Pictures

Japanese Farmers use Rice Fields to Express their Art

We have all heard about the crop circles and seen them on television, in movies, or maybe in real life, but in Japan you can see rice art on the fields. Every year Japanese farmers are planting rice in different patterns and using different sorts of rice for color. The result is spectacular pictures. Unfortunately it’s only visible until the rice is harvested in September.

Beer Cans Turned Into Amazing Sculptures

These figures and sculptures are made as a tribute to the Turkish beer Efes Pilsen. The artists of this project have cut Efes Pilsen beer cans and made everything from miniature people to buildings and airplanes. While some people are creating art out of beer cans.

Spinning On The Merry-Go-Round

The liability of the merry-go-round is slowly depriving parks and schools of this fun piece of spinning metal and wood. Sad. So before they are all gone, go find the one merry-go-round in your area and take a few spinning pictures. Here are 15 dizzy ones to inspire you.

SPRING SPIN by foreversouls

image by soundman1024

Wheeeee! by ktpupp

Happiness is Spinning by Whateverthing

Spinning Julia by Brit.

Dizzying Playground! by DenisGiles

Spinning Around by Tomer Arazy

Somebody stop the world… by Bah Humbug

Round and round by santheo

GO Rhonda GO! by mx5tx

Whee! by ajschu

Jake & Kylie Spinning by kcolwell

round by woodleywonderworks

spinning by tetraconz

Chester Spin by MOEVIEW

Color Illusion

Have you ever wished that you could make it look as if your black and white photos were in colour? Well, through the magical powers of chromatic adaptation, you can!

Start with the original image:

Arizona 2003 by Photocritic on Flickr

Upping the saturation will help your image seem more, er, saturated (clicky for bigger)

Inverse it in an image editing package like Photoshop or the Gimp (in Photoshop: Image → Adjustments → Invert).

Next, increase the saturation a little bit (this will help with the colour perception – in Photoshop, Image → Adjustments → Hue & Saturation).

Finally, blur the photo a little. This will ensure that you concentrate on colour, rather than the texture. In Photoshop, I used Filter → Blur → Gaussian Blur, with a setting of 2px, but experiment to see what looks best.

That’s your first picture:

For the second picture, simply desaturate your original photo. If you want, you can up the contrast a little bit, or even sharpen it further.

The final result? Check out the video below. To see the effect, simply start the video and stare at the horizon. After 20 seconds, the image will change, and you’ll be able to see the optical illusion:

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Office in the middle of the forest

Talk about environment friendly place for firms and offices. On the other hand imagine all the fresh air and peace you can get while working, no traffic, no air pollution, etc. You can surely expand your mind, creativity and motivation while working in these circumstances.

Using shadows to create a street art

Instead of drawing graffiti on the walls, a New York street artist Ellis Gallagher decided to use the shadows that lamp posts are making to create street art. Gallagher is only using chalk and stone sediment to outline the shadows into stencils looking like figures or just simple art. This kind of street art is very neat and impressive to come across in the late hours.