Using the interesting medium of simple oil on wood, Audrey Kawasaki paints these wonderful (and rather suggestive) line drawings.
The figures she paints are seductive and contain an air of melancholy. They exist in their own sensually esoteric realm, yet at the same time present a sense of accessibility that draws the observer to them. These mysterious young women captivate with the direct stare of their bedroom eyes.
Julius Popp (now there’s a name straight from the spam folder) has created this very interesting variation on the Jeep Waterfall I mentioned a few months back.
Although there isn’t a great deal of sense to be made from the project page (even when translated)) apparently the bit.fall randomly grabs keywords and images from news websites then drops them.
[via Neatorama]
Some interesting typographical work by Oded Ezer using Hebrew lettering for an ‘invitational poster exhibition’ (?).
Influenced by Dadaist methods and contemporary virtual hybridizations of animals and human beings, Ezer treats this work as a suggestion for typographic/visual expression, something to look at and not necessarily to write with. These typo hybrids suggest a more playful and humorous attitude to typography, a field that often suffers from an unjust reputation of an overly strict and serious one.
[via Neatorama]
High speed photographer Martin Klimas is exhibiting his work in a New York gallery under the title; ‘Temporary Sculpture’. I love the concept of sculpture so fleeting that it can only be experienced for a thousandth of a second.
[via Cool Hunting]
Ever thought your wallpaper doesn’t interact the walls enough, this wallpaper does although not in real time. The basic concept is to model your wall and map each of the objects on it, doors, light-switches etc. Then the magical people at Surrealien make a custom warped wallpaper to fit.
Of course they give no guarantee that it wont make you feel a little weird after a few days…actually they probably guarantee you will.
[via Geekologie]
He will be missed.
Wow!
I really want to spend some time playing with one of these…
This device creates the illusion that a simple stream of water droplets can defy the known laws of physics. By controlling a set of flickering LEDs, the dripping water can appear to slow down, freeze in mid-air, and even reverse in direction.
[via VideoSift]
Gemstone artist Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof (with a name like that, the art industry is really the only route) jumps on the bandwagon with his gemstone skull series entitled Memento Mori, currently showing in the Hamiltons gallery in London.
Interestingly a quick google search for the artist doesn’t return his homepage (unless this is it?!) or (non-existant) wikipedia entry like most artists. Instead one of the top matches is about his tax-dodging shenanigans in New York, 5 years ago. This is a guy who really needs a google friendly website.
Believe it or not, this isn’t a intricate model of a tennis game, it is an actual photo taken by Vincent Laforet during Maria Sharapova’s second U.S.Open Grand Slam win last year. The photographer used the tilt-shift technique to give a very short focal length and make it look like tennis in toy town.
It is part of a whole set of tilt-shift sports images commissioned by the New York Times.
[via Kottke]
Mark Lithringer brings together images of like forms into a grid. The typology gives a very interesting overview of even a mundane subject.
The typological form achieves an uncanny synergy and resonance with this subject matter because it mimics the mental images I suspect many of us form as way ordering the chaos of abundance that surrounds us.
He also has one of the most wordy and complex artspeak pages I have attempted to understand.
[via information aesthetics]
Damien Hirst brings us the ultimate in morbid-bling, a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds, entitled ‘For The Love of God’.
Interestingly enough, I spent quite a bit of time with the inspiration for this work at Steven Gregory’s inaugural exhibition at the Foundations old gallery in London. It is fascinating the way that skulls still seem to contain a personality, even if they are covered in precious stones.
[via Geekologie]
