Video of the fantastic kinetic sculpture at the newly opened BMW Museum in Munich. A set of silver balls suspended by strings, pulled like a puppet to create wonderful 3d flowing shapes.
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Archive for the 'Art' Category
Excellent paintings by Brazilian artist; Will Murai.
A brilliant mixture of 8-bit sprites and real life imagery, Lee Vidal shows us all what would happen if the computer games of old came to life.
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Awesome idea, reverse graffiti is the technique of using stencils to clean urban walls creating fantastic street art without the spray paint.
Watch the documentary about the ‘professor of dirt’ Paul Curtis.
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The work of Stewart Swan captures and exaggerates the odd expressions of everyday people in an unsettling manor, truly unique.
The enigma series by Drew Europeo, colourful, psychedelic and biological.
Stunning computational pattern makers by Jarad Tarbell; substrate combines perpendicular growth with a slight water-colour effect to create these wonderful random city-like images. There are other algorithms in the gallery, but so far substrate is the best I have seen.
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Experimental, algorithmic artworks by David (Sanch) Dessens.
A Hugely detailed black and white drawing by the eclectic Mulheres Barbadas.
One of the best parts of this is the opening video timelapse of the piece being drawn. It is also available to download in high resolution.
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Although this work like the telefunken installation visualizes acoustical material it deprives the viewer of the image. Only light impulses emerge from the intermediate space between the television and the wall, referring to the patterns on the monitors, which are constantly changing with the frequencies of the impulses.
If I had a TV then this is probably what I would do with it, brilliant installation by German artists Carsten Nicolai.
good engineering, reliable performance, robust construction. They are icons of design that have not only shaped global conflicts but also our collective aesthetic sensibilities through countless films, TV shows and news images.
The Death Machines paper kits bring the contradictory experience of weapons into the home; admirably designed and aesthetically fascinating and simultaneously terrifyingly in their lethality. Each handmade part becomes a medium for the maker’s reaction to the subject.
Actually it is an exhibition of a series of one-off pieces by various artists inspired by the AK-47.
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The amazingly time-consuming and intricate work of John Powers.