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Sea Sculptures of the Underwater Museum

Around the world are a few unusual sculpture museums. In order to gain entry to the museums, you must first put on your swimming gear and grab a snorkel or dive tank. This is because the museums are under the sea.

Art Works or Artificial Reefs?
The creator of the underwater museums, Jason de Caires Taylor, designs his sculptures with the intention of forming artificial reefs for sea life. The statues are made with PH neutral casting cement, which means that they will not poison the water or the fish, and will not degrade quickly in sea water. Taylor places his underwater museums in areas where reefs have been destroyed by storms, creating new homes for corals, fish and other sea life.
The statues of Taylor's underwater museums serve two purposes; to attract tourists and art lovers to the area and to create a home for fish, sea weed and other reef life. Many of the sculptures have holes drilled into the cement, creating nooks and crannies for fish and crustaceans to create a home for themselves. Over time, the statues get covered with sea weed and molluscs. Taylor has recorded this "evolution" of his artworks with photographs, enjoying the fact that although he may be finished with the artwork, nature continues to add its own art works to the statues.

Jason de Caires Taylor's "Vicissitudes" in Grenada, West Indies. This sculptural art work shows a group of people standing in a circle holding hands. The figures face outwards, creating the impression that they are protecting something within the circle. The underwater statues are life-sized, having been made from body casts of living people.

A swimmer discovers one of Talor's underwater sculptures in Grenada and blows a kiss at the sleeping faces. The beauty of these art works is that the experience of discovery is different for each person. Because the statues are evolving and becoming part of the reef, whatone person sees today might be very different from what someone else might see next month.

These three photos show, from left, a mustachioed man from Cancun in Mexico, who was the model for the underwater sculpture shown in the middle photograph. The photograph on the right shows the statue a few years after it was placed underwater. It is covered in seaweed and providing an excellent home for reef life. The man who posed for the statue doesn't look very happy, but the ocean fish and plants who now live on his statue are probably very happy.

These are Taylor's cement statues on dry land, waiting to be placed into the sea, where they will live forever more. When posed like this, the groupps of statues begin to resemble a coral reef. Taylor's underwater museum is so far one of the most unique reef conservation methods that man has attempted. It combines human ingenuity with human creativity.

A Sculptured Society Living Under the Sea
The underwater museum in Cancun, Mexico was created in 2009 when Taylor installed several life size statues near the Manchones reef. There are now over 450 submerged sculptures in the region. These underwater statues are based on regular people living in and around Cancun, Mexico. The figures are sculpted to show them doing day-to-day activities such as riding a bicycle or watching TV. The underwater statues have a surreal nature about them; they seem to be average people frozen for eternity below the sea, standing silently as they are visited by tourists and art enthusiasts.

"Anthropocene" in Cancun, Mexico. This large sculpture shows a man curled up on the hood of a VW Beetle, a car that has been popular all over the world for decades. The sculpture has several holes drilled into the windows that allows fish to enter the hollow interior of the car sculpture. The reef was partially destroyed by storms, so the sculptures were created as a place for fish and other sea creatures to live.

"Inertia" in Punta Nizuc, Mexico. This sculptural piece depicts a man watching TV with a burger and fries. Like the VW sculpture, the TV set has holes drilled into it, which allow the fish to enter the hollow interior of the sculpture, where they are protected from storms and predators.

Crowds of statues like this make excellent artificial reefs, attracting fish and plant life that make the art works their homes. This picture was taken shortly after the statues were installed, before the seaweed and limpets start to add their own creative touch to the art. These underwater museums are also attractive to tourists, who travel great distances to be able to swim among the statues.

Over time, coral begins to grow over the statues, transforming the underwater sculptures into living art works. These natural art works are constantly changing over time as the reef continues to absorb the statues, making them part of the natural environment.

Each statue gets its own natural decoration as the reef grows over it. The different types of corals, sponges and sea weeds add patterns and textures to these living art works.

Taylor's underwater museums are a truly beautiful combination of art and conservation. The artificial reefs made of human statues give people an inspiring experience while offering natural reef life a safe home. Visit Taylor's website for more information on his underwater museums.

Real People who Look Like Cartoon Characters

Cartoon character designers generally start designing a character based on a single personality attribute that the character will portray throughout the animation. For example, if the character has a dorky personality, the character designer will try to portray this by creating a dorky-looking character. For villains and heroes, the character designer will give the character's physical appearance the appropriate attributes.

Sometimes character designers need inspiration, and so they'll look around and observe people, finding facial shapes and physical characteristics that incorporate the essence of the character they are creating. These attributes of real people find their way not only into the character design, but into the animation, personifying the characters and making it easy for audiences to empathize with them.

People who Look Like Pixar Characters
Pixar animations are known for having lovable, believable characters, and now people are discovering that Pixar artists have a knack for creating characters that resemble living people. These people have taken pictures of themselves with their look-alike characters and posted the pictures online.

Carl Frediricksen, a Pixar character from the movie "Up" is shown on the left, and on the right, a real man who looks just like the animated character. [source]

This Asian kid looks identical to the cartoon character Russell from Pixar's lovable animated movie "Up". The only difference is the real life kid's boy scout scarf. [source]

On the left is the character Linguini from the animated Pixar film "Ratatouille". The real guy on the right looks just like his cartoon doppelganger, right down to the sweet-hearted smile. [source]

Beavis and Butthead in Real Life

Beavis and Butthead are two cartoon characters that were created by Mike Judge in 1992. The characters found a home on MTV, which popularized the duo. Within weeks, Beavis and Butthead had found their way into the hearts and homes of millions of people. Their dorky laughs and dumbass catch phrases could be heard in school and college campuses across the world.

The characters are essentially caricatures of two below-average American teenagers who constantly get themselves into trouble with teachers, law keepers, criminals and pretty much every person they come across. The characters are so highly stylized that it's almost impossible to visualize them as real human beings, but here they are, in the flesh:

One of Beavis's most recognizable traits is the size of his head. Although Chris Kemp's nostrils could use some stretching, he totally looks like Beavis in many other ways. [source]

Zach from "Little People, Big World" looks just like the cartoon character Butthead. [source]

Here are some other Famous Cartoon Characters in Real Life:

This muscle man looks just like the Cartoon Network animated character Johnny Bravo. He even has the same hairstyle, sunglasses and t-shirt as Johnny Bravo. [source]

Mr Burns from The Simpsons tv series has a real life twin. [source]

By putting on the same pink beanie and t-shirt, this girl looks just like the cartoon character Meg Griffin from Family Guy. [source]

What Internet Trolls Look Like

Internet trolls trawl the web, leaving inflammatory comments on blog posts, forums and articles. Their aim, it seems, is to insult other internet users and elicit a negative emotional response from anyone who crosses their path. Artists and videographers across the globe have begun creating renditions of what internet trolls look like.

What is an Internet Troll?

Wikipedia's entry on Internet trolls states that "In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community". Essentially, internet trolls are people who join a discussion on a forum, blog post or article and leave inane rubbish in their wake. Generally, their posts go beyond expressing a personal opinion and aim to incite anger or frustration in other internet users.

Trolls deliberately try to goad other internet users on message boards to have a flame war, by raising topics that aren't relevant to the post. Often, they will insult a person's religion, race or family simply to get a rise out of that person. Trolls are also infamous for making controversial comments on current affairs, social problems and historical events. Their aim is to disrupt a conversation with verbal vandalism.

Do Not Feed the Trolls

Internet trolls 'feed' off of the reactions of other internet users. They get their kicks out of deliberately making people angry. The concept of starving trolls by ignoring them is a collective effort, as it only takes one person's reaction to the troll to encourage (feed) a troll. Even when every forum member on a thread is ignoring the troll, the troll might post incessantly in an attempt to get a rise out of someone.

How to Deal with Internet Trolls

You can avoid being 'troll bait' by not getting involved in debates that you feel passionate about. Chances are, if you have strong feelings about religion, homosexuality or racism, trolls will attempt to tear apart your opinions on these matters. The troll mentality is that they are right, you are wrong and they will go to the ends of the Earth to prove just how wrong you are while insulting you every step of the way.
Rising to the challenge of interacting with a troll is a waste of time, time that could be spent on far more worthwhile activities. Trolls do eventually begin trolling another part of the internet if they are ignored, but sometimes the only way to deal with a troll is to leave a conversation or debate.

What Internet Trolls Look Like

Internet trolls can be recognised by their comments. These will usually be deliberately off-topic, abusive of other internet users or social groups and will often involve profanity and name-calling. In reality, there are no physical traits that mark an internet troll. Internet trolls can be anyone, anywhere, lurking in a forum waiting for troll bait to show itself...

Breath?

Here we have a picture of a performance art piece in progress. It must be going well, as this performer has quite a crowd watching him. But have they stopped to admire the creative nature of the project, or do they pity the naked guy because it’s cold?

Let’s try to understand the piece, us viewers who haven’t been told what the objective of the work is. We have a naked guy, on a cold rainy day, sitting in a public place, sealed in a plastic bubble. But what does it mean?

He’s trying to show the world how cruel and heartless people are that they would stand and watch a naked man shivering without doing anything to help him.
He’s re-enacting his experience in the womb, and expressing that he has a chilly relationship with his mother.
He ran out of his meds.

Paula Kerstens

Being a performance artist must be pretty cool. They get to wear black and walk around with plastic bags over their heads.

Shall we embark upon the quest of meaning?

She’s the modern embodiment of the Mona Lisa, with strict views on littering. How original.
The girl in the photo is auditioning for a new movie, “Dude, where’s my bag?”
Her psychiatrist wasn’t available for her session on the day this photo was taken.

Quinn Dukes

This performance seems pretty bizarre, but it’s quite simple, actually. The gigantic tomato is giving birth to woman with a fluffy head. See? It’s easy to understand art if you don’t look below the surface. Or, wait, maybe the normal sized tomato is giving birth to a tiny half-human half-animal creature.

Oh, I don’t know anymore… Could it mean that;
The artist has a sloshing fetish (Using food items for sexual gratification)
If we’re not careful with genetically modified food, one day tomatoes will start procreating and siring fully dressed, mature adult human beings.
This woman confused the large hand-sewn tomato with her strait-jacket.

Ye Fu

Ye Fu and another artist lived in a glass house for a month as part of a performance art piece. They exposed their daily home lives to the world, yet separated themselves from the outside world.

Were they trying to:

Prove that we are all in fact transparent as human beings, and have nothing to hide?
Show that everyone has barriers (The glass walls), no matter how much of ourselves we reveal?
Make money by doing nothing but mooch around the house all day.

Striptease to Save the Trees

Yes, there are some performance art works that actually have a point. Even for us non-believers, the meaning of this act is clear. The artist intends to distract the driver of the truck with her keen fashion sense and by waving her megaphone at him, all done in an attempt to save the trees.

This act certainly contains the four elements of Performance art; time, space, the performer’s body and a relationship between the performer and the audience. And to flesh out the fullness of the artwork, this artist has solicited a reaction from her target audience – the driver has stopped the truck.

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How the Streets View Google

Graffiti artists generally have an alternative view on current affairs, a view that they express through street art. This article shows the opinions held internationally by graffiti artists, on internet giant, Google.com

Dolores, San Francisco, USA

In an interesting post about anti-gentrification of urban areas, writer Chris Carlsson gives an example of anti-google, anti-gentrification graffiti, which states “Trendy Google professionals help raise housing costs”. Urban gentrification occurs when the cost of living in an area is raised by the influx of residents who can afford to pay higher rents and amenities. For residents who have lived in the area for many years, this often means that they suddenly find themselves unable to afford living in their own homes.

The stenciled graffiti was found in San Francisco’s Mission District, placed in such a way that it couldn’t be missed by Google drones. The search term in the graffiti art piece states, “Mission + Exploitation”. Over the last decade, this district has become home to a number of Google’s and other internet company’s employees, who earn more than their neighbors. This contrast in lifestyles has led to a number of protests by street artists and vandals, such as the “Mission Yuppie Eradication Project“, which in 1999 encouraged impoverished residents to vandalize the luxury cars of their wealthy neighbors. Although it is the natural order of things for an urban area to change with time, these changes often result in class conflicts such as this one.

Dunedin, New Zealand
A spoof on the common phrase, “Google it”, showing an image of Jesus Christ claiming, “I don’t have all the answers. Try Google.”

Unknown Locations – Stencils

Stencil street art has gained popularity over the last few years. These street artists have chosen to stencil the phrase “Google it” or simply “Google” in various locations around the world. Perhaps something in the area gives a pedestrian cause to use Google’s search engine. These could also just be attention-seeking designs.

Cairo, Egypt

An internet cafe in an impoverished area of Cairo, Egypt, painted Google’s logo above his shop entrance, to attract potential customers.

I Can Be Googled, Therefore I Am

For the creator of this simple scrawl, the phrase I think, therefore I am, is not enough. The statement of this piece is that by having search results of the creator’s name online, their existence has been proved.

Digital Graffiti

French graffiti artist, Zevs, has created a website, gzzglz.com, based on the layout of Google.com. He displays pictures of his art in a similar format to that of Google images, and has designed his home page to look pretty much exactly the same as Google’s home page.

Royal3lue has designed a graffiti user style for Google users called Google Graffiti Style which displays the Google logo in classic graffiti text.

Antony Martinez entered the May 2009 Google Doodle contest with this entry called Google Graffiti, shown below.

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Japanese Food Art: Not Just a Tasty Meal

Japanese chefs pride themselves not only on the flavor and texture of their food, but also on the attractive presentation of a meal. In Japan, the presentation of a meal is as important as the taste and texture of the food. Japanese chefs pride themselves on the creative, artistic nature of dish, as well as the flavors within the meal.

Rice Art

By coloring the rice and then shaping it, these creative chefs have created comical, edible characters. Most of these dishes have been designed for the delight of children, but are also enjoyed by adults. The chef uses other foodstuffs in the dish, such as seaweed, to give the character more personality.

Sushi Food Art

Sushi is one of Japan’s most famous and internationally appreciated foods. Sushi is well-known foe being not only delicious, but an attractive, healthy meal. These chefs have taken the artistic food a step further, using colored sushi rice, fish roe (fish eggs), seaweed sheets and different vegetables to create patterns and pictures with the sushi.

Watermelon Art

These chefs have used watermelons as a canvas for their designs. Cutting into the fruit at different depths allows them to utilize a specific color layer within the fruit. The green portions of the picture are the skin, the white is found below the skin and the pinks are found at the centre of the melon. By carefully cutting around the green portions, the artistic chef can create an artwork from the simple fruit.

Japanese food is more than just sustenance. Each meal can be appreciated for its flavor, texture and aesthetic value. This artistic nation can turn any drab, plain food stuff into an exciting edible art work to excite artistic palettes.

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Are QR Codes Replacing Bar Codes?

The Japanese corporation Denso-Wave created QR code in 1994. More than a decade later, the code is gaining popularity in advertising and art around the world.

Above: An example of QR code art, made as a sand sculpture on a beach.

Traditional (1-dimensional) Bar Codes

The traditional linear bar code is used to store information, and can commonly be seen on the packages of products found in supermarkets. The image of a bar code is in every household, on most store-bought items.
Traditional bar codes are not commonly understood by the general public. For many, 1-dimensional bar codes appear to be just an ugly image on packaging, used for scanning the item at the till.

What is QR Code?

Traditional linear bar codes are 1-dimensional, whereas QR codes are 2-dimensional matrix codes. “QR” is an abbreviation of “Quick Response”, because the code can be decoded at high speed. QR codes can contain between a dozen and a few hundred times more information than linear bar codes.
QR code is also referred to as Kaywa code.

QR Code Becomes Publicly Accessible

QR codes quickly gained popularity in Japan, and have now spread to Europe and the US. By photographing the Kaywa code image with a mobile phone and decoding it, a person can follow the information within the code to a company website or simply receive a short message. It is a way to instantly access information without needing to find a computer.
Many mobile phones are now being equipped with QR decoding software. The software can also be downloaded online.

Kaywa Codes in Marketing

Above: The movie, “28 Weeks Later” used QR code to publicize the movie. Once photographed and decoded, the QR code revealed a link to the 28 weeks later website.

Above: Combined with an AVIN code (A unique code for each wine, similar to an ISBN book code), wine makers are supplying QR codes with their wine. Decoding the Kaywa code image reveals a website address which a person can follow to read more about the wine, the wine-making process or to find out about special offers.

Above: QR code has been used here by a realtor, to reveal a website link with more information on the sale of the house.

QR Code in Art

Above: The QR code used in these earrings reveals a web link to a Wikipedia article on gratitude.

Above: This urban art sticker of a QR code reveals a phrase in Japanese, which roughly translates to “Doing nothing, just hanging around. That’s the hardest work of all.” We may begin to see more and more coded messages, in stencil or on stickers, appearing around the world as graffiti artists express their opinions on life through this code.

Will Traditional Bar Codes be Replaced by QR Code?

Traditional bar codes are suited to their particular task, and it is doubtful that QR code will replace traditional bar codes any time soon. The powerful squares of code are bound to appear more frequently in magazines and on billboards, as an interactive advertising medium. Perhaps in the future, Kaywa codes will also be used to instantly reveal detailed information on products in supermarkets.

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Sea Sculptures of the Underwater Museum

Real People who Look Like Cartoon Characters

Here are some other Famous Cartoon Characters in Real Life:

What Internet Trolls Look Like

What is an Internet Troll?

Do Not Feed the Trolls

How to Deal with Internet Trolls

What Internet Trolls Look Like

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Breath?

Paula Kerstens

Quinn Dukes

Ye Fu

Striptease to Save the Trees

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Graffiti: Art or Vandalism?

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How the Streets View Google

Japanese Food Art: Not Just a Tasty Meal

Are QR Codes Replacing Bar Codes?