Dustin Yellin's 3D Art

Dustin Yellin’s mesmerizing glass sculptures explode collage into three dimensional forms, and have won him accolades from all over the art world. From early works of layered resin, Yellin’s sculptures increased in size (and weight), culminating in the 12-ton, three-paneled The Triptych.

But Yellin’s most ambitious project may be Pioneer Works, a colossal, 27,000-square-foot artist’s complex and foundation in Red Hook, Brooklyn. With its residencies, workshops and on-site science lab, Pioneer Works cultivates cross-disciplinary experimentation regardless of profit potential.

A Transparent House Filled With LED Lights

This pretty ha-mazing installation titled 'Insideout', was recently displayed at the Triennale der Photographie exhibition in Hamburg. The interactive 360-degree display put viewers inside the house and subjected them to more than three minutes of inclement weather in a dazzling light show that pretty closely resembles what it's like to experience of a real storms. The accompanying sounds were created by musician Andi Toma, one of the founding members of the electronic-music group Mouse on Mars.

Look At These Very Impractical Comic Book Cups And Saucers

Swedish artist Cecilia Levy creates cups, saucers, bowls, plates and saucers out of paper. Although she often uses books from the beginning of the last century, she has recently branched out into Spiderman comics for an entire series.

To create each work, she takes apart the comics, tearing the pages and pasting small pieces of them back together. Levy explains her works are, “eggshell thin, yet remarkably steady. The story lives on, but in a different shape.”

Paddle Board Murals

Riding atop a paddle board, artist Sean Yoro (aka Hula), paints murals while floating on the waves, placing his works just above sea level. The murals, all portraits of women, have a hyperrealistic quality that appear as if each is existing just above the tide. Due to the works’ position above the water they reflect perfectly into the waves, the image extending out far from the painted surface.

Classical Paintings Dropped Into Today

Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov has been getting his photoshop on - placing Bouguereau’s Song of the Angels on an empty subway car and transporting a pair of men from Holbein’s famous The Ambassadors are to the table of a seedy bar. Much like Etienne Lavie’s billboard series and Julien de Casabianca’s recent Outings Project, the series creates an interesting and playful new context for artworks usually only encountered in museums and art history books. You can see more over on his Facebook.

Ghostrider Paint

Graffiti writers Cyclists rejoice at this amazing new product from Volvo. It's called LifePaint - a reflective spray paint that's invisible in daylight but shines brightly in the glare of car headlights.

Renaissance Art Hip Hop Lookalikes

B4-XVI, the tumblr that pairs Medieval Art with rappers, is an internet masterpiece.

Murals of Greek Gods Rendered Against A Chaotic Backdrop

Since first collaborating in 2007, Spanish street art duo Pichi & Avo (previously) have created an intriguing blend of traditonal graffiti and renderings of mythological figures influenced by ancient Greek sculpture. The precision, shading, and use of color is all that more impressive considering each piece is painted only with spray paint. Pichi & Avo open their first exhibition in Italy titled Urban IconoMythology later this week at Basement Project Room. You can see more of their work here.
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Cow Art Is The Best Art

THIS wins the internet for 2015. Amazing.

Handmade Paper Video Game. Yes, Really.

Lumino City is the first video game to be entirely handmade out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors. After three years of arts and crafts, followed by thousands and thousands of hours coding you'd hope it was all worth it. Take a look and judge it for yourself, here.

Portraits Taking Selfies

Bored in a musem, Olivia Muus decided to use painted portraits as the centerpiece for a small collection of forced perspective ‘selfies.’

By simply holding her hand up in front of the portraits in the galleries and snapping a picture, Muus gives the classic paintings and their stoic subjects a much more modern feel.

Painting With Fire

This guy Patrick Peris uses fire to burn black soot stains then paints over the top of the burn marks with whatever comes into his head at that very moment. What a fucking show-off. See more of his work on his website.
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Single Brush Stroke Dragon Paintings

These Dragons with one stroke paintings are known as 'Hitofude Ryuu', and originate from a small studio called Kousyuuya in Nikko, Japan. The studio has seen four generations of master painters who have been creating these stylized dragons for decades. The process involves carefully painting an ornate dragon head with various flourishes, and then finishing the piece using a giant sumi brush in a carefully orchestrated stroke. The process has much in common with both ink wash painting and calligraphy, and similar to letterforms, the images are often repeated. Ha-mazing.

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Visualizing Kiddie Art

Look at what Dutch muralist, Telmo Pieper, did with his retarded childhood sketches. He turned the drawings into digital illustrations by applying realistic light, color, and texture to the hilariously deformed shapes he imagined back when he was a 4-year-old. What a fancy.

Foodscapes

Hasan Kale uses food as a canvas for his impossibly intricate art. Though composed of thousands of straight sewn lines reminiscent of crosshatching, the final pieces are generally organic in form from the silhouettes of dogs and animals to more complex landscapes. And judging by the not brown at all banana shot, he's also the fastest painter in the world.

Urban Roller Coasters

Fuck getting on one of these if they really existed. 

These visual manipulations are the work of Robert Jahns, a 26-year-old art director from Hamburg, Germany. The visceral impact of his work is obvious in the hundreds of thousands of people who follow his nois7 Instagram. You should so the same.

Cityscapes

By Jeremy Mann

This Is Fucking Amazing

Andrea Mastrovito had the time and patience to assemble this installation from hundreds of cutout plants and animals from repurposed textbooks. Holy!

Titled The Island of Dr. Mastrovito and The Island of Dr. Mastrovito II the piece was first installed at Governors Island in New York back in 2010 and again last year in a different configuration at Mudac in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Check Out These Ninja Turtle Covers

Photographer S. Morita has traveled the length of Japan to document Japan's beautifully stylized manhole covers.

The original purpose to put designs on the covers was to raise awareness for the costly sewage project. That was back in 1985. Since then the Japan Society of Manhole Covers (yes, that’s a thing) says that there are almost 6000, one-off, artistic manhole covers throughout the nation.

Shot Japan, and shot for the heads up thisiscolosal.

Food Disguised As Art

This series of painted objects titled “It’s not what it seems” by artist Hikaru Cho, shows common foods transformed with deftly applied acrylic paints to look like other foods. Holy.