Unusual and funny!

GumArt is the surprisingly pleasing result of thousands of hours of chewing and spreading. GumArt.com first launched in 1998 as a vehicle for showing this art to those who appreciate gum and the complexity of creating art in this medium. Since its initial launch, the GumArt site has been linked to hundreds of sites around the world. The art has received invitations from galleries, inquiries for purchasing, letters from schools wanting to teach the art, and requests for newspaper, magazine, television and radio interviews.

Here’s something you can like or not…

Bonnie Meltzer makes very mixed-media constructions from a variety of unusual materials: crocheted wire, recycled computer parts, painted surfaces and digital photography. The juxtaposition of all these materials and techniques makes for fascinating subject matter and rich surfaces. She uses a Macintosh computer both as a design tool and to make design elements. Along with her activities as an artist she lectures and writes about art and technology; the ethics of digital photography and art from recycled materials. She also designs web sites for other artists and arts organizations, including this one.

An amazing collection of garden creatures by sculptor David Rogers. You must see this!

These little creatures which we often take for granted outnumber us one million to one. Many live in communal groups working as one for the common good of all. Their ranks include engineers, soldiers, weightlifters, weavers, hunters, stalkers, gatherers, and even royalty.

When you take this remarkable and diverse group of “hidden gardeners” and recreate them on a gargantuan scale using all-natural materials, you have the Big Bugs. The effect is a role reversal of dimension and perception.

Today we have these fantastic images representing … lemon art! everybody have a great Sunday!

At the beginning of the century, Menton created this event simply because of the common carnivals tradition. In the 30s, the town plays the original and the citrus fruits appear…

For the Town Hall: “The Lemon has become the symbol of the town of Menton. We have chosen it as town emblem: it’s henceforth in the heart of the geographic map of all our documents. Furthermore it goes on very well with the motto associated to our logo, “Menton: my town is a garden”.

Amazing!

The pictures on this site are taken through a microscope.

MICRO-CRYSTALS are made by dissolving a chemical and evaporating the fluid by heating, or otherwise. During this process tiny crystals appear, which can be studied in polarized light.
Almost every chemical crystallizes under the right circumstances in an endless variety of form and structure.

Nothing but optical coloring is used. The pictures are taken with a camera mounted on the microscope.
Magnification: Imagine the pictures covering an area of ± 1 mm².

The BUBBLE PICTURES are taken without the help of polarization filters, but most of them, like the crystal pictures, through the light microscope.
A few are made with the help of my stereo microscope, when I needed a bigger surface. For coloring I used home-made plastic filters of various design, with one or two or many colors. So: the coloring is purely optical, though not natural.

Very interesting images…

These images are part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when rown in a petri dish. While the colors and shading are artistic additions, the image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of these microorganisms. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature.

Interesting…

Writing is not my greatest strength: I became a sculptor, after all, not a writer. But if I try to retrace the origins of my wire sculptures, the thread of memory leads directly back to the internal world of the early cardboard sculptures. Generating an amorphous form from a static material necessitates an understanding of the principles of inner structure and external cover–skeleton and skin. Similarly, the zeppelin demonstrates that a skeletal structure by itself can describe the shape and volume of the entire form. This may sound simple and obvious. Nevertheless, in a drawing of a zeppelin, the individual lines, their paths, and the net-like structure they depict present an illusion of plasticity. We often forget the high degree of abstraction occurring on a two-dimensional sheet of paper: the curving horizontal and vertical lines suggesting a three-dimensional form to us, while supplying precise information about the border between the object and the external world. Lines are minimal shorthand for complex plastic forms.

This is amazing, funny and interesting!

The Button Bank was inspired by a love of colour, a sense of creativity and of course buttons! We would like to challenge the perception of these strangely appealing little items. If function is the only thing that comes to mind, think again!! We consider buttons to be art forms in themselves. From a precious collectable to an original designer item, we love the endless possibilities and are limited only by imagination.

As a collection, buttons can inspire a masterpiece. Think of the lifetime of a single button, the journey of each unique. Each has touched and been touched by others. In uniting, the buttons all contribute to a story yet continue their travel.

Amazing sculptures in pumpkins!

Amazing art samples on rice mostly…

Andrew Rykovanov was born on September 11, 1965 in Omsk (West Siberia). He is a specialist in civil construction. The art of microminiature is his hobby from childhood. Since 1993 he is the head of the union “The centre of microminiatures “A.S.Pushkin”. He is a master of artistic microminiature. The microminiature for him is not only a hobby, a way of expressing himself, of showing his mastership, but also a possibility to invite the viewer to take part in a dialogue, to share feelings.

Andrew is left-handed. It is known that left-handed people form a lesser, but a substantial part of humanity, which is sometimes traditionally regarded by the right-handed majority as a kind of deviation from the norm, But it must be said that scientists, studying the fact of left-handedness, prefer to call it the specific type of cognition and perception of the surrounding world by such people. The artist uses original means and methods to bring to the attentive and serious viewer his own perception of our cultural heritage. From his point of view the intended method of addressing the imperishable words and images induces the viewers once more to think about eternal ideals and values (often fading in daily routine) which, with the help of special optical means, come closer not only to the eyes but also to the minds of contemporary people. Perfecting his art and craftsmanship in the infinitely small, Andrew creates unique artefacts with the help of a microscope. Most often he works with the following materials: the section of a rice grain, poppy seeds, pearls, amber, rock crystal, mammoth tooth, Siberian pine seeds, walnuts, plum kernels and pear seeds.