Hand” a gigantic spider web made of red wool threads where we can see 50 000 keys suspended above two ancient boats
Photo-realistic paintings by Mike Bayne
Toronto-based hyper realism award-winning artist Mike Bayne depicts near road scenes from across Canada and US
ODYSSEY by Ruslan Khasanov
Another hypnotic piece from Russian animator Ruslan Khasanov (previously). "Odyssey" is a visual poem build on liquids and music relationship. Sound by Ilya Beshevli
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From North to South.. Korea
Young Russian director and photographer Andrey Nikolaev has an addiction to raw travelling. Last year he made a unique car tour together with his friends and crossed 38th Parallel through North to South Korea. That was a first attempt since 1957 and required a lot of paper work and agreements.
Amoeville Backgrounds by Ivan Korolev
Russian illustrator and animator Ivan Korolev (Instagram) based in Helsinki shares his latest project - a set of backgrounds made for yet unreleased movie Amoeville. Make sure you visited Ivan's Tumblr page to discover his works
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Long Lasting Sharpness
Deeply influenced by japanese culture and particularly inspired by the sleek style of famous designers such as Ikko Tanaka and Shigeo Fukuda, this new series of visuals designed by Nicolas Dumenil for Japanese Miyabi knives highlights slices of salmon, watermelon and ham as thin as sheets of paper.
Animated Illustrations Bring U.S. Cities To Life
"Kirk Wallace and Latham Arnott teamed up to bring some US cities to life through as few strokes as possible. Kirk illustrated very minimal cityscapes while Latham animated the resulting images, keeping the original, minimalistic style. While there are only a few popular cities done so far, there will be more on the horizon to keep your eyes out for." via iGNANT
Mountain chairs by Gaetano Pesce
There is no reason to introduce you legendary Gaetano Pesce (Instagram) and here is what we love the most from his recent works.Montanara 2009 Armchairs depicting subjects such as lakes and mountains. If you are not common with Gaetano furniture and design please jump to his gallery on http://www.gaetanopesce.com/
Pesce’s work is featured in over 30 permanent collections of the most important museums in the world, such as MoMa of New York and San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Vitra Museum in Germany, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Pompidou Center and Musee des Arts Décoratifs of Louvre in Paris; he exhibits art in galleries world wide.
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His works can also be provocative, check his recent collaboration with famous actress and producer Stoya made for Allouche Gallery Totally NSFW kids!
Mom Captures Childhood of Her Sons - Elena Shumilova
Last year, Elena Shumilova took photos of her sons as they played by the Russian countryside. She uploaded the photos online, then they started getting shared, and shared again… until they became a viral sensation, with over 60 million views (including few thousands on DCN).
These photos hit something magical all across the Internet — a sense of nostalgia for a childhood past. She even started getting letters from people in their nineties, saying the photos moved them to tears.
Read more on How to Photograph Your Kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xiQkU8eUC4
Andreas Lie Merges Animals And Their Homes In Double Exposure Photographs
Andreas Lie (Instagram) makes animal art via the effect that scared anyone who has ever had a film camera – double exposure. His work combines pictures of animals with their natural surroundings, resulting in fox, wolf or bear shaped windows into the forests that they inhabit. It’s an interesting idea, getting you to consider not just the animals themselves, but also their surroundings. It could be considered as a take on “forest for the trees”, illustrating that we usually don’t think about the animals when we see landscape shots of forests. You can buy some of his art on Society6 store
Alana Dee Haynes
Alana Dee Haynes (Instagram) is a Brooklyn-based artist who turns the bodies of her photographed subjects into illustrated surfaces, transforming blank skin and clothing into undulating patterns and shapes. via
“Everyone has a certain way they see the world. Some things jump out at people, while others pass them by. I see faces and patterns everywhere. When I look at people, I connect their beauty marks, and find faces in their knuckle lines. It’s just the way I live. So, naturally, I see these things in photographs too. It is not synesthesia, but it is a similar way of viewing multiple layers in things.” (Source)
Telling Stories Without Words with @omarzrobles
Text via Instagram blog: “You are telling stories visually and without the need of words,” explains freelance street and dance photographer Omar Z. Robles (@omarzrobles), who is originally from Puerto Rico but now living in New York. Omar started to shoot dancers on streets when he moved to New York City three years ago, but his interest in the ability of the human body to physically share stories and emotions stems from a longtime passion for physical theater, dance and an education in the art of mime. Training under Marcel Marceau in Paris, Omar was influenced by the great French mime’s ability to tell a story without words. “It’s something I find completely exceptional,” he says.
Brandon Kidwell
Few posts ago we stated that found double-exposure technique a bit boring but hey look at Brandon Kidwell (Instagram) works they say. This guy levels up the hidden meanings and brings new life to that trend again
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Summer is Soon by Ruslan Suleimanov
Summer is Soon is a series of character drawings by graphic designer Ruslan Suleimanov from Almaty, Kazakhstan. The series featuring humorously familiar characters that we all know and see in the beach during summer. via Joquz
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