The artist and former book editor explains how he makes his expanding paper artworks, inspired by Chinese paper gourd toys.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Photographer Ellen van Deelen takes pictures of her (live, not stuffed) rats apparently engaged in all manner of human behaviors including, but not limited to, playing musical instruments.
More, and much stranger, here.
The easiest troll in the world, in fairness, but still…
This week, 31 year-old college dropout, do-gooder and founder of the NPO Planting Peace, Aaron Jackson – having bought the house across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound in Topeka, Kansas – gave it an all-over rainbow paint-job with the help of like-minded volunteers. As a final treat for the neighbours, they installed a 30 foot pole with a Stars and Stripes/Pride flag combo fluttering from the top.
Man Turns House Across the Street from Westboro Baptist Church into Gay Pride Flag (Time)
NY-based artist Bradley Hart painstakingly injects acrylic paint into bubble-wrap bubbles to create ‘pixellated photorealistic’ pictures. In his artist’s statement, he sez:
The pictures are copies of both snap shots of important people captured by me or given to me and maintained as a part of my own personal photograph collection, as well as powerful images obtained from other sources. […] As the paint is injected into a bubble the excess drips down the back of the piece. Upon completion of the injected work, the drippings are removed surgically from the backside of the plastic to reveal an impression of the work — a derivative work with its own meaning and story.
(Above: Steve Jobs, Dam Square in Amsterdam and Sara, a friend of the artist.)
Currently exhibiting at Gallery Nine5 in New York.
Stills from The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction and The Shining rendered in handwritten lines from the movies by artist and Etsy seller, Mike Matola.
Big Air Package by Bulgarian-born American artist Christo, installed at the Gasometer Oberhausen in Germany (formerly Europe’s largest gasometer, converted into an exhibition space in the 1990s) is the largest ever inflated envelope without a skeleton. It’s 90m high, 50m across and 177,000 cubic meters in volume. The official press release sez:
The sculpture, which is installed inside the former gas tank, was made from 20,350 square meters of semitransparent polyester fabric and 4,500 meters of rope […] The “Big Air Package” nearly spans the distance from wall to wall of the Gasomter, leaving only a small passage to walk around the sculpture. Two air fans creating a constant pressure of 27 pascal (0.27 millibar) keep the package upright. Airlocks allow visitors to enter the package. Illuminated through the skylights of the Gasometer and 60 additional projectors, the work of art creates a diffuse light throughout the interior. Inside the sculpture, an extraordinary experience of shape, space and light is provided.
Hong Kong based artist Johnson Tsang’s stainless steel sculptures of frozen cascades of spilled liquid out of which human faces emerge.
More ceramic and stainless steel surrealness here.
An avant garde line of jackets by London College of Fashion student Chan Si Leong, who sez:
A small mens collection which makes use of series of hand movement especially hug to express how the (dis) connection between people to people and the loneliness by my experience. Some keywords have become the main points of my collection. “Hugs”, “Communication”, “Interesting”, “Fun”, “flourishing”, “a bit implication of sex”, “comfort”, “to be protected”, “to be surrounded”, ‘to cherish” “warmth”, “memory”, “happiness”, “childhood”, “lifetime”, ”Let go”, etc.
Oh yeah, sure, scoff all you like.
Deep down, you know you’re already wearing the pink one.
(Pix: Sara Pista)
From Thumbs And Ammo – a rather inspired single-serving website wherein guns toted by movie characters are replaced with the universal symbol for ‘a positive, can-do attitude’.
(Hat tip: Rob Dalton)