Model maker Adam Throgmorton demonstrates a fully functioning, beautifully constructed, deeply satisfying to watch doing its thing, tabletop rollercoaster.
For ants.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
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Detailed painted and waxed landscapes sandblasted into bound stacks of old dictionaries and encyclopaedias by Canadian artist Guy Laramée.
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Warped anamorphic sculptures by London-based artist Jonty Hurwitz.
Digital renderings transformed into bronze, plaster and copper forms (more recent works are finished in oil paints) which come to life when viewed in the curved reflective surface of cylindrical mirrors.
Intricate sculptures by artist Ellen Jewett made from wire metal armatures, cold porcelain and polymer which the artist describes as “anthrozoology meets psychoanalysis”.
Steady on.
Behind the scenes process photos here.
Designer Paul Nicholson, who designed the Aphex Twin logo, talks about his iconic gatefold designs for Richard James’ second album Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2.
A map of Europe created by Redditor halfabluesky with each country highlighting a famous painting by one of its artists.
We get ‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’ by Francis Bacon.
Fancy a wee brew?
Behold: the world’s smallest cup of coffee, processed, charmingly, for Finnish coffee roaster Paulig from a single bean by Helsinki-based animator Lucas Zanotto.
More here.
The inventive, site-specific, (largely) outdoor work of Rotterdam-based artist Daan Botlek.
More of this here.
A very short but deeply satisfying video of furniture maker Paul Sellars chiselling a fair approximation of ‘golden’ or Fibonacci spirals from the surface of a piece of wood.
Oh my.
Your favourite love songs Stephen Kingified by Brazilian artist Butcher Billy.
Previously: I Love To Hate You
More previously: Gothic