‘A colourful winter’ by photographer Florent Tanet comes right in time as winter finally hit Berlin, everything is grey and drab and we lack some playful colors. Inspired by a luxury comestibles boutique in the famous Le Bon Marché department store in Paris, Tanet arranged every day fruits and vegetables into graphic patterns, successively sculptures and still lives.
This series of paintings by Jennifer Nehrbass focuses on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in manner that is simultaneously ancient and contemporary. Ambiguity, realism and fantasy play atmospherically in a narrative moment akin to magic realism. These paintings speak to forbidden thoughts and desires and also suggest that what is hidden and forbidden inside the painting is ultimately denied to the viewer. What the paintings yield is an intimacy of time and place that meanders through rich details and nuanced perplexity – bafflement being as necessary to the experience of viewing as is delicate reasoning.
Urban Geode is a street art project by ‘A common Name’ that started in Los Angeles. Rather than using traditional paint this street art is created from paper or resin in 3-Dimensional sculpture forms. The finished shapes represent geodes, crystal, quartz, or any mineral formation that you would normally find in nature, while they fit in every little hole of buildings or pipes of crumbling infrastructures.
Behind all that is Paige Smith, a freelance artist and graphic designer from Los Angeles. She hopes to continue her project for a long time and travel it around the world, beautifying urban settings. Smith says ‘I enjoy the fact that many people will not notice these, but some astute people will; that these will not last forever and the weather will affect them as naturally as it might in nature.’ I would love to discover one of her little street art treasures in grey Berlin right now.
it’s shiny.
it’s also incredible. hahah this is the installation at the Crystal Dome at Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds).
“With 590 mirrors covering its walls, the Crystal Dome offers a kaleidoscope rich with colours: light is reflected in all facets. This breathtaking spectacle is stylishly accentuated with music by Brian Eno.”
amazing installation. i’d like to go. eventually.
This luminous adventureland is brought to you by LIKE Architects in partnership with Ikea. Yes, what you’re seeing here is one stellar Ikea hack. The architects used HEMMA floor bases cut at various lengths, fitted LEDARE lamps- Ikea’s new energy saving bulbs which this installation promotes. The gridded maze of lamps flooded the concourse at the Belém Cultural Centre in Portugal. The lamps were programmed to have oscillating intensities, with each lamp possessing its own rhythm. The result is an immersive, shimmering environment in constant flux. (excerpt taken from YellowTrace)
The work of Stockholm based artist Anders Krisár often deals with the human body. It is discomfiting, presenting objects of simultaneous horror and beauty. Krisár takes realistic casts of human body parts, torso, arms or faces to modify hem in ways that lend them a surreal quality. His aim is to explore interpersonal relationships and examine the complexities of the human condition.
“find what you love and let it kill you.” by charles bukowski
Geometrical obsession.
Research and sketching for a new print series.
Click on the picture for more info + source files.
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edit: After posting some images of my geometrical doodling, I’ve been asked to share the source files, and I like the idea of explaining the process and get many people to make their own versions and renders.If you like the idea, please spread the word by sharing/liking this post, and if enough people want to participate, this could become an interesting collaborative experiment !
Joanie
#cinema4d #vvvv #photoshop
Pencil, marker pen, projected light.
April 2012, Share conference, Belgrade, Serbia.
Preparing the release of the Mapping Toolkit, a free software for projection mapping.
my mind is fucking blown and i have a new obsession with Joanie Lemercier. Why doesn’t my work look like this? oh yeah, cause i’m a sell out and i work in advertising instead of pursuing my dream to be a sculptor. forgot.
Check out more of her work on her website.
I love Nick Cave’s body suits. so sick.
I’ve definitely posted work by Julia Randall before, but her bubble pieces came back on my radar this morning and i’m still in love with her work.
Julia Randall created the series ‘Blown’, feature bubble imagery—chewing gum, blown into bubbles, in various states of inflation and deflation. Bubblegum initially connotes innocent pleasure, yet the fragile skin of gum also points to the susceptible human body, and the dreaded passage of time. Bubble gum is an insignificant, disposable material, and the pleasure taken from its flavor is fleeting. The bubble is a vessel that momentarily holds our breath, for a brief moment, in a physical form. Seen as a group, the inflating/deflating bubble imagery is visual manifestation of breathing.
my initial thought was… “oh this is cool!"
of course its cool… it’s by Frank Gehry. Should have known.
The fish lamps are created by Pritzker prize-winning architect Frank Gehry. The softly glowing fish lamps are fixed to poles or wall sconces, while others can be placed on any existing horizontal surface. The forms elegantly curl and flex to suggest motion, while emitting a warm, incandescent light.
“Facebook Portrait” by Hong Yi
excerpt from his website: “I focus on the space surrounding us and I often use a whiff of universal irony, trying to convey a message in a way that it is easily accessible. I do this partly because I intend to give to the audience an active role in my work; performances, workshops, installations and public art are ways of dealing with the audience through a social experience. People are invited to participate, but simultaneously, they create different levels of relations and contribute to the artwork itself.”
Sam Green - Where does it hurt? (2012)
