I waste a lot of time mindlessly scrolling through apps like Facebook and TikTok, but once in a while, a cool video will appear that grabs my attention. Here are two of them that I’ve stumbled across recently.
Earlier, I saw a video of this person named Giovanni Contardi making mosaics out of Rubik’s Cubes. He makes hyper-realistic gradient map portraits of celebrities, superheroes, and famous paintings – all with only Rubik’s Cubes.
Each rubik’s cube only has 6 unique colors, so in total, each large image he creates only uses 6 colors. However, he’s able to create the illusion of dimension by manipulating each face, picking out only the colors he wants.
On TikTok, I ran into a video of an artist (@noelquidlat) recreating images of celebrities using only a singular sheet of paper and an X-Acto knife.
To think that one mistake will require him to restart, it’s actually impressive to see something as detailed and accurate as a photo. It’s crazy to me how people come up with the ideas for these works!
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Christine Zhang · April 17, 2021 at 1:47 am
These are actually insane. I cannot imagine how much careful planning would have gone into these designs.
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