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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Cardboard World, Sculpures by Don Lucho
These paper allusions with the theme of a plane crash or road accident are spread on the streets of Santiago de Chile by Don Lucho.
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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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Pencil vs Camera: Hybrid Works of Drawing + Photo Art by Benjamin Heine
Artist Benjamin Heine overlays pencil drawings onto photographs. Sometimes these drawings were simple, just filling in what is covered up, and sometimes complex, adding detail or focusing on otherwise hidden aspects of the original photo.
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3D Sculptures by Susy Oliveira
Toronto-based artist Susy Oliveira creates sculptures, paintings and installations that examine human’s. Through her tridimensional works designed to evoke the virtual modelings simulating reality, Susy Oliveira questions our habits of replacing nature with fabricated replicas. In her works, there is a playful dynamic which associates the characteristics of photography with those inherent to sculpture.
Often using digital images that attempt to capture or reproduce elements of nature, the artist repurposes the images to give new life and form to artificial versions of natural and organic material.
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Container Art Studio by Mb Architecture
Based in Amagansett, this art studio has been designed by MB Architecture The artist had a limited budget of $60,000 to work with and wanted something close to home that was both functional as a working space, but would also be inviting and reflective.
Inside, bright white walls act as a blank canvas for new artwork and ample daylighting streams in through the large windows on either end and the exterior is painted grey for a sophisticated look and a way to blend the container into the wooded environment.
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Supertramp Caravan by Lehman B
How to live in microsized quarters? This question is at the heart of Lehman B’s performance art Supertramp he showcased at the Rough Luxe Hotel in London. The project attempts to promote and inspire livable life forms.
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Chair Garden by Nendo
Japan based company Nendo unveiled a new private collection called Chair Garden. Stools growing in pots is the creation of the architect Oki Sato, blowing the mind through an unusual idea.
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ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden
Benny Ekman
Jukkasjärvi’s ICEHOTEL exists only 4 short months over the year. Built of ice and snow, it is located in a land of Northern Lights and the Midnight Sun, north of the Arctic Circle.
The ICEHOTEL never stands still, its frozen solid ice melting to a free flowing river, and freezing back during a year. It begins in March, when crystal clear ice is harvested from the Torne River.
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“Taxi Elephant” Sculpture, by Benjamin Shine
British artist Benjamin Shine created the Taxi Elephant, inspired by glossy black cabs. Chrome detailed, the structures has headlamps as eyes and shows a yellow taxi sign on his head, that illuminates at various times, day and night, powered by a solar-panel.
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Big Bambú Installation by Doug & Mike Starn
American artists Mike and Doug Starn have been invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening to the public on April 27. The identical twin brothers will present their new work, Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Don’t, and You Won’t Stop, a monumental bamboo structure ultimately measuring 100 feet long by 50 feet wide by 50 feet high in the form of a cresting wave that will bridge realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance. Visitors are meant to witness the creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú as it is constructed throughout the spring, summer, and fall by the artists and a team of rock climbers. Set against Central Park and its urban backdrop, the installation Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú will suggest the complexity and energy of an ever-changing living organism. It will comprise the 13th consecutive single-artist installation for the Cantor Roof Garden.
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“Pixels” by Patrick Jean
Patrick Jean’s new film Pixels is a great short film with colorful cubes that flies off of an old TV and, in the guise of various well known computer game characters such as the Tetris blocks filling in the skyscrapers, Frogger leaping between cabs, and Donkey Kong on the Empire State building.
The showPODs Exhibition, Chicago
Jeremy Ehly has put together an exhibition in Chicago called reamscapes. Six carefully selected teams of up-and-coming designers from the Chicago area working in the field of architecture have been invited to take a standard ream of recycled copy paper and render the banality of 500 sheets of paper into a thought provoking and arresting temporary installation. Participants include Brandon Horn, Team Fold 500, Jeremy Ehly, Pei-San Ng, Thomas Kelley and w| c studio.
What will become of paper? With the advent of the iPad the proverbial death knell has been rung, many hailing the iPad as the final nail in the coffin for printed media. To hail the coming of the end and to tribute the official launching of the iPad, March will be the month when paper makes its triumphant last stand in the heart of the Chicago Arts District taking up a month long residence in the showPODs.
Nature by Numbers
Created by Cristóbal Vila, this video;“Nature By Numbers”, illustrates how mathematical properties, such as the Fibonacci Sequence, pervade the natural world, how everything, from snails to flowers, is built according to predictable mathematical principles
Blown Art Glass by Robert Kaindl
Robert Kaindl Signature Collection of Premium Custom Blown Art Glass is modern and deeply classic at once. The artisan uses the Murano (Italy) glass blowing techniques to shape his very own edgy sculptures.
“Rainbow Church” by Tokujin Yoshioka
At the exhibition of Tokujin Yoshioka, which opens from May 1st, he will present his dream project “Rainbow Church”, a large scale straw installation for the first time in Aisa, and many more.
The idea of this architecture project “Rainbow Church” dates back to when Tokujin wan in early 20s.
Tokujin visited the Chapelle du Rosaire located in Venice. He was impressed to see the world of Matisse being expressed by the sunlight of the Provence.
Since then, he had been dreaming of designing an architecture were people can feel the light with all senses.
Approximately 8-meter-high stained glass made with 500 crystal prisms will be filling the space with rainbow colours as the light shines on it.
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Car in a Giant Tattoo-Covered Ice Cube by Henry Hate
Tattoo artist Henry Hate has unveiled his first ever sculpture and the world’s first ice tattoo to mark the launch of the Nissan Cube.
Take a Nissan Cube, 8000 litres of water, filtered then frozen for 240 days, sculpted with Japanese Samurai chisels and you have Cube in a Cube…
The artistic installation featured a unique tattoo design on a large Japanese inspired, cubed ice sculpture which housed the brand new Nissan Cube inside. The installation also featured an interactive sensor panel which lit up Henry Hate’s tattoo design and elements of the Nissan Cube.
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