Skyscaper candles by designer Naihan Li, who sez:
I’m tired of modernity. I like watching these buildings burn and melt into artistic pieces. I light these for fun, I think I’ve burnt 20 sets just myself.
Fair enough.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
A new pop art installation at a Limerick petrol station by street artist Maser entitled “No.27 – A Nod To Ed Ruscha”
(H/T: David O’Keefe)
Artist Seung Yul Oh creates sculptures of traditional Korean noodle dishes, using synthetic resin to extend the ‘noodle stream’ three and a half meters high.
Otherwise, those chopsticks would just be hovering there.
Simon Schoar has lovingly crafted this wonderful standalone Floppy Disk Jukebox.
Housed in a machined black aluminium rail are 8 drives modified with LEDs.
These play MIDIs provided from a SD card reader, allowing the unit to act as a proper jukebox.
He’s even provided details on how to build your own should you have enough floppy drives lying about in your ‘man’ drawer.
His version of the Tetris theme certainly beats out a pair of drives, to be fair.
The Most Beautiful Floppy Disk Jukebox Ever
Thanks Ewok
An impressive anamorphic illusion using plastic wrap and deftly applied spray paint unveiled this week by Daniel Siering and Mario Shu in rural Potsdam, Germany
Granny Balls
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Temari balls, a traditional Chinese folk art introduced to Japan in the 7th century, are gifts given to children by grandparents on New Year’s Day. The temari are fabric-wrapped wads of silk whose surface is then embroidered from the threads of old kimonos.
The above pictures are from the Flickr feed of NanaAkua and feature tamari made by her 88 year-old grandmother, who learned the art in her 60s.
Granny has made over 500 to date and they’re all here.
Rassen chopsticks by Japanese designer Nendo and chopstick manufacturer Hashikura Matsukan are a single unit which separates into two for eating – created using a multi-axis CNC mill to achieve the twisting form.
Tree Envy
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You has it.
Spotted on Rostrevor Terrace just off Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin earlier this morning..
(Thanks WhaddayaNuts?)
Every year, British artist and engineer Simon Beck embarks on a large scale art project – tromping through the pristine snow near his home at Les Arcs ski resort in France – creating elaborate geometric patterns much to the delight of ski-lift passengers dangling nearby.
A new winter season approaches. This sequence of photographs was taken earlier this year before the snow melted.
Previously: Snow Art
UK based artist Jessica Harrison’s ‘handheld’ series of miniature furniture, covered in material made from casts of her own skin and accessorised with tufts of hair.
…seeking to consider the relationship between interior and exterior spaces of the body. harrison re-imagines corporal components through a sculptural practice, offering an alternative way of thinking about our physical form.
Yeesh.