Liz Wolfe’s Artworks
The artwork of Liz Wolfe is almost entirely based around a singular concept: What is responsible for the human brain’s basic perception of “beauty” when judging the world around us? When first seen, the first reaction is rather light compared to the stark themes that arise upon further inspection.
Nike Project by Dominic Wilcox
Dominic Wilcox was asked by Nike to design a series of works for their ‘Nike 1/1′ and ‘art of football’ projects.
‘Cave’ is a container for your most special football shoes. Instead of just dumping your prized footwear in the bottom of your wardrobe , place them in this bespoke shoe home made from model football players.
Cave’ by Dominic Wilcox
Foam City, Sony’s Latest Advert
Created by the ad agency Fallon London, which also made the three previous iconic Sony advertisements, the new advert, “Foam City”, promotes Sony’s Handycam, Cyber-shot and α, its new digital camera brand. The team flooded the centre of the Florida, south-east United States, city with over 460 million litres of foam, using the world’s largest foam-producing machine, which could fill an Olympic swimming pool in 24 seconds.
Deform House by Thom Faulders
Deform House build by Thom Faulders was brought on to consult on an efficient method for production and to then process and fabricate the individually pieced ceiling patterns.
The variegated ceiling and rear wall lining is composed of a series of milled patterns that modulates throughout the space, wrapping, bulging and aligning in continuously unique ways depending on the viewers position.
Godfather Art Made from the Entire Script
I know. This looks like nothing particular, it’s just Don Corleone holding his cat. But what’s special about this picture is that it’s made from the entire Godfather script in varying shades of black (and a little red). A 24″ x 30″ poster will cost you $14, an unsigned giclee (limited edition of 1,000), $100, and a signed giclee (limited edition of 250), $300. If Marlon Brando is your hero and you’ll always dreamed of being a gangster, this is a must-have collector item.
Link (product page with a super high-res version)
Retrospective of the Work of the Chinese Artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Museum
Organized by Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation, and Alexandra Munroe, the museum’s senior curator of Asian art, this exhibition nearly fills the museum and introduces a conceptually inclined impresario best known for works using gunpowder.
7,200 Bananas by Stefan Sagmeister
“Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far”, an interactive exhibition by Stefan Sagmeister revealed on Core77.
Here’s what a curator for the New York Museum of Modern Art had to say regarding the latest exhibition of Stefan Sagmeister, which includes 7,200 stacked bananas rotting along a wall:
The bananas you see here are real, all 7,200 of them on a giant wall – it smelled like 7,200 bananas too, slightly rotting.
The Pink and Blue Project by Jeong-Mee Yoon
The Pink and Blue Project by Korean photographer, Jeong-Mee Yoon, shows boys and girls with a collection of their personal items.
“The Pink and Blue Project” was at first motivated by my daughter. At five years old, she loves pink so much that she wants to wear only pink clothes and use only pink toys or objects.
What if Artworks Could Know How We Were Looking at Them?
“Opto-Isolator” by Golan Levin and Greg Baltus is an art project that subverts the idea of the “spectator” into a reversal of roles for the artwork and viewer. It is design and fabrication by Greg Baltus of Standard Robot Company, Pittsburgh. Opto-Isolator was developed with support from Creative Capital and the Berkman Faculty Development Fund.
Among other forms of feedback, Opto-Isolator looks its viewer directly in the eye; appears to intently study its viewer’s face; looks away coyly if it is stared at for too long; and blinks precisely one second after its visitor blinks.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
Storefront for Art and Architecture has followed their announcement of the White House Redux competition, with the launch of a curated micro-bookshop this past Wednesday. This fascinating concept comprises Artists’ book series, published by the Centre for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu in Japan.
It contains three sections: books selected by key figures in the Storefront’s past and present, an artists’ book series published by Centre for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu in Japan, and books and other material related to exhibitions held at the space.
Storefront will be the only retailer in the US of this rare collection.
Link Via [Tropolism] Via [Archidose]
Art Installation Made up of Hundreds of Case Fans by Studio Roosegaarde
Studio Roosegaarde has built a 10-meter long corridor out of hundreds of fans called Flow 5.0. Flow 5.0 is an interactive landscape made out of hundreds of fans which reacts to your sound and motion. By walking and interacting the visitor creates an illusive landscape of transparencies and artificial wind.
Vinyl Sleeve Heads
A FaceBook group has started a new amazing trend called “Sleeveface”. The concept is pretty simple: take a picture of yourself holding a vinyl album cover in front of your face and post it on the web for everyone to see. The result is always funny and very artistic. That made me want to dust off my old vinyls and give them a new life. So if your turntable is broken, you know what’s left to do.
Takashi Murakami Retrospective @ MOCA
The most internationally acclaimed artist to emerge from Asia in the postwar era, Takashi Murakami effortlessly navigates between the worlds of fine art and popular culture and is best known for his cartoon-like, “superflat” style. The Takashi Murakami retrospective is the most comprehensive, in-depth look to date, of the artist’s entire career.
Giant Gorilla Sculpture made from Coat Hangers by David Mach
Gorilla’s have fascinated mankind since ages, even now when we are so accustomed to them, they haven’t lost their charm and remain simply mysterious. David Mach is a famous collage artist and is known for his marvelous and huge creations.
Believe it or not, but the whole huge Gorilla has been made from coat hangers.
Link Via [The Design Blog]
Search Table by Ezri Tarazi
“Search Table” will be on show as part of the “Per-Capita” exhibition in Tel Aviv. Ezri Tarazihave created this table by using the first hundred images hit when the word ‘table’ was clicked in the Google search engine. The images were printed directly upon the aluminum plate, creating the overall table structure.
Fetish by David Lynch and Christian Louboutin
We discovered “Fetish” at Design Art London where these extraordinary five limited edition pairs of shoes and their erotic photographic counterparts by Lynch were on show at the Pierre Passebon Gallery.
World’s Largest LED screen
A 250m by 30m LED screen designed by Jeremy Railton has been installed in the ceiling in one of the shopping districts in Beijing. An impressive 7,500 square meters of viewable area, and comes with an impressive $32 million price tag to match. The screen is actually made up of 5 separate screens that are still pretty huge. It can do just about anything a normal display does, play videos, games…
Lace Fence by Demakersvan
They’re doing lace with wire fence. An object which is often considered as a barrier becomes an expression of freedom.
“We are plain but love the impossible. We respect the old but want the new.
We want to challenge, confront the normal, the accepted, the expected.
We believe in fusing talented designers, writers, filmmakers,artists, scientist
into a movement that will go beyond ego.
That will create a super story teller.”
