The path to YouTube stardom varies from person to person and their success level or notoriety can often follow them for a long time. While it’s too early to say whether or not it can last the rest of their lives (YouTube is just a decade old), for some who have found stardom, it seems to be sticking with them.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Polaroid Mosaics of Celebrities by Maurizio Galimberti
Maurizio Galimberti was born in Como, Italy in 1956 and grew up in Meda. He was trained as a surveyor where he developed his rigorous point of view. As a young man, he has won many photography competitions using classic analog film, mainly working in black and white and in diapo/cibachrome with a Widelux camera. In the year 1983 his passion/ obsession with the Polaroid camera began. His long journey of research and experimentation with instant photography were driven by his love of the resulting colors. It was in the early 1990s that Galimberti left the family business in pursuit of photography as a full-time career.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Realistic Portrait Paintings by Joongwon Jeong
Seoul, Korea based artist Joongwon Jeong painted realistic portraits with Acrylics on Canvas. He graduated from Hongik University in 2012.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Black and White Celebrity Photography by Marc Hom
Someone that is hired by celebrities to take pictures of them gotta be a happy professional. We all know that the photographer career is really hard and there are tons of great professionals out there, but you know that you have succeeded when the stars call you.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Monthly Income of Youtubers [Infographic]
Youtube is a hefty competitor to cable companies and other online video outlets. Their Partner Program provides creators with resources and opportunities to improve skills, build larger audiences, and earn more money. The following infographic take the top 1000 Youtube channels into consideration and illustrates engagement, consistency, and influence. Enjoy!
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
30 Funny Examples of “Celebrity Caricature Art”
Caricatures is the Illustration art, in which designer exaggerate prominent features of the subject or model in a funny way. The origin of this art started from news papers when cartoon caricatures of politicians were commonly used in editorials but now it is most common and popular Fanart of celebrities, sportman and polititions and it can be found these days in entertainment and gossip magazines. To bring a smile on your faces we have compiled 30 Funny Examples of “Celebrity Caricature Art”
The following caricature design examples characterize a variety of personalities, from past icons to present superstars, from famous fictional characters to everyday real ones. If you’ve been looking for caricature inspiration for a while, we hope this post gives you that spark – and maybe even a smirk or two to boot!
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Top 100 Homes of Celebrities
Forbes just released its annual list of the Celebrity 100, a ranking of the most powerful stars including film and television actors, TV personalities, models, athletes, authors, musicians and comedians, based on both fame and annual pre-tax earnings (from May 2011 to May 2012). Here's a round-up of where these moneyed stars spend their nights catching beauty sleep and dodging paparazzi. Realtor.com, Trulia.com and others helped us unearth properties bought and sold in the past year as well as a few long-term abodes A-listers have clung to. There are even a few rentals, like this Calabasas estate called Chateau Suenos where pop star Britney Spears rented until last year following her infamous "meltdown."
Monday, October 29, 2012
Six Thought-Provoking Quotes from Albert Einstein
One great way to get inspired is by reflecting on words of wisdom from the past.
Words that have stood the test of time and been a powerful motivator for generations of people.
Alfred Einstein was born in 1879, and his words are still relevant today.
Below you'll find six powerful quotes from him.
But don't just read them and move on, pick at least one you can apply to your life today
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The 15 Richest People In Tech
The Forbes 400 is out and once again plenty of tech people made the list.
We've gathered the 15 richest people in tech on the list. The biggest change from last year is that Mark Zuckerberg has taken a big fall. Turns out the public markets don't value Facebook the way private markets did.
Other than Zuckerberg, just about everyone else's wealth grew as the markets were friendly to older, more traditional tech companies.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
20 Highest-Paid Celebrities According To Forbes Magazine
It's clear that Forbes and I disagree on what constitutes a celebrity, but it was nice to see both Howard Stern and Dr. Dre may their way into the top 10 this year!
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Impressive Celebrity Digital Fan Art
I’ve put together for your viewing pleasure today a collection of cool celebrity fan artworks, basically vector illustrations and photo manipulations, to get your design inspiration going on these lazy summer days. I’ve chosen celebrities as a starting point because they’re usually associated with another type of digital work – yes, I’m talking about retouching. Today though, we’re looking at some artistic retouching of the most positive kind. Among our subjects are Jack Nicholson, the regretted Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Rihanna, January Jones, Steve Carell, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and many more.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
25 Realistic and Awesome Celebrity Drawings
Do you know how old hand made paintings is? One thousand years old? Two thousand years old? Did they originate in the time of Jesus Christ? According to Wikipedia the first painting was drawn 32 thousand years ago. With the advent of cameras “real” photographs began to replace the traditional hand made drawings. It was good for society because not everybody was able to bear the cost of getting himself painted. It was reserved for the upper class.
Monday, July 9, 2012
50 Most Beautiful Vexel Portraits You Will Ever See
Vexel art designs look simply tremendous. Vexel art appearance is near enough identical to vector based graphic designs, the difference between vector and vexel is that its pixel rasterized graphics. The word Vexel is combination of the two graphic types “vector” and “pixel”.
Rather than using the generic lines and shapes, the designs are constructed using rasterized programs such as photoshop, gimp etc, because It allows shapes to have transparent layers to create a realism effect with the use of gradients in colour transitions, in order to create a photo realistic effect.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Who is Mark Zuckerberg's Wife, Priscilla Chan
Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg tied the knot with his college sweetheart, Priscilla Chan.
The wedding was a surprise for all of the guests, who thought they were attending a med school graduation party for Chan.
The couple met in line for the bathroom at Zuckerberg's frat party nine years ago.
Here's a summary of their time together, as told through their Facebook timelines.
Congrats Priscilla and Mark!
Zuckerberg Just Got Married
Mark "IPO" Zuckerberg just dropped a Facebook status update bigger than the NASDAQ bomb: he and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan are married, only a day after he became one of the richest men on the planet. He wore a suit!
As far as anyone can tell, the news of the marriage between the notoriously secretive couple—about whom we know only of a shared dog, lavish vacation, and tense standoff between her vegetarianism and his staunch chicken-killing—was broken on Facebook. Of course.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Amazing Showcase of Funny Celebrity Caricatures
A caricature is the art of producing an embroidered or indistinct portrayal of a person to generate an identifiable visual image. In general, we see lots of caricatures of political personalities and movie stars in entertainment magazines for humorous effect.
In this post, we are going to have some fun showcasing some of these caricatures with 50 famous personalities from sports, film, television and the music industry.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Great Hand Drawn Portraits by Arief Kurniawan
Arief Kurniawan is an 32 years old artist from Bandung, Indonesia. Most of his drawings are celebrity figures.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Pop Legend Whitney Houston Dies at 48
Whitney Houston, pop music icon and the singer of such songs as “I Will Always Love You” and “The Greatest Love of All,” has died at the age of 48.
Houston’s death, which comes on the eve of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, was first reported by the Associated Press. The cause of death is unknown at this time.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
10 Famous People Who Turned Down a Knighthood
Of all the honors that the Queen of England bestows on her subjects, a knighthood is easily the most coveted. To British citizens, few titles could be greater than having a “Sir” or “Dame” in front of their name. So what kind of person would turn down such a title? Surprisingly enough, many notables have done so. Here are some of them.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The New Generation of Tech Millionaires (Under Age 30) - Infographic
Here’s our latest infographic which highlights nine entrepreneurs who became millionaires before they turned 30. Mark Zuckerberg, who at age 27 has an estimated personal net worth of $17.5 billion, tops the list, followed by Groupon founder Andrew Mason ($1.3 billion) and Firefox founder Blake Ross ($150 million).