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How to build a thriving music scene in your city

How does a city become known as a “music city”? Publicist Elizabeth Cawein explains how thriving music scenes make cities healthier and happier and shares ideas for bolstering your local music scene — and showing off your city’s talent to … Continue reading →

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CGI 3D Animation Short Film HD “The Wishgranter” by Wishgranter Team | CGMeetup

CGI 3D Animated Short Film The Wishgranter by Kal Athannassov, John McDonald, Echo Wu. Featured on http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/the-wish… Set in a world where wishes are granted by mythical beings that live under fountains, an apathetic wish granter is forced to go … Continue reading →

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Mirrored Figures Reflect the Natural Landscape and Cultural Heritage of Morecambe Bay

Rob Mulholland (previously)  was recently commissioned by the Morecambe Bay Partnership to create a site-specific installation that would connect with the history of the northwest England site. The British sculptor and environmental artist created a series of six mirrored figures and two dwellings that … Continue reading →

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JACKIE – Animation Short Film 2018 – GOBELINS

Jackie, an old widow tells the story about her routine and loneliness during an interview

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Pop Art

Graffitti. Source: Pop Art

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DUO – Animation Short Film 2014 – GOBELINS

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Life-Size Beached Whale Installation Shocks People in the Philippines

The eye-opening whale sculpture is filled with a mix of plastic bags, plastic containers, bottles, and other waste collected from the ocean. With microplastics polluting the food chain and increasing numbers of marine species facing endangerment, the world’s ocean plastic issue … Continue reading →

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Cartography Merges w/ Ink & Pencil Drawings to Create Beautiful Portraits – My Modern Met

Roads, rivers, and mountains on a map turn into elegant profiles and facial expressions. British artist Ed Fairburn uses maps as his canvas to create incredible portrait drawings. Each detailed work merges the topographic lines of cartography with the hand-drawn contours of … Continue reading →

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A Hand-Drawn Animation of Merging Faces and Morphing Bodies by Daniel Zvereff

Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Zvereff works in a combination of drawing, photography, and videography and all three come into play in a animated short. The three minute long film is a music video for Norwegian singer-songwriter Okay-Kaya’s song “Emulate”. It is a departure … Continue reading →

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Junction

Based on the children’s graphic novel ‘Junction’ by Nathan Jurevicius and published by Koyama Press. For generations the Face Changers have made the clay tokens that alter the winds and faces of their kin. This month the youngest is tasked … Continue reading →

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A Cafe in Seoul Uses Clever Contour Lines to Appear Like a 2-Dimensional Cartoon

Since 2017, a small cafe in South Korea has been transporting its visitors to a two-dimensional world. Cafe Yeonnam-dong 239-20  in Seoul features all-white walls, floors, furniture, and fixtures accented with black contour lines that give the space the flattened … Continue reading →

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Extraordinary Pigeons Take Flight in Large-Scale Feathery Murals by Adele Renault

ArtistAdele Renault (previously) paints realistic portraits of the common pigeon, often highlighting real examples of pigeons whose stories are anything but ordinary. This year she painted a mural of “Baby Girl,” a New Jersey pigeon who won a 366 mile race … Continue reading →

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