A visually stunning anime adaptation of the wonderful manga by TaiyÅ Matsumoto. Tekkon Kinkreet is the story of two steet-kids attempting to keep ‘control’ of Treasure City, or ‘their city’ as they call it, and their struggle to ward off outside influences and the yakuza who want the city for themselves.
Tekkon Kinkreet is, by far, one of the best anime movies I have seen since Spirited away.
Once again, blurring the line between sculpture and manufactured design, London studio Troika have installed this amazing kinetic work inside the otherwise chaos-stricken Terminal 5 at Heathrow.
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Brilliantly unconventional, yet classically illustrated pictures by Richard Wilkinson.
Wonderfully creative and colourful, the psychedelic album covers of the late 1960’s.
A delightfully stereotypical view from the taxi drivers perspective of 12 countries, by Andrey Gordeev.
3d light portraits of the Queen photographed by Chris Levine, also famous for his experimental work with Massive Attack.
His work often utilises technology and the cross fertilisation of technique and talent by way of collaborative projects. He was for sometime involved in the design and production of holographic images and through this work developed a good working understanding of the laser – the purest form of light available to man.
[via Josh Spear]
Merging numerics with plantlife, a set of ten numbers by Shun Kawakami.
Random character renderings of Carl and his diverse set of friends by French designer Yann a la plage.
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Brilliant shock-art by Billy Chasen, shown at the American Heart Association’s 2008 gala.
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Some amazing portrait photography by Ibai Acevedo, it is also worth checking his Flickr set of favourite photographs.
Impressive abstract renderings by Andreas Pihlström.
deployed into space in 1984. It orbited the Earth for five and a half years with nothing expected of it other than to float there, getting battered about by whatever the great black yonder saw fit to throw at it. You see, every inch of its outside surface was covered with Science. 57 separate experiments, mounted in 86 trays, involving the participation of “more than 200 principal investigators from 33 private companies, 21 universities, seven NASA centers, nine Department of Defense laboratories and eight foreign countries.” Its purpose was to study the effects of space on a multitude of materials. Its name is the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF)
A brief history of evil (or the perception of evil) in western societies, spanning several hundred years.
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Some coffee inspired motion storyboarding by brazillian digital artist; Luisa Bernardes.
