Category Archives: Arts
Comic Book Portrait Collages by Sandra Chevrier
Mixed media on woven paper paintings where she uses traditional mediums combined with actual pages from comic books to create her colorful and lively pieces by Montreal based artist Sandra Chevrier.
Pentatonix: Evolution of Music
Impressive! In this video called Evolution of Music, ten centuries of music is condensed into four and a half minutes. Collectively known as Pentatonix, the group of five take you on a journey of song beginning with a chant by Salve Regina from the 11th century and all the way into music from the present day including songs by Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
The Miracle Pine Tree
Japan erects massive sculpture of the last standing tree from a forest destroyed by the 2011 tsunami.
As cleanup continues two years after the deadly tsunami that struck Japan, a decision was made to preserve the memory of the miracle pine tree. The towering 88-foot tall pine tree was the last standing among a forest of 70,000 trees that were completely wiped out along the coast in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture. The tree survived for nearly 18 months after the tsunami but eventually died due to high levels of saline introduced into its environment, after which is was felled and giant molds were created to again form the trunk and branches as they stood when the tree was alive.
The Recovery of Discovery
Cyprien Gaillard built a pyramid out of 72.000 bottles of beer at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Participants were free to enter and consume as much as the Turkish beer Efes as they wanted. The work refers to the “the concept of displacement and a tourist colonialism” of previously artifacts which were relocated from other countries to Berlin.
Domestication of Pyramids by Magdalena Jetelovà
Domestication of Pyramids by Magdalena Jetelovà are pyramid-sculptures, covered by volcanic ashes. Super cool.
Hand crafted chandelier made with 8,000 clear LEGO pieces
Industrial Designer Tobias Tøstesen created and hand crafted this LEGO-based chandelier for the Milan Furniture Fair 2013. This new home addition has a classy edge to it, being put together with transparent LEGO pieces. It’s a floor to ceiling fixture that casts and reflects light similar to the natural Nordic sunlight (or lack of). Tobias used 8,000 clear LEGO bricks to create this Design Week masterpiece, and the outcome is absolutely astounding.
“I’m Google” by Dina Kelberman – A Visual Exploration of Google Image Search
I’m Google is an ongoing digital art project by Baltimore artist Dina Kelberman that documents digital patterns through non-artistic photography found on Google Image Search. Note, that every single image share a slight visual characteristic with the image before it.
“I’m Google is an ongoing tumblr blog in which batches of images and videos that I cull from the internet are compiled into a long stream-of-consciousness. The batches move seamlessly from one subject to the next based on similarities in form, composition, color, and theme. [... ] I feel that my experience wandering through Google Image Search and YouTube hunting for obscure information and encountering unexpected results is a very common one. My blog serves as a visual representation of this phenomenon. This ability to endlessly drift from one topic to the next is the inherently fascinating quality that makes the internet so amazing,” Dina Kelberman says.
Leonid Tishkov’s Portable Moon Installations
Russian physician, who became an artist, Leonid Tishkov‘s latest project consists of a portable crescent moon photographed in nostalgic and sentimental scenes all over the world. Creating images in China, New Zealand, Taiwan, the Arctic, France and beyond, Tishkov’s global ongoing project tells the story of: ”A man who met the moon and stayed with her forever.”
Miniature Homes In Trees Perfect For Tiny People And Elves
Aww! Cutest idea ever.
These animated gif images are created by 21-year-old Boston, MA based illustrator Daniel Barreto. The small dwellings are carved into the nooks and crannies of trees deep in the woods. Their windows glowing with light and flickering in the dark snowy night beg the question “Who lives here? Who are these tiny creatures?”
Life Drawing at The Book Club
Every easel in a life drawing class captures a different angle of the model.
The Book Club created the film by editing each drawing with the next, moving around the circle of easels.
LEGO Fetus by Jason Freeny
Wisteria Flowers Tunnel in Japan
Almost straight out of a fairy tale! This beautiful tunnel is made with 20 kinds of wisteria flowers and is located at the Kawachi Fuji Gardens in Kitakyushu, Japan. Wow.
Naked Silhouette Alphabet
Gorgeous! “Naked Silhouette Alphabet” by Greek Anastasia Mastrakouli.
Anastasia Mastrakouli was born in 1989 in Athens and grew up in Lamia and is currently a fifth year undergraduate student at Ionian University, Department of Audio Visual Arts.
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