Image Source: Stanislav Aristov Paper Books Stanislav Aristov uses burnt matchsticks and bends them to his desired shapes before editing photographs of them via Photoshop. With the tapes, she recreates portraits of celebrities such as John Lennon or Marilyn Monroe. She likes to preserve old technologies such as cassette tapes that are no longer being used. Image Source: Cornelia Konrads Cassette TapesĮrika Iris Simmons uses old cassette tapes to create popular celebrity portraits. She brings art outdoors by choosing a specific place and installing her structures, floating in mid-air! The portrait was made using 13,138 dice – one for each day of Tobias’ short 35 years.Ĭornelia Konrad’s works are inspired by land art, and she is widely known for her site-specific art. Want more? Check out these artworks that are totally not photographs.Ĭecilia Webber uses human bodies to create her digital photographic images, specifically naked human bodies painted strategically to create repetitive patterns that reflect a plant or creature for one of her many masterpieces.įrederic McSwain created this portrait as a tribute to his friend, Tobias Wong, a Canadian artist and designer who died from suicide (while sleepwalking). She paints directly on her subjects and manipulates the shadows in a way that when it is photographed, it turns 2D. Image Source: Anastassia Elias 3D subjectsĪlexa Meade paints humans or objects to look like 2D photographs. She cuts out the scene from paper and places it inside the roll creating a silhouette of life inside a paper roll. Read more Toilet Paper RollsĪnastassia Elias uses toilet paper rolls to create miniature scenes of life. The one now in the restaurant is named Penny Longhorn II.Public awareness ads are powerful tools that can help to educate and inform people about important issues that. The steakhouse wasn't a part of that event, but CowParade asked if the longhorn could be auctioned off with the other cow sculptures for charity. Underneath the shiny coins is a familiar body from CowParade, which came to Austin in 2011, with longer horns added by a local artist. That theme carries through in a life-sized longhorn covered in 2,284 uncirculated pennies. Vince Young Steakhouse This downtown restaurant features copper tones throughout - a subtle nod to the burnt orange its namesake wore as a UT football star. Tile murals, stained glass over the bar, and an atrium of lush tropical plants add to the interior atmosphere. Inside, more than 30 paintings by Mexican artists grace the walls, brilliantly colored images portraying food, animals, people, culture, and legends. With decades of experience keeping things weird, ThunderCloud at Burnet Road and Anderson Lane has a giant yellow submarine cutout on one wall inside and a huge Where the Wild Things Are mural on another.įonda San Miguel The building housing this restaurant on North Loop Boulevard looks like a work of art itself, with brightly painted walls, colorful tile, and a dramatic old Mexican-style entrance. Ideally situated for taking photos in which you appear to be holding it up, another adorns the roof of the West 12th Street location. ThunderCloud Subs More giant fake food this time a really big sub sandwich perched atop posts outside the ThunderCloud location on Ranch Road 620. At the restaurant's Guadalupe Street location, a glowing coffee cup (see a theme here?) tops the neon sign outside, while a colorful, trippy, pancake-inspired mural brightens up the exterior walls. Kerbey Lane Cafe A giant coffee cup sculpture hangs from the sign leading people to the original Kerbey Lane Cafe on, of course, Kerbey Lane.
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