Most street art is awesome, especially the 3D ones, but these ones are so, how do I put it, down to earth, even down to the gutter. How can they not bring a smile to your face?

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Pencil Vs Camera - 58 ©Ben Heine 2011 – www.benheine.com

Ben Heine has published Pencil vs Camera #57 and #58, new photos in his Flesh and Acrylic collection, as well as a number of artistic photos.

If you are interested in seeing (and purchasing) his work first hand, he is exhibiting in Belgium, London and Cape Verde. More information here.

Pencil Vs Camera - 57 ©Ben Heine 2011 – www.benheine.com

If your photography has become stale, or simply to exercise your photographic eye, try to see the interesting composition in the daily: patterns, shadows, colors and especially geometric shapes. They’re there, all around you; you just have to look.

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The London community of Instagramers have scheduled an exhibit of its photographers called My World Shared. It’s headlined as “An exhibition of personal perspectives shared through Instagram.”

My World Shared captures the concept of Instagram – to record in images our world around us, our lives, our outlook, our views, and share that view with the rest of the world. It is an individual view, but one that others can relate to, like postcards from a friend.

My World Shared Exhibition will take place at the East Gallery – Brick Lane – London.

The Exhibition will be opened for Public on the 22nd and 23rd of October 2011, from 12pm until 8pm.

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So you think you have lots of followers on Twitter and/or friends on Facebook? Maybe. But how do they really compare to significant events in history? This is what the BBC’s How Many Really? site will show you. It tends to put things into perspective.

How Many Really? compares the number of people involved in key historical events or situations to the people you know through Facebook or Twitter. You can also add your own numbers — for example, the amount of students in your class.

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A companion site is: How Big Really? that takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.

Jim Denevan is a patient man, as are probably all artists (except those who simply throw paint against canvas, ha, ha). He makes works of art on sandy beaches, by hand, using a stick or leaf broom, with the latter sometimes tied and dragged behind his bicycle (or pickup truck). As the video shows, he walks, draws a circle, walks some more, draws another circle, and on and on until the drawing is complete. There must easily be about 100 circles in that drawing. Now if you’ve ever tried drawing a circle freehand, you know how difficut it can be to get it as perfectly round as possible.

He has to finish his sand drawings before the high tide comes in and washes them all away. Do you remember being upset when someone messed up your drawing in elementary school?

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He’s also a chef:

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To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Tamron has asked 60 photographers to shoot with its new APS-C 15x optical zoom (Model B008) 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD lens and share their views of the world. The B008 lens recently was awarded the EISA European Zoom Lens of the Year 2011 – 2012 as well as the Camera GP 2011 Lens of The Year. It is available for Canon, Nikon and Sony.

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American artist Alexa Meade probably had an epiphany when she then set out to bring her latest art project to life. Or, should we say, bring life to art?

Here’s the scoop:

1. take a live model
2. dab him or her thoroughly in acrylic paint so s/he looks like a painting
3. take a photo of the live model imitiating a painting
4. sell the photo as art

No one told her that she was supposed to paint the bloke on a canvas? One step versus 4 steps?

Then, of course, she could have stopped at #2 and sold the live model as a painting. Sitting on a deck chair for life in shorts and t-shirt ain’t too bad if a meal, HD TV and an XBox were thrown into the mix.

Check out more of her work at: Alexa Meade and Flickr.

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If a photograph is a snapshot in time, then Swiss artist Andy Denzler captures life as seen through a VHS: pause it and you end up with a blurry image with scan lines. His paintings evoke this paused VHS imagery.

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All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong
- Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles

At any one time, there are people moving all over the face of this planet. We are not talking here of travel for business or pleasure, but of migration. Where do the people immigrating to the USA or Canada come from? You’d be surprised by the answer of who’s coming in from where and who’s leaving to where.

On the interactive graphic, click a country on the left side to see where people are leaving from that country to what other countries. Click on a country on the right side to see which countries are supplying the immigrants to that country.

For example, in the following graphic, I selected USA on the right side to display where people immigrating to the USA come from.

It’s lots of fun and mildly addictive. Give it a try!

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I’ve been noticing a lot lately that whenever the main actors in a movie enter a major room, the perspective suddenly changes from “on the ground” to “from the ceiling.” For a few seconds, the view from the ceiling showing the actors striding purposefully into the room makes for a dramatic scene.

Skott Chandler takes the same high road, placing his pinhole cameras on the ceiling, looking on the view straight down, casting “an unflinching gaze upon the inhabitants and rooms within the walls; not to judge, but to witness.” While not as dramatic a statement as in a movie, the resulting photograph is nevertheless quite revealing and the original perspective is definitely refreshing.

Visit our Featured Site: Skott Chandler Housewatch.

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