“Transparent” posters at New York streets

transparentposter This project is called “The New York Spring 2009″ and its done by Fred Lebain. He worked as a food stylist, and eventually decided to cover objects from his childhood in chocolate in order to photograph them. Huge transparent posters around streets and roofs of New York is latest project of this French artist.

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"Transformers" and other sculptures made out of polystyrene

robot-head Polystyrene are mostly used to protect articles from breaking when sent in packages. A professor of digital arts at University of Oregon, Michael Salter, uses polystyrene to make robot sculptures, formula cars and bikes. His biggest sculpture is a 22 feet tall robot surrounded with small robots to make passers-by keep distance so they don’t accidentally knock it over. Salter creates the sculptures by cutting the polystyrene in pieces and gluing them together, and it took him several months to do it.

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Have you seen “stikman” lately?

yellowstikman From the streets of Boston to Hollywood people started to spot a robot figure that further got the name stikman. The figures are placed all over the states and are made out of corrugated plastic, vinyl records, burlap sacks or scraps of wood, metal or cloth. You can find the stikman on building walls, newspaper boxes and traffic signs, but he is most often seen in crosswalks as a sticker pasted to the pavement. Some people are finding him interesting, others think he is creepy, but no one knows who the creator is. Some has tried to contact him through his email but he has always refused to give his real name, he will tell you to just call him Bob.

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The Key Card Hotel in New York made out of 200 000 card keys

receptioncards The Key Card Hotel in New York is built out of 200 000 card keys. Every room and every wall, even the toilet are made out of card keys. The hotel is made by Bryan Berg, who has the world record in card house building.

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Tiny human figures on food transformed into landscapes

chocolateworkers A food imaginatively transformed into a variety of landscapes by Japanese student Akiko Ida, 37, and Pierre Javelle, 39. And in an effort to catch out lazy-eyed observers, the pair have included tiny figures and props to make their scrumptious settings seem real at a glance. Working from a home studio in Paris, the photography duo have devoted hundreds of hours into tricking onlookers with tiny sets in their mesmerising ‘minimiam’ series.
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