Tag: portrait
Geolocated Paintings: The World Has Many Faces
With technology becoming more and more powerful, we can experience the world getting smaller so to speak. It has been predicted by many scientists over the years that we will keep feeling the world shrinking, and that may very well be the reason why we are undertaking the huge endeavor of trying to ...
Crop Field Portraits Way Better Than The Harry Potter One
About a week ago, I wrote about the Harry Potter crop portrait created by a farmer. It was impressive to say the least, and there must have been a lot of work that went into creating that one. However, when I first saw it, I was kind of bummed out about the lack of images that showed it. I tried my ...
Beautiful Pencil Shaving Portraits Go Far Beyond Trash
Isn't it wonderful how even the smallest and most useless objects can be used to create art? Art created from unusual materials will have you glued to the screen just because you have never seen anything like ever before. The ways of creating this type of art are oddly familiar, but at the same time ...
Harry Potter Fan Creates Insane Portrait In Corn Field
Now that the saga of Harry Potter is about to end, at least on the silver screen, there is a huge sadness in the world it seems. There were initial reports of mourning in London for the last installment of the franchise, which has shot pretty much all the characters to stardom through the years. Har ...
Screw Art: Stunning Approach To Making Portraits
I am really a sucker for odd art it seems. I tend to get moderately excited about even when getting a peek at the real Mona Lisa, but when I suddenly come across something with a little more... well, geek in it, I turn into a true art fan. It's weird really if you ask me. I always tend to enjoy look ...
Dice Figures: Portraying The Human Body Using Only Dice
When I was a young boy and went to school like every other dedicated student, I used to play Dungeons & Dragons during the breaks. I was in a group of people who regularly got together to kick some butt. One of us was the dungeon master dealing us all what we could take. It was a magical time, a ...
Celebrities In Real Life Disney Character Portraits
We've seen all kinds of spoofs and funniness surrounding Disney. It's pretty much the best subject to spoof since they are always making the funniest movies, and they have been the premiere producer of animated cartoons for as long as I can remember. We've seen Disney characters on all kinds of diff ...
Recycled Floppy Disk Art: Retro Technology Gets A New Life
Of all the creative artwork I've written about on Bit Rebels over the past two years, this is definitely one of my favorites. It combines technology, painting, recycling and a human touch, all flavored with that retro feeling we love so much. I remember when I first saw the works of Nick Gentry. It ...
Social Media Art: All Your Facebook Friends Sketched
There are so many things about this that are so cool; I don't even know where to start! I remember a few years ago when we started seeing people create Twitter backgrounds made up of a collage of avatars from all their followers. I thought that was such a sweet way for someone to give his or her fol ...
Muhammad Ali Portrait Created Using 1,500 Punching Bags
The geek community seems to be on fire these days. There is no idea out there that is too far-fetched or too creative to be realized, especially when it comes to famous people's portraits. The latest in a row of bizarre creations was a Mona Lisa replication using over 100,000 carats of gem stones. T ...
IconicStand: Custom Make Your Own iPhone 4 Stand
If you are anything like me, you are constantly trying to upgrade the futuristic look of your office. Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of browsing and part of an idea of what you are looking for. Usually you will find more than you bargained for and find yourself in a position where the stuf ...
Unbelievable Portraits Made From Chewed Gum & Spit
Apparently this guy has been doing this for years, but I just found out about it today, and it's blowing my mind. Do you see the "paintings" below? No paint was used to make them. They were created from chewed gum and spit only. Nuts!
Jason Kronenwald, an artist from Toronto, has a whole team ...
Creepy Paper Art To Decorate Your Haunted House
There is something special about thrillers and horror movies. I guess it's the certainty of getting that adrenaline pumping that makes those movies so appealing. Sometimes it becomes a little bit too intense, and that's when many stop watching horror movies all together. When "Paranormal Activity ...
Junk Drawer and Trash Portraits: Creative Inspiration
Do you have a "junk drawer" at your house? You know, it's the place where you toss things that don't really have a place to be stored like old keys, half used rolls of tape, pens, mismatched socks and extra buttons.
In a nutshell, Zac Freeman takes the contents of random junk drawers (combined w ...
Portraits On The iPad – It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This!
When it comes to electronic gadgets, people tend to see them as bulky and proprietary machines that can't match the one thing we've had for hundreds of years, the pen. To write, draw, sketch or express ourselves, the easiest thing to do is just use a simple pen. When the iPad was launched, a lot o ...