Ballpen Cap Art

Natalie Irish, an extraordinary artist

Natalie Irish, a child art prodigy, creates amazing paintings not with regular brushes but with her lips or her thumb prints. She simply puckers on her canvass and a beautiful portrait comes to life. See her works and how she does it.

 

Elvis by Natalie Irish with her thumb prints.

 

Natalie at work.

The finished product.

 

Natalie and Jimi Hendrix.

Canary Sky

A stunning time-lapse video of the night sky made by astrophotographer Daniel Lopez from Tenerife, Spain. The scenes were taken from Canary Islands where a spectacular view of the heavens, stars and clouds is found in various colors and shades. He titled this work as Canary Sky or El Cielo De Canarias.

According to Daniel, here are some of the  scenes you can find in the video:
- "The Cathedral" in the plain of Ucanca, night shot with the planet Jupiter across the scene.
- El Arbol de Piedra (Roque Cinchado) with a Tajinaste pointing to Polaris.
- Tajinastes "night", The Red Tajinaste, endemism Canario blooming in spring.
- The "hat" in the Teide. Formation of a cloud known as cap at the peak of Teide.
- "Waterfalls of clouds crossing the mountains and rivers of multicolored clouds.
- Sea of clouds crashing against the mountains as it did the sea.
- Large pool of water in the plain of Ucanca lenticular clouds where stars are reflected.
- Tajinastes night with the Milky Way taken out on the horizon with a dolly track.
- Video of the sun setting and a double green flash. "
- Pleiades and the Andromeda galaxy between rocks in the mines of San Jose.
- Scenes spectacular sunset in the Teide National Park with clouds and moving dolly.
- ArcoIris from the Teide National Park.
- Multicolor Halos around the moon.
- Clouds remain stationary hours at the site are changing their colors as the sunset


El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky - Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo.

Kate MacDowell’s bizarre sculptures

 

Artist Kate  MacDowell uses porcelain to render these very unusual sculptures. Her themes are very enigmatic and are likewise  unique. See more of her works here.

 

 

 

 

San Francisco replica from toothpicks!

Scott Weaver's Rolling through the Bay from Learning Studio on Vimeo.

It took Scott Weaver 34 years and 100,000 toothpicks before completing this masterpiece - an exact replica of San Francisco. He called it Rolling through the Bay. The model made of toothpicks not only includes Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, the Golden Gate but also the terraced houses on steep hills. It's amazing that the materials lasted that long while he was working on it for 34 long years. And to top it all, you can roll several ping-pong balls on top and rolls down unto different tours of the city. 

Liquid Art

Liquid droplets plus macro photography plus the amazing creativity of Markus Reugels equals awesome works of art. See more of his works here.

 

 

 

 

 

Gundam in Excel

 

A very ingenious way of doing manga.

 

Mini Artworks

What will you get if you put a superbly patient, determined and ingenious forger in a prison cell for 25 years.

A pinhead carved with the Lord's Prayer in full text. Mr. A. Schiller, convicted of forgery back in the 1800s and was sentenced for 25 years, meticulously etched the prayer in not just one but seven pinheads. Schiller went blind because of this artwork. Read the full story here. Now, Mr. A. Schiller is not alone in this feat. Willard Wigan from Birmingham, England is very famous for his microscopic artworks as is Mr. Nikolai Syadristy of Ukrane. Here are samples of their amazing works.

Art Attack!

Ever wonder how proffesional artists can transform your kids' drawings? Well some of them provided their own interpretations on these creatures that some kids have drawn. Images are from Drawgeeks.

Vegetable Art

Astonishing vegetable artworks!

Summer fun

Awesome sand sculptures!

Microchip Art Gallery

I first caught a glimpse of these work of arts on TV in Ripley's Believe it or Not. I was very fascinated about them and thought of collecting them not for my own gallery but just for my blog. :-)


A rendition of a Mickey Mouse watch is shown on a Mostek 5017 alarm clock chip.


This sailboat, from a 1970s Texas Instrument chip, is the earliest example of chip artwork found so far.


In a burst of symbolism, Intel engineers crafted an image of a shepherd looking after a two-headed ram. The real purpose of the Intel 8207 chip: a dual-port RAM (random access memory) controller.


Catchphrases appear in this chip's mock fine print, including "Keep away from fire," "Not for resale" and "No purchase necessary."


A tiny train rides "tracks" that are used in charge-coupled devices to convert electrical signals into digital information.


This image of Waldo from the "Where's Waldo" children's book series was the first silicon artwork found by Silicon Zoo curator Michael Davidson.


This image of Thor, god of thunder, appears in a Hewlett-Packard chip. It's drawn with an unusual method: Tiny dots appear where "via" wires extend downward through the chip to connect different layers. This is the largest chip image in the Silicon Zoo.


Marvin the Martian appears on an image sensor chip used on the Mars rovers.




This cheetah appeared in a Hewlett-Packard memory controller chip. This art was problematic: The cheetah's aluminum spots flaked off, causing short circuits elsewhere on the chip.

A chip used in Digital Equipment's MicroVax 3000 and 6200 minicomputers carries a message in Russia's Cyrillic alphabet: "VAX--when you care enough to steal the very best." The message was intended for technicians on the other side of the Cold War who might try to reverse-engineer the VAX designs by looking closely at the originals.