If you thought the following images of Tokyo's dazzling nighttime cityscape were just high-quality photographs with an added blur effect in Photoshop, think again. The colorful lights depicting the Rainbow Bridge and Shibuya district are actually thousands of meticulously placed stickers stuck onto black acrylic paint by Japanese artist Yukino Ohmura. Finding monotony in the countless hi-res photography of nighttime skylines seen all over the blogosphere, Ohmura set out to find a more personal way of rendering Tokyo's cityscapes. Rainbow Bridge Shibuya Scramble For her medium, Ohmura bought small, cheap circular stickers typically used in elementary-school projects from a local stationery store. The stickers, which are set against the paint and then photographed, represent something that the artist felt all Japanese people could relate to. Ohmura tells The Verge: "Since these stickers are so well-known, I thought that I could make art more accessible to Japanese people by expressing metropolitan nightscapes with these materials, thereby adding a new twist to a genre that has been said to be 'boring.'" Tokyo Dome Yokohama Although Ohmura's images use inexpensive materials, her stickerscapes are anything but simple ...
If you thought the following images of Tokyo's dazzling nighttime cityscape were just high-quality photographs with an added blur effect in Photoshop, think again. The colorful lights depicting the Rainbow Bridge and Shibuya district are actually thousands of meticulously placed stickers stuck onto black acrylic paint by Japanese artist Yukino Ohmura. Finding monotony in the countless hi-res photography of nighttime skylines seen all over the blogosphere, Ohmura set out to find a more personal way of rendering Tokyo's cityscapes. Rainbow Bridge Shibuya Scramble For her medium, Ohmura bought small, cheap circular stickers typically used in elementary-school projects from a local stationery store. The stickers, which are set against the paint and then photographed, represent something that the artist felt all Japanese people could relate to. Ohmura tells The Verge: "Since these stickers are so well-known, I thought that I could make art more accessible to Japanese people by expressing metropolitan nightscapes with these materials, thereby adding a new twist to a genre that has been said to be 'boring.'" Tokyo Dome Yokohama Although Ohmura's images use inexpensive materials, her stickerscapes are anything but simple ...