Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
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Sculptures Made From Packaging
Japanese artist, Kazuma Takahashi, makes amazing sculptures out of trash, especially packaging like gum wrappers, cigarette boxers and food containers. We love repurposed materials, especially when it results in cool stuff like useless figurines of insects. Kudos, Takahashi! CHECK OUT THESE HUGE SCULPTURES MADE FROM LOTTERY TICKETS
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Animal Sculptures Made Out Of Broken CDs
Now that music is increasingly stored on iPods and computer hard drives, and those who prefer physical recordings have mostly turned to superior-sounding vinyl, what are we supposed to do with all those CDs taking up space in our closets? You can’t really them anymore. Sure, we could throw them out, but considering how many we’ve acquired over the years, that seems awfully wasteful. Well, if ...
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Popular Gadgets Made From Deli Meat
If the idea to fashion a slice of deli meat into an ipod sculpture has never occurred to you, you are not alone…us neither. Thankfully, Dutch artist Rutger de Vries has beat us to the punch and we can’t think of a more fabulous way to use sliced deli meat. The artist has used cold cuts to fashion a set of car keys, a USB stick, ...
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A Portrait Made From Coffee Ring Stains
Coasters are totally overrated. Inspired by one of Jay Cou’s songs, artist Hong “Red” Yi created a portrait of the Taiwanese musician using nothing but coffee rings, left by an actual mug expertly set down over and over again on a canvas. Yi writes, ”It is inspired by the opening sentence [of the song], about lifting up a coffee cup off the saucer, and the ending ...
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Cartoon Characters Struggling On The Streets
French artist Benjamin Béchet, whose work we spotted over on My Modern Met, creates images intended to provoke a double take. In his subversive photo series, beloved childhood characters like Winnie the Pooh, Spider-Man, Hello Kitty, and Snow White are seen living in the real world and on the margins of society. They wash windows and mop floors; they sleep under overpasses; they pump gas and ...
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Detailed Mini Sculptures In Urban Settings
Isaac Cordal makes miniature sculptures all around Europe. And yes, they are teeny tiny in the best of ways. His recently published book entitled “Cement Eclipses: Small Interventions in the Big City” where Cordal explores urban landscapes by injecting his little sculptures in unlikely places and makes for a great coffee table book or gift for that person who has everything (and happens to love miniature ...
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Funky Minimalist History Posters
These great posters come courtesy of H-57 which works as an advertising agency, design studio and an experimental laboratory as well. H-57 main;y consists of a 3 member team who had initially worked in important agencies serving national and international clients. The team’s philosophy is based on a no frills policy which aims at spending less time for meetings and dedicate for energy and concrete facts.
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Superheroes In Renaissance Art
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… …a Bouguereau? There were no superheroes during the renaissance period. Why? Apparently there were no supervillains so they were not needed. That would explain the lack of superheroes in fine art. Worth 1000 fixed that with one of their latest contests. The rules of the contest were as follows: Take any piece of fine ...
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Flaming Devil Sculpture Made From Matches
Sculpture by David Mach. Being a sculptor leads everything I do. Every project I take on starts from that point. I believe that an artist must be an ideasmonger responding to all kinds of physical location, social and political environments, to materials, to processes,to timescales and budgets. I also believe that sculpture just about encompasses everything – a painting can be a sculpture, a TV ad ...
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Cool Mini Illustrations On Matchbooks
Jason D’Aquino is a miniaturist – he creates artwork on an incredibly small scale, many works not exceeding one inch by one inch in dimension. These graphite illustrations were done on strike-on-front matchbooks as a result of D’Aquino’s appreciation for what he refers to as “found canvases”. We love the idea of a teeny treasure being revealed upon the opening of a matchbook – a quirky ...
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Kowloon City Mapped Out By Hand
SEE IN HIGH DETAIL Kowloon was one of the most crowded walled cities in the world. Located within Hong Kong, it had a dense population of over 50,000 inhabitants within 0.025 km2…(that’s 1,923,076 inhabitants per km2!). After war strife between the Chinese, Japanese and English, the city became abandoned and soon invaded by squatters, resulting in a haven for illegal activities like prostitution and drug trafficking. ...
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Hilarious Japanese Fart Scrolls
Scholars at Waseda University have scanned and uploaded images of the “Fart Battle Scroll” (hegassen emaki – 屁合戦絵巻), one of the Edo Period’s most bizarre works of art:
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Stunning Books Carved With Surgical Tools
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms. Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he ...
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Absolut Bottle By Gorillaz Artist Jamie Hewlett
Absolut vodka has launched a limited edition bottle called London in collaboration with one of the UK’s leading graphic artists, Gorillaz’ Jamie Hewlett. Set against a London backdrop, the bottle introduces key characters from the past who have influenced and shaped London’s present fashion scene. The seven characters encapsulate the city’s diverse heritage, spanning the ages from Dickensian and 18th Century Dandy, through to Pinstripe gent, ...
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A Crazy Tattoo Of A Tattoo Info-Graphic
Polish artist Paul Marcinkowski tattooed an infographic about tattoos on his neck, arms and torso as a school project, putting the rest of us who consider ourselves passionate about either tattoos or data visualization to shame. One of the many things I want to know is if/how he plans to keep the numbers up to date. EDIT: Upon closer inspection (read: berating from my lovely Twitter ...
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Famous Classical Paintings Improved With Cats
Over at Great Artists’ Mews there is a real obsession over fat cats in fine art taking shape. As you view the images they have created, classics like Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”, Rembrandt’s “Danae” and even Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”, all yoru knowledge of classical fine art starts to flicker on, but then, in the blink of a eye, its gone and you are ...
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Zombie Presidents Of The United States
Etsy artist Jeremy Plemon imagines George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and founding father Ben Franklin in their respective undead states. Fingers crossed they stay in Plemon’s imagination, because I’m guessing Washington’s hatchet of truth wouldn’t be used for cherry trees in his cursed afterlife. Source: Buzzfeed JUSTIN BIEBER ZOMBIE & OTHER UNDEAD CELEBS WALDO AND OTHER CREEPY CARTOON ZOMBIES 5 CREEPY PRODUCTS FOR ZOMBIE LOVERS
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Incredible Sculptures Out Of Old Books
We love seeing stuff made from books – anything, really. And so it’s no surprise we are fans of these incredible works of art by Canadian Guy Laramee, a stage writer, director, composer, singer, sculptor, painter and writer (geez, what a CV!) living in Montreal and producing awesome works that make us say WHOSA! Laramee uses the dense pages of old books as a medium to ...
