Innocent hostages. War zones.
A mural by artist Hyuro in Manchester (photographed by Henrik Haven) for the 2016 Cities Of Hope festival.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
One of ten new public statues in the rather superbly named city of Sugar Land in Texas.
The female group selfie dip in bronze.
Apparently, the locals hate it.
Artist Dino Tomic creates incredibly detailed works with a plastic squirt bottle filled with kitchen salt. his control of the medium is extremely impressive, so much so that a negative image of this depiction of an eye and eyebrow looks like a graphite pencil drawing.
More of this work below, and here.
Bankƨy
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Yesterday, students at Bridge Farm Primary School in Bristol turned up to find a mural painted sometime the previous night by elusive local boy Banksy, along with a thank you note for naming one of the school houses after him.
Works by South Korean artist Kim Byung Kwan, who describes his oeuvre thus:
What I would like to express through my work is very simple. I am trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity.
*fistbump*
Archive photos and film clips transformed into darkly humorous gifs by San Francisco based filmmaker and stereoscopist Bill Domonkos.
More of his work here.
Vivid Sydney
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Scenes from the eighth annual Vivid Sydney festival featuring over 90 site specific light projections from Sydney Opera House to Taronga Zoo and the Royal Botanic Garden.
The displays, created by 150 international artists, continue until June 18th.
Magnetic
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From Ferro – an experimental series of images using ferrofluid and magnets on a range of backgrounds (including CDs, metal foil and black plexiglass coated with oil, water, soap and, in the final image, caviare) by Copenhagen based artist Phillip Overbuary.
A reaction, in part, to the Photoshoppery and digital manipulation required of him in a previous job as a commercial photographer, he sez of it:
I wanted to do something people wouldn’t believe was actually real. Like a dream, or a psychedelic trip—but it actually happened and could be captured.
A Two-Hander
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A rather nifty two-hand marionette created by puppeteer and designer Barnaby Dixon.
Dance, puppet-boy, dance.
