Nike’s ‘Ballman’ World Cup Sculpture by Ratcliffe Fowler Design
Dominating the Carlton Shopping Centre in Johannesburg, this huge sculpture by Ratcliffe Fowler Design has been named Ballman. It is made with almost 3,000 footballs suspended from steel wire ropes giving the illusion that it is floating in the air.
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Chipmunk Posing With Darth Vader, Photography
People couldn’t believe that this photograph taken by Chris McVeigh of Darth Vader riding a chipmunk was not a Photoshop. To end the controversy, designer and photographer Chris McVeigh has decided to reveal his most precious secret. How Lord Vader rode Billy the chipmunk?
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Bookshelf Porn
A collection of all the best bookshelf photos for people who “heart” bookshelves.
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Joan Salo Drawings
Great pen drawings by Spanish artist Joan Salo.
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“The Wool Butchery” by Clemence Joly
Clemence Joly focused her final degree project on the study of French meat, crocheting wool selected pieces of meat and sausages the most iconic, such as pig’s head, steak, roasts, sausage. Her project is called “The Wool Butchery” and you can view a gallery of eighteen images at the link.
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Paper Sculptures by Jeff Nishinaka
JEFF NISHINAKA, paper sculptor, was born in Los Angeles and gained international recognition in the past fifteen years through his unique representational art forms in 3-Dimension. He pioneered paper sculpture in the US advertising, promotion, and publishing fields. Since then he has worked non-stop as the premiere paper sculptor in both commercial advertising, illustration, and fine art. Generally using Strathmore 2-ply and 3-ply kid finish papers (and sometimes using watercolor paper or handmade papers), he tears and cuts the paper into three-dimensional sculptures to which he applies color with an arsenal of techniques.
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Safe the Beach, Hotel Built From Beach Debris by HA Schult
Commissioned by Corona’s Save the Beach campaign for World Environment Day, this pop-up rubbish hotel in Rome was created by German artist HA Schult to highlight the importance of preserving Europe’s beaches. And it’s built almost entirely from rubbish collected from the sands of our wonderful continent.
The Save the Beach campaign is inviting people across Europe to report and nominate endangered beaches throughout the summer, by visiting www.coronasavethebeach.org. The winning beach will be recovered and cleaned later this year by brewing company Corona. Last year, website users chose the Italian beach in Capocotta as the recipient of the Save the Beach clean up.
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Stephane Malka at La Cité de L’Architecture et du Patrimoine
Recent recipient of an AJAP prize – a French distinction by the Cultural Ministry to promote young architects – Stephane Malka’s ambitious designs will be exhibited in La Cité de L’Architecture et du Patrimoine until September 5th. Malka has completed this design in an effort to unite the forsaken, the marginalised, refugees, demonstrators, dissenters, hippies, utopians, and the stateless of all kinds. He describes this conceptual design as ‘a colonisation of neglected public spaces by the participation of a non-specialised labour collective that elaborates on prefabricated and hijacked construction systems arguing ‘my methodology seeks to promote public participation as an act of resistance against urban restrictions.
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3D Printed Sculptures Made out of Human Ashes by Wieki Somers
Dutch artist Wieki Somers is using the ashes of dead people to create common household objects using a 3D industrial printer. The actual sculptures are made out of human remains and show that even in post-life you could become a bird or a toaster.
Artist Wieki Somers said the project demonstrates the fragility of life and questions our attachment to inanimate objects.
The Goat Bridge
An awesome farmer in Ekton, Maryland created this twisted and towering goat bridge to give his goats access to two separate pens, and no doubt add some enjoyment to his day.
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“Sculpture Made by Bees” by Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny
Dutch designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny has made a this sculpture of Jesus that was completed by bees. He erected a sealed glass container with his mold inside.
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Floating Sculptures by Claire Morgan
These highly-dynamic sculptures by visual artist Claire Morgan are captivating on so many different levels. Many of the animals in her artwork seem to evoke a potential for freedom and life’s poignant vulnerability. The relationship between movement and stillness is compelling in her installations, while the compositional patterns she creates form a beautiful rhythmic tone.
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Technological Inventions from the Past
Our friends from Bored Panda have posted this great article about the technologies of the beginning of last century which, I’m sure have contributed a lot to the advancement of our today technology and design. Take an eye!
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“Blake, What I Like,” Music Video by Paul Bryan Sovnger
“Blake, What I Like” is a music video directed by Paul Bryan Sovnger that has been shooting in the subway of Paris made with an Olympus i-SPEED 3.
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Dan Busta, Photographer
Dan Busta is a photographer with a pretty cool portfolio. Between fashion work or Advertising photographies for agencies, Dan busta finds always a moment to manipulate his camera as an amateur photographer for his own personal book.
Dan Busta
Crafetefan by Porky Hefer
Crafetefan has been designed for Coca-Cola by Porky Hefer of Animal Farm. Made with 2500 standard Coke bottle crates – this huge ‘This giant’ is located at the fan park in Newtown. It weighs a whopping 25 tons and measures 54 feet tall.
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Dreamlands, Exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou
The exhibition Dreamlands considers for the first time the question of how World’s Fairs, international exhibitions, theme parks and kindred institutions have influenced ideas about the city and the way it is used. Duplicating and reduplicating reality through the creation of replicas, embracing an aesthetic of accumulation and collage that is often close to kitsch, these self-enclosed parallel worlds have frequently afforded inspiration to the artistic, architectural and urbanistic practices of the twentieth century, and may even be said to have served as models for certain contemporary constructions.
This multidisciplinary exhibition brings together more than 300 works :modern and contemporary art, architecture, films and documents drawn from numerous public and private collections.
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Brett Amory
Brett Amory was born June 25, 1975 in Portsmouth, Virginia. When he was 21 Amory moved to San Francisco to study motion pictures at the Academy of Arts. Soon after enrolling in school, Amory took his first drawing class and was introduced to his passion for the arts. Around the time Amoryturned 24 he tried his hand in painting. In 2002 Amory switched his major to fine art and started his first body of work called “Waiting” a series of paintings about the anticipation of the next moment. Amory gathers his source material by taking pictures on the street of people waiting. He gravitates towards visible quirks and, by his own admission, a lot of his subjects are older.
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