Category Art

Mar 25 2010

Creepy Newborn Baby Dolls

“It looks so realistic that you would almost expect it to start crying. But it won’t, of course, because it is in fact a hyper-realistic doll based on a newborn baby. Artist Glenda Ewart creates replicas for parents who want a permanent reminder of how their children looked when they were born. Others are sold around the world to collectors and even are put in nurseries or taken for walks in prams. Controversially, some are also sold to women who have experienced stillbirths or miscarriages. The dolls take about a month to create and are accurate down to skin tone, birthmarks and even smell.”

VIA: -UNIQUE DAILY-

Mar 24 2010

25 Ancient Historical Photographs

For times immemorial, people have tried to reproduce their surroundings into pictures of their own. They have used techniques of paintings, carving and sculpturing and for years images have been projected onto surfaces. Photography is the result of combining several technical discoveries. Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese and Greek philosophers described a pinole camera. But it was until Ibn – al – Haytham (965 – 1040) a Muslim scientist made significant contributions to the principles of optics and invented the camera obscura which is a prototype of today’s modern camera. While this early prototype may have had modest usage in its time, it was an important step in the evolution of the invention.