Using over 200,000 bricks and taking 600 hours to construct, this fantastic cityscape by artist Mike Doyle is packed with detail and little flourishes.
He’s set up a kickstarter to help fund future builds offering prints and DIY sets of some of the buildings as rewards.
There’s plenty more close up shots on his Flickr photostream.
Devin Graham’s film of this year’s Festival of Colours at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Utah.
Holi, or Phagwa, celebrated by Hindus around the world on the last full moon of the lunar month, involves the throwing of brightly coloured powders to celebrate the arrival of Spring.
Meanwhile, in India…
Pisces: a massive 10,000-balloon sculpture of the monster Typhon from the Greek legend of Aphrodite and Eros by New York artist Jason Hackenwerth, recently unveiled at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
Three unfortunate staff members spent six days inflating the huge somewhat-too-adorable-looking-to-represent-the-terrifying-mythological-Typhon-but-hey-just-look-at-it spiral.
More photos here.
The Alternative Limb Project offers, well, alternatives to the common or garden prostetics available to amputees and those with missing limbs looking to make more of a statement. ALP sez:
The Alternative Limb Project offers a personal and friendly bespoke service, which provides unique prosthetics to blend in with the body or stand out as a unique piece of art, reflecting the wearer’s imagination, personality and interests. We will involve the wearer in all stages of the process from conception of ideas to the final work. An alternative-style limb can help to break down social barriers, delight the eye and provide an unusual talking point.
(Above: the Snake Arm, the Crystalline Leg and a steampunk-style limb created for and modeled by singer Viktoria Modesta.)
Hello Europe is a plan by charming Belgian suburbanites Senne Dahandschutter, Majd Khalifeh and Mathias Brouns to instal large outdoor webcam screens in various cities around Europe.
Every half hour, screens refresh, connecting randomly to a new screen on the network, – a kind of street furniture Chatroulette.
The potential for creativity and abuse is vast and wonderful.
From the Tumblr Actresses Without Teeth, wherein pictures of leading actresses of the day are presented with some or all of their teeth digitally removed, often clumsily but never less than terrifyingly.
When disgraced Garda Bryan ‘Brian’ O’Brien (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) finds himself trapped in Áras an Uachtaráin after militant bankrupt builder ‘Big’ Jim McMenaminmin (Brendan Gleeson) holds the place to siege, it’s up to him to save the president (Finnoula Flanagan). Armed only with a Garda issue Uzi machine gun and his wits, O’Brien has to contend with McMenaminmin’s tooled-up workforce and the machinations of an oily Junior Minister (Domhnall Gleeson) whipping the media into a frenzy. Co-starring Liam Cunningham as the Garda Commissioner, Charlene McKenna as Bryan’s sassy love interest and Brian Gleeson as Squeebag, Kick Aras reminds us, once and for all, that NOBODY fools with the guards.
Too much Gleeson?
Not enough Gleeson?
YOU decide.
(Poster by Adrian Hughes)
Melbourne based artist Magdelena Bors photo series The Seventh Day, for which she built a bizarre range of alien landscapes inside her home featuring single characters seemingly overwhelmed by the chaos. Of the ‘connection between ourselves and the natural world’ represented in her work, she sez:
I am fascinated by the simultaneous strength and fragility of this connection as we go about our lives, spending most of our time within the confines of the small compartments we call home.
The Carma Project, sponsored by ad agency Leo Burnett Lisbon:
“built a bicycle out of the scrap of a retired Mercedes hoping that the heavy karma of the car could be rebalanced by riding the same number of kilometres in a greener way: just by cycling.”
Damn agency-sponsored enviro-hipsters.
