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Glowing Text Installations by Lee Jung

2012-05-22T22:43:00.002-07:00

South Korean artist Lee Jung created and photographed this gorgeous series of text-based light installations.

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Japanese Manhole Cover Art

2012-05-21T12:42:00.002-07:00

Manholes aren’t really artists’s first choice. However 95% of Japan’s 1,780 municipalities you will find artistic manhole covers unique to each city and town. It has become apart of the country’s national culture and it’s fascinating to see the different designs and styles that each town and city has chosen to represent them. With over 6,000 manhole cover artworks, it’s no surprise that spotting and photographing them has become a hobby for many.

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Before I Die, I Want To…

2012-05-15T12:47:00.001-07:00

"Before I die, I want to...." is the brain child of photographers KS Rives as a result of the end of the polaroid era, and Nicole Kenney where they asked the simple question: What do you want to do before you die?

Modified Social Benches

2012-05-07T22:00:00.004-07:00

These are Modified Social Benches by artist Jeppe Hein, which are located throughout the city of De Haan in Belgium, for the contemporary art event Beaufort04. The bench designs borrow their basic form from normal park benches, but are altered in various degrees to make the act of sitting on them a conscious physical endeavour.

Cardboard Sculptures By Chris Gilmour

2012-05-02T15:11:00.002-07:00

These incredible sculptures are made by Chris Gilmour, a British artist specializing in the creation of life-sized sculptures made of recycled cardboard and glue, using both plain packaging cardboard and recycled packaging material. From cars, to motorcycles, and storage sheds to dentist chairs, Gilmour let’s his mind wander, and let’s his hands go to work.

Illustrated Collection of Absurd and Funny Statements Overheard

2012-04-26T22:31:00.001-07:00

These colorful illustration works are by artist Karen Kurycki. These were created from absurd/funny/thought-provoking statements that she overheard on twitter. The results are excellent.

Tilt-Shift Photography Makes Lego Brick Rooms Look Like Full-Size Gallery Space

2012-04-23T22:52:00.005-07:00

Sao Paolo, Brazil-based photographer Valentino Fialdini has built surreal rooms entirely out of LEGO. His latest collection carries photographs of these empty architectural spaces with colorful and all-white LEGO walls, floors and corridors. With some clever lighting and camera tricks too, Fialdini has captured these tiny spaces as vast and spacious.

Deer-Shaped Electrical Towers in Russia

2012-04-19T22:48:00.002-07:00

Check out this cool deer shaped hydro tower concept by Moscow-based design studio DesignDepot.

Hauntingly Deceptive Skull Portraits by Tom French

2012-04-17T22:21:00.004-07:00

Painter Tom French just posted a number of new paintings in preparation for his upcoming exhibition titled Don’t Look Back at Zero Cool Gallery in London later this month. French’s acrylic works often depict couples in seemingly amorous relationships that create the optical illusion of a skull, pieces that walk the line between beautiful and unsettling.

Via: Thisiscolossal

Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style

2012-04-11T19:43:00.004-07:00

On a domestic flight in 2010, artist and photographer Nina Katchadourian impulsively put a tissue paper toilet seat cover on her head in the plane lavatory and snapped a picture. Your first thought may not have been, "Wow, this is totally like 15th-century Flemish style portraiture paintings!" but that was where she went with it. She calls the series “Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style.”

While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. I decided to add more images made in this mode and planned to take advantage of a long-haul flight from San Francisco to Auckland, guessing that there were likely to be long periods of time when no one was using the lavatory on the 14-hour flight. I made several forays to the bathroom from my aisle seat, and by the time we landed I had a large group of new photographs entitled Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style.

Via: Flavorwire

Moving Tank Library That Gives Out Books

2012-04-10T18:59:00.003-07:00

Argentina-based artist Raul Lemesoff took an old 1979 Ford Falcon, ormerly belonging to the Argentine armed forces, and transformed it into a mobile library shaped like a tank. His portable project titled Arma De Instruccion Masiva, translated as Weapon of Mass Instruction, roams the streets of Buenos Aires, attacking its people with knowledge.

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Floppy Disk Portraits by Nick Gentry

2012-04-09T21:31:00.002-07:00

British artist Nick Gentry is known for his impressive floppy disk portraits. Gentry explores even more characters in his updated collection of floppy disk canvases. Check out the video for a montage of recent and older works.

Google's Futuristic Web Glasses

2012-04-05T21:36:00.004-07:00

Google has announced Project Glass, a technology-in-development that will allow users to wear Android-based display glasses to stream information right in front of their eyes.

A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do.

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3D Currency Sculptures by Kristi Malakoff

2012-04-04T22:22:00.005-07:00

Canadian visual artist Kristi Malakoff's series titled Money Pieces utilizes the spectrum of hues that is present in paper money from around the world to produce her eye-catching sculptures. By folding, cutting, and pasting, Malakoff manages to create colorful sculptural pieces.

Via: Mymodernmet

Inspiring Street Art by Alice Pasquini

2012-04-03T20:21:00.010-07:00

Rome-based artist Alice Pasquini is a talented visual artist who also works as an illustrator, set designer and painter. Her street art projects were implemented in countries like U.K., France and Spain, with spectacular results.

The artistic works of Alice Pasquini are strongly inspired by reality: “I create art about people and their relationships, I’m interested in representing human feelings and exploring different points of view”-explains the artist.

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Scissor Spiders by Christopher Locke

2012-03-30T21:43:00.004-07:00

When we hear about Spiders, we get afraid because of their dangerous look. But artist Christopher Locke gave an other impression of spiders by his unique art work. He takes scissors that were confiscated by the TSA at airport security checkpoints and turns them into these awesome spider sculptures. We’re guessing they still won’t be permitted to be carried onto airplanes, but when no one is looking they might just scuttle onboard all by themselves.

Multilayered Portraits by Lucas Simões

2012-03-28T20:48:00.005-07:00

Brazilian artist Lucas Simoes makes these interesting multilayered cut out portraits. The outcome is awesome but the fascinating part is the process. Read more after the picture.

In this series of works I invited intimate friends over to tell me a secret as I took their portrait. However, my intention was not to hear their secret, but to capture the expressions of each one at the moment they revealed their secret. I also asked each one to choose a song for me to listen to in my ear phones while I photographed them. And, after the photo session, I asked each one if the secret had a color, and these are the colors the portraits carry. From this photo shooting session I chose 10 different portraits to cut and overlap.

Skull of Books

2012-03-27T21:04:00.003-07:00

Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre has finally found a use for all those obsolete computing books that have been collecting dust worldwide. His newest work-in-progress is called Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty II) and as you can see, it is a near perfect rendition of a human skull popping out from a stack of outdated computer manuals.

Via: Thisiscolossal

New Photos of Titanic 100 Years Later

2012-03-26T21:25:00.005-07:00

As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic approaches, National Geographic Magazine is unveiling, in their April 2012 edition, new photographs that provide a greater understanding of what happened on that fateful day, April 15, 1912.

Ethereal views of Titanic's bow (modeled by Stefan Fichtel) offer a comprehensiveness of detail never seen before.

Two of Titanic's engines lie exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in "rusticles" - orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria - these massive structures, four stories tall, once powered the largest moving man-made object on Earth.

The view from above.

As the starboard profile shows, the Titanic buckled as it plowed nose-first into the seabed, leaving the forward hull buried deep in mud--obscuring, possibly forever, the mortal wounds inflicted by the iceberg.

Via: Dailymail

Anatomy in Nature by Juan Gatti

2012-03-21T21:01:00.004-07:00

The Argentinean artist Juan Gatti is generally known as a commercial photographer and graphic designer, often collaborating with film director Pedro Almodovar. His less known work includes anatomy drawings of human body in combination with the taxonomy of plans and of exotic animals. In his images there are wind-blown flowers, dragonflies, birds, and always the dazzling beauty of the human body.

Via: Designboom

Predator-Like Sculptures by Rob Mulholland

2012-03-20T21:45:00.002-07:00

Scottish artist Rob Mulholland created a series of these sculptures out of mirrored Perspex (or acrylic glass). It has been called the Predator effect after the 1987 film where an alien life form seamlessly blends into its background.

Via: mymodernmet

City Carved From Potatoes

2012-03-19T20:49:00.005-07:00

Peter Root, 33, spent three weeks in Istanbul, Turkey, making homes, office blocks and places of worship from a staggering 176lbs of spuds using a kitchen knife and bicycle repair kit.

Details include TV aerials, hundreds of windows on tower blocks and the crescent moon of Islam on mosques.

Via: The Sun

Streaming Books Installations by Alycia Martin

2012-03-16T23:24:00.003-07:00

The Spain-based artist Alicia Martin'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 grandeur size. There have been three site-specific installations, thus far, of the massive sculptural works in this series known as Biografias, translated as Biographies, that each feature approximately 5,000 books sprawled out around and atop one another.

Via: mymodernmet

Funny Street Art Of OaKoAk

2012-03-14T17:15:00.012-07:00

Some of the best street art has humor built into it. With a highly aware set of eyes, French street artist, OaKoAk, takes otherwise boring objects like hand rails, street signs and potholes and creates a narrative around them to make funny and interesting works of art. They are simple statements done very well.

Photo-Realistic Ink Paintings of Animals by George Boorujy

2012-03-13T21:18:00.005-07:00

Brooklyn based artist George Boorujy creates impossibly detailed ink paintings of North American birds and other animals, often pouring numerous photographs and visiting zoos where the animals are kept before embarking on a piece.

P.P.O.W. gallery, who is hosting George Boorujy’s latest solo show, Blood Memory, writes, "Through their gaze an interaction evolves with the wild that otherwise would have to be sought out or birthed from happenstance. However fleeting our exchanges with the wild are, an impression of their presence marks our memories. There is something mystical at play; a silent exchange that either moves us towards awareness or heightens our fear of the unknown."

Via: thisiscolossal