Modified Social Benches

These are Modified Social Benches by artist Jeppe Hein, which are located throughout the city of De Haan in Belgium, for the contemporary art event Beaufort04. The bench designs borrow their basic form from normal park benches, but are altered in various degrees to make the act of sitting on them a conscious physical endeavour.

Monkeyman's Fantastical Surrealistic Images

"French Art Director/Photographer Pierre Beteille (aka Monkeyman) said ” I am not a photographer or an artist, I just make images … I shoot very average or even bad photos that I try to improve thanks to Photoshop …“ His photoshopped images definitely stand out above so many others’ attempts to make the same type of images. Pierre is truly one of the most original artist I’ve seen this month… Bravo Mr Monkey !! see his website and Flickr."
 

Banksy's Latest Really Weird Work - The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

This is the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill that opened 4 days ago in New York City. However, there are no pets and no charcoal grill in here. Instead, what looks like a live leopard quietly lounges atop a tree branch, two McDonald Chicken MacNuggets sip barbecue sauce, a rabbit is putting on make-up in front of mirror and a CCTV camera takes care of her "offspring" and so on. Sounds crazy?  

The store which is open to the public everyday from 10 am until midnight, is the latest prank or--art installation if you prefer-- by the elusive British street artist Banksy. The "Pet Store" which will be open until Halloween day on October 31, is located at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village.

Body Paint Art

In the world of today, there are many diverse meanings to the word “painting”. Needless to say, there are also loads of coloring compounds that someone can utilize; depending upon the particular art form that they are creating. Body painting is one of the most famous forms of sketching that has become popular in the past few years. Let’s take a look at these fabulous hand painting art by Mario Mariotti an Italian artist from Florence.

Amazingly Creative Drawing Vs Photography

This wonderful work has done by a very talented Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine. This creative artist was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He Studied graphic arts and sculpture and I also have a degree in journalism. Lets take a look at some of his awesome works that he calls “Drawing Vs Photography” or “Imagination Vs Reality”.

Amazing Creative Drawing Vs Photography

This wonderful work has done by a very talented Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine. This creative artist was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He Studied graphic arts and sculpture and I also have a degree in journalism. Lets take a look at some of his awesome works that he calls “Drawing Vs Photography” or “Imagination Vs Reality”.

World's Largest Underwater Museum

The Subaquatic Sculpture Museum is located at the West Coast National Park in Quintana Roo, on the Yucatan Peninsula. Famous underwater artist Jason de Caires Taylor, who created the world’s first underwater sculpture park, is overseeing the museum. The statues will represent traditional as well as modern Mexican narratives. ‘The Silent Evolution’ is a work of art expected to be the final addition to the Subaquatic Sculpture Museum. It will mix growing coral with the concrete to express the passage of time. Theme-based galleries featuring Mayan indigenous warriors or dream catchers will undoubtedly add to the popularity of this museum.

Beauty of Lights - Latern Festival in China

The Latern Festival is an old tradition festival of Chinese. In this day, there will be parades of lanterns everywhere. People will get together with their family and eat Tang-yuan, a dumpling made of sweet rice. It is an important day for Chinese people.

The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March on the Gregorian calendar. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great significance.

In other places of World this festival has its own name and celebrated all around the world, Diwali in India,Chaharshanbe Suri in Persia, Hanukkah is same Jewish festival and Fête des lumières is a french local tradition

Most Creative Handbags Ever

These bags are going to blow your mind off. The creator of these weird bags is Kathleen Dustin. Her collections can be found bags, made in a unique baroque style in the form of fruits, flowers, boxes, brushes, icons and collages with drawings in the style of the Renaissance. The originality and beauty creations Kathleen has appreciated in Europe, many of its products are exhibited in the museums of North America’s principal museum of Fine Craft, Ornament magazine and the Wenham Museum

Weird Female Shoes

While the majority of consumers are content to purchase the newest brand of name brand shoes, in the same color and style they always get, this doesn’t hold true for everyone. In our daily lives we only come across the occasional individual who truly works at expressing their personality via their shoes. Here is a collection of  the wildest shoes you wouldn’t even see on the most outrageous free spirit

Dinosaurs Sand Sculptures

An exhibition of massive sand sculptures of dinosaurs was took place at Frankston Waterfront in Australia. About 21 talented and highly creative sculptors from Australia and around the world took almost three weeks to bring these creatures to ‘life’.

 

Bizarre Houstan Art Car Parade

On May 8th about 250,000 spectators gathered in Houston to see extremely modified vehicles. Houston Art Car Parade is world’s largest car parade of its kind. Lets take a look at some really weird and bizarre modified vehicles from Houston Art Car Parade 2010.

Politicians with Makeup

The politicians look so CUTE with this work of photo-shoppers.The make-up look pretty real ;)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran

Barack Obama, USA

Living Statues Contest - 2010

There is an annual competition for such performers at Arnhem in the Netherlands. Also, the U.S. city of Laguna Beach, California, is home to the annual Pageant of the Masters show which is created by local amateur volunteers as part of the city's Festival of the Arts. The show presents living statue recreations of several dozen famous artworks in one evening. The show is set to classical music and about two minutes are allocated per artwork. In Portugal, the city of Espinho organizes since 1997 a living statues contest, the Sunday of June near the 16 (the municipal holiday).

Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida has hosted interactive examples of living statues from Unity Productions since April 1995.

At concerts for The Dresden Dolls, there are often living statues, as the lead singer/pianist Amanda Palmer was a living statue before starting The Dresden Dolls.

 

Cool Bags

A cool collection of Kool Bags

 Wow!!!  

 Hehe.. Stop biting your nails! 

Royal wedding: Meanings behind the wedding cake

ETERNAL love, beauty and endurance... these are just some of the special meanings behind the lavish official wedding cake in honour of the happy couple.

The eight-tier cake, designed and made by Fiona Cairns, featured 17 different flower designs, each symbolising a particular quality.

The bride and groom cut the first slice of the magnificent confection yesterday afternoon as they celebrated their marriage with friends and family at the Buckingham Palace reception held in the picture gallery.

Among the 900 individually iced flowers were acorns and oak leaves (strength), myrtle (love), ivy (wedded love and marriage), lily of the valley (sweetness and humility), rose (happiness and love), honeysuckle (the bond of love) and daisy (innocence, beauty and simplicity).

Other flowers included sweet William (grant me one smile), apple blossom (preference and good fortune), white heather (protection and wishes will come true), jasmine (amiability), orange blossom (marriage, eternal love and fruitfulness) and lavender (ardent attachment, devotion, success and luck).

Symbolising the national symbols of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland were white rose, daffodil, shamrock and thistle respectively.

The cake was decorated with cream and white icing using the Joseph Lambeth technique – a style of decorating a cake in which intricate piping is used to create three dimensional scrollwork, leaves and flowers.

St James’s Palace said the method ensured “the wedding cake of choice for anyone who wants a traditional looking, elegant wedding cake”.

Weird Statues

Statue Building is an Art and building Weird Statues is a classic art. I find it’s at its best when it is representational, and when it sends a message. I stumbled on Weird Statues at different sites and collected the art for the viewers.

Cool but WEIRD Tattoos

For some strange and unfamiliar reason people keep trying to make themselves look weird, strange and unnatural. Tattoos take up first place on the list of strange stuff that humans do to their body in order to look different and be unique!

Weird Shoes

We need shoes to do pretty much anything outdoors, but the fashion industry has turned them from a necessary, functional item of clothing into a work of… Something entirely different. Some may call it art, but some of these crazy creations are just plain silly. If they can’t be worn, at least they’re fun to look at.

Photos Taken at the Right Moment

To make a perfect photograph you need a good camera, steady arm, a lot of luck and a perfect moment. A perfect moment is an extraordinary point in time when something happens that is worth capturing and making immortal for the benefit of whole human kind. Check out the coolest photo gallery we have compiled for you; these are top 15 photos taken at the perfect time.