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Futuristic Concept Cars

This is my selection of some of the best futuristic concept cars. I can't begin to imagine what the future has in store for us but these concept may just be our future method of transportation. Slick, curvy, ultra-thin, shaped, smooth and defined designs seem to be the new fashion in motoring technology. These concepts are mind blowing.

BMW ZX-6

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Sand Drawing by Kseniya Simonova

Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who recently won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

If you have any more creative and inspirational videos you like to share I am happy to post them.

Spectacular Sand Sculptures

In 2008, the Annual Sand Sculpture Festival was held on a Portuguese beach. It was open to the public in Pera on May 22. It is said to be that there is a total of 60 huge sculptures made by professional and amateur artists from around the globe. Last year the theme was 'Hollywood' this included superhero, action, scifi and non-fictional characters from all sorts of movies. The artists used more then 35,000 tons of sand to create these wonderful works of art.

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Amazing works of Banksy

Banksy is an amazing street artist. He has drawn and painted numerous works of art appearing for the public to find in the morning. Banksy is a master mind of street art, he carries out works at night and paints pictures sometimes as big a building wall.

Double yellow flower

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Creative Food Art

This is a excellent collection of food art I found on the net. Very creative and inspiring, some of the detail here is fantastic. My favourite one is probably the Knife biting bread and The finger eating apple.

Bread shoe

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Nokia 6220: Navigation Commercial

Great ad produced by the agency Wieden+Kennedy London for the new Nokia 6220 handset. The advert depicts a big map drawn by the public helped by the Nokia phone application "Maps". Do you think they actually did a drawing that big?

Street Art

I've been browsing the web looking for street art lately to drive inspiration. Here is a nice collection of graffiti street art. The optical illusions set is very nice.

Speed Sketching

Speed sketching is known as a time-lapse video featuring the construction of a drawing by an artist taking you behind the scenes of an illustration. It is primarily a non-digital art form whereby the sketch is hand-drawn on paper and rendered using a sequence of photographic images.

Here is a collection of some fantastic video sketches.

Sketching monsters by Chris Scalf

Sketches of 4 different Monsters. Each sketch takes the artist 10 minutes

Speed Paintings

Speed Painting is known as a time-lapse video featuring the construction of an image by an artist taking you behind the scenes of an illustration. It is primarily a digital art form whereby the image is hand-drawn and rendered using a tablet and graphics editor such as Photoshop or Painter. Artists may use their imagination or take direct inspiration from a live scene or recreate an image depicted in a photograph. Whilst the artist works on the illustration, their actions on the computer screen are automatically captured and compiled into a real-time video. This recording is then accelerated, thus giving the term Speed Painting.

Here is a collection of incredible speed paintings showing you the process behind some of the most breath taking paintings on the web.

Interview with Neil Hooson of pointblankstudios.com

I started in the design field in 1996, right after completing a computer animation course at a local college. I thought, as a freelance animator, I'd be in high demand. But, I didn't really do any local market research so I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I found myself having to pick up new skills such as web design, HTML because those were the types of jobs that were plentiful at the time. I freelanced (went broke) for a year and then found a full-time job as an HTML programmer for an online publishing company.