Into Papers
An art installation made out of paper entitled Drift Away II by artist Li Hongjun is displayed during the 2011 Art Taipei exhibition (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Innovative Virtual Shop
Ocado.com has hit the high street, with an innovative new ‘virtual shop’. In a UK first, the online grocer’s integrated window display at One New Change shopping centre in London allows shoppers to purchase all their grocery essentials by scanning them with their mobile phones. The retail experience is live between August 25 and September 1.
Lobster Bike
In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, a man looks at a motorcycle figure made of lobsters’ shells created by Taiwanese food carving artist Huang Mingbo during his lecture in Fuzhou in southeast China’s Fujian province. (AP Photo) Continue reading »
The Ultra-Realistic Sculptures by Marc Sijan
Marc Sijan, a Milwaukee artist, has carefully studied and modeled the human form for more then twenty years. Since his days as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, he has become completely immersed in the human form as a subject. After earning his bachelor’s degree in art, he returned to school to earn his master’s degree and received a heavy dose of scientific courses in anatomy and biology in the process – hence the inspiration for the life like artistic forms.
The opportunities we have in this life to closely examine the intricacies of the human body are rare. Many of us are taught “ not to stare” for the fear the object of our gaze may hit us with a pocket book or yell for the closest police officer. But the latest exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum, The Ultra-Realistic Sculptures by Marc Sijan gives viewers a recrimination-free opportunity to stare with abandon, quenching your own voyeuristic tendencies. Continue reading »
Poo
A dog sits in front of a giant dog sculpture called Poo donated by Dawn French at an animal rehoming centre in Shoreham. The comedienne and writer commissioned the 9ft tall sculpture, based on a character in her first novel, to appear alongside her in a TV advert. (Dogs Trust / PA)
The Sickness Interactive Installation
A woman searches for gold necklaces amongst a floor full of wool and yarn, created by Thai artist, Surasi Kusolwong. Visitors can keep the jewellery should they find it. The landscape containing the necklaces is called Sickness, on show at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. It opened on 21 August and to date, one necklace has been found out of ten hidden in the yarn. (EPA/BARBARA WALTON) Continue reading »
Seven Spires
Steve Messam’s installation Seven Spires, part of FLOW – a countywide series of new site specific artworks set in Northamptonshire’s rivers, canals and waterways – has been unveiled. FLOW is part of the Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 and UK Cultural Olympiad. (Andrew Hilton) Continue reading »
Wedding Gown Made out of More than 3000 Peacock Feathers
A peacock farm in Linyi, northern China’s Shandong Province, has created a wedding gown made out of more than 3,000 peacock feathers. According to farm owner Qiu Yun it took 3,150 feathers collected from more than 200 male peacocks to make the dress, which took two months to be put together. (Quirky China News / Rex Features)
Singing Ringing Tree
The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine mountain range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire. Continue reading »
The Idol-makers of Kumartoli, India
An artisan works on semi-finished clay statues of Hindu deities in Kumartoli, the idol-makers’ village of Kolkata, India, on August 22. (Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP – Getty Images) Continue reading »
Something Fishy Going on at the Polish-Ukrainian Border
An aerial view shows the land art installation by Polish artist Jaroslaw Koziara as a part of the Land Art Festival on the field between Horodyszcze (Poland) and Warez (Ukraine), on Tuesday. The giant fish was created by seeding different kinds of plants on the field between the Polish and Ukrainian border. (Wojciech Pacewicz / EPA) Continue reading »
Awesome Spaghetti-Pasta-Noodle Fork
Inventor Bob Balow demonstrates how to use his invention, “The Original Pasta Fork.” Sliding fingers down the long spiral handle makes it rotate around the center prong of the fork, thus winding the spaghetti onto the fork. The fork can be ordered at http://www.theoriginalpastafork.com
See No Evil
The ‘See No Evil’ art project on Nelson Street in Bristol, England will see several multi-story buildings in the street covered with art over the coming days. Organizers hope that the project, which has involved top graffiti artists from all over the world, will become a major tourist attraction for the west country city. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Computer Window Wall Sticker
So others claim that you can’t differentiate between real life and the virtual world in your computer anymore? They can’t be right, can they?
To make the difference crystal clear for you and them, we designed the Computer Window Wall Sticker. This looks like a window on your computer and has the inscription, “Outside World – Real life 2.0,” with a globe icon next to it. Just apply the stickers around or on a real window of your home and no mix-ups are possible anymore.
With this sticker set, the computer window has a maximum hight of 2.2m and a maximum width of 2m. Since it comes in sections, you can fit it to all smaller-sized windows.
With the Computer Window Wall Sticker, you can decorate your home in a very geeky way—and you finally know what’s behind this piece of glass…
Alternate Logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games
Very fresh and actual. By Jon Defreest.
Foodmania: An Extraordinary Visual Record of Food Art in New York
The yakitori at Isakaya on Smith in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn (Mimi Ritzen Crawford for The Wall Street Journal) Continue reading »
Keith Meets Arch of Hysteria
Artist Agata Oleksiak, also known as Olek, with her large crocheted piece, ‘Keith Meets Arch of Hysteria’ at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Her show opened on August 10th. (Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal) Continue reading »
The Biggest Structure Made of MERKUR
Toy production in Police nad Metují, in the Czech Republic, dates back to the year 1920 when Jaroslav Vancl founded the Inventor company, which produced toy construction sets of the same name. Back then, the metal parts of the Inventor construction sets were connected by metal hooks similar to those of scaffolding. In 1925, a new system was launched whereby the metal parts are connected by screws and M 3,5 nuts. This toy construction set, registered under the MERKUR trademark became very popular and keeps its original form till this day. Would you like to know more about the MERKUR toy construction sets and toy trains? Do you want to see the biggest structure made of MERKUR? Then come and visit the MERKUR Toy Construction Set Museum in Police nad Metují. Continue reading »
Maternity Worldwide Action to Save Children
AUGUST 12: Pregnant Susanne Friis Hasche shows her stomach, painted by Danish artist Lotte Ipsen, in the Round Tower of Copenhagen. Twenty artists each painted a pregnant woman’s stomach; art photographers Marie Wengler, Marte Holten and Karoline Tira Liberkind will later exhibit and sell pictures of the painted stomachs at Gallery Copenhagen Art. to benefit Maternity Worldwide, an organization working to save the lives of women and children during pregnancy and childbirth in Ethiopia. (Jens Noergaard/AFP/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Teddy Bears that have been Turned Inside Out and Restuffed
Bears by Kent Rogowski, is a series of portraits of the most unusual sort: ordinary teddy bears that have been turned inside out and restuffed. Each animal’s appearance is determined by the necessities of the manufacturing process. Simple patterns and devices never meant to be seen are now prominent physical characteristics, giving each one a distinctly quirky personality: their fasteners become eyes, their seams become scars, and their stuffing creeps out in the most unexpected places. Together these images form a topology of strange yet oddly familiar creatures. They are at once hideous yet cuddly, disturbing yet endearing, absurd yet adorable, while offering a metaphor for us all to consider. These bears, which have lived and loved and lost as much as their owners, have suffered and endured through it all. It is by virtue of revealing their inner core might we better understand our own. Continue reading »
Rare Animal Skulls Seized in Sydney
Hundreds of illegal rare and endangered wildlife items – including the full skin and head of an Alaskan wolf, ivory products and the skulls from a lion, bear, orangutan – were seized by the Federal Department of Environment on August 3, 2011. (Federal Department of Environment)
Spy Games: Images from the Secret Stasi Archives
Spies from former communist East Germany demonstrate the art of disguise by donning fur wigs, fake mustaches and dark glasses in a Berlin exhibition of recently uncovered and once highly classified photographs. German artist Simon Menner, who put together the exhibition “Pictures from the Secret Stasi Archives,” said it should show how something that seems harmless, such as these images that could be shots from a spy film spoof, can harbor danger. Continue reading »
Kyle Hilton’s Paper Dolls
A series of paper dolls, based on tv shows/characters, created by illustrator Kyle Hilton.
On This Day Calendar
Bring a touch of historic trivia to each and every morning with this cool and colourful wall calendar. Each day is represented by a square – we know that’s nothing new but wait for this…each square is heat sensitive so when you touch it, the black cover completely disappears to reveal a fun fact about something historical that happened on that very day. Continue reading »
