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[–]SimilarImage 69 points70 points ago

Age User Title Reddit Cmnt Points
6 months HossCo Shadows. here 233 1287
2 months ItWillBeMine A new kind of shadow art here 109 1084
2 months Just_One_Redditor Shadows here 4 134

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[–]HossCo 4 points5 points ago

Yay! I started a trend!

[–]GentlemanPunk 7 points8 points ago

You're a good person.

[–]IMadeThisforMineZ 11 points12 points ago

You're a good bot

FTFY

[–]InNomine 15 points16 points ago

If corporations can be people, I don't see why bots can't be.

[–]gynoceros 3 points4 points ago

Because rich people can't get richer off of a helpful Reddit bot.

[–]Killscreen3 6 points7 points ago

I don't care how many times this is reposted, I'll upvote it. The people who made this deserve to be recognized over and over again, despite the karma whoring.

[–]Chantothee 0 points1 point ago

As a matter of fact, I posted this myself a couple months ago. ONE measly upvote. Feels bad, man.

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[–]nanto 1 point2 points ago

As a former reposter

:)

[–]joeone1 5 points6 points ago

[–]MotorCabs 24 points25 points ago

[–]A1CArtwood 10 points11 points ago

And is art to be viewed one time and one time only? I should think not, sir.

[–]KKSWISS -4 points-3 points ago

So then go to his the artist's facebook don't post it here again. (not saying you did but there's no reason to post it Again.)

[–]TheReverendBill 3 points4 points ago

I have bad news for you: aside from the text submissions, everything on Reddit has been seen before. If everything that is not pristine and unseen is removed, Reddit becomes much less interesting.

However, even most of the text-based posts have a reply along the lines of "Me, too..." If we got rid of those posts, too, then Reddit would suddenly become very interesting, although much smaller. Think one or two posts a week.

[–]KKSWISS 0 points1 point ago

I don't mean all re-posts I mean this specifically, I don't hate re-posts, Blatant hour difference ones maybe.

[–]GummiVenus 4 points5 points ago

I'm pretty sure that last one is by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, another pair of artists who do similar (but in my opinion better) work.

[–]brownpixel 1 point2 points ago

That is correct. Their website with more of their distopian take on the same technique: http://www.timnobleandsuewebster.com/artwerks.html

[–]Schr0dingerr 3 points4 points ago

What's the point of the cd on the side of the box in the 6th picture? It doesn't show up on the shadow, idk maybe I'm missing something.

[–]colossus3200 2 points3 points ago

Look at picture 4

[–]Schr0dingerr 2 points3 points ago

ah, thank you kind sir!

[–]roncapa 5 points6 points ago

A wild air conditioner appears! It's super effective!

[–]Lone_Soldier 3 points4 points ago

Even though this is a repost, I think it's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Especially the first one.

[–]curb_ 2 points3 points ago

R-r-repost!

[–]A1CArtwood 2 points3 points ago

Man, reddit must not like art or something.

[–]koolkid005 0 points1 point ago

Reddit likes the pinterest style art, more like crafts, which are cool, but appeal to a different sort of person (the redditor) most redditors probably wouldn't like a lot of art. And that shows in the comments in their attitudes about the usefulness/ employability of artists and their contribution to society.

[–]jetfool 0 points1 point ago

The real Dark Knight

[–]waqasbhutta 0 points1 point ago

great art work

[–]thatlookslikeadick 0 points1 point ago

The blue thing looks like a dick.

[–]zumacroom 0 points1 point ago

Is this from the Indianapolis art museum?

[–]crashspeeder -1 points0 points ago

Not a fan of most modern art, but i find this amazing.

[–]koolkid005 0 points1 point ago

This isn't modern art it's contemporary art.

[–]nm353130 1 point2 points ago

So cool!

[–]Dawdo 0 points1 point ago

I wonder what it would look like if I poked one piece of glass

[–]Beerman3000 0 points1 point ago

Amazing! Especially the last one.

[–]gynoceros -1 points0 points ago

I can be creative.

But I could never do what that artist did.

It's so beautiful, it's humbling.

[–]koolkid005 0 points1 point ago

It's honestly not that hard. And he didn't even do the last one. It's probably way easier than panting a picture of the same scene, because you can change ad move things around until it looks right, which is much harder with paint. You could probably do this at home if you wanted.

[–]gynoceros 0 points1 point ago

Put your money where your mouth is.

[–]Jackets298 -1 points0 points ago

its amazing up to slide 8 then its beautiful

[–]seymour47 0 points1 point ago

This is immensely cool.

[–]Doza93 0 points1 point ago

So cool

[–]Doza93 0 points1 point ago

So cool.

[–]Always6Ent 0 points1 point ago

And now the reposting from pleiades9.

[–]123abc4[!] 0 points1 point ago

Does anybody know what the second one is? I can't seem to figure it out, it isn't quite as obvious as the rest.

[–]Deceived_By_Time -1 points0 points ago

This gives me hope that there actually is different things out there that I have not thought about or seen yet.

[–]oorlila 0 points1 point ago

Clever :)

[–]ibiglooser 1 point2 points ago

I must say a great work of art.

[–]bdkraem -2 points-1 points ago

I've seen these, and they are cool, but couldn't something like this be accomplished fairly easily?

Step 1) Trace the design you wish to see on the wall Step 2) Project light from a single source on to the wall Step 3) Arrange things in front of the light so that their shadows fall within the traced lines.

It's not like the objects were all arranged before the light was turned on.

[–]nanto 3 points4 points ago

It's not about how easy the idea is to execute, it's about having the idea. That's what sets creative accomplishments aside from computational accomplishments

[–]2Weird2Live2Rare2Die -1 points0 points ago

That's art, baby. By the same token someone could create a Pollock by Step 1) slinging paint at a canvas.

[–]jstafford1138 -3 points-2 points ago

This gets posted pretty much every day here.... but fuck it, its still awesome. Have an upvote

[–]maketho 0 points1 point ago

STOP POSTING THIS

[–]annannaljuba 0 points1 point ago

It's not art, it's decoration.

[–]koolkid005 1 point2 points ago

I agree, I like It but not for it's "artistic message" if it even has one.

[–]h8bit -1 points0 points ago

It's a quaint technique, but apart from that, I don't understand what I'm supposed to get from stuff like this.

[–]faggort69 4 points5 points ago

It's supposed to make you feel something.

[–]h8bit -1 points0 points ago

What do you feel? I see a children's drawing generated by a nice play of lights, but that's about it. Is it a comment on teamwork and the way in which we all contribute our unique faceting to a greater whole? Hardly a very interesting statement.

[–]Afrosemite 3 points4 points ago

You green blooded hobgoblin

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3qqvep/

[–]Tatatee -4 points-3 points ago

Art. Right.

I need to find the coffee shop he works at.