Artist Tommy Filth’s modified KitchenAid mixer. Sez he:
“I asked for a Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas, I pointed my wife toward a broken one on eBay so that I could refurbish it, as I was taking it apart I got some inspiration for the paint job and this is what came out of it, still needs a phase board for speed control and two decals to be applied to the sides but I couldn’t wait to share.”
Artist Jon Bolerjack is mad for the stormtroopers.
Here, he mashes up the clones with the Marvel supers.
A kaleidoscopic interference pattern of concentric circles just loitering on the outskirts of Optical Illusionsville by UK artist and designer Simon C. Page.
Available to buy as a disorienting 40cm x 60cm print.
Osaka-based barista Kazuki Yamamoto – already a master of plain old two dimensional latte art – takes it to the next level with milk-froth mini-sculptures.
Graffiti at the Black Pitts, Dublin.
Thanks Thom
Ballroom Luminoso – a series of six LED-lit chandeliers made from structural steel and ‘medallions’ recycled from bike sprockets. Designed by artists Joe O’Connell and Blessing Hancock, the chandeliers are currently installed, and lit by night, beneath an overpass in San Antonio, Texas. The artists say:
The medallions are a play on the iconography of La Loteria, which has become a touchstone of Hispanic culture. Utilizing traditional tropes like La Escalera (the Ladder), La Rosa (the Rose), and La Sandía (the Watermelon), the piece alludes to the neighborhood’s farming roots and horticultural achievements. Each character playfully rides a bike acting as a metaphor for the neighborhood’s environmental progress, its concurrent eco-restoration projects, and its developing cycling culture.
Scottish artist Thomas Wrightman sez of this book sculpture:
The final book sculpture of my major project series. Like the previous two sculptures it uses a visual metaphor to convey the emotions of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and embodies my research by visualising an expression used by a sufferer of OCD. The expression was ‘derailing my train of thought’, because the person felt that the rituals they had to perform were disrupting their day. Where the compulsions and worry would side track them from doing everyday activities.
To convey this metaphor the sculpture shows a train travelling on a journey that has become disrupted, leading it to derail from its set path. Typography was used on the tracks for the title of the piece, also type was used for the coal. In the scene it shows the coal cart tipping over where the type has become mixed up to symbolise the mixed emotions during anxiety and panic.
Below: the first two sculptures in the series:Drowning From Obsession and Hitting Rock Bottom.
A how-to by Adafruit what sez:
Make your logo light up with this simple Converse sneaker mod. All you need is EL panel and an inverter tucked into the tongue of your shoe to get the stars in your Chuck Taylors glowing.
Der Teekalander – created for tea traders Hälssen & Lyon by German agency Kolle Rebe – every day of the year featuring one of the company’s tea varieties compacted into a solid, dissolvable rectangle.
(Hat tip : Spaghetti Hoop)
