Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Glaucus atlanticus real life monster


Glaucus atlanticus (common names sea swallow, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug and blue ocean slug) is a species of small-sized blue sea slug, a pelagic aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Glaucidae. This is the only species in the genus Glaucus, but is closely related to Glaucilla marginata, which sometimes is included in Glaucus.
The normal size of this species is up to about 3 cm, depending on the animal's age. It is silvery grey on its dorsal side and dark and pale blue ventrally. It has dark blue stripes on its face. It has a tapering body which is flattened and has six appendages which branch out into rayed cerata. Its radula bears serrated teeth on their blades.





Monday, 14 January 2013

Melvin Sokolsky , the "Bubble"


Melvin Sokolsky (born in 1938) is an American photographer and film director.
Born in New York City, Sokolsky had no formal training in photography, but started to use his father's box camera at about the age of ten. Always analytical, he started to realize the role that emulsion played as he compared his own photographs with those his father had kept in albums through the years[citation needed]. "I could never make my photographs of Butch the dog look like the pearly finish of my father's prints, and it was then that I realized the importance of the emulsion of the day.
Around 1954, Sokolsky met Robert Denning, who at the time worked with photographer Edgar de Evia, at an East Side gym. "I discovered that Edgar was paid $4000 for a Jell-O ad, and the idea of escaping from my tenement dwelling became an incredible dream and inspiration."
in 1963,Melvin Sokolsky produced the "Bubble" series of photographs depicting fashion models "floating" in giant clear plastic bubbles suspended in midair above the River Seine in Paris .




















Saturday, 12 January 2013

Amazing folded paper art



We have already seen wonderful sculptures that can be made out of a single sheet of paper, but you probably didn’t know that it’s also possible to draw amazing pictures without  using paint or any tools other than hands for paper folding.
At first sight, these very detailed pictures, which sell for up to £3,800, seem to have been drawn with pencil but only when you notice that Simon’s gallery web address ends with “papierarbeiten.html” you understand how amazing his works really are.
A German artist named Simon Schubert (born 1976) has spent two years perfecting the art of folding paper, and now it takes him up to a week to create each of his elaborate masterpieces.

















Friday, 11 January 2013

These images definitely make you think about what’s going on in the world today.

Polish illustrator Pawel Kuczynski cleverly uses satire to portray today's social, political and cultural reality. At first sight, his illustrations might seem funny, but when you look closer, they actually show some serious problems of today's world.
Polish born Pawel Kuczynski (Pawła Kuczyńskiego) was born in 1976 in Szczecin. He graduated the Fine Arts Academy in Poznan with specialization in graphics.You can see more of Paul Kuczinski's images below. These images definitely make you think about what's going on in the world today.