Art Bodypainting Wallpaper: March 2012

Scissor Spiders by Christopher Locke

When we hear about Spiders, we get afraid because of their dangerous look. But artist Christopher Locke gave an other impression of spiders by his unique art work. He takes scissors that were confiscated by the TSA at airport security checkpoints and turns them into these awesome spider sculptures. We’re guessing they still won’t be permitted to be carried onto airplanes, but when no one is looking they might just scuttle onboard all by themselves.

Multilayered Portraits by Lucas Simões

Brazilian artist Lucas Simoes makes these interesting multilayered cut out portraits. The outcome is awesome but the fascinating part is the process. Read more after the picture.

In this series of works I invited intimate friends over to tell me a secret as I took their portrait. However, my intention was not to hear their secret, but to capture the expressions of each one at the moment they revealed their secret. I also asked each one to choose a song for me to listen to in my ear phones while I photographed them. And, after the photo session, I asked each one if the secret had a color, and these are the colors the portraits carry. From this photo shooting session I chose 10 different portraits to cut and overlap.

Skull of Books

Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre has finally found a use for all those obsolete computing books that have been collecting dust worldwide. His newest work-in-progress is called Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty II) and as you can see, it is a near perfect rendition of a human skull popping out from a stack of outdated computer manuals.

Via: Thisiscolossal

New Photos of Titanic 100 Years Later

As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic approaches, National Geographic Magazine is unveiling, in their April 2012 edition, new photographs that provide a greater understanding of what happened on that fateful day, April 15, 1912.

Ethereal views of Titanic's bow (modeled by Stefan Fichtel) offer a comprehensiveness of detail never seen before.

Two of Titanic's engines lie exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in "rusticles" - orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria - these massive structures, four stories tall, once powered the largest moving man-made object on Earth.

The view from above.

As the starboard profile shows, the Titanic buckled as it plowed nose-first into the seabed, leaving the forward hull buried deep in mud--obscuring, possibly forever, the mortal wounds inflicted by the iceberg.

Via: Dailymail