Shocked to discover the statistic that 2 times more American soldiers that served in Iraq had died in 2009 by committing suicide than those killed in combat during that same year hadn’t been properly addressed in the press and is unknown by a majority of the general population, New York-based installation artist Sebastian Errazuriz took to the wall outside of his studio in Brooklyn.

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This video is pretty rad and almost hypnotizing when watching it. If you enjoy watching this sort of thing, here’s nearly 7 minutes of it for your viewing pleasure! Personal favorites are the Karate Chop and Eggs on Face. The video was shot on the Photron SA1.1, Directed and produced by Philip Heron and James Adair.

Tempus II from Philip Heron on Vimeo.

There are millions of fire hydrants all over the world, but for some reason they are painted red every single time. I get the whole “everyone needs to be aware there is a fire hydrant there so lets paint it red” theory, but come on spice it up a little bit. That is why I have gone around my town and painted every fire hydrant as a penis, there is now 50, 3 foot tall penis hydrants scattered throughout my town, I rule. On a little more creative note, here is a bunch of fire hydrant art found around the country.

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Words cannot describe how very excellent this is: DeviantARTist Suzuran drew 54 Marvel characters in the sprite-tastic style of classic Mega Man. If you wish to weep tears of joy, click the image above to see the full panorama in all it’s glory. Update: For easier (though slightly less awesome) viewing, we’ve sliced the panorama up into five component panels; if you like what you see, check out Suzuran’s DeviantART page for more.

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Who would have known that one can use newspapers to create art? The inventive artist Nick Georgiou from Queens, NY, is folding different newspapers to create sculptures and other installations. The sculptures are usually placed in public so you may have seen them around in New York City, but some of his pieces are also for indoor exhibition like the ones he has framed in to look like paintings.

The artist himself loves to transform printed words into something else because he thinks it’s a way of giving new life to newspapers, as well as books.

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Animation named “35mm” by artist Pascal Monaco represents a set of 35 movies in an unusual but fun way. The German artist has managed to make the video last only 2 minutes with minimum representation. Check out the animation and see if you can recognize some of the movies.

35mm from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo.
Check out below for the list of the 35 movies.
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These 8-bit illustrations are made by artist and designer Jude Buffum from Philadelphia. He gets his inspiration from various old school movies, video games, toys and politics. You can check out more of his work at his website found here.

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Hyper Realist sculptors Ron Mueck,Evan Penny,Patricia Piccinini,Patricia Piccinini,Jamie Salmon,Marc Sijan, Maurizio Cattelan,Carole Feuerman are rated as some of the best in the world. Able to re-create human and non human beings via sculpting that are creepily alive and able to convey the emotions they represent to their viewers. These are some of their sculptures.



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Here are some 3D murals painted on the sides of buildings By Trompe Loeil (trick-of-the- eye) artist John Pugh. It is amazing how he can transform a plain flat wall, into an amazing 3D popping image.

Main Street, Los Gatos , California. Even the woman peering into the ruin is part of the mural.

Taylor Hall, California State University, Chico , California . The Doric-style columns are actually nothing but paint.
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