Forest Blending Acrylic Glass Statues

Imagine walking through a forest and seeing just a glimpse of these invisible figures! They’re the creative work of artist Rob Mulholland. It has been called the Predator effect after the 1987 film where an alien life form seamlessly blends into its background.

Mulholland told BBC Scotland that the key to the effect was creating a distorted reflection. “It alters reality, one moment you see them and the next moment they blend in. There’s an ambiguity to it - it doesn’t answer all the questions.

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Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan, 1885

Ugh, I love this painting so much.

Just some background stuff, Ivan the Terrible was the Tsar of Russia for most of the 16th Century. In I think 1581, he caught his daughter-in-law wearing ‘immodest clothing in front of everyone’ and struck her. She was apparently pregnant and she may or may not have had a miscarriage because of it.

Ivan’s son and the girl’s husband, also named Ivan after his father, hears about it and gets into a really heated argument with his father that ends with Ivan the Terrible taking a swing at his son with his pointed staff. It’s said that he immediately fell down and kissed his son’s face, pressing his hands against his left temple to try to stop the bleeding. He famously screamed “May I be damned! I’ve killed my son! I’ve killed my son!” His son briefly regained consciousness and his last words were “I die as a devoted son and most humble servant.”

I love all the details. I love the pointed staff lying on the ground and the signs of a fight with the tossed over chair, disturbed carpet, and the door wide open. I love the single tear on Ivan’s face and their position on the floor. This is a really gorgeous but raw depiction of one of the darkest moments in an incredible man’s life. I wish there were more historical paintings like this.

Pictures like this are my favorites. I’m not being sadistic or sick here, it’s the raw and primal emotion that shows in the darkest and most fear ridden paintings. When I see pictures like this, the flood of emotions that comes through is what I deem the most beautiful. many people don’t want to look at paintings like this because of blood, or the horror on the characters faces, but I say if you want to feel raw emotion, you should look at paintings like this. The facial expressions, they’re just perfection at it’s finest. The wide eyes, and the fact that Ivan Sr.’s eyes are somewhat pink where the whites are suppose to be, you can just see that he’s in tears and terror, and his son is trying to stay awake yet still in shock at what has just occurred. It’s all around a gorgeous piece, and people always think I’m really weird for adoring art like this. Fine, think of me as a freak for loving the pure emotion that this piece gives off. this is human emotion, human fear, and human regret, and to be able to show that PERFECTLY, is one of the most beautiful things in art, and I hope that someday I too can manage to make a piece such as this that will make people cry. If I make someone cry, not because of the story, but to FEEL that emotion by looking at the artwork, I’ll feel like I’ve just advanced a step in my artistic skills. You don’t even have to read the story behind this, you can already feel the pain in Ivan Sr.’s heart for what he has done in his own terror stricken eyes.

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orientaltiger:

Berndnaut Smilde created a cloud in a room which was visible for mere minutes at Hotel MariaKapel.

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sbjournal:

Australian photographer Lincoln Harrison captures long exposures of gorgeous star trails in the night sky above the Australian outback. He describes the grueling (and freezing) process of capturing the photos in the Daily Mail.

via PetaPixel & New School of Photography

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Artist & Photographer:

Ulrika Kestere

“The Girl With 7 Horses”

   “Once upon a time there was a girl who had 7 invisible horses. People thought she was crazy and that she in fact had 7 imaginative horses, but this was not the case. When autumn came the girl spent a whole day washing all her clothes. She hung them on a string in her garden to let the gentle autumn sun dry them. Out of nowhere, a terrible storm came and its fiercefull winds grabbed a hold of all her clothes and all seven horses (authors note: since they are invisible they obviously didn’t weigh much). The girl was devistated and spent all autumn looking for each horse spread around the country, wrapped in her clothes.”

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