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    The Scariest Pumpkin Carvings Ever by Jon Neill!

    If you’ve never given any thought to where your Halloween pumpkin carving skills might take you, you might not have heard of Jon Neill, a famous sculptor and pumpkin carving master who creates some of the best Halloween pumpkin carvings we’ve ever seen. Neill, who is now a member of the Laguna College of Art...
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    Can You Find Momo In These Photos?

    Ontario-based graphic designer Andrew Knapp and his beautiful border collie Momo are back with more cute and awesome find-the-dog photos. Momo’s not quite like other dogs – when he runs to fetch a stick, rather than returning it, he hides. So Knapp started taking pictures in which the viewer was supposed to find Momo. At first,...
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    More Amazingly Surreal Tattoos by Expanded Eye

    The work of artist duo Jade Tomlinson and Kev James of Expanded Eye (previously) spans paintings, installations, street art, sculptures and most importantly tattoos that blend line work, typography, and geometry. Based in London, the pair approaches each tattoo as a piece of art, firmly establishing a narrative and purpose behind each design before making a commitment....
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    Artist Creates Incredible Stone Sculptures That Defy The Laws Of Physics

    We’ve seen a lot of realistic and surreal artwork at artFido, but Hirotoshi Ito’s bizarre and mind-bending stone sculptures really threw us for a loop. In his masterful hands, common rocks become strange, unsettling and humorous creations that will make you look twice. Surprisingly, it all starts in a riverbed in Ito’s neighborhood, where he...
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    Amazing Crocheted Leaf Sculptures by Susanna Bauer!

    To truly appreciate the delicacy of Susanna Bauer‘s leaf sculptures, think of crunching a dead leaf in your hand, how it disintegrates into dust with the slightest effort. To work with dry and fragile leaves as a medium for crochet seems nearly impossible, but Baur somehow manages it with ease, turning leaves into cubes, tunnels, and geometric...
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    Artist Reimagines Superheroes as 16th Century Paintings

    One day when struggling with an extended creative block, photographer Sacha Goldberger asked himself “what would it look like if Superman was born in the 16th century? What if the Hulk was a Duke?” With this, Sacha’s block was broken and his playful new series Super Flemish was born. According to the artist, the whole project...
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    Master Works of Art History Reimagined by Jeff Hamada

    A little while ago, Booooooom (yes, that’s o times 7!), put a call out to the interwebs to recreate their favorite old master paintings with a modern spin. As the interwebs likes to do, all hell broke loose and professional and amateur artists alike started submitting their entries. It was so successful, in fact, that...
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    The Japanese Art of Creating Unusually Useless Inventions

    Back in the 1990s, we remember flicking through the pages of the Unuseless Japanese Inventions series at bookstores. Each one features about a hundred ostensibly real Japanese devices, photographed and described with a disarming straightforwardness, that mash up other consumer products in outwardly bizarre ways: chopsticks whose attached miniature electric fan cools ramen noodles en route...
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    Artist Turns Her Boring Toilet Into A Magical Place

    Artist Roza Khamitova recently completed her latest series Shovava, which involved creating countless numbers of drawings and paintings.  There were so many of them, they were barely fitting under her bed. So she decided to put them to use by transforming her toilet. Deciding not to overthink it, she simply glued bits and pieces all...
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    Now You Can Learn Anatomy From Dissected Knitted Creatures!

    If you have a visceral or ethical problem with animal dissection, then maybe Emily Stoneking’s artwork will help you learn about what makes animals tick without making you hurl or cry. If your memories of those high school classes are less than fond, she also has alien knit dissections as well. Stoneking sells these knitted animals...