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I love photorealism in paintings. Here are some brilliant oil-on-canvas paintings by this New York based artist.

It was the largest of the German concentration camps.

I scan buildings and slabs that fly past. They are my resource for shape, scale, and color. I am particularly fond of forms and surfaces gently leveled and watered down to street essence. Such places suggest inadvertency and compliance in blending. In recreating such tweaks, I blanket an already obscure image, washing out further any dangling details. To render this all fittingly establishes a personal hideout from the caffeinated pulling from every direction....

RememberCraig Tracy, the body art artist? First he prepares a background for the work and then the models are painted in stages.

Canadian photographerChris Buck’sphotography series ISNt portraits celebrity look-a-likes that simply arent (isnt). I have seen many celebrity look a-like photos before but never they have been done so brilliantly. People often look a bit uneasy or uncomfortable in my pictures. In a way, I find vulnerability more interesting than confidence.

What happened to the stack of floppy disks you had? Probably lying around at the bottom of the drawer. But Nick Gentry still uses them as canvas for his art. Nick is a graduate of the London College of Art.

Stephane Halleux was born in Chenee, Belgium. He discovered the magic power of strange play-like structures without any utility purpose. Among these old treasures, his first passion again rose to the surface. His first exhibitions were such a success that since 2005 he has devoted all his time to his realizations.

This year US President Obama and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi among various others were the targets. And what is Lady Liberty doing? Apparently setting his ass on fire. Here is another view. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi love for younger women is depicted in this float. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smuggles nuclear arms while Obama looks on. Switzerland recently voted to ban minarets. Here, a muezzin is being blown out of a typically Swiss Alpine horn....

California-born artistRobert Thebegan making sculptures from books, often culled from dumpsters and thrift store bins, since 1991. His work has been shown across New York and across the nation.

Michigan based artistEric Daighcreates detailed portraits using thousands of push-pins into notice boards. Daigh begins his portraits with a digital photograph of his subject. He then produces a grid map showing him where to stick the pins, row by row. Daigh’s biggest portraits are almost 2 metres high (6ft 6in) and use more than 20,000 pins. They can take around eight months to complete. The 32-year-old also holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest push pin mosaics....

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the orchid exhibition. The event will feature an island made of orchids and tropical plants with diverse colours and shapes. It will include plants like Miltassias, Dendrobiums and Prosthechea cochleata. Photo Courtesy: Getty Images, Reuters.

During the last 6 years the remote controlled robot sent unprecedented information on the geology and atmosphere of Mars. Sprit become stuck in deep sand, rendering it immobile. For nine months NASA scientists tried every maneuver on book to try get Spirit’s wheel unstuck. The rover continues to operate as a static science station. With the Martian winter approaching, Spirit might only remain active till May 2010.

Mark Evans, from Conwy, Snowdonia, creates famous portraits by etching on leather with a hand knife. Mark works with large hides sourced from around the world and hand-etches them with various knives and scalpels. The process takes huge patience and an eye for detail. Using surgical precision he carves away less than a tenth of a millimetre of leather. His incisions create different tones in the leather surface as the tanned suede beneath is gradually revealed....