Last week Japanese botanic artist Makoto Azuma attempted to go where most artists only dream of going: to space. In a project titled Exbiotanica, last week Azuma and his crew traveled to Black Rock Desert outside Gerlach, Nevada. In the dead of night Azuma’s project began. The team launched two of Azuma’s artworks – a 50-year old pine suspended from a metal frame and an arrangement of flowers – into the stratosphere using a large helium balloon. The entire project was documented, revealing some surreal photographs of plants floating above planet earth. “The best thing about this project is that space is so foreign to most of us,” says John Powell of JP Aerospace. “So seeing a familiar object like a bouquet of flowers flying above Earth domesticates space, and the idea of traveling into it.” (syndicated from Spoon & Tamago)
Palast (France) - Textures of Time (2014)
Palast Photographie was founded in 2005 by Julien Manigand, still life photographer working in Paris, France. Thierry Peureux, retoucher, joined him in 2011. Together they develop their activity on product photography, working with high-end brands such as Baccarat, Roger Vivier or Hennessy.
© All images courtesy of the artist
[more Palast | artist found at Behance Featured Projects]
because Childish Gambino wasn’t cool enough already… right.
Copenhagen based photographer Ken Hermann recently completed a photo series titled Flower Man that showcases the merchants from the Mallick Ghat flower market. I love these portraits because they’re able to capture the range of people that sell at the market, much like the numerous blossoms sold there. I think the technique of fading out the background to bring the subject more into focus is a nice touch as well.
Check out the whole series of photos by clicking here.
“So I’ll take you to the beach
And walk along the sand
And I’ll make you a heart pendant
With a pebble held in my hand
And I’ll carve it like a necklace
So the heart falls where your chest is
And now a piece of me is a piece of the beach
And it falls just where it needs to be
And rests peacefully
So you just need to breathe
To feel my heart against yours now, against yours now”
Using large thin sheets of Chinese rice paper, artist Bovey Lee (previously) meticulously cuts intricate scenes of plants, roads, people, and architecture with an impressive array of cutting implements. The near weightless artworks are mounted against silk before being hung on gallery walls.
Lee most recently had work on view with Grotto Fine Art as part of Art Basel in Hong Kong, as well as an exhibition with Gavlak Gallery for the Armory Show earlier this year. You can see many more pieces from the last few years in her online cut paper gallery. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
holy typography boner.
I just stumbled onto the Instagram account of Tolga Girgin, a Turkish graphic designer and electrical engineer who experiments with calligraphy. His latest pieces involve a number of 3D lettering pieces that use shadow and perspective to make it appear like the letterforms are lifting off the page. Very cool.
For the 2013 KOBE Biennale artists and designers were invited to create environments inside industrial shipping containers as part of the ‘Art in a Container International Competition.’ Designers Masakazu Shirane and Saya Miyazaki created Wink Space, a modular installation made from mirrors that formed a giant kaleidoscopic tunnel. Not only was the piece an fun immersive environment, but it was also an experiment in building with zippers. “We wanted to create the world’s first zipper architecture. In other words, this polyhedron is completely connected by zippers. And in order to facilitate even more radical change some of the surfaces open and close like windows,” says Shirane.
Wink Space was a winner of the A’Design Award, and you can see more behind the scenes photos here. (viaSpoon & Tamago)
i would like each of these blown up and printed on lightboxes, 24x36 in size, for my living room. please and thank you.
Attractors by Andreia Gil
Title: Edward Norton Lorenz
Ali v SonnyI was asked to produce 1 of 2 images for a t shirt collection courtesty of Cherry Pick’n LLC. The brief was to simple rework the image anyway I liked.
This is a photo manipulation with lighting & paint effects, designed with Photoshop & Corel PainterBehance:
Diggin this
“This is an image that is a part of a photo series revolving around my odyssey. My creative journey that dates back 15 years, converted into images and narrated by friends and strangers alike. Although we are forever evolving our creative paths, its always nice to see the process of which we came from. ”
ummm these are fucking tight.
excerpt from The Fox Is Black
We’re in an age of great footwear design and shoe technology has come so far in the last 30 years. That said, it’s always great to see interesting materials applied to shoes and these cork covered Vans are currently at the top of my wish list. They’re a part of Vans OTW Summer 2014 and they’re certain to catch people’s eyes. Love the detail of the speckled mid-sole that separates the cork from the sole, a well-considered touch. The sad part is I can’t figure out where to buy them yet, but you can keep an eye on the Vans OTW site in case they pop-up.
i-an-legend check these.
like this, although i hate to say it, but these double exposure photographs are getting a little tired… what else you guys got?
Christina Hoch is a Spanish photographer who started taking pictures when she was only 16 years old. Today she is 21 and becoming a biologist. For her, photography is a hobby that she enjoys in her spare time though she’s not planing on turning it into a profession. She usually carries her camera on her, shooting beautiful portraits of her freckled siblings.
Afterwards she adds a little green and blue to the pictures, editing the faces with Photoshop. She enjoys high contrasts and low saturations. You can see some of her before and after effects on her Tumblr.