Wrecked Billboard - Creative Advertising

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621 days ago

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The Amélie Company, a Denver-based ad agency, made this billboard for the State of Colorado to promote safe driving. The text at the bottom reads “Tailgating Isn’t Worth It. Give Trucks Room. It’s The Law.” The agency wrote: The Colorado State Patrol wanted to call attention to the dangers of driving aggressively around commercial motor [...]

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Photos From The Inside Of Most Luxurious Private Jets

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621 days ago

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World worth living

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Unlike freelance photographers who get a buzz (and maybe a few cents) taking photos of bees on flowers or birds in trees, Nick Gleis shoots for the stars as he spent over twenty years snapping flicks of private jets and making custom books for each owner. Although his work is currently on display at the [...]

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The Lipstick Enigma Installation

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621 days ago

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This computer-driven sentence-generator, using rules and lexicon written by the artist, invents and writes a new line of text, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector. The sentences mix the language of engineering with the language of beauty advertising. The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 [...]

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'Ghost Girl' by Kevin Francis Gray

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621 days ago

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Admiring art

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‘Ghost Girl‘ is a sculpture by Kevin Francis Gray made from marble. The sculpture is life-size and features a shower of tears in place of a girl’s face. The girl is holding a handkerchief behind her back and also has (what looks to be) cut marks on the back of her left arm. Artist is [...]

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When Mysterious Shadows Running Through the Park

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622 days ago

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A beautiful and haunting art installation just went up in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. Created by Jim Campbell, an M.I.T. grad who majored in electrical engineering and mathematics, the installation consists of 1,600 sawed off lightbulbs whose coils have been replaced with energy efficient LEDS. The engineer-turned-artist designed the electronics so that the LEDs receive [...]