Disgusting does not do these furry men’s back art justice, but I suppose if you were born with a thick covering of back hair you might as well put it to good use.

American Sculptor, Dan Webb, transforms ordinary pieces of wood into extraordinary works of art. His lifelike creations contain high levels of detail and the intricate design is truly masterful.

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Awesome guitar constructed entirely out of Lego pieces. The guitar is playable but had to be re-tuned after a few chops. The ‘truss rod’ he made for the back was not sturdy enough to handle the string tension for long which is why there are no strings in the pics.

More amazing pictures from this amazing competition. I don’t know what figure is winner but i hope that you’ll have your favourite one.

Amazing art ! Maybe it sounds weird, but there is a championship in making things with sand… and some people are fantastic in this job. This is a half pictures. Next day you will see the rest…

Beside his creativity and genious mind, Picasso was known as a very strange and controversial man. Many people think that made him so famous…

1. Picasso’s Full Name Has 23 Words

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. He was named after various saints and relatives. The “Picasso” is actually from his mother, Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father is named Jose Ruiz Blasco.

2. When He Was Born, The Midwife Thought He Was Stillborn

Picasso had such a difficult birth and was such a weak baby that when he was born, the midwife thought that he was stillborn so she left him on a table to attend his mother. It was his uncle, a doctor named Don Salvador, that saved him:

‘Doctors at that time,’ he told Antonina Vallentin, ‘used to smoke big cigars, and my uncle was no exception. When he saw me lying there he blew smoke into my face. To this I immediately reacted with a grimace and a bellow of fury’”

3. Picasso’s First Word: Pencil

It’s like Picasso was born an artist: his first word was “piz,” short of lápiz the Spanish word for ‘pencil.’ His father Ruiz, an artist and art professor, gave him a formal education in art starting from the age of 7. By 13, Ruiz vowed to give up painting as he felt that Pablo had surpassed him. (Photo of Picasso as a 4-year-old-boy

4. Pablo’s First Drawing

Le Picador by Pablo Picasso (1890)

At the tender young age of 9, Picasso completed his first painting: Le picador, a man riding a horse in a bullfight.

La première communion (First Communion) by Pablo Picasso (1896)

His first major painting, an “academic” work is First Communion, featuring a portrait of his father, mother, and younger sister kneeling before an altar. Picasso was 15 when he finished it.

5. Picasso was a Terrible Student

No doubt about it, Picasso was brilliant: artistically, he was years ahead of his classmates who were all five to six years older than him. But Picasso chafed at being told what to do and he was often thrown into “detention”: “For being a bad student I was banished to the ‘calaboose’ – a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly … I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping”

6. Picasso’s First Job

Picasso signed his first contract in Paris with art dealer Pere Menach, who agreed to pay him 150 francs per month (about US$750 today)

7. Did Picaso Steal The Mona Lisa?

Actually no, but in 1911, when the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, the police took in Picasso’s friend, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire fingered Picasso as a suspect, so the police hauled him in for questioning. Both were later released.

8. Cubism: Full of Little Cubes

In 1909, Picasso and French artist Georges Braque co-founded an art movement known as cubism. Actually, it was a French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who first called it “bizarre cubiques” or cubism, after noting that Picasso and Braque’s paintings are “full of little cubes.”

9. Picasso was a Playboy

Being a famous artist certainly helped Picasso get the girl. Girls, in fact – many, many girls. Here’s a short list of known wives and lovers of Picasso:

- Fernande Olivier (Picasso’s first love, she was 18?; he was 23)

- Marcelle Humbert AKA Eva Gouel (she was 27, Picasso was 31)

- Gaby Lespinasse (he was 34, I don’t know how old Gaby was, but she was young, that’s for sure!)

- Olga Khokhlova (Picasso’s first wife; she was 26 and he was 36 when they met)

- Marie-Thérèse Walter (she was 17, he was 46)

- Dora Maar (she was 29, Picasso was 55)

- Françoise Gilot (she was 21 when she met Picasso, who was 61)

- Geneviève Laporte (one of Picasso’s last lovers. She was in her mid-twenties and a French model of Picasso, who was in his seventies when the affair started)

- Jacqueline Roque (who became Picasso’s second wife. She was 27 and he was 79)

Le Rêve (The Dream) by Pablo Picasso (1932)

Marie-Thérèse Walter was Picasso’s model for Le Rêve. In 2006, casino magnate Steve Wynn agreed to sell the painting for $139 million, but accidentally put his elbow through the canvas the day before the sale was to be completed!

10. Picasso’s Car

Okay, It’s not exactly his car, but I couldn’t resist. Last year, 44-year-old mechanic Andy Saunders of Dorset, England, spent six months converting his old Citroen 2CV into a cubist work inspired by Pablo Picasso!

Guernica by Pablo Picasso (1937) - turned into 3D art by Lena Gieseke in 2008

The French artist Christian Guémy believes that you can tell a person’s life story if you look deeply enough into their face. These are his amazing stencils. The details of the hair and wrinkles on his subject’s faces are incredible. He travels all over the world and creates stencils of the people he meets.

“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams…” – John Merrick

These pages take a look at David’s role as John Merrick in the 1980/1 staging of the play ‘The Elephant Man’. John Merrick was a real person who was born in South London in the 1860′s. He died in 1894 at the age of 27. He suffered from appalling physical disabilities and deformities, probably due to the medical condition Neurofibromatosis. What made John Merrick unique was his wit and ability to charm, despite his terrible appearance. He was rescued from a carnival freak show by a compassionate doctor, and became quite famous and well-liked in high society.

David took over the role of Merrick in July 1980, and he travelled with the show via Denver and Chicago to New York, where the run ended in January 1981. David’s hugely innovative interpretation of the role used no make-up or prosthetics. Instead, drawing on his training as a mime artist, he contorted his own body into unlikely shapes to give the effect of profound disability (a task which left him covered in obvious bruises spotted by a fan who spoke to him after a show in Denver). He also researched the diction of the handicapped and altered his voice to convey the elephant man’s suffering. At a dress rehearsal in the Booth theatre, even the stage hands burst into spontaneous applause at his remarkable performance.

To set the performance in its time period, David was between movie performances in Just a Gigolo and Christine F. He had recently got divorced and his 14th album, Scary Monsters … and Super Creeps was just released. Many people felt that David’s performance in The Elephant Man established him as a true actor.

The trouble is, I always look for parts with an emotional or physical limp, and I always seem to get them.” - David Bowie

“It is undoubtedly the biggest single challenge of my career. Going onto Broadway is the fulfilment of a great dream.” (Daily Mirror) – David Bowie

“Its the idea of putting over various points of view which intrigues me – seeming illusions, creating enviroments that aren’t really there” (Record Mirror) – David Bowie
Press quotes

“David…won the respect of both the critics and the audience” - Record Mirror

“shockingly good” – New York Post

“piercing and haunted” – New York Daily News

“preternaturally wise” – New York Times

“The role that made stagehands stand up and cheer” - Daily Mirror

“wordless and unmoving, he is nevertheless an electric presence.” – Rolling Stone

“commands the stage” – Village Voice

“exquisite stillness” and “physical precision” – Theater Magazine

“Bowie.. had the audience.. in the palm of his hand.” – Andy Peebles, BBC Radio 1

“Bowie succeeds in extracting a dramatic maximum out of the part” - NME

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what a blast from the past spaceface! Yes I saw it, in Denver…and what a day it was.

I think Elephant Man ran for about two weeks and we got tix to one of the final shows. I was soooo furious because everyone I knew was telling me stories of ‘ohhh, we saw David Bowie at the Rainbow Club last night’ or oohhh, we saw David at such & such restaurant last night’…and I was out at those places and never saw him…damn! At the time I was working at a record store so I called my friend who worked as an RCA rep and asked if she could get me backstage after the show…and she said yes. So we go to the show, it was brilliant. A fabulous audience of punk kids and senior citizens, a wonderful mix of all types. My friend takes me backstage only to find David has left for the evening. I was crushed! CRUSHED! So we head across the street to the Executive Towers hotel bar for a drink. We’re sitting there pissing and moaning when I look up and see our beloved David sitting at the bar …alone. My friends dared me to go talk to him..and I’m not one to back out of a dare, so I did. He was incredibly gracious and we talked for quite a while. He told me about the new upcoming album…Scary Monsters. He bought me a glass of wine. Some stranger took our picture…I never saw it..and when I was getting ready to leave, didn’t want to overstay my welcome, David actually hugged me and gave me a kiss on the cheek. It was a moment I’ll never forget.

Really interesting thing that Bowie didn’t use “special equipment to look like real John Merrick, and maybe this is magic of this piece of art. He wanted to show that anomalies that John Merrick had wasn’t his recogntion and how people who knew him remember him. John Merrick was real hero.

John Merrick in famous movie in 1980. "The Elephant Man" (one of main character is starring by Anthony Hopkins)

Interpretation By Bowie

source:http://www.davidbowie.com

In the Tibetan Gaden Shartse Monastery that is located in India, four of the seven Tibetan Monks make traditional sand paintings at the Cozmic Cafe in Placerville that are known as a sand mandala. The Monks raise money to educate local about the Tibetan and Buddhist cultures and for their monastery. The sand paintings are very beautiful and look like they are very tedious to make.

For me these is real art, and probably requires a lot of work, train and patient. People from Tibet are maybe very strange for us, but i believe we can learn many things from them…

Environmentalists have always promoted recycling as the best way to preserve the scarce resources nature has bestowed on mankind. Be it recycling for fun or practicality, there is no shortage of eco-minds. While some make us believe that recycled products can be cool and trendy, there are others who just recycle old products into bizarre forms, which mostly don’t have any significant use, but they do instill a green sense which gets us to inform the eco-frenzy about them.