An extremely faithful rendition of the first few levels of classic arcader Donkey Kong by GuizDP – all created from melted Perler beads.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
The mighty Henson and Oz with Bird, Upagus, Von Count and the gang back in the early 1970s.
They were young, furry and weird. And so were their puppets.
Two months ago, MOMA Poet Laureate Kenneth Goldsmith launched an insane ambitious project wherein he asked contributors to print out the entire web. Said he:
If you printed the internet, reading it would take 57,000 years, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week non-stop and if you read it for 10 minutes a night before bed, it would take 8,219,088 years. We begin on July 26th.
Ten tonnes of printed material is now on show at an art gallery in Mexico City.
Bokeh is the aesthetic use of blurred or out of focus imagery in photography.
Here, French artist Stanislaus Giroux adds a little gunpowder into the mix.
An experimental video by Russian graphic designer Rusian Khasanov featuring macro footage of the triptastic interaction within technicolour emulsions of oil, soap and ink.
When he retired in the 1970s, former commercial artist Hal Lasko (97), better known as ‘Grandpa’, had spent an entire career making art by hand. In the 90s, his family introduced him to Microsoft Paint.
Hal’s work, described as ‘a blend of pointillism and 8-bit art’ is explored in this rather touching short by Josh Bogdan.
Puerto Rican artist Alexis Diaz spent the last week applying thousands of tiny brushstrokes to create this unholy meld of elephant and octopus on Hanbury Street off Brick Lane in London.
It is somewhat awesome.
Famous works of art recreated in glued-together blocky splendour by LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya – part of his Art Of The Brick exhibition at the Discovery Times Square New York Museum.