The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York posted a video that documents the 10-month process of restoring a massive oil painting from 1660. The 355-year-old painting by Charles Le Brun “Everhard Jabach and His Family” was covered in a badly tinted varnish with multiple superficial scratches and structural damage had split the painting nearly in… Continue reading Oil Painting Restoration
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The Wikisinger
Singer Joachim Müllner performs the same song in various places and experiments with natural reverb, early reflections and short delays. One of the scenes is recorded in an anechoic chamber without any sound reflections. Watch the video below. via: The Awesomer
Colors of World Flags
Artist Nicholas Rougeux has created “Colors of World Flags,” an art print that features 272 different world flag by color combinations. The wonderful art print is available for purchase as a poster in different sizes online at Zazzle. via: Laughing Squid
Human Head Helmets
Dubai-based digital designer Jyo John Mullor has created a series of custom-made motorcycle helmets that looks like shaved heads. The design project has received lots of appreciations from people around the world. Some manufactures have even shown interest in launching a line of helmets under this design umbrella. via: Designboom
Jurassic World: Building the Apatosaurus Dinosaur
Legacy Effects recently posted a video that features the process of designing and creating the animatronic Apatosaurus for Jurassic World. Go behind the scenes with the Legacy team as they use both new and traditional methods to probably create the most believable dinosaur sequence in the entire movie.
PomPom Interactive Mirror By Daniel Rozin
New York based artist Daniel Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to respond to movement of the viewer. The artist latest project presented at Bitforms is an interactive mirror, called PomPom Mirror. The device relies on motion sensors and 928 faux fur pom poms manipulated by 464 motors to create a mirror reflection… Continue reading PomPom Interactive Mirror By Daniel Rozin
Artist Creates Hyper-Realistic Paintings of Women in Water
New York City-based artist Sean Yoro paints hyper-realistic murals of women all while floating on water! Yoro, aka hula, carefully carrying cans of colored paint on the edge of his board to produce these gorgeous paintings on concrete walls, creating a realistic reflection effect on water. Check out the rest of the artist beautiful paintings on his Instagram account. via: My Modern Met
Brilliant Photo Manipulation Art
Graphic designer Adrian Sommeling, from Amsterdam, has spent years creating incredibly realistic images in an action-packed cinematic style, with each picture taking months to conceive. His art is imaginative and his photographs tell stories while his own son stars in most of the artistic ideas he creates.