Peter Brings the Shadow to Life
Watch this very poetic video by skater Joe Pease made only with his shadow. The title is a reference to Peter Pan.
“It is not uncommon for children to play with their shadows or to imagine that they are tangible. However, in order to grow up, children must leave behind this fantasy…no one ever fully grows up. Instead, growing up is a process that continues throughout life.”
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
Moss Graffiti by Stefaan de Croock
The Belgian artists was commissioned by De Invasie and STUK as part of a larger exhibition on sustainable living. This super green street art is made by cleaning rather than adding on.
A wall along a staircase leading into the centre was covered with moss and Strook used it as the backdrop for his latest work. Using a hand-held pressure washer, he etched his designs into the moss and algae. With this is graphic art via cleaning, no chemicals, paint or cleaning agents were used at all.
“More and more, we are dictated by technology. That intrigues me. And so do the cities we live in. That’s why I populate my drawings with humanoids – robots with a human shape – and cyborgs – physical merges of man and machine.”
Water Display by Koei Industry
This Printer fountain created by Koei Industry located at the Osaka Station City in a shopping mall shows a digital-style time readout, spitting out numbers three times, as well as scrolling patterns including floral motifs in 2D. Read More…
Architect’s Eye by SPeeCH Tchoban & Kuznetsov
Sergei Tschoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, partners of the Moscow based architecture studio SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. As part of this year’s Interni Legacy event at the Università Statale in Milan,
A stainless steel sphere, completely smooth and reflecting, features an LED system to create the image of a huge human eyeball that rotates to look to the sky as well as at visitors, or at visitors, or at the ground, changing the color of the iris and the size of the pupil. Inside the eye, there are images of monuments of the Russian avant-garde, which now lie abandoned: a strong message about the need to conserve our history and cultural legacy. Read More…
More 4′ s New Identity
After winning a competitive pitch,British television Channel 4 commissioned ManvsMachine to create a new brand identity and on-air look for More4. The package aligns with a re-focussed range of content on the channel.
The graphic device is carried across a range of idents featuring installations made up of 400 mechanical ‘flippers’. 15 differently coloured triangular shapes, which also animate, again making up the numeral with the text similarly placed. Each one is made up of hundreds of mechanical ‘flipper’ units that, when set in motion, reveal a range of colours and patterns. These structures are placed within a series of different environments, such as a cafe, a staircase, on a tree, and on an abandoned boat on a beach in Dungeness. Read More…
Starry Night by Lee Eunyeol
Korean photographer Lee Eunyeol creates beautiful nighttime scenes by installing lights in various landscapes that appear as if the night sky was flipped upside down with glowing stars and planets nested inside tall grass or between deep earthen cracks. Eunyeol will be showing this series of photos at the Gana Art Space in Seoul starting this week.
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Cornelia Konrads’ Installations
Artist Cornelia Konrads creates sculptures that blend with nature and defies gravity. She works with natural materials in a natural environment. Her work is frequently punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness, where stacked objects like logs, fences, and doorways appear to be suspended in mid-air, reinforcing their temporary nature as if the installation is beginning to dissolve before your very eyes.
‘I am not there,’ Photo Series by Pol Ubeda Hervas
Pol Ubeda Hervas did this great photo series in Barcelona entitled ‘I’m Not There.’
How can we accept that we are changing?
How can we accept we hardly recognize ourselves in certain situations?
I am changing at this very moment of my life.
I do not react in the same ways I used to. I am surprised. Is that me?
These pictures are the way I see myself now.
My shadow is there but I erase myself because I don´t know who I am any longer.
The shoes remain only to make sure there is something more than… a shadow.
Portraits Made of Layers of Wire Mesh by Seung Mo Park
Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park creates giant ephemeral portraits by cutting layer after layer of wire mesh. These sculptural masterpieces are part of Park’s latest series, called Maya. Each work begins with a photograph which is superimposed over layers of wire with a projector, then using a subtractive technique Park slowly snips away areas of mesh.
Maya is the third phase in a trajectory of Park’s conceptual works dealing with reality, illusion, and existence. Barely possessing materiality of sculpture, or the ideas within them, the idea and conceptualization of MAYA is far from tangible substances.
Via [This is Collosal]
Artwork Made of Real Blood by Jordan Eagles
NYC artist, Jordan Eagles, works solely with gallons upon gallons of blood obtained from a slaughterhouse. By manipulating the blood through heating, burning, aging, mixing with copper, adding foreign materials, and then encasing it in plexiglass and UV resin, Jordan is able to capture an array of organic designs.
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‘Oruga de Plumas,’ Photograph by José Luis Rodríguez
It’s shaped like a caterpillar. It’s colored like a caterpillar. It even has what appear to be spines running along its back, a feature common in many species of caterpillars. But this is no caterpillar.
In fact this picture represents nine European Bee-eater scrammed together on a single branch. Their resemblance to the larval form of butterflies The photographer José Luis Rodríguez named the photograph Oruga de Plumas, which translates to “caterpillar of feathers.”
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‘Underwater Dogs,’ Photographs by Seth Casteel
Seth Casteel was an obscure pet photographer who was making ends meet. By March, his website had crashed under the weight of curiosity, his inbox was full to overflowing and a posse of publishers waving book deals was in hot pursuit. His website, which is typically handles around 200 visitors a day, is now overloaded with more than 100,000 daily visitors.
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Alicia Martin’s Biografias Installation
The Spain-based artist’s sculptural installation at Casa de America, Madrid depicts a cavalcade of books streaming out of the side of a building. The whirlwind of literature defies gravity and draws attention with its size.
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‘No Shadow,’ Sculptures Series Made of Lights Makoto Tojiki
Makoto Tojiki works hundreds of optical fibres and LED lights, exploring its use in installations, figurative sculptures, as well as kinetic pieces. “No Shadow” series is inspired by the interconnectedness of light and shadow and how they can be manipulated and controlled. Tojiki begins his creative process by breaking down the light and the shadow to capture the essence of their symbiosis resulting in fleeting images that are as ephemeral and enigmatic as shadow itself.
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Pencil Fence
Found on enpundit, the owners of this house had the very fun idea to create this fence made of giant pencils.
Hermès Windows by Kiki van Eijk for Hermès at the Bijenkorf Amsterdam
Hermès gave “carte blanche” to Kiki to realize 5 exceptional windows at the Bijenkorf Amsterdam. Kiki designed all 5 windows within the concept “the gift of time”, which is the 2012 theme of Hermès.
“Time is even more precious now than before. It’s the biggest jewel you can have.
Why not juggle with time? And show the different aspects of it! It’s just how you look at it and it’s all about your perception of time. In those 5 windows I’m showing 5 different ways of how you could look at time. In a very playful way, inspired on the philosophy and history of Hermès. It really shows the joy of a child playing with a lot of fantasy, like Alice in wonderland.”
Song Map Litho by Dorothy
Song Map is a new litho print by Dorothy made up of song titles.From Highway to Hell to Penny Lane, Itchycoo Park to Heartbreak Hotel. And just like places in our own neighbourhood, some are really good and some are best avoided like the plague – remember Love House by Sam Fox?
For the real music geek there’s an A-Z key of all the songs featured on the map with the bands that sang them.
THE 2012 Electrolux Design Lab Competition
The 2012 Electrolux Design Lab brief challenges design students to focus on design for the senses. Electrolux Design Lab created five films illustrating each sense. First out, is taste. How would you reward the senses through design?
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