How can you not love art when it includes wonders such as these ??
Any idea what this is made from ???
Dutch artist Florentjin Hofman designed this sculpture in São Paulo Park, Brazil.
Students who were involved in the project named the sculpture “Fat Monkey”
It was put together for Pixelshow’s 2010 conference. The conference shows off art that has a pixellated look.
Fat Monkey’s body was constructed with flip flops because flip flops are a long-standing trademark of Brazil. In New Zealand we call them jandals, while in Australia they are known as thongs.
10,000 were use to put Fat Monkey together.
And now for some Australian ingenuity in the art world.
At the 2009 ‘The Rocks Aroma Festival’ in Sydney, Australia, part of a city street was turned in to one of the most famous faces in the world.
This rendition of the Mona Lisa measured six metres by four metres.
It was made from 3,604 cups of coffee with around 265 liters of milk. Lattes, long blacks, and flat whites were used to get the different tones. It took a team of eight just three hours to complete this work of art.
Thank goodness there are people out there who come up with these ideas !!!
These are amazing! Love it.
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Thanks I thought they were amazing as welll. That’s why I wanted to share them.
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I love them both!
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Me too !!!!!!!!
Aren’t people creative…to even think these things up let alone how to make it work.
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Really creative. I saw the flip flops right off, but had to look at Mona for a minute to figure it out.
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I love the out of the box thinking it must take to come up with these idea.
Clever you to see the first one…I didn’t at first.
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Art can be anything and everything. The first one had me hum’n Flip, Flop and Fly.
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I love that it had you flip, flopping and flying…great vid.
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Great works of art. Love the flip flops.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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I loved the flip flops too Francine…though we call then jandels here.
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The creativity of people never ceases to amaze me, as a coffee lover that Mona Lisa was awesome! I saw something similar, but it was created with roasted coffee beans
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How clever. Beans…wow. It is amazing what some people will think up. Like this from Andrew Myers.
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Well, that was a fun post and photos today! Very creative.
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Thanks Ruth. I loved what they did, so wanted to share it.
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SO beautiful dear Jo, Thank you for share. Have a nice weekend, love, nia
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Thanks Nia. I hope you have a great weekend too.
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Reblogged this on photographyofnia and commented:
So beautiful….
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Thank you Nia !!!
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That monkey ROCKS!
What a great share. Thanks, Jo.
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Fat Monkey is in a class of his own !!!
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Wow, this is so awesome. I would never have guessed flip flops. How ingenious! Love the Mona Lisa too. So amazing what some people come up with. 😉
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I agree…like this peacock made out of paper by The Makerie Studio.
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Incredible share, Jo!
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I thought so too Hook. What do you think of this one ??? “The Bench of Thought” by Alvaro Tamarit.
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Amazing. I love creative people. 😀
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Me too…and there are so many around like Jean Shin.
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OMG … this is AMAZING!!! Thanks for sharing this. 😀
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You are welcome. I am now a huge fan of Jean Shin.
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I can see why … she’s amazing! 😀
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I am going to try to make a bowl out of an old record…saw it a while ago…maybe that’s what drew me to her in the first place.
When I make mine I will put it up here…
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That’s incredible. I can’t wait to see yours. 😀
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That is an incentive to go out and finally buy the recors to do it !!! I have heaps here but can’t bring myself to do it to one that is part of my youth.
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Ah they are brilliant and the Mona Lisa is better than the real one!
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I thought so to Gilly. Isn’t art wonderful. Found this as well. Maybe you have heard of him. Tom Hill, a 26 year-old self-taught sculptor has been working for the last few years with recycled horseshoes to create life-size animal sculptures.
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Totally amazing!!! WOW!
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Exactly Cee !!! I though so too.
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Brilliance.
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They do have it in them. Glad you think so too.
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I wouldnt have guessed!.. amazing what artist can achieve.. Brilliant.. 🙂
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Isn’t it Sue ? Honestly it took me a while to work out what they were made from as well. Hope you are having a good weekend dear lady !
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How on earth do they do it? I struggle for hours just to pull a few words together!
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I have no idea. But I am so glad they do !!!!
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Amazing stuff!! Thanks for sharing these, Jo.
BTW…I love how you took several photos of Fat Monkey and got us closer and closer…
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So glad you like them but I can’t take credit for these photos. They actually came to me in an e-mail. Exactly as I put them up. Took a bit of work though to find out where it was and what it was done for.
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Definitely worth a share…I sent the link for your blog out to some friends…
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Thank you !!!
Love that you did that’
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Love these , Jo!
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Thanks Ed !!! I did too !
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What a great post!!! I also loved the pics in all the comments! Creativity can really help to change your perception of everyday items! 🙂
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It sure does Cathy…on so many levels.
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WOW! Blown away by Mr Hofman’s sculpture!! Thanks for sharing!
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It is amazing isn’t it !!!!!!!!!!
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Brilliant! I think you would be very happy at the South Bank.
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Yep I think you might be right about that Isobel.
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Fabulous!!
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Thanks !!! I thought so when I saw them all. Glad to hear you think so !!!
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I wish at times that I could think slightly further outside of the box, Jo. I like to think that I’m ‘creative’, but when I see things like this I realise just how un-creative I actually am. I mean, what makes you think of creating a monkey out of flip-flops in the first place? they are very good, though.
I’m now off to explore my creative side…
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I know that I wondered how it is you come up with such an idea…but even more so…how you make it work. Creativity takes many forms though Tom…ours just takes us in a different direction.
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I notice that on the first image that everyone is taking photographs from head to toe, I wonder if he is without his undies the way around? 😉 lol Yes rude 🙂 lmao
Have a super day Jo 🙂 😉
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OTHER way around I mean 🙂 Bloody typos 🙂
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So funny that you noticed that. So funny indeed.
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Have a wonderful time today Jo and
good luck with all your photograph’s 🙂
Androgoth XXx
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Getting ready for a good nights sleep about now. have a terrific weekend.
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Thank you Jo 🙂
Sleep well my sweet friend 🙂
Androgoth XXx
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Nicely made art, but personally I think that using coffee, milk etc is a waste of the planets resources.
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Very creative Artwork
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I thought so.
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