STUFF I LIKE
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Altered Books and Sculptural Artist’s Books by Curt Lund
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Long exposure photography by Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko
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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
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Fashion designer Scott Newkirk’s New York cabin
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Dali by Philippe Halsman
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Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69)
“The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of...
COLLAGE MIXED-MEDIA ART BY LAURA CARSON
Artfully Musing by Laura Carson (pinterest / facebook) - “I spent most of my career designing, building, and marketing computer software. After retiring, I needed a creative outlet. A few years ago I discovered mixed media collage and it’s been a love affair ever since. I’ve taught classes in altered books, handmade books, collage art and mixed media art. I’ve designed in the past for Grafix and I am currently on the Alpha Stamps design team.” [See More]
MOST INTERESTING POSTINGS OF THE YEAR BY DEVIDSKETCHBOOK
You can view many interesting messages on page which were posted this year while this blog is exists. Many thanks to all my followers and thank you for your support. Also, thanks to all editors for tumbler support.
Wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!
BIVOUAC AT MCA CHICAGO
Studio BOUROULLEC - RONAN AND ERWAN BOUROULLEC
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec - Bivouac is an exhibition (MCA Chicago / oct 20, 2012-jan 20, 2013) of work by two of the most exciting and innovative designers working today. The brothers not only design elegant and beautiful objects—chairs, sofas, lamps, tables, and dishware—but they also develop pioneering hybrid forms that defy categorization as they shape space in clever new ways. The title of the show is inspired by this multipurpose hybridity, as a bivouac is a lightweight encampment or shelter that can be adapted to its environment just as Bouroullec products are activated by their end-users and the spaces they inhabit.
GLASSHOUSE
Czech designer Kristýna Pojerová
Glasshouse is a lamp which aims to satisfy the desire for fresh herbs in a city kitchen. Its shape was inspired by growth of plants. The herbs are planted inside the lamp along its wall in a kind of gutter around a central opening. (foto Jaroslav Kvíz)
APEX PREDATOR
Empire Shoes. 2012. Art work by Fantich & Young
Apex predators are predators with no predators of their own, residing at the top of their food chain.
(Materials: Jimmi Choo Empire Shoes, Size UK6, 500 teeth dentures.)
FRAC Centre Pavilion by MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY
French architect Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY | nonLin/Lin Pavilion – is a prototype which engages in a series of architectural experiments referred to as text based morphologies. Beyond its visual perception of sculptural and formal qualities, the prototypes are built forms developed through custom computational protocols. The parameters of these protocols are based on form finding (surface relaxation), form description (composition of developable linear elements), information modeling (re-assembly data), generational hierarchy (distributed networks), and digital fabrication (logistic of production).
Design team: Marc Fornes (Principal), John Becker, Peter Nguyen
Photo Francois Lauginie
H.R. GIGER MUSEUM BAR
in Château St. Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland
H.R.Giger - Hans Rudolf “Ruedi” Giger is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer.
“The interior of the otherworldly environment that is the H.R. Giger Museum Bar is a cavernous, skeletal structure covered by double arches of vertebrae that crisscross the vaulted ceiling of an ancient castle. The sensation of being in this extraordinary setting recalls the tale of Jonah and the whale, lending the feel of being literally in the belly of a fossilized, prehistoric beast, or that you have been transported into the remains of a mutated future civilization.” - Text excerpt from Secret Magazine No. 23, by Javier De Pison
HUT “Hermitage” by Ethan Hayes-Chute
Artist Ethan Hayes-Chute lives and works in Freeport, Maine & Berlin, Germany. Through paintings, sculptures, large-scale installations and artist’s books, he explores the ideas of self-sufficiency, self-preservation and self-exclusion as models for living. Hayes-Chute’s hut is an accumulation of stuff, the ephemera of the every day. Its materials are found, stitched together, hand-assembled – chair, desk, table, shaving mirror, and coffee mug furnish the cabin’s primary function to house and sustain.
THE POOL BY JEN LEWIN STUDIO
Jen Lewin Studio - Each Pad in The Pool senses the movements of a person. User inputs such as foot location, foot pressure, and speed are sensed by the pad surface. As a person moves, light ripples out to the surrounding pads. For example, by leaning left, a ripple of varying intensity starts in that direction. A stronger more deliberate lean could cause a ripple to jump rings and fill the entire Pool. Ripples vary in light strength, length (the number of pads this message propagates to), and color. Each person’s ripple is unique. As ripples interact with other ripples, an infinite variety of colorful patterns emerge.
INTERACTIVE CLOUD
CLOUD was instigated by Calgary-based artist Caitlind r.c. Brown for Nuit Blanche Calgary on September 15, 2012. Over the course of creating the sculpture, the project evolved into a collaboration with Wayne Garrett, a local musician, machinist, and artist. Brown and Garrett have worked together on numerous installations and films, most notably The House Project, a group installation re-imagining a home scheduled for demolition and transforming the space into a series of interactive art rooms.
LAND OF THE FREE
UK based freelance designer /illustrator Chris LaBrooy ( facebook | behance )
OLYMPIC HORSES
Paper Art By Richard Sweeney. Each horses comprises a flexible, wood skeleton, which once posed was fixed into position then covered with a paper skin.
Richard’s practice combines the disciplines of design, photography, craft and sculpture, resulting in a varied output of work including graphic design and public sculpture commissions. Combining hand-craft with computer aided design and CNC manufacturing techniques, Richard seeks to maintain an experimental, hand-on approach, utilising the unique properties of often mundane materials to discover unique sculptural forms.
300.000 STANLEY BLADES | Double Games, Red In Tooth And Claw
British studio Fantich and Young - Double Games, Red In Tooth And Claw deploys 300.000 Stanley blades to subvert the competitive attributes of school gymnasium apparatus. The work endorses and repels internal and external competitive impulses within oneself or within a collective. The work invites the viewer to reflect on their own personal memories of gymnasium apparatus and its implementation in the Physical Education lessons they attended.
