Horrorgami – Papercut Versions of Famous Haunted Houses
Horror-film fan Marc Hagan-Guirey makes papercut versions of famous haunted houses, in a series he called Horrorgami. “When I was growing up, my elder brother and I were really really different characters. And the one thing that really bonded us was horror movies,” says Marc in the short profile film on Paper Dandy. He’s already created four houses from horror films and T.V. shows: The Shining, The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist, and The Addams Family. Each house is made from a single sheet of paper, and he plans to make a total of 13 houses and display them in an exhibition in London. My favorite so far is the Overlook Hotel from The Shining.
The technique Marc uses is called kirigami, which is like origami except the paper is both cut and folded. There are no adhesives used. If you’ve ever made a paper snowflake, then you’ve done kirigami!
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Best of the week 51
We introduce our “top four”, which contains the best four articles of the week: Mavalà blackboard table, The secret layers, Illustrations by Nicebleed and Invisible City’s collection.
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This is London – Vintage Book Covers
London has always been an inevitable focal point for authors throughout the years, its sheer size and diversity making it an appealing and familiar setting that still retains a certain air of mystery. Here is a look at books or more specifically book covers centred around the capital from the 1960s.
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Hilarious Finger Portraits of Famous People
Check out this playful series of portraits of famous people on human fingers for a series entitled Ditology (“dito” is italian for “finger”).
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Stunning Water Drop Refractions
To get each shot, Markus uses large satellite world images (or other image of choice) as the backdrop and then captures the background’s refraction through the water drops with a high speed camera.
10 Creative DIY Halloween Ideas Found on Pinterest
With Halloween right around the corner, here are 10 popular DIY Halloween ideas found on Pinterest. For the past few months, these pins have been collected in the board Cool DIY Projects, which currently has almost 1.5 million followers.
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Ruray lamp by Shane Holland
“Ruray” a LED desk lamp created by the Irish studio Shane Holland Design.
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HC11BC by Homer
HC11BC is a folding chair made by the designers of the Taiwanese studio “Homer”.
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The Whole World
Follow the process of artist Chris Sauter as he creates an installation entitled ‘The Whole World’.
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