Japanese artist and skater Haroshi creates laminate and mosaic sculptures by recycling old skateboard decks, using his knowledge of the worn and warped wood to build up layered blocks which he then carves and planes into shape.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Dollface
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Disconcerting noggins modelled from repurposed dolls and their dismembered parts by artist Freya Jobbins, inspired by 16th century Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s fruit portraits.
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Finnish photographer Janne Parviainen’s extraordinary light paintings are all created in-camera with no digital manipulation.
Throughout the long exposures, which last from minutes to hours on end, Parvianen moves around the space, tracing surfaces with point-source lights.
The images above are five of ten chosen and currently on offer as prints and canvasses from My Modern Shop.
Previously: A Little Light Topography and Meet The Illuminati
Isopoddly
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TST Advance, which sells these cuddly peracarid crustaceans on Amazon for €25.75 (plus shipping from Japan) sez:
Giant isopods (daiogusokumushi in Japanese) are passionately loved by some people now in Japan. This giant isopod doll has become less grotesque than real ones. The doll has cute round eyes and is very soft and comfortable to the touch.
Quite.
Photo manipulations by Swedish photographer and retouch artist Eric Johannson.
A nightmarish typeface designed by creative director JC Debroize of Studio Kerozen in Brittany. Shaped in modelling clay and finished in Photoshop using facial features sampled from the seven-person design team.
Hollywood blacksmith Tony Swatton and his team recreate the Energy Sword from Halo, caring not a jot for the fact that the original is ,in fact, made of energy.
Previously: Forging Masamune
(Thanks Sam Nachbar)
Blow Up
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The work of Barcelona based Penique Productions whose installations are created by inflating vast, exterior-lit coloured plastic balloons inside buildings and other enclosed areas.
Objets D’Art
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UK-based artist Jane Perkins recreates classical artworks and photo portraits using thousands of found objects from LEGO bricks to buttons, beads, shells and plastic toys.
All components retain their original colour and are carefully chosen to match the palette of the work or photo.
The art is in their meticulous placement.