“Serena Malyon, an illustrator in her third year at the Alberta College of Art & Design, has taken the classics works of Vincent Van Gogh and added a contemporary twist. Using Photoshop, Serena has added the ’tilt-shift’ effect to Van Gogh’s paintings, providing a fresh perspective on these masterpieces. Maybe some HDR photographs of Ansel Adams work is next?” - Source

It’s like your memories, but more epic. If you could upgrade your memories of these games, this would be how you would do it right. 

Art by Aled Lewis. 

“A mash-up of video game characters and photographic scenes. As a kid I would become completely immersed in there crude pixel environments and they would seem very real! I thought it would be fun to try to express how gamers see these worlds. I spent many hours gaming with my siblings and friends when I was growing up and this aesthetic has really come to represent that time.”

(Source: visualnews.com)

Leonid Tishkov is over the moon with the moon. Err… what? 

Yes, literally, he has fallen in love with the moon! You see, Leonid not only takes photos where it revolves around the crescent in the sky, but he also write poetry along with the images. Something so simple can illicit so much. There’s a grand sense of serenity within each moment captured. 

To read his poetry, be sure to check out the full gallery along with his other images at his website: http://leonid-tishkov.blogspot.ca/ 

So how did he do it? If you don’t want to know, don’t click this link below. Some things are better left a mystery.

His Secret

Art lends itself from photography, here is a clear example of that. 

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Photography by Shinichi Maruyama.

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A simple idea done with flawless execution. 

Artist’s Website: http://edfairburn.com/

Leo Villareal created something that every photographer would probably want to shoot in front of. Check out Leo’s full range of displays here: 
http://villareal.net/index.html

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Whether you need ideas for Halloween or you just want to admire the craftiness of other creatives, check out these clever ideas for Halloween.

Granted, not all of these are meant specifically for Halloween, or may be even used during Halloween, they’re still pretty awesome. 

 

(The botched Jesus Painting job)

(Plus points if you can guess where this is from)

Bonus: 

As a child you probably remember watching the Ninja Turtles. Or you had children that loved them. Whatever the case, Dave Rapoza painted these portraits of the Ninja Turtles to look super realistic. The results are incredible. 

(Source: daverapoza.cghub.com)

What if some of the most popular paintings had no people in them, what would it look like? This is it. 

This was made by Bence Hajdu. When asked why this was done: 

‘I am a student at the university of fine arts, hungary. at one of the descriptive geometry classes we had a task to find and draw the

perspective and horizon lines of renaissance and other pictures with significant perspective space. I thought it is not that interesting

to just draw lines, so I decided to erase all the characters from them and examine how the painter really created the perspective space

and how it actually looks.

I saw this could be something exciting and continued thinking and working on it. after a while I found myself interested in the new

atmosphere and the new thoughts the retouched pieces generated without their main subjects.’