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Category Archives: Art/Craft
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Glyph Notes
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Japanese illustrator and manga artist Takumi’s entirely plausible rendering of Mad Max: Fury Road as Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Simply Conex
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The annual North West Walls festival at the Belgian town of Werchter where six street artists from around the world (Gamma Gallery, Fintan Magee, Smug, Pixel Pancho, Nychos and Lula Goce) were presented with blank canvasses in the form of stacks of shipping containers.
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Japanese artisan Yasuo Okazaki demonstrates the Naruko Kokeshi style of crafting dolls from spinning wooden blocks in this deeply satisfying video by Te to Te to Te. To wit:
The Naruko style of Kokeshi developed at Naruko hot springs. One of the unique characteristics of these Kokeshi is that their heads squeak when turned. They have kind faces and flared shoulders and skirts. The stripes at the top and bottom of the body are painted on the lathe, and the body is often painted with a chrysanthemum motif. The bangs are painted like the dolls sent as gifts from the Imperial Palace. Naruko Kokeshi wear a red headdress.
A Cut Above
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The haute-relief work of paper artist Calvin Nicholls.
The more complex of his hand made pieces, each one constructed from tiny glued-together pieces, carefully shaped with X-ACTO knife, scalpels and scissors, can take up to two years to complete.
https://vimeo.com/137605766
Heartbeat: an ‘invasion’ of 100,000 illuminated balloons stretching the length of the ceiling of the Market Building in London’s Covent Garden by French artist Charles Pétillion for LDF15.
Balloon invasions are Pétillion’s thing. This is his largest one to date.
PA _1174: an overnight addition to Rue de Charenton, Paris 12th by elusive Parisian street artist and guerrilla tiler Invader.
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Scenes from Festas Do Povo 2015 (the Flowers Festival) at Alentejo in Portugal during which the entire city is dressed with paper flowers made by the citizenry.
If you’re passing, the festival continues until the end of August.