10 Business Cards of the 10 Famous People
Real business cards of Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump and others! Continue reading »
The Magnificent Floating Puppets of Les Plasticiens Volants
An inflatable snake hovers during a performance by the French street theater company Plasticiens Volants in Berlin, Germany. The spectacle, featuring gigantic flying inflatable fairy-tale creatures and performers on stilts and in costume ,was a part of celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the Kurfuerstendamm, known locally as the Ku’damm, a shopping boulevard. (Adam Berry/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Aelita Andre, a Four Year Old Abstract Painter
Aelita Andre is a four year old abstract painter of Russian heritage and the youngest professional painter in the world. Her paintings continue to sell around the world to international buyers and she has been compared to Jackson Pollock by the press and her visionary style to Salvador Dali and Wassily Kandinsky.
Australian Art critic Robert Nelson and Associate Professor of Monash University says, “Aelita’s art is an antidote to the oppressive qualities of expectation in western painting.”
Aelita paints with an ‘innocent eye’. Her paintings are a window into the primal and subconscious creative process – a field pioneered by Freud and Jung. Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso elevated spontaneous and accidental painting as a supreme creative process allowing us to peer into the workings of the mind. Continue reading »
Skye’s Bonnie Boat Arts Project
Artists Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich are on Skye gathering recordings to broadcast from the Celeste, a yacht decorated with mirrored tiles, on 10 September. (Walker & Bromwich) Continue reading »
Russian Students Launch Lanterns to Mark ‘Day of Knowledge’
Russian students launch paper lanterns during a flashmob action marking ‘Day of Knowledge’ in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 1. The Day of Knowledge marks the beginning of every school year in Russia. (Anatoly Maltsev / EPA) Continue reading »
Space Hardware Transformed into Art
An Apollo lunar module propellant tank sits on display in Dale Cox III’s Seattle-area backyard, alongside a more traditional sculpture. The tank might have been sent to the moon if NASA went ahead with Apollo 18, 19 and 20, as originally planned. Instead, it’s been turned into an art installation. (Alan Boyle / msnbc.com) Continue reading »
iNecklace
Sophisticated. Elegant. Open Source. The iNecklace is a gorgeously machined aluminum pendant with a subtle pulsating LED. Perfect for the playa or with Prada. Made for women who celebrate art, science, engineering and great design. For any lady who loves technology and wants beautiful, geeky jewelry. Welcome to the future! Continue reading »
Artist Cain Motter Illustrates Impact of Credit on Modern Society
Los Angeles-based artist, Cain Motter, like many others, has tried to share his opinion about the impact of using credit cards on the modern society. However, his mode of expression is quite different because unlike others who use words or letters for expression, Motter melts his credit cards to create stunning pieces of modern art.
In his official Facebook page, Motter explains how he fell for the vicious cycle of using credit cards.
“I started getting these credit card applications in the mail. One of them said it would be good to have a card in case of emergencies. That’s what got me,” the artist stated. After applying and receiving his first credit card, he got a cheque for $50 which he thought was a gift for becoming a new customer.
It was only after he received his first statement with a bill for that $50 gift plus cash advance fees that he understood the trick.
To “take revenge” and give vent to his anger, Motter first started craft pendants and necklaces using the cards. Continue reading »
Masami Yamagiwa for the Museum of Everything
Figurines by Japanese artist Masami Yamagiwa go on show for the Museum of Everything art project at the Selfridges department store in London. (BBC News)
Pumpkin Fish
An employee arranges an exhibit at a pumpkin-inspired art show in Klaistow near Beelitz, north-eastern Germany. (Patrick Pleul / AFP – Getty Images) Continue reading »
Post’It War
Post’It War is awesome site with a huge collection of Post’It art from around the World. Continue reading »
Sand
Taking inspiration from the game ‘Bou-Toshi’, Japanese designer Yukihiro Kaneuchi created a series of vases made of sand and resin. The game is simple. First, players make a heap of sand and place a pole in the centre. Then each player takes turns removing sand, the one who causes the pole to fall loses. With its primitive element of creation and destruction, this game has been played for centuries. Here, the pole is transformed to a glass tube – time stopped with resin. The shape nears collapse, bringing a tension and delicate beauty to the flower. Continue reading »
In the Name of
An Indian Muslim woman shows her hands decorated with mehendi during ‘Chand Raat’ or ‘Night of the Moon’ in Hyderabad, traditionally held on the eve of the festival of Eid al-Fitr. Muslims all over the world began Eid-al-Fitr celebrations at the sighting of the crescent moon, marking the end of Muslim’s holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
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
