Exploding Magnum Ice Cream Ads

This isn’t the work of CGI. Instead, using detonators, small explosives, and some fast photography, they were able to capture images of exploding ice cream in a way which makes it look even more delicious than it would in bar form.

By setting the shots to be taken at mathematically-timed moments, they were able to capture the exact moment to get the best frame of the miniature explosion.

Whether it’s the bright colors of a fruit-flavored bar or the mixture of tan and brown chocolate tones, the visuals are incredible.

By Diver & Aguilar.

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Plushtography

These handmade pillows designed to look like Nikon and Canon lenses. They’re made with fleece, felt and approximately 3 stops worth of love, and are currently available in a Canon 50mm f/1.8 II and Nikon 35mm f/1.8 designs.

Buy them here.

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The Christian Louboutin Fall 2011 Lookbook

The Christian Louboutin Fall 2011 Lookbook contains seven images that are reenactments of iconic 15th century Renaissance portraits with the incorporation of Christian Louboutin shoes from the Fall 2011 collection. Photographed by Peter Lippmann and styled by Catherine Gorne each shot from this series celebrate “;the power of femininity”, embodying the spirit of the Christian Louboutin woman through various historic figures. Enjoy!

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The Visual Beauty of Books

Bronia Sawyer, UK-based artist folds and rolls book pages to produce amazing bird and flower-like bursts of color.

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Cecelia's Flowers

Cecelia Webber creates images of flowers entirely constructed from photographs of the human body.

Her work consists of only the naked human body, often her own, photographed in the most peculiar of positions then painstakingly overlaid using Photoshop to form the familiar shapes of petals, stamen and stem. So familiar the shapes are and so acutely formed that at first glance it is hard to tell that you're looking at naked people. Lastly, but always first in our book, she saturates the forms with stunning color. Her work pays great homage to nature: the beauty of the human figure and the shapes and colors that connect all living things.

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Getty Images' Watermark In Real Life

For those of you who don't know this. Getty Images is one of the most famous image banks out there. Naturally, the low res previews of their stock photography always have the Getty Images watermark on them.

Now, Getty takes the watermark to the streets for their most recent advertising campaign

They recreated it in glass and placed it infront of many monuments and attractions around Germany, along with a simple message: "All the images you can imagine".

Although I think the concept is pretty cool, Im not very sure about its execution. I mean there's always that awkwardly protruding pole that carries the glass "watermark".

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The Flying Carpet

Using digital Iranian artist Seyed Alavi had an aerial view of the Sacramento River woven into a carpet for the floor of a pedestrian bridge connecting the Sacramento International Airport terminal to the parking garage.

The carpet can be read and experienced as a “welcome mat” for visitors arriving in Sacramento.

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Mouth Watering Foodscapes

London-based artist Carl Warner creates amazing food landscapes he refers to as foodscapes. Whether he uses vegetables, various bakery products or meat, his incredible foodscapes are entirely edible and look absolutely mindblowing.

The process usually starts with him drawing a sketch of the foodscape, then the set is created, and finally, he takes photos of it and retouches them on his Mac.

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TiltShift Van Gogh

Artist Serena Malyon adds tilt-shift photography effects to Van Gogh's famous paintings!

Using Photoshop, she manipulated the light and adjusted the focus to make us see these paintings in ways we could have never imagined.

Amazingly, nothing in these paintings was changed, added or removed.

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