Looking at the work of artist Jeff Nishinaka makes me think of marble sculptures and the ancient craftsmanship needed to create these. I was incredibly surprised that these works are made of ‘just paper’. Amazing work.
Through: Coolhunter
This is one of those ‘wouldn’t it be cool…’ things that come up while drinking in a bar with your friends. The only difference is this is really going to happen, if it is up to the guys at the TS2AS Foundation.
The foundation is setting out to crowdsource enough money to buy up every single billboard on Times Square and turn it into a square filled with art. By far the coolest exhibition space ever. Pretty ambitious, but oh so cool. I definitely hope they’ll succeed. Help spread the word and donate if you please. Just go here for more info.
Burberry has created the Art of the Trench as an homage to the brand’s signature coat, the trenchcoat. The site is a way for fans and fanatics to “interact with the culture of the brand and with the emotional aspects of the trenchcoat,” says designer Christopher Bailey. The site features a timeline which illustrates the history of the trench, but more fun is is impressive amount of pictures featuring people and their trenches and how diverse you can wear it. The pictures are a selection of pictures uploads by fans along with photos commissioned by online style guru the Sartorialist.
Check out this project by Studio Lindfors called Aqualta. As you might know I love images like this. It imagines how New York and Tokyo look when they are almost entirely covered by water, giving you a peak at a time that could possibly happen if global warming continues and the ice caps continue melting. Check out my favorites below:
Check their Flickr-page for all their work.
Through Kitsune Noir.
Regular readers of this blog probably know that I am a big fan of Tim Burton’s work. Thats why I was exited when I read on Wired that his art-work is now bundled in a 434 page thick book, displaying over 1000 drawings, doodles, paintings and evocative concept art dating back to Burton’s teen years in Burbank, California.Burton himself describes it as “40 years of notebooks, scraps of paper, napkins, etc.” Author and co-editor Leah Gallo writes that Burton’s intention is “to allow his fans a broad look inside his private pages.”
Check out a selection below. Pretty cool to see where Burton’s Willy Wonka, The Joker and The Mad Hatter come from:
Available in both limited-edition lithograph ($300) and standard hardcover ($70) versions, The Art of Tim Burton can be pre-ordered from Steeles Publishing and will be available at the MoMA bookstore in New York and Forbidden Planet in England.
Small indie movie Untitled tells the story a of contemporary artist Adrian Jacobs played by Adam Goldberg. He is convinced that anything commercial is valueless untill he and his work are picked up by gallery owner Madeleine Gray (Marley Shelton), revealing in a dry, satiric way what happens when these two world collide. Furthermore it mocks the subjectivity of the art world. Check the trailer below:
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Fun and so true. Go and see it. Already out in the States, and probably in an arthouse theater close to you soon!
Breathable, water repellent fabrics are nothing new, but I have never seen the used in an art-like presentation like this. Nice one! Check out the films below:
Part 1:
and part 2:
MyDetour is a project by Moleskine, the producer of the oh-so-loveable notebooks. The project is dedicated to all lovers of painting, photography, illustration, writing. It’s an opportunity to share your creativity, on- and off-line: turn your Moleskine notebook into a piece of art, whatever your skill is, and drop it in our collecting box to participate. The jury will choose the best notebooks collected in each city, which will join the worldwide tour and be published on the online gallery. Also, one winner per city will be selected, who will be invited to the next Moleskine event, whereever it may be.
The competition was kicked off in San Francisco and will soon be followed by Tokio, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris and New York.
MyDetour projects run alongside the Detour Exhebitions, a traveling collection of notebooks by renowned writers and artists to the cities around mentioned above. Although my own banged up little book won’t stand a chance, this is still a very interesting project if you ask me, definitely worth checking out if you’re in the neighbourhood or simply follow it online.
It has probably been out there for quite some time, but I’ve just discovered PostSecret today and loved the concept. PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. This results in a great collection of crazy, funny and sometimes touching ‘confessions’ rolling in. It’s like a modern church, but without the theater and all the other nonsense. Go and see for yourself!
If you have some spare time, check out this website: This is Sand. The simple but amazing interactive concept provides you with hours of fun. Just click to drop the sand, and press ‘c’ to change the color. Enjoy!
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