A better class of trolley (at a supermarket in Sydney) by artist Miguel Marquez.
Previously: Signs Of Life
Category Archives: Art/Craft
72 year old artist Bob Potts uses hand-crafted gears, cranks and chains at his workshop – a 19th century barn in upstate New York – to create wonderful kinetic sculptures mimicking the flight of birds and insects and the swimming motions of fish.
The finished pieces are assembled in collaboration with his friend, painter and sculptor George Rhoads.
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Incredibly photorealistic finger paintings by the environmnentally conscious American artist Zaria Forman. They’redesigned to highlight the ecological presssures of global warming, water conservation and the effects of climate change on the polar icecaps.
Artworks carved from feathers by the scalpel of artist Chris Maynard, who sez of them:
Each feather, though dead and discarded, keeps something of the bird’s essence. Since I work mostly with shed feathers, some of the birds that grew them are likely still living.
Intricately detailed pen and ink cityscapes by artist Ben Sack (previously).
The fantasy metropolises were inspired by a four month circumnavigation of the globe as artist in residence aboard the M/S Amsterdam.
You can watch a timelapse video of the creation of his latest work ‘Chronoglyph’ here.
Of these frankly superb Communist era Czech posters for Hollywood films (the top one, believe it or not, is for Ghostbusters [1984]), Jason Pirodsky of Expats.cz explains:
Some writers attribute the bizarre nature of Czech (and Polish) movie posters from the 1960s through the 1980s to “an artistic alternative to banned U.S. publicity material” (what, the posters were banned, but the movies weren’t?), but the actual story is much more interesting. While artists behind promotional material elsewhere needed to be able to sell their product in the most effective (read: least imaginative) way possible, the communist regime inadvertently created a unique environment for this particular form. Free from most commercial interests, the artists behind these posters were given an incredible amount of free reign over their design – an artistic freedom even the filmmakers behind the movies didn’t enjoy.
MORE: Top 25 Czechoslovak Movie Posters (*for US Films) (Expat.cz)
(All images: Terry Ponozky)
(H/T: Qzak)
Le Château de Rentilly – a 1960s country house 30 km east of Paris reclad with polished mirrored surfaces. Inside, most of the internal volume has been cleared to house a regional showcase of contemporary artwork.
By Stand Still, Stay Silent, who sez:
Language trees for the language lovers! I’ve gathered pretty much all the data for this from ethnologue.com, which is an awesome well of information about language families. And if anyone finds some important language missing let me know! (Naturally most tiny languages didn’t make it on the graph, aww. There’s literally hundreds of them in the Indo-European family alone and I could only fit so many on this page, so most sub-1 mil. speaker languages that don’t have official status somewhere got the cut.)
Huge version here.
Free tonight?
Jonathan Lynn writes:
Our annual street art and print pop up opens today Thursday December 4 at 6pm at Indigo & Cloth. 9 Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. (Next door to Garage Bar) The pop up runs from the 4th – 24th of December and we will updates on our twitter with new stock. The store will be open from 10am to 6pm everyday.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6OmurSXYo4
Swedish graphic designer Sedki Alimam mashes up Pokémon and IKEA man.
Previously: The Pokémon Of Tim Burrton