Awesome and Amazing Graffiti Art

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20 Interesting Pumpkin Carvings Art

Collection of unusual and creative pumpkin carvings just in time for Halloween.

Homer Pumpkin
3D Pumpkin Carvings by Scott Cummins


Space Invaders Pumpkin
Iron Man Pumpkin
Terminator Pumpkin
Transformers
Ratatouille and Indiana Jones
Joker Pumpkin
Cannibal Pumpkin
New Moon and Yoda
Dwight Pumpkin
Super Mario Pumpkin
Darth Vader Pumpkin
Eve and Wall-E

Another 47 Awesome and Creative Sand Art Sculptures

Awesome bristol-street-art

24 Cool and Creative Light Graffiti Art

Awesome Public Art by J Callaghan.

L.A.-based artist J Callaghan brilliantly hides the typically undesirable city objects such as utility boxes. His work creates an illusion of an uninterrupted view and the images reflect the view of what you would see if the box were not there.

Amazing Optical Illusions in Architecture

Budapest
Budapest

Lyon, France
Madrid, Spain
Tokio
Temporary front in the Fine Arts Museum of Bruxels
Barcelona, wall painting
Grenoble
Belvedere, Vienne, Austria
Rotterdam
Cardiff Barrage
Houston
Melbourne
Unknown place
Hartford, Connecticut
Otawa, Canada
Boston
Berlin, temporary front
Temporary front put over the face of the building during construction. University of Coimbra, Portugal
Toronto, Canada
Singapure
Paris, a temporary front put over the face of a building during construction.

Awesome and Extraordinary Metal Art

Sculptures from scrap iron (including military items)
Location: Golan heights - Mount Bental
Weirdness factor: High.
Todesfee has collected in this set a whimsical sculptures made from not so funny material: scrap military metal, left from the Yom Kippur War (Mount Bental was the site of large-scale tank battles in 1973)

She writes: "The Golan Heights is a plateau on the border of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. The Syrians attacked the Golan with 1,500 tanks and 1,000 artillery pieces. Israel countered with only 160 tanks and 60 artillery pieces. The long stretch of valley in between Mount Bental and Mount Hermon became known as the Valley of Tears. The 100 Israeli tanks were reduced to seven under extreme enemy fire. However, the Israelis managed to take down 600 Syrian tanks in the process. The Syrians eventually retreated, but not without inflicting heavy casualties on Israel."
T-Rex made from scrap military metal (do I discern parts of some plane there?) is pretty ferocious:
Mutant Mechanisms
We already featured art by Vladimir Tsesler & Sergei Voichenko in our article, but the weird mechanical monsters keep coming from their weird kitchen. Here is a couple more:


Kinetic Sculptures of Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith sculptures bubble, click, chime, make all kinds of highly sophisticated movements and endlessly entertain. And yes, they are made mostly out of metal - some found in military surpluss yard. Here is the "Bubbler":
The "Tornado" kinetic sculpture works even if the door is open:
We asked Andrew a few questions, and so he shares with us:

"People often ask me how I get the ideas for creating my Sculptures. The truth is, I usually don’t know what a sculpture will be until it is actually in the process of being built. I approach my work with a very wide expectation of what it may become, and I try to allow myself to let it go in the direction it wants to go.

Most of it is trial and error, a kind of "form follows function" construction process. If an element is not working or just doesn’t do what I had hoped, I will cut it off and try something else."

"I enjoy the raw creativity in this process. I am constantly observing the world around me seeing things that capture my attention. Sometimes I will try to incorporate these elements into my art somehow or it will spark an idea that leads to another idea and so on. My strongest pieces are usually the ones I had the most fun making. Art doesn’t always have to be serious, political or even emotional. Sometimes it can just be fun. "

"Sometimes when people look at my Kinetic or Rolling Ball Sculptures they will ask, “What does it do?”
I usually answer, “It’s doing it.”
One of the best lamp designs I've ever seen:
His bigger kinetic sculptures remind me of the work of classic science fiction artist Richard M. Powers:


"Grandfather Time" clock is an intricate "rolling ball" contraption. Every 15 minutes the ball is released into the track and as it reaches the bottom it strikes a single chime.
Use your old iron for something better
Aaron Ristau is a true master of "found objects" and metal sculpture form:
Set loose a "sentinel droid" on your lawn, see how the neightbors would react:
Bizarre metal light fixtures:

He also makes beautiful kinetic sculptures, see his site for more.
Joe Pogan's Nuts-n-Bolts Animals
"The stranger the piece of metal, the better!" - Made from scrap metal and found metallic objects, these fishes would make any fisherman proud (and art collector, too) -

Birds even get a bed of nails as nests:


Other Fascinating Metal Art Examples

Original artists for these works are largely unknown, so if you have this information, drop us a line.

Very ingenious sculptures from bended forks by Matthew Bartik:






It's not what it seems

Chehalem Mountain Pottery's creations look like metal and plumbing fittings. It's actually all ceramic, imagine that.


Eat your food out of some sheet metal plate with fake nuts and bolts? You gotta be a steampunk-oriented individual.

Don't like fake metal? You can still have fun with your ceramics:
Our metal art review would not be complete, if we don't mention this highly original set

Beautiful Knits and Yarn Monsters

When Art and Knitting Needles Collide

Knit your way out of stress and anxiety - into a more ordered universe of sophisticated yarn, crochet and lace patterns. Here are the weirdest knitting projects we could find...

Word of advice: finish your projects! The unfinished knitting projects tend to increase entropy ten-fold and fill all the space allowed for them - these misshapen lumps of yarn can breed in the dark corners voraciously.
Let's start with the Biggest Knitted Sculpture - a pink bunny, big enough to be spotted from the Earth's orbit:
Viennese art group Gelitin knitted this fluffy wonder high on a mountain in Piedmont, Italy; it took them five years to do it. Now, some guys climb its belly to watch the sunset, others prefer to crawl around its knitted guts, spilled to one side... Speaking of unfortunate gutted rabbits, here are a few more, from Patricia Waller:
The unspeakable knitted menace, sneaking by the sink:
Did you know that the way to the "Mountains of Madness" is paved with the fluffy Cthulhu Dolls? Of every variety, it seems:
On the left - just an innocent Cthulhu Penguin. On the right: Psycho Tomato from the Vegetable Liberation Army.
One day the menace of the Cthulhu will awaken and terror will fill the Earth... all will die, except hardy knitters with their offerings and cthulhu idols will be spared. Believe it.
Halloween costume idea: the Gollum Hat, with Andy Serkis posing next to it:
Speaking of hats and balaklavas, these designs named "Crochet Help for Ugly Children" are something else:
Knitted Anatomy

This is not Great Aunt Muriel's mothballed sweater. All things knitted are not cutesy, boring, and itchy... at the very least they can teach anatomy to all who care to wear them:
Baby's First DNA molecule
The Womb...
The Heart... (Pattern found in Knit.1, Winter 2006/7)
Every girl needs to knit her hubby a digestive system, because "the way to a man's heart is through his"... no, wait, not like this...
Knitted vegetables... maybe this propaganda will cause your man to eat his vegetables. Maybe not.


Cool and Geeky Knits
Single-sided Klein Bottle Hats:
You know who this is:
This is Dalek from Dr. Who:
Knit Your Own Aquarium
If you didn't get down to New York to see the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, you can always populate your own textile aquarium with a great variety of knitted & crocheted animals. Knitters have an interesting affinity with deep-sea, many-tentacled & non-cuddly specimens, such as the nautilus:

Squids are in vogue:
Cuttlefish, Jellyfish, Nudibranch and Deep Sea Anglerfish:

Comfy, Woozy Office Supplies:
(knit yourself a cubicle and defend it against evil bosses with sharp, long needles)
Knit an egg holder, and more (some kind of "Awesome Pentagonalicious Goodness"

We did not cover any lace patterns here... wait, there is this urban piece of design that almost got included into our World's Weirdest Fences article:

Lace Fences!

Dutch design team Demakersvan came up with the idea and yes, these fences recently went into mass production in India:

Awesome Star Wars Modern Origami Paper Art

Origami is the Japanese art of creating paper sculptures (normally) without gluing or cutting the paper, as well as using only one piece of paper. This post is about representing the world of Star Wars with Origami sculptures. It is amazing how folded paper can render movements, emotions and even traits of character:

Origami Jedi

Origami Yoda

Origami Emperor

Origami Darth Vader

Origami Jabba the Hutt

Star Wars Origami