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ATELIER 37.2’s MOBILE CUBES

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Unique art can transform a space into something breath taking and totally impressive. Atelier 37.2’s mobile cubes were designed for french photography studio le petit oiseau va sortir (LPOVS). Each cube is a prototype designed for a specific function: entrance, hair / make-up, styling, production.

Styrofoam Gets Transformed

This is a perfect example of how anything can be transformed into a piece of art. Check out the cool looking "Styrobot". Well, I guess this is one way to recycle Styrofoam and save the earth.

Children Inspired One Eyed Olympic Mascots Gets Mixed Reviews

The 2 new one eyed Olympian Mascots have received mixed reviews. Some think the children inspired one eyed monsters are really cool and others deemed them as scary to look at. In London yesterday, officials introduced the world to the mascots for the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in 2012. Meet Wenlock (left) and Mandeville (right), the two mascots that were created specifically to get children excited about Olympic sports. Metro UK has the story on these two acid trip creations:

Wenlock is named after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which first hosted the 'Wenlock Olympian Games' in the 1850s - a precursor to the modern Olympic games whose founder, Dr. William Penny Brookes, was one of the key figures in the establishment of the Olympic movement.

Mandeville, meanwhile, is named after the location where the Paralympic movement was founded after World War II - the 'International Wheelchair Games' were held to coincide with the 1948 London Olympics in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire.

I guess, they remind me of the monsters on Nickelodeon's Yo Gabba Gabba show; and kids seem to like them, I know my kids do.

Yo Gabba Gabba pictured below:

Do Pixelated Images Work As Home Decor?

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Pixelated images are usually ugly and distorted. In the vision of art as Home Decor those images have been transformed into trendy designs for your home. So here is the question, do pixelated images work as home decor? What do you think? The pixelated rug and the pixelated sofa have some thinking this can work.

I think its cool to look at in a museum as art but as for my home I think I will take a pass. interested in pixelated sofa click here


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The New Edgy Look: Magnetic 3D Mesh Curtains

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The new edgy look: Magnetic 3D Mesh curtains. They maybe considered to be perfect for geeks but I think the geeks have something here. This look would be perfect for a artcutects office or even a fashion designers design space or even for a photographers loft. These Magnetic 3D Mesh curtains would really add a fierce artsy edge to your space. Check out how they have showcased the crumbled up look in the one photo. Its real nice. Click here for more looks

Michaelangelo Painting Mistaken As A Francesco Granacci

The Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness is really an original Michaelangelo painting according to new reports. Artnews reports that The Metropolitan Museum's Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness, ca. 1510, traditionally attributed to the workshop of Francesco Granacci, is actually by Michelangelo, says Everett Fahy, former head of the museum's European paintings department.

"I'm acutely aware that Michelangelo, like van Gogh, attracts a lot of crazy ideas, and people are going to say, 'This is another absurd idea,'" said Everett Fahy, one of the world's most distinguished scholars of the Italian Renaissance, who retired in March as John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "I'm expecting that they're going to throw brickbats."

The brickbats may come from scholars who disagree with Fahy when he asserts that Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness, a painting that was attributed to "the close circle of Francesco Granacci" when the museum acquired it in 1970, is actually by Granacci's good friend Michelangelo. "I am confident that the only artist capable of making this splendid painting was Michelangelo," Fahy told me in an interview in the ARTnews office.

source: Artnews

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