Well these are fucking EPIC. With his anatomical illustrations, Salvatore Zanfrisco gives us a glance at what’s in our heart, our mind, our soul. It is an attempt to take inside out whatever defines who we are. The artist describes it as “a project born to show what really defines people through anatomical portraits made by pen”.
Chet Faker - Talk is Cheap
swoon. big time swoon. <3
MP if you’re looking at this i know you have a boner right now…
“I believe firmly that everyone, all of us, are going to end up somewhere. Very few of us will end up there on purpose.”
well thats gorgeous and well done. voila!
aaaand thats me, RIGHT in the heart of where the Red lights are. 24/7/365. yaaaaaay–naaaht.
Night Swimming - Florian Beckers
love this.
Marco Rea - Xanax: Sweet Dreams are Made of This
and other works. See more here: http://marcorea.carbonmade.com/
Konstantino Dregos - Twitch (2012)
Two new stunning pieces today from London-based artist Claire Brewster (previously) who creates delicate montages of birds, bees, and plants cut from maps. Some of her cartographic sculptures are cut by hand while others, like these, are laser cut and then pinned onto a board. Brewster shares via her artist statement:
Nature is ever present, even in the most urban environments, taking over wherever we neglect, living in a separate yet parallel universe. I take my inspiration from the natural environment, creating entomological installations of flora and fauna from imagined locations. My birds, insects and flowers transcend borders and pass freely between countries with scant regard for rules of immigration or the effects of biodiversity.
Brewster currently has several pieces on view at Pitfield London through June 20, 2014. (via Lustik)
Amsterdam-based artist Berndnaut Smilde is best known for his fantastical Nimbus series, in which individual clouds appear to magically float in empty rooms. The haunting images portray the airy nimbuses drifting through gorgeous Rococo rooms, Gothic cathedrals, and abandoned factories, evoking a sense of mysticism or supernatural presence.
Carefully controlling the temperature and humidity in a room, Smilde uses a fog machine to produce the ethereal clouds that remain suspended in the air for only a fleeting moment. Although the nimbuses are visible for just a few seconds, their ephemeral existences are made permanent through photography. These works center on an impermanent state of being between construction and deconstruction, as the dreamy clouds appear and vanish in the blink of an eye.
Smilde’s latest exhibition Antipode will be on display at the Ronchini Gallery in London until June 14. The show will feature the artist’s stunning multidisciplinary works that synthesize photography, installation, performance, and sculpture. The exhibition title Antipode is a geographical term that refers to parts of the earth diametrically opposite each other, echoing Smilde’s focus on duality in his artwork.
Trying to compress the history of Earth into a single book is an especially daunting task, the difficulty is compounded when the book you’re writing is the size of a nickel and is limited to just a few pages. Oh, and it needs lots of pictures. Lucky for us, illustrator Evan Lorenzen was up to the task and identified a few pivitol moments in history which he turned into this extremely tiny hand-bound book. You can see more of his miniature books over on his Tumblr. (via F*ck Yeah Book Arts)
Not Art is a design project by Tamer AlMasri and Mothanna Husseinmwhich combines symmetrical lines and shapes and juxtaposes them with classical paintings of the past. It’s a playful exercise that in some instances shows the relationship of shapes and in others simply create a lovely work of art.
Paris-based designer and artist Maud Vantours uses layer upon layer of cut paper to create hypnotizing patterns and textures that translate into set designs, fashion accessories, and editorial treatments. You can see more of her work at Figure and on Behance.
Spanish photographer Silvia Grav creates dreamy, mesmerizing images with her camera. She uses harsh contrasts and light effects to produce mysterious sceneries in which young models with rays of white energy and smoke are moving through the picture.
Since 1988, over 19,000 rap songs have made reference to marijuana and cocaine. Far fewer have mentioned prescription drugs, Codeine and MDMA, though Sizzurp, that foul concoction of cough syrup, alcohol, soda, and Jolly Ranchers, seems to be having a resurgence. Meanwhile, rappers seem less interested in calling out specific alcohol brands today than they did in the mid 1990s.
These are some of the observations from Drug Slang in Hip Hop, a series of graphs that catalog drug references in rap lyrics between the late ‘80s through 2013. The charts break each drug into its various nicknames–i.e. cocaine, blow, piff, and eight ball–and show the “prevalence” of each name in a given year. (Prevalence is the number of songs with a specific drug reference divided by the total number of songs released that year.)
The graphs, which are based on a study of RapGenius lyrics, were commissioned by Project Know, an online resource for families and friends whose loved ones are struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Mostly, it’s fascinating to see the spectrum of names for a single substance–and to speculate about the ebb and flow of their popularity. It’s striking, for example, to see the explosion in the number and overall volume of prescription drugs mentioned around 2006, and the rise of Adderall. “Along with the steep rise in various pain killers, including Percs, Lortab, and hydrocodone since the mid-2000s, Adderall’s popularity has surged,” the researchers have said.
It’s also interesting to see the rise and fall in popularity of certain alcohol brands, including a Patron spike starting in 2003, and the inexplicable durability of Hennessy.
Bobby Doherty: Untitled
need to get back into the hand lettering game. shit is boss. gorgeous work here.
