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Wildlife Photography: Nature's Best Photography by the Windland Smith Rice is an annual event and it celebrates the joy of photography and nature. This year more than 26000 entries were received and it was a whopping success. You can see the award wi
Art Contest: Art Association Aps Moho is pleased to announce the 2018 YICCA Contemporary art Contest is open for entries till March 14, 2018. The art contest is open to all age groups worldwide. Submissions can be in the form of installations, videos, performances or just about any technique. There are ten categories to choose from and participants can submit entries for any six categories.
Categories:
• Painting
• Photography
• Video
• Installation
• Sculpture
• Digital Graphics
• Animation
• Mix Media
• Performance...
VFX: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have zeroed in on ten movies which will be premiered on January 6th, 2018. The Visual Effects team have shortlisted these ten movies and we are eagerly awaiting the winner. After the Visual bake off on Jan 6th, the visual effects committee will vote for their favourite VFX movies and the nominations for the oscar award will be announced on January 23rd 2018. May the best VFX film win....
Installation art: The Lumen Prize celebrates the work of artists and it's in the 6th Year. The 2017 Lumen Prize Awards have been presented to some of the most creative artists from around the world. 2017 Lumen Gold Prize was presented to Thijs Biersteker for his interactive plastic reflectic installation. According to Thijs Biersteker ,"Plastic Reflectic is an interactive mirrored Installation Art that brings the ‘plastic soup’ in our oceans alive. Provoking a new perspective on a pressing issue, the work addresses the heavy pollution of our waters...
Sienna International Photo Awards has become quite popular amongst photographers and judges due to the grandiosity in the photo clicks. Even Though it's in the third year, this year more than 50,000 photos were submitted from 161 countries. Beautiful landscapes, vibrant night life, stunning sea creatures were some of the entries. 2017 SIPA award goes to Randy Olson for his stunning picture of cranes with a backdrop of lightning. According to Randy Olson,"There was a ton of lightning right behind the birds. I put the camera on a tripod and just started pumping...
Sculpture: Ron Mueck is an australian sculptor who is well known for his hyper realistic sculptures. National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne have stashed atleast a 100 resin human skulls in one of their rooms which was created by Ron Mueck. Each of these human skulls are approximately three feet tall and are made of fiberglass and resin. Some of these human skulls measure atleast five metre in height. The sculpture is named as Mass and it was part of the inaugural ceremony of National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, which happened on December 15th 2017. Ron...
On mark of the comencement of the National Hispanic Heritage Month, which began on September 15, Google has launched the largest digital archive of U S Latino art, culture and history. Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. The heritage started year back in 1968 and september 15 is chosen as a mark of the anniversary of Independence of Latin...
Cameras have become the integral part of our day-today lives. It's no wonder big techie giants aim at bringing their network closer by introducing street smart ideas which are flexible for users. No more heavy camera equiments when you are travelling abroad since google brings technology close to your phones by introducting three new 'appsperiments' for the little photographer in you.
Storyboard photography app by google
1) Story Board - This app allows you to create comic strips of the photos you have taken. It's available for Android Smart Phones. According to...
Photography: Sony World Photography Awards invites photographers across the world to submit their beautiful clicks and win a trip to London along with amazing cash prizes and rewards. It's an open competition and judges will be looking for a stunning set of images from 10 different categories. Each category will have a winner, 10 shortlisted photographers and 40 commended photographers. You can choose to enter any one competition: Professional, Youth or Open Competition. Entry is free for this competition.
The Sony World Photography Awards has four competitions:...
Animation: Annency is one of the largest animation festival in the world. Entries are accepted for projects in four categories: feature films, short films, television series and specials, and interactive creations/transmedia. It's part of the MIFA which is a prestigious film festival and annency(Animation Du Monde) focuses mostly on animation movies. The Animation festival starts From June 11th - June 16th 2018. You can expect a lot of workshops, animation movie screenings, exhibitions, VR screening, Boutique fun time and lot of knowledge exchange. The official...
Sculpture: Every year Sweden invites artists to sculptures of ice in it's Icehotel, which can be used by visitors. The icehotel has 35 suites and this year 36 artists from 16 different countries have designed the rooms. The artists who work on the bed sculptures have no prior experience in working on ice. This year we have stunning bed sculptures of Queen of the North, which a holds a bed in it's long hands. To build this icehotel, 30k cubic meters of snow and ice was used and for the ice sculptures 500 tons of clear ice was used. IceHotel reopens every year with...
Logo Design: Logo Maker Plus allows you create original looking logos within few minutes. Now you can turn simple icons into stunning logos, by choosing the gradient, filters which are easily accessible within the logo app. Logo Maker Plus was developed by Logopit to help users create original logo designs from the comfort of their homes and smartphones. Logo Maker Plus is available in the google play store and you can check the compatibilty with your device before you download them. Using Logo Maker Plus you can change the icon color, use different textures for...
DivePhotoGuide and Wetpixel the founders of Underwater Photography contest has been organising the contest for the past 13 years successfully. The series of events include Our World Underwater Competition, the “Super Bowl” of underwater imagery events, and the DEEP Indonesia Competition, the signature component of Indonesia’s prestigious diving, adventure travel and extreme sports expo. There are 13 categories in the contest where the grand prize winner will win the title of Our World Underwater Competition and would receive $1000 in cash for...
Photography Contest: People love to take photos and the same goes with the army personnel too. 2017 Army Digital Photography Contest is open to all active duty military persons and other people(family members, retirees, civilians and contractors). Participants can submit upto 3 photos based on a set of rules available in the US Army MWR website and can submit black & white or color photographs. There are seven categories to choose from:
1. Animals: Pets, birds, reptiles, amphibians, zoo animals, farm/domesticated animals, insects, etc.
2. Design...
Photography App: Stay updated with the latest collection of Photo Editing apps, Free Photo Editing Apps, best photography apps for Android and IOS smartphones. Choose the best photographer app for your smartphone and amaze your friends with your photographic skills. There are so many filters, styles, themes which you can choose from to make an ordinary photo into a professional click. You can choose to make the photography app as your standard smartphone camera. Try different filters and themes to set the mood for your photograph and instantly share your photo...
3D Street Art has been around for many years. This is the first time 3d zebra crossing has been installed to make the traffic slow down. A small town in Iceland has installed this 3d Zebra crossing on a narrow road making it safe for pedestrian crossing. The zebra crossing creates an optical illusion for vehicles which are little further away and they automatically slow down. The inspiration was drawn from the pilot project which was installed in Delhi by a company Vegmalun GIH. The 3d crosswalk was experimented for several weeks, before fine tuning on a design...
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