SonUmbra Interactive Solar-Powered Tree Provides Sound and Light After Dark
Folks over at Loop.pH have designed a unique interactive solar-powered tree, which was unveiled at the London Design Festival. The structure comes with strands of light-emitting fabric woven into a lucent web of branches.
Temporary Installation at the AIASF’s Architecture in the City Festival
Designers tried to give all that trash a new life by using more than 2000 plastic beer cups for a temporary installation at the AIASF’s Architecture in the City Festival.
The support structure is a steel cable mesh, on which cups with custom laser-cut clips were attached. The low-cost structure can be easily disassembled and recycled for future use.
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SILVEREYE Series, Photo by Guido Argentini
These amazing photos of silvered nudes from his SILVEREYE series by Guido Argentini are available now as limited edition prints!
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Caribbean Swimming Pig, Photo by Vince Lauro
Vince Lauro won National Geographic Traveler’s Great Outdoors Photo Contest with this awesome photo of the Caribbean swimming pig.
As the first mate on a 118-foot motor yacht, Vince Lauro has the opportunity to continuously travel across the Caribbean. This photograph was taken near a small key famous for the “swimming pigs.” A colony of pigs lives on the key, and they often swim near visiting boats. To capture this clear image Lauro said, “I had to lure this pig into an undisturbed area with its favourite food: fresh watermelon.”
“Scratching the Surface” by Alexandre Farto Aka Vhils
This beautifully produced video, entitled Scratching the Surface is the work of the Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto Aka Vhils. It gives us an insightful look into his new masterpiece, taking place in Portugal.
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Tara Donovan, Genius of Little Things
Tara Donovan is an inventive young sculptor whose installations bring wonder to the most common objects of everyday life. Donovan’s site-specific, sculptural works transform ordinary accumulated materials into intriguing visual and physical installations. Choosing a single object – such as a transparent drinking straw, scotch tape, a Styrofoam cup, or a paper clip – Donovan experiments with assembling it in different ways. Sensitive to the specific needs of her materials and the nature of her exhibit spaces, her installations are often arranged in ways reminiscent of geological or biological forms.
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Leocadia Jurado’s New Creations
One of our favorite artists, Leocadia Jurado comes with her new creations using a mixed technique based on the art of collage and painting.
Lacrime del Pescatore, Light Installations by Ingo Maurer
Lacrime del Pescatore, a light installations by Ingo Maurer gives the sensation of being underwater, in the vicinity of shipwrecked treasure. It is made of a series of three fisherman’s nets studded with more than 300 crystal drops. Lacrime del Pescatore gives the sensation of being underwater, in the vicinity of shipwrecked treasure.
“Trick of the Eye” by John Pugh
At first glance, it looks as if some natural disaster has shaken away the walls of these buildings to reveal architecture hidden for thousands of years.
And at second and third glance, it looks like that too.
The incredibly lifelike scenes are actually huge works of art, painted on the side of perfectly intact buildings.
The paintings, which have fooled many, were created by John Pugh, who specialises in trompe l’oeil – or ‘trick of the eye’ – art.
He uses his skills to delude the viewer into seeing 3D scenes painted on flat surfaces.
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“Bubble Pop,” Photo by Richard Heeks
Here’s an amazing photo by Richard Heeks of a soap bubble bursting found on Neotorama;
The lighting of this shot is natural – sunlight through cloud. The Nikon D90 is great for giving clear images at high ISO (here ISO 800); making this shot possible.
N.B. This is a real photo of a soap bubble bursting. I’ve made slight edits to raise colour and light, but this is just to add some punch. This is not a Photoshop creation!
Radical Nature Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, Exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery
The beauty and wonder of nature have provided inspiration for artists and architects for centuries. Since the 1960s, the increasingly evident degradation of the natural world and the effects of climate change have brought a new urgency to their responses. Radical Nature is the first exhibition to bring together key figures across different generations who have created utopian works and inspiring solutions for our ever-changing planet.
“Artfarm,” Pigs Tattooed by Belgian Artist Wim Delvoye
The Belgian artist Wim Delvoye has been tattooing pigs since the 1990s. In the early 21st century a tattooed pigs project was set up in the Art Farm in China, where there are fewer strictures regarding animal welfare than in most parts of the Western world.
The Naked Truth by ABOVE
THE NAKED TRUTH from ABOVE on Vimeo.
Don’t be shy, take a peek inside the shower curtain! The “naked truth” is only found by those who look.
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“Monument to the Unknown Washerwoman” by Pravdoliub Ivanov
Here’s a whimsical art installation titled Monument to the Unknown Washerwoman by Bulgarian artist Pravdoliub Ivanov.
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Paintings from Everyday Items by Bernard Pras
From far away these seem like regular paintings, nothing special. But look closer, these images by French artist Bernard Pras are created by making a collage of everyday items.
He takes everyday objects, and puts them together in a form that appears like stunning paintings when viewed from a distance.
“The Wind Brought Us the Crisis” by Luzinterruptus
Luzinterruptus’s focus is on the global economic crisis and the appropriate venue is the steps of the Madrid Stock Exchange. The group used the financial pages from influential newspapers to create a light installation at a spot they believe the virus began to spread, as though borne by the wind.
Mentalgassi’s Street Art Installations in Berlin
The Berlin group Mentalgassi’s street art installations in Berlin, Germany uses prints and wheatpaste to transform urban bits and objects into beautiful works of art such as recycling bins and tickets validators, thereby evoking emotion from those that pass by.
“Naked Faces,” Portraits by Oleg Duryagin
The “Naked Faces” project is devoted to relationship between human’s inner world with human’s behaviour in society. The society still restricts behaviour and thought of a human being.
This project is a kind of a protest that is to show that a person should remain who he is and that people should perceive him in the way he is. The persons presented in my works lack individuality: the eyebrowes and the eyelashes are removed, the skin is smoothed.
I have always been trying to make observers to be not indifferent to my pictures but it does not mean that emotions should only be positive – they can express both alarm, and fear, and tearing away.
Visially I am inspired by culture of fashion and surrealists. I often shock peple. I try to create the my personal aesthetics of the works, I try to combine reality with artificiality.
