Junkculture

The Week-End

2012-01-27T07:57:00.000-08:00

Our most popular posts this week featured a new collection of altered cabinet cards by Alex Gross, gouache & acrylic landscapes by Philadelphia-based artist Amze Emmons, a creative project by photographer Ilrika Kestere and an interactive gallery piece designed by Scott Garner.

The Bow Tie Collection

2012-01-27T05:05:00.000-08:00

Recycling connoisseur Nicholas Ruiz has created a collection of quirky bow ties using a variety of objects such as LEGO bricks, wine corks and guitar picks. The 'Bow Tie Collection' was inspired by different exhibits that took place at MoMA over the course of 2011 and is one of the most interesting collections of wearable art we've seen recently.

Find out more about the collection here.

via [ManMadeDIY]

Camera Heads

2012-01-26T04:34:00.000-08:00

Recently I came across this strange series of photos on Flickr and had to share a few of my favorites. Unfortunately I know very little about the photographer who took these pictures (his website is in Japanese), but these are just a few of his bizarre and humorous portraits of people wearing cameras on their heads.

See more photos here.

Via [Photojojo]

Re-Constructions

2012-01-25T11:36:00.000-08:00

For her latest series of large photographic prints titled 'Re-Constructions', artist Alejandra Laviada gathered discarded material from an abandoned hotel in Mexico City and used it to create a number of ephemeral sculptures off-site. Alejandra explains, "The hotel was left abandoned for several years and is now being redeveloped. Throughout this period of time, I have revisited the site several times to photograph various aspects of its decay and transformation. The images in Re-Constructions explore photography’s role and relationship to sculpture and to the history of the readymade."

Find out more about Alejandra's work here.

The Art of Alex Gross

2012-01-25T07:14:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles-based artist Alex Gross has created a new collection of altered cabinet cards for an upcoming show at Jonathan LeVine gallery beginning february 25th, 2012. The once sepia-toned albumen photographs are transformed by means of mixed media and reimagined as contemporary comic book superheroes.

Find out more about Alex' work here.

via [designboom]

Rotten

2012-01-25T05:11:00.000-08:00

For his ongoing series titled 'Pourri' (meaning 'rotten' in English), French photographer Frédéric Delangle documents the process of decay through composting. His photographs bring together different textures and colors transforming the images into complex abstractions which are both fascinating and repulsive.

Find out more about Frédéric's work here.

via [featureshoot]

The Girl with Seven Horses

2012-01-24T08:34:00.000-08:00

'The Girl With 7 Horses' is a creative project by photographer Ilrika Kestere based on a fairy tale about a girl whose drying laundry is taken away by a storm and as she travels to far distant lands she dicovers that the clothes have taken on a life of their own.

Find out more about the project here.

via [ My Love for you] and [Colossal]

Still-Life

2012-01-24T07:12:00.000-08:00

Scott Garner's 'Still Life' is an interactive gallery piece that takes traditional still life painting into the fourth dimension with a motion-sensitive screen on a rotating mount. Set in a wooden frame, the fruits and vases of the seemingly ordinary still life painting begin to tumble when a user rotates the work.

Find out more about the project here.

via [Designboom]

Best Friends

2012-01-24T05:45:00.000-08:00

For his project titled 'Best Friends' artist and designer Colin Pinegar created an installation based on data he gathered by taking a lengthy survey about his Facebook "friends." Colin explains, "I asked myself questions ranging from personal to generic and assigned each of my cyber-friends a score ranging from 1-25. Each score was then plotted on a color spectrum.I then made a wax bust for each person in the color that corresponded to their score. The result shows how close I am to my Facebook “friends,” purple being those of my “friends” that I actually know intimately and interact with in person.

Find out more about the project here.

via [MKTG]

Disintegration and Sprawl

2012-01-23T09:57:00.000-08:00

Philadelphia-based artist Amze Emmons creates colorful gouache & acrylic landscapes depicting the ruins of industrial, capitalist societies fallen into decline. A multi-disciplinary artist with experience in drawing and printmaking, Amze’s work surprises with it’s playful nature set in stark contrast to the landscape.

Find out more about Amze's work here.

via [The Jealous Curator]

Oozing with Talent

2012-01-23T08:44:00.000-08:00

American artist Daniel Arsham creates installations that cause walls to appear in a state of flux, as if they are melting or dripping. His show, titled “the fall, the ball, and the wall” at OHWOW gallery in Los Angeles , on view through Feb. 16, illustrates the artist's continued interest in "manipulating architecture and in challenging expectations of accepted realities."

Find out more about Daniel's work here.

via [Creative Review]

Video: The Skulls of Derik Van Beers

2012-01-23T05:05:00.000-08:00

The Perez Brothers (www.perezbros.com) proudly present the modern ceramic art of Derik Van Beers in their artist profile film entitled, The Skulls of Derik Van Beers. Working exclusively with the primal image of the skull, the art of Van Beers is meant to provoke themes of lost innocence and to playfully remind viewers of their own mortality. In an effort to celebrate the emerging art scene in their hometown of Oakland California, the Perez Brothers have created a short film that simultaneously attempts to exhibit the finest techniques in both film and ceramics.

Find out more about Derik's work here.

via [Lustik]

The Week-End

2012-01-20T04:17:00.000-08:00

Our most popular posts this week featured a series of bird's eye view photographs of traffic cones by Peter Emerick, a project by Lilly McElroy documenting social connections, sex and gender, the sculptural works of Netherlands-based artist S tefan Gross and potholes transformed into miniature gardens by Steve Wheen.

Meteors

2012-01-20T03:19:00.000-08:00

With stories of doom and destruction surfacing in the news, the Mayan’s prediction that 2012 was the year it would all go tits up and more serious warnings of double dip recession, Thomas Brown's 'Meteor Series', draws tongue-in-cheek parallels between threatening, yet weightless, meteors and balls of scrunched-up paper, sending the message that there is little point dwelling too much on things beyond our control.

Find out more about Thomas' work here.

via [It's Nice That]

Micro-Macro

2012-01-19T09:00:00.000-08:00

Micro-Macro by filmmaking collective Encyclopedia Pictura is a short movie that goes from subatomic structures to the universe, without microscopes or telescopes and with a whole lot of vegetables and imagination. Think of it as "Powers of Ten" redone in stop motion.

Find out more about Encyclopedia Pictura here.

via [kottke]

Everyday Drawings

2012-01-19T06:03:00.000-08:00

Vancouver-based artist Janice Wu creates meticulous drawings of everyday found objects. Her work explores how meaning, value, and associations are placed upon things in the material realm. Janice explains, "I am interested in how seemingly worthless objects have the potential for whimsy and how the ‘inanimate’ mundane can reveal poetic and narrative possibilities. Through re-imagining the mediocre, the ordinary can become playful and even precious."

Find out more about Janice's work here.

via [Juxtapoz]

Little Press

2012-01-19T04:51:00.000-08:00

Copenhagen-based designer Ishac Bertran built this ingenious miniature letterpress, using only leftover material from his previous projects. Three blocks of wood, a couple of brass rods and a some parts from an old radio cassette player ultimately determined the shape of the device. Still Ishac notes that his little letterpress falls short in terms of accuracy: "I must say this is not the most precise letterpress ever."

Find out more about the project here.

via [Core77]

The Pothole Gardener

2012-01-18T07:09:00.000-08:00

Worried about bicyclists getting hurt driving over London's potholes, guerrilla gardener Steve Wheen created these small urban gardens to alert city officials of the growing problem (no pun intended!). Part art project, part labour of love, part experiment, part mission to highlight how terrible the roads are – the pictures and gardens are supposed to put smiles on peoples faces!

Find out more about the project here.

via [Sweet Station]

Sustainable Trash

2012-01-18T04:48:00.000-08:00

Is art nothing more than sustainable waste, garbage with purpose and a place in the future? These are some of the questions that inspired the recent work of Netherlands-based artist Stefan Gross. The exhibition titled ‘Sustainable Trash,’ on view at H arlan Levey Gallery is influenced from the ten years that Stefan spent to become a Stain Glass master and the notions of color and material he continues to explore. Toys in particular become a theme, as Stefan fills them with human organs in order to recreate a familiar, playful object as something weighted, deadly and serious.

Find out more about Stefan's work here.

via [designboom]

Sweet Tweet

2012-01-17T07:01:00.000-08:00

UK-based communications agency Uniform created a cuckoo clock that dispenses sweets for their team to eat, each time they get a new follower on Twitter. "We wanted to explore the idea of Physical Apps, objects that connect to the internet to perform dedicated tasks, enabling users to access information or services without using a standard interface like a mouse, keyboard or touchscreen."

Find out more about the project here or click here to follow them on Twitter.

via [FastCoDesign]

Target Practice

2012-01-17T04:05:00.000-08:00

For her project titled 'I Throw Myself at Men' artist Lilly McElroy went to a lot of bars and literally threw herself at strangers. The photographs pose questions concerning relationships, social connection, sex, gender, and the desire to form relationships quickly that are both intense and long lasting. The project comes from a place where the desire to make a positive connection with another person is coupled with the knowledge that a connection might not be possible.

Find out more about Lilly's work here.

Koans

2012-01-16T04:28:00.000-08:00

Peter Emerick's "Koans" is a series of bird's eye view photographs of traffic cones found on the street. The photographs invite the viewer to move between perception, presenting the cones in a way in which the imagery shifts away from cones and resembles abstract art.

Find out more about Peter's work here.

via [CollaCubed]

The Week-End

2012-01-13T08:02:00.000-08:00

Our most popular posts this week featured an incredibly complex and convoluted Rube Goldberg machine by Joseph Herscher, broken butterflies repaired with new wings and bodies by artist Anne ten Donkelaar, a series of miniature lights shaped like a box of pills by French designers Valulot&Dyèvre and a series of subway maps made with common everyday objects by Henry Hargreaves.

Flesh Love

2012-01-13T05:41:00.000-08:00

For his latest project titled 'Flesh Love" Tokyo-based artist / photographer Hal created a series of portraits of couples vacuum-sealed together into a single entity. He says, "“The two lovers draw closer until they finally transform into a single being. But seriously, when looking at these vacuum-sealed “packs of love”, it makes me wonder about true love between these couples and a whole different, intriguing and confined world."

Find out more about the project here.

via [designboom]

Life is Beautiful

2012-01-12T08:02:00.000-08:00

Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri's latest installation titled 'Life is Beautiful', was created using hundreds of knives stabbed directly into a gallery wall. The use of everyday objects, which on occasion can become lethal weapons, reveals the underlying sarcastic ambiguity of Farhad's statement.

Find out more about Farhad's work here.

via [Swissmiss]