How To Make Your Own Amazing GIFs

Have you ever wondered how people create such amazing looking art GIFs, and want to make your own? Master of GIF animation Anthony Holden has shared his secrets for creating amazing GIF artwork with the interwebs, so now you can create some awesome animated GIF art of your very own! Hit the link to Anthony’s website and he will guide you through the entire process, and even experienced GIF creators can learn a thing or two about the process. Yay for learning! Link –Via: Drawn, Via: Neatorama

Salt Staircase

John Farrier posted about Motoi Yamamoto's amazing salt labyrinth before, but that's just one of many cool salt artwork that the artist has made. Check out this crumbling salt staircase called Utsusemi: Link - Via: My Modern Met | More at Slash.fr | Via: Neatorama

Hyperreal photoreal painting

On the Saturday arts and crafts market in San Francisco's Justin Herman Plaza, there is an artist who paints and sells his work from inside a small cart. His specialty is making "photorealistic" reproductions of celebrity photos and passers-by. Based on the nude on the left though, it seems that some of his models may live in the Uncanny Valley. I rather like this artwork though and next time may ask if it's for sale. Click the image to see it larger. LINK: Boingboing

NBA Finals Lebron Etch A Sketch

See for the first time Etch A Sketch artist George Vlosich creating his one of a kind artwork. This five hour etch of LeBron James is sped up so that you can see every line he makes and step he takes to create a unique piece of pop art. This piece of artwork was created for the Quicken Loans Arena. LINK: Youtube

The cartoons of Abner Dean

"Abner Dean (1910 – 1982), born Abner Epstein, was an American cartoonist who was the nephew of sculptor Jacob Epstein. In allegorical or surrealist situations, Dean often depicted extremes of human behavior amid grim, decaying urban settings or barren landscapes. His artwork prompted Clifton Fadiman to comment, 'His pictures are trick mirrors in which we catch sight of those absurd fragments of ourselves that we never see in the smooth glass of habit.'"

What Things Do, Jordan Crane's wonderful online comics site, has large reproductions from Abner Dean's brilliant 1947 book, What Am I Doing Here? Via: Boingboing

Home Sheep Home

Shaun the Sheep stars in a cute physics game in which you guide the sheep home. You have obstacles to cross, and three sheep of different mass. While you figure out a strategy, enjoy the artwork and sound effects. Link -Via: Metafilter, Via: Neatorama

Cool Ceramic Knives Display Cutting Edge Artwork

Minova-Cera (a division of TYK Corporation) is one of Japan's leading manufacturers of ceramic knives, trading on their location in Japan's famed "City of Blades". While Mino ware cutlery has been warmly received in kitchens throughout Japan and beyond, the company thought something was missing.

As Minova-Cera designer Tatsuya Kawai put it, "White alone is no fun," and he's since carried this theme forward to the production of new Minova-Cera knives with exquisite multi-colored artwork decorating their formerly plain white ceramic blades.

The patterns, which combine traditional and modern Japanese styles and subjects, are rendered in bright, glowing colors that remain colorfast throughout the life of each knife.

Minova-Cera decorative ceramic knives are now available, sold at a cost of 19,800 yen (around $240) each. The knives come in attractive and secure white packaging but a custom lacquered wood box is available at extra cost for those intent on presenting one of these heirloom quality knives as a gift. (Via: Walker Plus)

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12.5-MILE LONG DRAWING

“This spectacular artwork is the world’s largest drawing and at 12.5 square miles it would be able to find room for 4,469 Wembley soccer fields. Etched onto the surface of Lake Baikal, in Russia’s windswept and frozen Siberia, it was created by land artist extraordinaire Jim Denevan and his team in March of this year. Commissioned by clothing firm Anthropologie to create the work for their advertising tie-in series The Anthropologist, Jim, 49, spent 15 days on the surface of Lake Baikal completing the drawing.” LINK

Mark Evans: etched leather art

Mark Evans etches images into leather using scalpels, huge hunting knives, and other blades. Along with nature scenes like the beautiful piece above, he's also carved portraits of celebrities, from Muhammad Ali to Naomi Campbell. Mark Evans - Etched Leather Artwork. LINK: Boingboing

Jasper Morello Music Video (aka Industrial Steampunk Animation 2.0)

The Tragedy of Jasper Morello - Interpol

Music: Interpol - Pioneer to the Falls

"QOUTE" The editing isn't flashy but is meant to show the basics of story in a few minutes whilst showcasing the artwork. The song used is designed to focus on the three downfalls of the characters. LINK: Youtube


Love the song in this video.

Glass Blown Murrine Artwork By Robert Wiener

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Artist Robert Wiener epitomizes the Murrine blown glass design movement. Using a layered spectrum of color, along with attention to detail, Robert is creating one of a kind art-forms that appeal to all. LINK: The Presurfer

Philmology - Thr Graphic Art of MC Escher

Artwork of MC Escher, Music of Phish. LINK: Youtube

The Most Beautiful Subway Stations in the World

Design Boom has a huge gallery of the most beautiful works of subway station and tunnel architecture across the world. Pictured above is the Solna Centrum metro station in Stockholm, which opened in 1975. Shades of red dominate the artwork of the station, which depicts the social concerns of 1970s Sweden.

Link, Via: Fast Company | Photo: flickr user Erwyn van der Meer, used under Creative Commons license, Via: Neatorama

3D Glass Paintings

Amazing artwork by Chinese painter Xia Xiao Wan. His technique consists of using special pencils, tinted glass, and 14 to 30 glass panes.

Notes about the artist (from artnet): Via: Illusion 360

Michael Jackson Etch A Sketch artwork

Etch A Sketch master George Vlosich III created this homage to the King of Pop. He told me it took 150 hours. George hopes to get it signed by the performers at next month's Michael Jackson tribute in Vienna, and then he'll auction it off for charity. LINK

GV Etched In Time

Photo Manipulation

I love this type of creative artwork. LINK

Awesome Bob Marley Artworks

“You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry” Bob Marley

Yesterday makes 28 years since the biggest legend of reggae passed away, Bob Marley will sure be remembered for a lot more years for the person he was and the for the message that he still passes on through his music, check out some artworks and don't worry because every little thing will be alright. LINK

Sexy Sketchwork - Sarah Hankinson: Melbourne, Australia

These sketches are hot. Melbourne Illustrator Sarah Hankinson creates feminine yet striking works which play off broken lines and occasional splashes of color. Sarah’s illustration style is elegant, youthful, and strongly fashion orientated, many of her pieces focusing on the female form and made up from a variety of mediums including inks, charcoal, pencils, cut paper and fabrics. LINK

The Artwork of Sarah King

Writers may use words to weave a work of literary art, but Sarah King did something else with them: she shapes them into wonderful illustrations!

Don’t Panic Magazine has a nifty interview with Sarah:

Inspired by science, space, animals and myths, Sarah’s illustrations are intricately beautiful and bursting with words.

Link, VIA: Neatorama

Robert Connett’s Artwork

I can’t believe it took me this long to find the wonderful artwork of self-taught California artist Robert Connett. His surreal paintings are like a lot like H.R. Geiger’s if he had a dollop of humor.

Check it out: Link | Robert’s Deviant Art page - Via: Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival, Via: Neatorama