food :: the united steaks of america

Have a beef with how the country's being run ? I don't know if photographer Dominic Episcopo, an artist out of Philadelphia, does but he's turned beef into the theme of his series "The United Steaks of America" that uses ribeyes and sirloins to carve out our country. Which steak (I mean state) is your fave? And where's NY?? See more and vote over at the Huffington Post.

Steaks cut like states - a JUST COOL idea.

photos :: funny babies

Mini Marilyn?

and some more cute baby photos...

Love these! Just adorable and JUST COOL!

via 9gag

photography :: squirrelize your photos

Need to add a squirrel to one of your photos but can't find a willing subject in your backyard? There's a quick way to embed the cute little varmint into your photographs and it doesn't involve acorn bribery or nasty rodent bites either. It's called "squirrelizing".

This was a photo from an earlier post of mine that I magically squirrelized. Wanta try it yourself? Check out the squirrelizer application here .

Squirrelizing - It is definitely JUST COOL!

art:: listen with your eyes

Dancing Paint!

These amazing highspeed photos were taken by Linden Gledhill of paint dancing to the loud sounds of a speaker. Hey, I knew paint had rhythm!

Fascinating photos that are JUST COOL!

via loudreams

art :: houses made of garlic

I've been a fan of Carl Warner for a while now. This popular food artist / photographer manipulates salmon fillets, garlic cloves and brocoli florets into fantastic sureal landscapes and then photographs them. So it's nice to see he's just added six more images to his ever popular (and tasty!) "foodscape" menu! These are a few of his latest -

 

Garlicshire

 

Fishscape

 

Bread and Cheese

 

ravioli air balloon

Made entirely of vegetables, meat, dairy and fish, Warner's foodscapes look so real you really have to take a second look to descern what edibles you are actually looking at!

"Foodscapes started out as personal project where I wanted to highlight the idea of implied design within the natural world, the qualities within organic forms,' said the Kent UK based 44-year-old. 'For me, the forms, shapes, patterns and structures of everything from DNA molecules to fingerprints, from tornadoes to spiral galaxies all point to a much bigger picture."

via neatorama via daily mail

gardening ::watch your garden grow!

If you love gardening and watching the seeds you planted turn from tiny two leafed babies to lush and robust plants over the course of the summer then THIS you'll like! I found it in one of my favorite catalogs, Hammacher Schlemmer, which btw always seems to have the coolest gadgets. It's called the The Timelapse Garden Video Camera and will take a series of time lapse shots of your garden and save them as an avi movie!

"This is the camera that makes a timelapse video of your garden to show you the development of individual specimens or entire areas over a period of time. It can focus as close as 20" away to illustrate petal growth or, with its wide 54° field of view, it can capture perennials as they grow to conceal your spent spring bulb foliage (play the video). The camera takes a picture at one of six pre-determined intervals (five seconds to 24 hours) and combines them into a single 1280 x 1024 resolution AVI movie file for easy playback on a computer. It has a light sensor that turns off the camera at dusk and back on at dawn, allowing for continued video capture each day. Movies are timestamped and stored on the camera's removable 2GB USB flash drive, which can take up to 18,000 pictures. The camera's weather-resistant exterior enables operation between 122° F and 14° F."

It's only 159.99 over at Hammacher Schlemmer so check it out!

photo via ohgizmo

photography :: it's strange

There's something strange about Erik Johansson's photography.

It's JUST COOL!

art :: from portrait to landscape

There's nothing like blending in with the landscape and artist Levi Van Veluw  knows how to do it. His camouflage portraiture is a little weird, a little quirky but really JUST COOL!

Levi van Veluw´s photo series are all self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: in  a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers – modifying the face as object – combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object with  large visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content.

advertising :: fast faced

The faces aren't pretty but the service is fast. Slobbering at the corners of the mouth and distorted facial features prove that! Scholz & Friends Berlin show that speed doesn't always make you more attractive in this high-impact image campaign. Their clever windblown photography touts Inline Courier as the fastest bike courier service in Berlin.

What's JUST COOL about these not so pretty faces is that they weren't produced digitally at all but are genuine faces exposed to oncoming wind. Photographer Hans Starck shot these in the back seat of a convertible speeding at a lively 200 km/h. I guess you won't catch me riding in the back seat of a convertible anymore ;)

The photos won first prize at the Corbis Photography Award.

via i believe in advertizing

photos :: extreme holiday geekiness

Holiday greetings - so geeky - it's JUST COOL!

photos :: tweety terrors

art :: it's fishy

There's some wonderfully fishy portraits by gnato over at deviant art. I like these ones especially...

art :: touching strangers

How do you ask complete strangers to pose with and touch each other? How do you do that in New York City of all places? Photographer Richard Renaldi managed to pull off this feat and his photos prove it. His images most often took the form of two or more strangers sitting on the same bench, waiting for a bus. Richard said, "It took some directing and orchestrating on my part, as people need to participate actively in the process of being photographed with a view camera ." After comtemplating the efforts it took to create his other "collections" his "...thoughts about that process led me to the idea of creating new photographs of strangers together, but pushing things a bit further by asking them to physically touch each other. Thus was born the idea of Touching Strangers.

In some of these, you'd never guess they were strangers - but in others body language says it all. These photos are JUST COOL!

via jmcolberg

perspectives :: girl with horse head

Photo Montages

that are JUST COOL!

via iamrobyn

art :: the art of aging - age maps

How cool are these photos? What Bobby Neel Adams terms as "photo surgery" is his photomontage technique that explores the human aging process. One side of the photo is youth - the other is maturity. Both blend almost seamlessly into each other.

See more AgeMaps and more of the artists work here >>>

Fascinating! and JUST COOL...