This is a gigantic toilet fountain wall that was created for a ceramic festival in China. The wall with a total length of 100 meters and five meters height was completely littered with toilets, sinks and other sanitary ware.
sculpture
Saturday, January 02, 2010
awesome 3D paper sculptures
”Mathematically organic paper sculptures,”
is how Miami-based artist Jen Stark describes her quirky and
captivatingly colorful creations. Having started off using colored construction paper
more out of economic necessity, she now minutely assembles up to a
hundred layers of paper that she separately cuts by hand into complex,
precisely arranged, vibrant 3-D objects.
Her Website here : www.jenstark.com/sculpture
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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
Sunday, December 13, 2009
elementalangels.com - launched in time for holidays!
My new website elementalangels.com is up and running for business! Check it out.
Friday, December 11, 2009
paint in water
Mark Mawson from Sydney captures these beautiful shots by dropping paint in water. The colors and the lighting are simply amazing! Author said that in these color shapes everyone sees what they want to see.
The Real life Lichtenstein-Comic-Girl
This is wild and quite interesting. Make-up art based from original paintings by Roy Lichtenstein.
I know very little about this make up session, other than it was done by MAC. It is pretty impressive to see the blonde girl from Lichtenstein’s painting in real life.
Link via Geekologie
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!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Cable Drawings
An unusual fireplace frame made with Wire flex, Cable fixings, and a Lamp.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
hats made from money
clever currency hats. Origami at its best.
reBLOG from:Make
Friday, November 20, 2009
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
Saturday, November 14, 2009
artists who have recieved MacArthur Fellows (2006-2009)
As I spend time here at the Watermill Center in long Island, I was inspired tonight to read about artists that have received MacArthur Fellowships. I was curious to research the last three years of artists who received this honor.. I love and have previously posted about Tara Donovan's work, which is amazing. I have posted below about a few others - the ones that are starred. I had heard of Camille Utterback from my Parson's coursework.
2006
**Josiah McElheny, sculptor
Anna Schuleit, commemorative artist
Shahzia Sikander, painter
2007
Joan Snyder, painter
Whitfield Lovell, painter/installation artist
2008
Tara Donovan, artist
Mary Jackson, weaver and sculptor
**Camille Utterback, digital artist
**Mark Bradford, mixed media artist
wikipedia says this, for those not familiar with the award:
The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents, of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work."
According to the Foundation's website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential." The current amount of the award is $500,000, paid as quarterly installments over five years. As of 2007, there have been 756 recipients who have received a total of more than $350 million.[update]
The Fellowship has no application. People are nominated anonymously by a body of nominators who submit recommendations to a small selection committee of about a dozen people, also anonymous.Camille Utterback, digital artist
I first heard about her from my second year thesis class with yury gitman - computation08. we learned processing and heard about camille's work.
| Text Rain Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv, 1999 |
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| Text Rain is a playful interactive installation that blurs the boundary between the familiar and the magical. Participants in the Text Rain installation use the familiar instrument of their bodies, to do what seems magical - to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist. In the Text Rain installation participants stand or move in front of a large projection screen. On the screen they see a mirrored video projection of themselves in black and white, combined with a color animation of falling text. Like rain or snow, the text appears to land on participants' heads and arms. The text responds to the participants' motions and can be caught, lifted, and then let fall again. The falling text will land on anything darker than a certain threshold, and "fall" whenever that obstacle is removed. |
| Abundance Camille Utterback, 2007 |
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| Abundance is a temporary public installation commissioned for the City of San Jose, California by ZER01 – the Art and Technology Network. At night, Abundace transforms the city hall plaza into an interactive social space. A video camera mounted on the City Hall captures the movements of people in the plaza below. A dynamic animation generated in response to this movement is projected onto the 3-story cylindrical rotunda. Utterback’s colorful, fluid and delicate imagery creates a subtle subversion of the bold geometry of architect Richard Meier’s building – warming and humanizing its surface. | ||
| Alluvial Camille Utterback, 2007 |
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| Alluvial is a dual-channel interactive installation commissioned for a private home. Two overhead video cameras track people’s movements in the entryway below while Utterback’s software outputs two dynamic animations to the projection screens. A person’s body adds visual information to one screen, while subtracting from the other, and this interplay of positive and negative, additive and subtractive qualities builds as more and more people enter the space. This process of simultaneous accumulation and disintegration creates a temporary beauty, where the buildup of delicate grains of sand (or points of light), can easily be disturbed by the bolder graphics indicating another person’s presence in the space. |
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| Untitled 6 Camille Utterback, 2005 |
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| Untitled 6 is the sixth piece in Utterback’s External Measures Series. The series began with Utterback’s attempts to create interactive paintings, and has evolved as she continues to experiment with the possibilities for hinging digital aesthetic systems to human movement. Utterback’s installations are generated by a set of software rules she writes. These rules react visually to movement in the installation space, and interact with each other to create dynamic live animations. While Utterback’s work is computer generated and detects movement in the space via a video camera, it shares a lineage with analog works like mobiles and kinetic sculptures, where artists create a framework for various possibilities to occur through the physical relationships between parts of the sculpture. | ||
Mark BradfordThe Devil Is Beating His Wife
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Mark Bradford’s abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty. Working in both paint and collage, Bradford incorporates elements from his daily life into his canvases: remnants of found posters and billboards, graffitied stencils and logos, and hairdresser’s permanent endpapers he’s collected from his other profession as a stylist. In The Devil is Beating His Wife, Bradford consolidates all these materials into a pixelised eruption of cultural cross-referencing. Built up on plywood in sensuous layers ranging from silky and skin-like to oily and singed, Bradford offers abstraction with an urban flair that’s explosively contemporary.
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Mark BradfordKryptonite2006
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Using collage and paint on paper, Mark Bradford’s Kryptonite possesses an organic quality in its grid-like composition. Its convoluted architecture and overlapping details radiate as a megalopolissprawl, a seething microcosm of activity. Often compared to Piet Mondrian, Bradford gives modernism’s vision of an ordered utopia a lethal reality check as hard-edged borders and harmonious planes are exchanged for independent non-defined forms engaging in unruly turf-war. Evolving his surface as a highly textured topography, Bradford uses gesture and mark-making to encapsulate the dissonance and excitement of a metropolitan landscape. Josiah McElheny, sculptor An End to Modernity
2005 Nickel plated aluminum, electric lighting, hand-blown glass, steel cable and rigging Approximately 180 x 180 x 150 inches
Island Universe 2008Chromed aluminum, handblown glass, electric lights. Consisting of five elements arranged in a grid at specific heights Dimensions variable, largest element is approximately 12' in diameter, smallest is approximately 7' in diameter Installation view: White Cube, London "Island Universe" October 14 - November 15, 2008  Twentieth Century Modernism, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely 2006Detail Hand blown mirrored glass, display structure, transparent mirror and electric lighting 31 1/4 x 188 x 18 3/4 inches (79.4 x 477.5 x 47.6 cm)
Twentieth Century Modernism, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely 2006Hand blown mirrored glass, display structure, transparent mirror and electric lighting 31 1/4 x 188 x 18 3/4 inches
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
weird + clever (digital) faces
Such simple yet engaging use of materials + technology + artistry = very refreshing photos. I found these images in the gallery section of one of my FAVORITE WEBSITES OF ALL TIME - SPACECOLLECTIVE.ORG - such an awesome awesome collection of digitally stimulating substance.
From his website: Levi van Veluw
The images that I make consist of often unlogical combination of materials, patterns, colors, forms, with my head as the only constant factor. Each element is consciously chosen so as to affect a pre-determined transformation. By playing with the value of the each material and by using them for a purpose that was not originally intended for them, I construct within the image, in a very small way, a different perspective on the world.
In most cases it is my head that is the carrier of these transformations and combination. The expressionless, and almost universal face, allows the viewer to project himself onto the work. Because the works have really existed and have not been digitally manipulated, each image contains a short history of a performance.
Repetition is a theme I find very interesting as you can use it for different ends. By for example using the same head and facial expression, the person slowly becomes of secondary importance to the form. The elements that remain constant lose their value and the elements that change, become the subject of the work. In this way I create a shift in the hierarchy of values.
The commonplace notion of the ‘aesthetic’ image is that which is free of unsatisfactory characteristics and general human imperfections. This in my opinion is the most superficial form of beauty. In my work I attempt to create a different form of aesthetic.
The unusual and unimpressive materials, traces of glue and other imperfections that exist in the production of the work are what form the aesthetic value in my image. This revaluation of these normally insignificant elements only occurs because they now exist in a new context that distances them from their original circumstances and associations.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
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
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
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.”
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