Black Forest: Tape Art by Hong Seon Jang

Believe it or not, the eerie image above is actually made using strips of tape on a chalkboard. It's titled Black Forest, by Korean artist Hong Seon Jang:
Link, Via: Neatorama

Georgia Russell: Art created with a Scalpel

Scottish-born, Paris-based Artist Georgia Russell is well-versed in manipulating two-dimensional prints into highly textured images with the aid of a knife. Utilizing the sharp edge of a scalpel, her body of work adds a fleeting layer organic curves and scores that often move in a gesture similar to a feather or fur. What could easily be a superfluous effect offers instead additional emotions and narratives to the prints, fully responding to the movement of the image being captured. Some pieces include two individual prints that have been entangled within one another. A play of solids and voids as well as content and proportions, the wispy creations explore the notion of an unseen network of energetic motions while illustrating the transient quality of a single moment. LINK

Feather Art by Julie Thompson

Self-taught wildlife artist Julie Thompson uses feathers as canvases for her amazing art:

Julie began this artwork in the early 1990s, using feathers shed naturally by domesticated birds like peacocks and turkeys, but it was far from easy. Even a simple image can take a huge amount of painstaking work, and Julie says that on average, any single painting can involve as much as 18 hours worth of artwork.

See more at Environmental Graffiti: Link | Artist’s website, Via: Neatorama

Hand shadows

This image from Dictionnaire encyclopédique Trousset, Paris, 1886 - 1891, Via: Old Book Illustrations Scrapbook Blog. Via: TYWKIWDBI

Longtime Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell inspires ArtPrize painting

GRAND RAPIDS -- Jerry Douglas never has been a big baseball fan.

Lucky for him, Ernie Harwell transcended sports.

Douglas, an artist from Boyne City, has ventured to ArtPrize 2010 with his oil painting "Voice from the Shadows," a 7-foot image depicting Harwell, the late longtime Detroit Tigers radio broadcaster, looking down from his announcer's booth over the players and fans in old Tiger Stadium.

The painting is on display at God's Kitchen, 303 S. Division Ave. LINK

The full story from Jerry Douglas is at the link.

Rolling Shutter Effect

(YouTube link)

Have you ever seen an airplane propeller that looked like this? It’s called the rolling shutter effect {wiki}. A cell phone camera records what it sees by scanning from one side of the frame to the other (or top to bottom), and strange things happen when the scene you are shooting moves faster than the image scanner. Another video illustrates how the slow scanning process of a cell phone camera creates this effect. -Via: reddit, Via: Neatorama

Celestial Soul Portraits

Erial Ali creates Celestial Soul Portraits.

After Erial Ali has had a phone consultation with you, you send him a high-quality photo of yourself. An image that represent how you like to be seen. Erial meditates and 'tunes into you,' to 'get your unique Essence.' Once Erial really 'gets who you are,' he magically transforms the image you provided into a Celestial Soul Portrait of you. LINK: The Presurfer

JESUS SPOTTED IN WALLINGFORD TREE

“A Wallingford tree has been drawing a crowd since some people declared a symbol from the heavens appeared on it. Several people reported seeing the image of Jesus in the bark of a tree on North Main Street last week. “I think there could be something to it, just the way it’s formed after the limb was broken off,” said Carolyn Massoni, of Wallingford. One visitor left a cross at the foot of the tree, and David Doolittle, whose family has owned the home where the tree is located for more than a century, consulted a priest. Doolittle said the tree has become a neighborhood obsession.” w/ photo. LINK

Soviet statues as comedy fountains

"QUOTE" I'm not clear on whether this Cracked.com image is a photoshop job or an actual fountain somewhere in the world (the former USSR?) or just a clever idea for repurposing all that Stalin-era monumentary, but it's sure a fine idea. I once got to visit the Soviet theme-park outside of Budapest, which is basically a giant field filled with Soviet-era statues, and it was a kind of Stalinist Easter Island experience, all these nigh-identical socialist realist piles looking bravely into the future. But this is even better.

Craptions Feb 25th, 2010 (Via: Making Light) Via: Boingboing

Infographic: The Earth's Satellites, Sorted by Nation

This infographic by Michael Paukner shows which nations have how many satellites in orbit around the earth. Information is sorted by functionality. You can view a larger image at the link.

Link, Via: Gizmodo, Via: Neatorama

Bald Eagle Catching a Starling

The National Wildwife Federation has an annual photography competition. The image above was the Grand Prize winner in the “Professional” category in 2009.

While watching a group of bald eagles that had congregated at a local cattle feed lot, Palmer noticed the raptors were climbing into the air to catch starlings and blackbirds—not necessarily typical prey for the large birds.

At the link are the winning photographs in about a dozen other categories.

Link. Via: Neatorama

Creative Photography by Vienna Paint

Vienna paint was founded as a two-man mission in 1988 by Andreas Fitzner and Albert Winkler, a time when digital post production and image manipulation were terms only used by a few visionary insiders.

Link - Via: viennapaint, Via: Neatorama

World's Largest Spherical Panorama

This is a super high resolution photo. Use your mouse to zoom in and see a startling level of detail. This image is currently the largest spherical panoramic photo in the world. It is 192,000 pixels wide and 96,000 pixels tall. That's 18.4 billion pixels!

When it's printed, it will be 16 meters (53 feet) long at regular photographic quality. It was shot in early October 2009 from the top of the Zizkov TV Tower in Prague, Czech Republic. Hundreds of shots were shot over a few hours; these shots were then stitched together on a computer over the following few weeks. LINK: The Presurfer

Be sure to check this out, it's pretty cool.

CSI Image Enhancer

Anyone who takes digital pictures gets a real kick out of how crime investigators on the CSI TV shows use their computers to zoom in and enhance photographs, as if you could really zoom in to just a few pixels and see a legible image. Now you can! The CSI Image Enhancer lets you zoom in on a photograph just by typing furiously and saying “enhance!” Well, really, all you have to do is type furiously. Try this one as an example. Upload your own photos to make a personal enhancement of your own. Link, Via: b3ta, Via: Neatorama

(image found at Arbroath)

All Seasons in One Picture

SeasonTree, By Mikjegger

There is an interesting contest in worth1000, called “Extra Seasoning”, which requires participants to create an image represents four seasons.

If you are interested to see the rest, click here to see all the entries. LINK

Obscura CueLight

This Obscura CueLight pool table is found at Esquire's ultimate bachelor pad in NYC. It features sensors and a projector that projects an image only where the balls are on the table. LINK

The Crying Glacier

This striking image of a crying glacier (a perfect example of pareidolia) is from a melting glacier in in the Arctic ice cap of Norway. Marine photographer and environmental lecturer Michael Nolan snapped the photos:

At first glimpse it looks like any other glacier you might find in the freezing Arctic wastes of Norway.

But on closer inspection an eerie face is depicted in the melting ice wall that appears to be crying a river of tears.

The forlorn-looking ‘Mother Nature’ figure appeared to locals during a thaw, with the melting ice and snow falling towards the sea below.

The striking image of the Austfonna ice cap, located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago, would seem certain to be heavily used by environmentalists protesting against climate change.

Alex Millson of The Daily Mail has more: Link (Photo: Michael Nolan/SpecialistStock/Barcroft Media. Via: Neatorama

Victor Safonkin

Czech painter Victor Safonkin does some pretty impressive neo-classical/surrealist paintings that pay homage to all the masters while having a quirky style all their own. They are thankfully free of snarky pop-culture references and irony, which makes the images timeless and strikingly beautiful. LINK

Mikael Alacoque

Mikael Alacoque rips familiar and nostalgic objects to the core to create a new sinister image sculptured with abstract moulding techniques. His dead dogs, in particular, have fantastic symbolism, with ice-cream smashed on their little heads. Alacoque is certainly an artist for now and beyond. LINK

Online Coloring

Pick a category, pick an image and start coloring. LINK