Beijing based photogapher/performance artist Li Wei creates wonderful and improbable photographic prints, and by the looks of things doesn’t use photoshop either. Check out the gallery for some really interesting images.
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Monthly Archive for September, 2007
I’m sure everyone has done one of the prevalent personality tests which float around circles of dodgy 90’s markup, the Imagini VisualDNA is the same but different. The underlying plot is the same, you make choices, it tells you you are a dreamer or a psycho or whatever, but everything is visual (and nicely designed). They also tacked on a little social network so you can talk with people who see life the way you do.
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I don’t know, but I kind of identify with this character in this rather surreal painting by Californian artist; Jeff Soto. There’s a bunch more images like this on his website.
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The cryptic title is the name of one of the levels in Super Mario World where it is possible to not touch the controller to complete the level, the ultimate in Taoist gaming. There are actually several levels like this, see the Automated Mario Playlist.
American artist Brian Dettmer creates wonderful sculpture from precision book slicing. Some of his creations are absolutely spectacular!
See more of Brian’s work here.
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I find it unnerving and fascinating when something once mundane becomes classic design, and the cassette tape has reached that stage. tapedeck.org is a wonderful repository for images of cassette tapes, from 30mins to 120, afga to that’s, metal quality to ferro.
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A wonderful video of some of Daniel Rozin’s works, in particular the weave mirror constructed from almost 800 little motorised ‘c-shapes’ which rotate to form an abstraction of what the little camera placed on top can see.
There are also several other mirrors in the show, such as the Peg Mirror made from wooden pegs which twist to cast a shadow.
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The lovely wave above shows what music I have been listening to since June 2006, I have enlarged the last few months so you can read the text.
This was all created by scrobbling my music in winamp and iTunes to last.fm, then using the lastgraph plotter to visualise it.
Too bad nothing exists to plot this kind of a graph using other data, such as the tags I have used in blog posts over the past few years.
A brilliant typographic representation of The Lions Roar by The Hush Sound. I do wonder if this medium of conveyance could be extended into a 30 minute or even feature length story, it might make you head feel a little funny but it would probably be very impressive.
This is where I will be for the next week, a little island north-west of Africa called La Gomera.
Published by the Japanese Ministry of Environment, this is handy guide to Furoshiki; the traditional art of wrapping cloth for transport.
help me, Obi-Wan Kenobe; you’re my only hope.
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