Rainbow – a nine metre high, 66 tonne arch of sea containers built this week by artist Marcus Canning at the port of Fremantle in Western Australia.
Here’s how it was done
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Write Nice
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Pleasing examples of everyday handwriting and layout from the Subreddit Penmanship Porn
More here.
Previously: How We Wrote
VW Geometry
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Beetle Box – vintage VW cars shaped (possibly by means of black magic) into spheres and cubes by Indonesian sculptor Ishwan Noor.
Pokémon STOP
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Connecticut based artist Amy Genser cuts, rolls and arranges vast numbers of mulberry paper tubes mimicking the appearance of coral, one of which was recently installed as a 50ft mural at the Nemours Alfred I. Dupont Hopsital For Children in Delaware.
More of her work here.
Übermural
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Las Etnias (The Ethnicities) – the world’s largest mural -15m high and covering a wall area of nearly 3000m².
Five faces from five continents representing the five rings of the Olympics – painted in Rio de Janeiro over the last two months by Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra.
Oil paintings by Spanish artist Paco Pomet subverting vintage holiday photographs with extrapolated weirdness and flashes of neon colour to depict a bizarre realm of freakishly elongated limbs and irradiated landscapes.
Good times.
Square Meals
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An ongoing, PES-inspired animated papercraft series from Australian productiion studio Yell Design.
Mmm. Pulpy.