Hypotopia – a model city installed in the centre of Vienna by team of students from the Technical University designed to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion the government is currently paying to bail out the Hypo Alpe Adria bank.
Having done the requisite calculations, they imagined it as a home for 102,574 residents- Austria’s sixth largest city , complete with shops, power plants, and garbage disposal facilities.
But no banks.
(H/T: David Smith)
A mere circlet of the stunning finger candy on show at Bored Panda’s ongoing Greatest Rings submission post.
American TV – dioramas by David Emmite.
A series of ingenious flipbooks that combine illustration with negative space and secret compartments – published in Japan by Mou Hitotsu no Kenkyujo
Invasion of the spider tag of artist Paul Insect on the streets of London.
Excerpts from Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s illustrated diary.
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self Portrait (AnotherMag)
Artist in residence at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine, John Bisbee uses nails and only nails – bent, welded, hammered and soldered together – to form his extraordinary geometric sculptures.
Various things vacuum sealed in ultrathin latex membrane by photographer Marc Tule.
Mmmm. Prophylactic wingtips.
Investigations by Dutch book historian Erik Kwakkel into the art of creative parchment repair in the Dark and Middle Ages by scribes who – in order to deal with blemishes in the costly cow and sheepskin membranes they worked on – used cheeky doodles and imaginative embroidery to incorporate them into the texts in a style similar to the Japanese restoration art of kintsugi.
MORE: The Skinny On Bad Parchment (Erik Kwakel, Medieval Books)
Previously: Colours Of 1692
Stylish, high contrast portraits of some of the attendees at September’s 10th Annual London Tattoo Convention by Photographer Andy Lo Pò.
