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Saturday, November 14, 2015
Visual Artist: Sam Weber Sam Weber was born in Alaska...
Visual Artist: Sam Weber
Sam Weber was born in Alaska and grew up in Deep River Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, he moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts. In addition to drawing, Sam works part time as assistant art director of the OpEd page at the New York Times, with senior art director Brian Rea.
Sam Weber deftly combines digital and traditional methods to great effect, creating images of astonishing beauty and solemnity via
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crossconnectmag: Photography by Viktorija Raggana A small...
Photography by Viktorija Raggana
A small selection of emotive portraits by Viktorija Raggana (Viktorija Rekašiūtė) Vilnius, Lithuania based photographer. More of her photography work is available at 500px.
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Star Wars Characters Reimagined as Ancient Greek Statues by...
Star Wars Characters Reimagined as Ancient Greek Statues by French Artist Travis Durden
Artist Travis Durden took this idea to an artistic level, using digital technology to sculpt five Star Wars figures out of faux-marble. The heads of each of the sculptures are pulled directly from the movie franchise, while the bodies are sourced from statues found within Paris’s Louvre. The new amalgamations display a softer side to the characters, Darth Vader now sporting tendrils of hair that fall from his once menacing mask, and a stormtrooper casually reads from an ancient text.
The artist behind the sculptures chooses to remain hidden, his artist’s name a mash-up of characters from two of his favorite cult films. [I can only guess where his last name comes from.] Durden is interested in also creating mash-ups within his work, opposite worlds converging to create an original composite. His Star Wars sculptures are his newest works, and can be seen in the exhibition “Contre Attaque,” or counter attack, currently at Galerie Sakura in Paris. Prints are available on Galerie Sakura’s website here.
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The Attention-Sucking Power of Digital Technology Displayed...
The Attention-Sucking Power of Digital Technology Displayed Through Photography by Antoine Geiger
Our increasing dependence on the information devices constantly stuck to our hands was the inspiration for artist Antoine Geiger’s series SUR-FAKE, a group of digitally altered photographs depicting random people being sucked into the screens of their phones.
The images show children, businessmen, and tourists with their faces completely lost, the forms stretched like taffy into the portals we use for selfies, email communication, and mindless gaming. The blur imposed by Photoshop completely masks any emotion once seen on the subject’s face, rendering each a personality-less drone. With this altering of the body the artist explains that the project is “placing the screen as an object of ‘mass subculture,’ alienating the relation to our own body, and more generally to the physical world.” All images courtesy Antoine Geiger.
Awesome Designs by Martynas PavilonisPreviously impressed us...
Awesome Designs by Martynas Pavilonis
Previously impressed us illustrations by Martynas Pavilonis also known as White White Dog. Currently, the Lithuanian artist has updated its portfolio, and we can see a new, equally interesting works. Enjoy and buy prints.
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