An utterly cephalotastic depiction of a ’17th-century octopus contessa dressed in her finest court attire, with her beloved squid’ by illustrator Omar Rayyan
Category Archives: Art/Craft
An impressive and revealing performance by Neil Hilborn at the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in which he expresses the finding and loss of love through the lens of his own OCD.
Of this funny, heartbreaking piece, which he’s been perfecting and performing for two years now, he sez:
Through a lot of therapy, I have managed to get most of the tics under control, so the poem is more representative of my symptoms at, say, 16 or 17. However, it’s much more difficult to represent obsessions than compulsions, so I decided to focus on those symptoms as they are easier for a broader audience to digest.
A Japanese ‘hamster ninja mansion’ complete with secret compartments and hidden doors effective against any concerted assault by Ninja Kitties.
Tara Gleeson writes:
They’ve already erected a statue to our retired supremo newsreader Ann Doyle.
Why yes. Yes they have.
‘Sup?
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“Untitled” by Arlene McPadden, winner of the Model Niland Residency Award at the 2013 RDS Student Art Awards currently exhibiting at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Full gallery here
(Pic: Oisín Kane)
Timescapes
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Time Is a Dimension by Singapore-based photographer Fong Qi Wei is a series of landscapes shot from single vantage points over a period of 2 to 4 hours at sunset or sunrise, digitally sliced up and reassembled into layered ‘timelapse’ collages that illustrate the passage of time. Sez he:
The basic structure of a landscape is present in every piece. But each panel or concentric layer shows a different slice of time, which is related to the adjacent panel/layer. The transition from daytime to night is gradual and noticeable in every piece, but would not be something you expect to see in a still image.
Similarly, our experience of a scene is more than a snapshot. We often remember a sequence of events rather than a still frame full of details. In this series, I strive to capture both details and also a sequence of time in a single 2 dimensional canvas.
Swimming Cities – a half art project, half utopian experiment by street artist Swoon (aka Caledonia “Callie” Curry) – is a wonderful, ramshackle flotilla of ‘hoboboat’ rafts made from recycled materials that floated down various US canals and rivers (including the Mississippi and Hudson), stopping off to gather building materials, play music and generally freak out squares along the way.
No one will ever know.
LED Storm
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Every year since 2000, London’s Sepentine Gallery has invited a leading architect or artist to create a temporary structure on its front lawn. Last year, it was Ai Weiwei. In 2008, Frank Gehry had a go.
This year, it’s the turn of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, who created a 350 square meter lattice of steel poles, illuminated by LED lights installed by London-based United Visual Artists, which are designed (along with suitable sound effects) to mimic an electrical storm.