In the days leading up to the demolition of a huge warehouse in Brisbane, street artists Sofles, Fintan Magee, Treas and Quench took the opportunity to cover the walls with paint.
Filmmaker Selina Miles captured the whole thing in timelapse.
Soundtrack by DJ Butcher
The extraordinary creations of ‘insectophile’ sculptor Eduoard Martinet who repurposes carefully selected car, bicycle and typewriter parts to create Steampunk-style insects and other animals.
His degree of virtuosity is unique: he does not solder or weld parts. His sculptures are screwed together. This gives his forms an extra level of visual richness – but not in a way that merely conveys the dry precision of, say, a watchmaker. There is an X-Factor here, a graceful wit, a re-imagining of the obvious in which a beautifully finished object glows not with perfection, but with character, with new life. Martinet takes about a month to make a sculpture and will often work on two or three pieces at the same time. It took him just four weeks to make his first sculpture and 17 years for his most recent completion!
More at the artist’s website.
If you happen to be in London between November 27th and January 31st, Martinet’s work is on display at Sladmore Contemporary off Berkeley Square.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLwmlMezS3U
Swedish artist Anders Ramsell’s 35 minute ‘paraphrase’ of Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic, created using 12,597 1.5cm x 3cm watercolour paintings animated into a fluid, aptly dreamlike sequence.
A gif of all eleven Dr Whos running, created by Spanish illustrator Javi De Castro, based on a quote by the eleventh doctor’s companion Clara Oswin Oswald.
DIY VFXer Joey Shanks and friends conjour up completely plausible deep space scenarios by deftly lighting dust particles and coloured milk on a sheet of glass.
Previously: Beam Me Up, Joey
(Thanks Joey)
Pleasing vehicular linkage by UK based digital artist Chris LaBrooy.
And roll….and stretch….and glide….and flex…
The high decibel take-off and flight of a 4.8 meter long, 1:15 scale RC model of an Airbus A380 filmed by Swiss RC enthusiast Thomas Bodmer and built by Michael Schlemmer.
The model has a 5.3 meter wingspan, four miniature jet engines and a 10.5l tank, weighing in at nearly 70kg.
Dirty bird.
Diminish And Ascend – an aluminium trompe l’oeil by Kiwi artist David McCracken on show at this year’s Sculpture By The Sea at Bondi, Sydney.
(Photos by William Patino, Paul Davis, and Leighton Wallis.)
Italian architect Luigi Prina made his first model aircraft at the age of 16. In his mid 60s, after a successful career in building design, he met painter and boat builder Eugenio Tomiolo who challenged him to make one of his model boats fly.
In the twenty years since, Prima has dedicated his retirement to creating delicate, fully functional flying models worthy of Leonardo DaVinci.
MORE: Luigi Prina: The Ships That Sail Through The Clouds (Blinking City)
Photos by Gianluca Giannone.
