digitaldeities

condom dresses, YES.. they are beautiful too!

China is entering in the world of fashion on unusual way. They made a condom fashion show, and as you can see, there are a lot of interesting, clever and beautiful dresses!

reBLOG from: fillinn.com

elementalangels.com - launched in time for holidays!

My new website elementalangels.com is up and running for business!  Check it out.

ELEMENTAL ANGELS ...for the holidays

For the holidays.. hugs + messages from nature... just made a store at big cartel... where one can purchase them... it will be soon connected to ELEMENTALANGELS.COM but for now you can find them here:  http://elementalangels.bigcartel.com/ 

I will be selling these little wings and the medium and small gold leafed messenger sticks on Prince Street in SoHo Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.  Come visit, if you are near!

Cable Drawings

An unusual fireplace frame made with Wire flex, Cable fixings, and a Lamp.

Cable Drawings, a simple and funny idea by www.maisiebroadhead.com

hats made from money

clever currency hats. Origami at its best.

reBLOG from:Make

JC de Castelbajac Lego Inspired

awseome lego hats and lego printed dresses.

reBLOG from: thecoolhunter.net/fashion

For some time now, we’ve seen a revival of all things early 80’s pop culture.  As the youth of that era take reign within creative positions, their idealism and inspiration from that era is re-positioned in today’s creative consciousness.  After the success of the JCDC Lego collection, the inspiration just keeps extending to different categories and new styles; some wearable, some great for catwalk, as shown below.



JCDC has taken Lego to the high fashion catwalk again, however this time his references are as varied as African tribal accessories (complete with Mohawk style helmets), holidaying in the south of France (albeit with a Lego print twist) and iconic 80’s designer, Moschino’s spliced pocket jacket.  



If you prefer your ‘pop culture references’ to be slightly more wearable, then the JCDC Lego watch might be more up your alley. Watches have seen a remarkable lift in design led innovation, incorporating a fashionable or pop culture element and often employing leading designers of today to interpret their design aesthetic for the category. JCDC has taken the classic Casio watch shape and used the iconic Lego primary colours and connectable circular shapes to offer a unique version for today’s audience.  Transformers – eat your heart out!  – Kate Vandermeer

cassette tape skull

brian dettmer: cassette tape skull

Atlanta based artist Brian Dettmer creates intricate sculptural skeletons using altered, heated cassette tapes. Dettmer began creating the pieces in 2005 as he was thinking about the demise of analog media in the increasingly digital world. As well as the animal skulls, he has a series of 12 human skulls made from tapes--each with a different theme like heavy metal or hard rock. The most complex sculpture thus far is a complete human skeleton that he constructed made from over 180 cassettes. reblog from: Design Boom

toddlerpedes + other strange dolls

Jon Beinart

(images via: Beinart.org)

Jon Beinart, founder of the Beinart International Surreal Art Collective, is best known for his ‘toddlerpedes’, recycled plastic doll parts made into monstrous sculptures resembling insects and mythological creatures.

Maxim Magazine said of his work, “Michelangelo’s famous sculpture of Italian exhibitionist David this ain’t. But it is mind-bogglingly weird, verging on brilliant. And it’s guaranteed to give your high school art teacher anxiety hives…”

reblog from web urbanist: Amazingly Strange Handmade Dolls, Puppets & Sculpture

a few other dolls that I like from this selection. some are quite creepy but engaging and edgy.

Marina Bychova

(images via: EnchantedDoll.com)

Russian-born doll artist Marina Bychova creates breathtakingly intricate, ‘enchanted’ ball-jointed dolls made of porcelain, with amazingly detailed costumes and even hand-painted tattoos. These lithe, ethereal dolls are beautiful and delicate, yet dark – among the options available when ordering a doll is ‘body mutilation’.

Bychova says, “Creating a visual narrative is the most intriguing way of articulating my ideas and a doll is a perfect medium because of its potential for such visual story. My strong tendency for escapism has made the make belief narrative of fairy tales very appealing as a context for my dolls. What interests me most about fairy tales is the implicit and often explicit violence that lies just beneath the surface of the magic.”

Julien Martinez

(images via: OzzDollsFactory.com)

French artist Julien Martinez has a knack for creating characters imbued with a strong sense of melancholia, with red sagging eyes, wildly unkempt hair and funereal garb. Martinez says his inspiration comes from visual and literary sources, movies and fairy tales, and the history of costumes.

Lesley-Anne Green

(images via: LesleyAnneGreen.com)

Toronto artist Lesley-Anne Green’s creations are more sweet and charming than dark, but are still a far cry from the homogenized plastic dolls found on store shelves. Green’s dolls are quirky ugly ducklings infused with the essence of childhood, warts and all.

Ben Strawn and Jessica Robin

(images via: WhalefishStudios.com)

The Whalefish Studios website, which features the artwork of Ben Strawn and Jessica Robin, is like a treasure chest of strange and intriguing characters. Their dolls are made from the simplest of materials – polymer clay, fabric, leaves and twigs – and are often featureless, but still manage to convey so much personality and vitality.

Pat Lillich

(images via: shadows.4oni.com)

Bulldogs with baby heads. A puppy-inspired creation that is “part dachshund, part chihuahua, and all snake-necked assyrian sphynx”. A sphinx bred with a deer. A woman with the bottom half of a preying mantis. Pat Lillich’s work is surreal yet elegant, ghostly pale but sculpted with such fine detail that they seem almost alive, albeit alien.

Scott Radke

(images via: ScottRadke.com)

From Weburbanist: “One by one, each of the strange little faces with their red button noses and furrowed brows peek out from the strangest of bodies – black and white fish, striped swan, furless hounds and rabbits on bicycles. This bizarre but enchanting cadre of creatures comes from the mind of Cleveland-based artist Scott Radke, who lovingly renders them from clay, fabric and human hair.”

“Some may call Radke’s sculptures macabre, but however disturbing one may find a gnarled, wart-covered face on a twisted animal body, these creatures also have a playful quirkiness akin to the work of Tim Burton.”

emotional garbage needed for digital landfill

I like this project!

http://www.soulrecoverysystems.com

Soul Recovery Systems is an interactive, creative and free “emotional garbage” service providing people with an opportunity to rid themselves of objects that hinder their lives. SRS accepts objects in any form as long as there are sincere emotional connections attached to them. That said, all objects given to SRS must include an object release form: http://www.soulrecoverysystems.com where the releaser must enter their reason for desired disposal. Once objects and reasons for disposal have been received, they are put under intense observation for SRS to determine the best possible method of release.

In the end, a photograph of each object, reasons for release, and videos of each object release are uploaded to the digital landfill where the less burdened can view their once hindering objects in digital form.

Here is the link to the SRS website: www.soulrecoverysystems.com/

And make sure to check out the digital landfill:

http://www.soulrecoverysystems.com/landfill (more release videos and objects will be uploaded daily).

from - ecoutuerre.com - fascinating

 ecouterre.com

 Roadkill on Your Noggin? Hair-Raising Taxidermy Accessories

IMAGE: RP/Encore taxidermy accessories

Stay Chic + Safe With LFLECT’s Reflective Eco-Accessories for the Urban Cyclist

LFLECT, a range of high-visibility knit accessories by Lost Values that look like regular garb by day but become illuminated at night—without the use of batteries or complicated circuitry.

Carmel Walsh’s Nature-Inspired Shoes

Photo by Fernando Biagioni

Part footwear, part foliage, Carmel Walsh’s botanical-infused shoes were made for walking…and talking about. The Tuscany-based designer enlisted the help of a local wood restorer to carve the walnut mid-heel soles, which she then plied with a population of succulent-sprouting “barnacles” made from vegetable-tanned leather, organic cotton, linen, hemp, and cork.

Inspired by mountaintop terrace farming, coral reefs, and the colors of “decay and erosion of the earth,” Walsh sought to create a low-impact shoe with an afterlife beyond the landfill. “What is born from nature returns to it in the end,” she tells Yatzer. “It is my hope that in their second life they will decay and grow as an art piece.

 

european ossuaries

ossuary |ˈä sh oōˌerē; ˈäs(y)oō-|
noun ( pl. -aries)
a container or room into which the bones of dead people are placed.
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from late Latin ossuarium, formed irregularly from Latin os, oss- ‘bone.’

Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic

Easily one of the most incredible collections of human bones in the world, the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is unlike anything else. The small church rests at the outskirts of Kutna Hora and is filled with the mortal remains of more than 40,000 people. The origins of the “Bone Church,” as it’s commonly known, are nearly as interesting as the array of bones. In 1278, an abbot named Henry made a pilgrimage to Jesus’ burial place and brought back a small amount of earth. He sprinkled the dirt over the Sedlec cemetery, making it holy ground. Suddenly, it was the most popular place to be buried. When the cemetery ran out of room, the previously buried bodies were dug up, starting in 1511, to make room for the more recently dead.

It wasn’t until 1870 that the excavated bones were put to use. That’s when a local woodcarver, František Rint, was employed to arrange the huge quantity of bones in an attractive way. Rint proved to be a true artist, creating the most amazing bone art the world has ever seen. A coat of arms on the wall depicts a raven pecking at a skull, the breathtaking bone chandelier uses every bone in the human body at least once, and the walls and ceiling are adorned with jaunty strings of bones and skulls. The chapel is a Christian church, not a cult or Satanic ritual space as is often rumored. The bones on display were simply removed from the ground to allow more Christians to be buried on holy ground. The resulting ossuary is maybe the most beautiful one on Earth.

Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, Italy

Santa Maria della Concezione is a wonderful example of the fact that not everyone sees death as something to be feared. The church features the remains of more than 4,000 Capuchin friars arranged in artistic displays. Some bodies are complete and dressed in Capuchin robes, but most have been disassembled and are displayed individually as bones in artful designs. A plaque in the chapel tells visitors in three languages “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”

Chapel of Skulls, Czermna, Poland

The story of the Chapel of Skulls (or Kaplica Czazek) is almost more interesting than the actual display of human remains in this Polish church. Between the years of 1776 and 1804, a Czech priest and a local gravedigger spent many long hours exhuming bodies from the numerous mass graves in the Czermna area. They set aside the more interesting skulls (those will bullet holes or obvious maladies, or those of politicians) and took the rest to the chapel. Overall, they dug up somewhere in the neighborhood of 24,000 skeletons. Most of them are stuffed into the 16-foot underground crypt, but the bones of approximately 3000 people adorn the chapel in what the Czech priest liked to call a “sanctuary of silence.”

a reblog from:  Web Urbanist

1,000 melting people...

The world wildlife fund installed 1,000 ice figures in a berlin square recently to raise people’s awareness of the melting ice caps in greenland and antartica. the visual impact is quite impressive! the full article is in another language so you can view the translated version here via google translator. see some shots of the installation below:

foley gallery nyc

I saw these everyday objects transformed by this artist CAL LANE.  They are quite spectacular!

Shovels, 2005
28 x 12 x 9.5 inches
Plasma cut steel

Untitled (Wheel Barrel), 2007
6 cubit feet
Plasma cut steel

FOLEYgallery is open Tuesday - Saturday from 11am - 6pm. 547 W 27th Street, 5th floor New York, NY 10001 212.244.9081 p

between 10th and 11th Avenue.

bigger better SolidWorks scissor sketches

My very last presentation at Parsons will be Petcha Kucha style this Sunday afternoon 11-3 with some excellent critiques to get final feedback.  I decided to put in the extra effort and do a few more digital sketches for helping myself promote a BIG mandala made with confiscated scissors for an airport someday.  THERE IS A COMMISSION COMING MY WAY!

Scale is 20 feet across with the scissor each being 8 inches or 5 inches in size.

PARSONS SYMPOSIUM EXHIBIT PHOTOS (MAY 1,2,3 2009)

Here are the visuals from my thesis display exhibit at Parsons Design + Technology 09.

(just in case someone is seeing this work for the first time - it is all made with confiscated scissors from airport security measures.  I purchased them from ebay from someone who bought that them at an airport auction...)

I re-post statement here:

What brings people a feeling of safety and protection?  Do security measures at airports or spiritual connection?

Confiscated weapons of mass construction questions how protection manifests in our current cultural epoch.

Sculptures, wearable art, and large-scale installations (proposed for exhibition in an airport) are constructed with thousands of scissors recycled from confiscated airport security procedures.

Just like a pure resonant note shatters a glass, a visual imprint of beauty and perfection changes a viewer.

These circular sculptures hold an essence of the macrocosm and microcosm bringing harmony on an archetypal level.

more images coming soon of my classmates.. some amazing and inspiring work!