Korean artist Yeong-Deok Seo uses tightly-knit configurations of welded bicycle chains and industrial steel links to create his intricate sculptures.
While impressive in their intricacy and the apparent skill required to create them, the artwork’s titles such as Infection – Anguish, Infection – Ego, and Addict, suggest the rippled surface created by the materials is not an arbitrary decision.
Vicky McDonald at the S’tasty food blog has created this breakfast fry up where things are not as they seem.
The ‘baked beans’ are made from white chocolate biscuit with orange and strawberry coulis; the ‘black pudding’ is chocolate biscuit cake; the ‘hash browns’ are Panko Brioche jam sandwich, the ‘egg’ is panna cotta and lemon curd and the ‘bacon’ is candied brandy snaps.
The sausage might be sausage. We’re not sure.
Full recipes and ‘how-to’ here.
Spotted on Broome and West Broadway in SoHo, NYC.
Photographer Joe Capra took a 17 day trip around Iceland in his car last June, making the most of the midnight sun to capture round-the-clock images for this extraordinary timelapser. He sez:
During my days shooting this film I shot 38,000 images, travelled some 2900 miles, and saw some of the most amazing, beautiful, and indescribable landscapes on the planet. Iceland is absolutely one of the most beautiful and unusual places you could ever imagine.
Go full screen.
This Friday is the 44th anniversary of the day when 70,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to protest the Vietnam war.
Later that day, 50,000 marched to the Pentagon, among them legendary counterculture vibesters Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg and The Fugs, who hadn’t simply come to protest the war. They had come to exorcise (exorgasm) the Pentagon, then levitate it using a magical incantation prepared by the Fugs’ Ed Sanders.
The levitation may not have happened, but some who were there apparently witnessed the building ‘shudder a bit’.
They were, of course, very high indeed.
Here’s rare 16mm footage of the day shot by Edward Folger who describes it as an “impressionistic immersion in the experience of the march.”
Artist Peter Gronquist takes taxidermy to a whole new level at his exhibition at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, fitting stuffed buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, rabbits and other creatures with extremely ornate horns featuring replica rifles, machine guns and AK47s human skeletons, flowers and luxury brand logos.
The idea came to Gronquist when he had a taxidermied antelope in his studio. He told Wired.co.uk: “I started wondering what it might be like in a future where animals had evolved to fight back. I call it ‘absurdist futurism.’ The iconic logo-horned animals derive from my dreams about the future of branding, which I like to think will include genetic branding.”
The pieces are on sale for between $3000 and $10,000 but you can have one of those uni-conies for $500.
Produced for Modern Toss by Clay Interactive:
It was built in our Hoxton Street studio during our summer holidays. It’s constructed from over 100 buttons, CNC’ed and laser cut MDF, direct to media printing, over 100 meters of cabling, over 300 soldered joints and a whole lot of swearing!
For some reason, the video can’t be embedded.
See and hear the soundboard in action (NSFW).
