The Japanese art of Hitofude Ryuu (‘dragon with one stroke’), whereby the torso of the great serpent is rendered using a single, deftly twisting flourish of the brush.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Carbon Copy – a ‘glitched’ vintage Plymouth Caravelle nose down in a Canadian parking lot – public art by Calgary based artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett.
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Inventive mosaic pothole interventions in New York City by Jim Bachor – part art, part public service.
LEGO Technic and Mindstorms geek Munimuni Bekkan showcases several devices built to discover the most efficient way to drill into a bin full of LEGO bricks.
Previously: And Get Over It
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Marvellous, antiquated, over-elaborate contraptions sculpted from cardboard, timber and tearing paper by Australian artist Daniel Agdag.
All the pieces feature in an upcoming stop-motion short entitled Lost Property Office.
Previously: Magnificent
An aquatic sculpture by artist Jason deCaires Taylor semi submerged in a paradisal coral lagoon in the Maldives (yes, another one).
Guests wade across 150m of shallow water from the nearby resort island of Sirru Fen Fushi to the 6m tall stainless steel cube whose figurative human, plant and coral shapes can be explored above and below the water.
And then everyone goes back to the resort and has a good long think about what just happened.
A very impressive LEGO Mindstorms bridge-building rig constructed back in 2012 by (presumably off-duty but you’d never know) boffins at the Oslo And Akershus University Of Applied Science.
Intricately detailed paper cut portraits of sealife, flowers and animals (along with the initial pencil sketches she incises with a scalpel to create them) by Japanese artist Riki Fukuda.
Bravo writes:
Tribute in Cork city to Alf Stewart from Home and Away, who is not so well known for his hurling skills.
Name that actual hurler. Anyone?