Saturday, December 2, 2023

Artist of the Day, December 2, 2023: Photographers around the world that made a perfectly timed photo (#1973)

By Internet standards, a perfectly timed photo occurs when two of the following three conditions are met:
1. Perfect Place
2. Perfect Time
3. Perfect Angle

Sometimes the holy trinity of perfectness is achieved and you get an Internet classic like so many of the photographs below. There are countless galleries of these images floating around. I tried my best to compile the most representative of this concept. Enjoy and have a great weekend!

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Coal train sunset © Tom Danneman
Woman holding mirror on grass reflection © Laura Williams
Fish and scuba diver © Sick Nerd Baller on reddit
Swimmer water © Adam Pretty
Headless gymnast © Martin Bernetti
Obama wizard © Carolyn Kaster
Partial solar eclipse devil horns sun © Peter Wienerroither
Starbucks fail van © heuristicus on Reddit
Soldier yawning © Bored Panda
Seattle fog space needle looks like UFO © NothingI5True on Reddit
Rain cloud over bowl at Brazilian National Congress © Eurico Zimbres
 Dogbird © Megan Whiteley
Diver whale high five © Marco Queral
Crashing waves into lighthouse pier, Portugal  © Tiago Pinheiro
 Cat siting on ledge of balcony © Crazy Ivory
Baby ducks leaving nest-flying for first-time © naturen ar fantastisk.blogspot
Budweiser crown ref © BuzzFeed
Cats heart shape with tail © EthosExcelsior on Reddit
Distant storm cloud seen from airplane window  © Haley Luna
Four winged bird © Jens Birch
Kite surfing with whale below © AbovePhotograph
Meta flamingo © Robert Haas
Moon crane © Bruno Gerber
Moving car with hand from above © Aleksandr Malin
Reddit or Joker © Reddit
Saints Football fart  © newspaper-Deeman9 on Reddit
San Francisco Hills perspective straightened © Håkan Dahlström
Seagull takes ice cream © Jörn Kessels
Skydiving into Burning Man © opi8 on Reddit
Spear fishing © Stephane Ducandas
Statue cloud © Loco Lol
Statue juggling plane © Bored Panda

 

Friday, December 1, 2023

Artist of the Day, December 1, 2023: Oli-B, a Belgian emerging artist, painter (#1972)

Oli-B's work ranges across a huge array of media: acrylic, spray paint as well as digital or screen printing techniques on a wide variety of surfaces, including canvas, paper, wood, walls or even 3D volumes. Visually, it is fluidity that predominates, colours that are emphatic but balance each other; and a composition that binds everything together.

Since his teenage spray paint period he painted what he loved – shapes and colours – and flirt now with urban and contemporary art.

From abstract and figurative shapes charged with vivid colors, Oli-B molds the frontiers of his singular universe, where onirism interweaves with harmony and hope. Each piece writes its story and unveils new facets. This shiny space is animated by the artist’s desire for equilibrium and serenity. When he crosses that frontier, he deploys his ideal and optimistic vision of the world, in opposition to the real image tainted with bitterness that he sometimes has of it.

Oli-B loves the hustle and bustle of big cities and their crowds and uses the public spaces as a playground. Since more than 10 years, in addition to numerous national and international collaborations, He makes his art living by integrating it in the urban jungle through large scale mural painting in Europe, United States and of course Belgium. The inhabitants have always welcomed the presence of these works, emphasizing on the positivity they brought to the public space and the enhancement of their environment through the living art that was implanted there.

Oli-B invites you to his colorful, positive and vivid universe, where shapes, people and other elements born out of his imagination intermingle in an intuitive and spontaneous manner. An imaginary and secluded place, where movements and rhythm are highly important. He makes colors dance and opens you the doors to an environment where the sense are created differently according to the lectures and interpretations.

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Oli-B
2017,  Hand painted wooden sculpture in Maasmechelen Village (BE)
2017, Oli-B X Maasmechelen Village
2018,  Ground painting in Brussels
2018, Painting at Everlam (BE)
2019, Mural painting curated by The Crystal Ship and Condius, Nieuwpoort (BE)
2019, Mural painting for Rocket’s, Brussels
2019, Totem 12
2020, Mural painting for G8Living, Los Angeles
2020, Painting on a sea container for I-care, Mons (BE)
2021, Get it right
2021, Herbal Tea
2021, Just one chance
2021, Like I want you
2021, Mural at HydrO! – Val Benoit Liège
2021, Mural at La Louvière (BE)
2021, Painting on Hypecourt Lokeren
2021, Painting on Hypecourt Lokeren
2021, Tea for two
2022, I still need love
2022, Landscape
2022, Deep end
2022, Delicate
2022, Mural at ITM (BE)
2023, Family tree
Eau de Villée
Hand painted Skateboards
Hand painted truck
Painting at Lycee Charles Plisiner (BE)
The Google Data center Mural Project
Trilip Vase
Vitra Panton chair for CBRE best office contest ( BE)