The former book editor whose fascination with one material has gone to artistic extremes. Subscribe to our channel Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/CraneTV Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/crane.tv
A traditional Chinese papercraft is to make these toys, flowers and dragons and whatnot out of honeycomb latticed layers of delicate colored paper. Pull them apart and the form appears.
Li Hongbo, a Beijing book editor and designer, has worked almost in reverse. The flattened shape IS the form, often an entirely believable facsimile of an object that suddenly and inexplicably folds and extends. It is quite uncanny, especially when human forms are the ones the open and unfold.
The sweetness of honey. The bite of 80,000 bees. Watch the making of the video where Dewar's Highlander Honey bees build real sculptures out of natural honeycomb.
Master beekeeper, Robin Theron, and The Ebeling Group assembled as many as 80.000bees to create a bottle and a bust of honey, made by bees.
The project was Dewar’s latest promotion of their new Highlander Honey whiskey.
Bees build their honeycomb inwards, and given an inverse scaffolding on which they could build, several colonies finished building after about 6 weeks.
XXIV Concurs de Castells celebrat el 6 i 7 d'octubre de 2012 a la Tarraco Arena Plaça de Tarragona. XXIV Human Towers Competition. It took place the 6th and 7th of October 2012 in Tarragona, Catalonia. Dirigit / directed by David Oliete © www.davidoliete.com Música / music by Binary Produccions (Roger Conesa | Jorge Varela) i la col·laboració / and the collaboration of Arnau Sans. -------- On November 2010 castells were declared by UNESCO to be amongst the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell En noviembre de 2010, els castells fueron declarados Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad por la Unesco. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell
From wikipedia:
A castell (Catalan pronunciation: [kəsˈteʎ]) is a human tower built traditionally in festivals at many locations within Catalonia. At these festivals, several colles castelleres or teams often succeed in building and dismantling a tower's structure.
Julia Borzucka imposes her playful illustrations over recognizable landscapes making it hard to see those landscapes again without her creative vision peeking back in.
Los Angeles based designer Dan Marker-Moore shot this absolutely stunning collage of 11 frames of a timelapse of the full moon ascending over Downtown Los Angeles.
He used an Olympus OMD-EM5 camera and a 100mm lens.
And the timelapse itself is worth every delicious second.
Time lapse of a full moon rising behind downtown LA. Shot on OMD EM5 m/43 camera and a 100mm lens
We've seen Young-Deok Seo's welded chain sculptures before, but with a new set of stunning pieces, we are happy to check in with him again.
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25 hours spread over 8 days building this massive triple spiral structure with 15,000 dominoes by Havesh5
Absolutely stunning
Thailand flag made from sweet chilli sauce, shredded coconut and blue swimmer crab.
Australian advertising agency WHYBIN\TBWA created 17 national flags using foods native to each nation to promote the Sydney International Food Festival.
Can you guess the foods and flags? Questions, guesses and answers in the comments.
Artist Georgia Russell slices and shreds books to create these otherworldly sculptures, and placing them in bell jars make them seem like some the preserved specimens of some alien fauna.
From her bio:
"The atmosphere of the original material she uses is extremely important to her, and her use of either new, or of older papers or images redolent of past lives, is dependent on the mood or idea that she wants to communicate."
This week's episode of Word Machine brings together poems from two Northern California poets, with the eyes on Manhattan.
Robert Hass
Ada Limón
Jennifer McCurdy on her work:
"Emotion fills me when I see perfect forms in nature, from the cracked conch shell on the beach revealing its perfect spiral, to the milkweed pod burst in the field, its brilliant airborne seeds streaming into the sunlight. The ordered symmetry and asymmetry of nature’s forms reveal the growth of life, the movement of life.
Living on Martha’s Vineyard, island time, especially in the winter, seems to conform to nature’s cycles. As a potter, I strive to make my work reflect the balance of life around me. It is important that the patterns I see around me are integrated into my forms."
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On the back of Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed is a list of 24 maxims that only Herzog could have up with.
With a drone photographer Andy Yeung created this project Urban Jungle, which reveals the startling density of life in Hong Kong.
Strandbeest is Dutch for Sand Animal, and these kinetic sculptures that capture the winds along the Dutch beaches and turn them into the fuel for the leg movement of these animal-like machines seem very much like they are alive.
They are the creation of Dutch artist Theo Jansen.
He says he hopes to get them to the point of self-sufficiency that they will continue to 'live' in the sand dunes of the Netherlands coast even after he is gone.
The mechanism used both for capturing and storing wind energy and turning that stored energy into leg movements are truly ingenious. You can even buy a little Strandbeest Kit to make your own miniature versions.
From the project page:
Self-propelling beach animals like Animaris Percipiere have a stomach . This consists of recycled plastic bottles containing air that can be pumped up to a high pressure by the wind. This is done using a variety of bicycle pump, needless to say of plastic tubing. Several of these little pumps are driven by wings up at the front of the animal that flap in the breeze. It takes a few hours, but then the bottles are full. They contain a supply of potential wind. Take off the cap and the wind will emerge from the bottle at high speed. The trick is to get that untamed wind under control and use it to move the animal. For this, muscles are required. Beach animals have pushing muscles which get longer when told to do so. These consist of a tube containing another that is able to move in and out. There is a rubber ring on the end of the inner tube so that this acts as a piston. When the air runs from the bottles through a small pipe in the tube it pushes the piston outwards and the muscle lengthens. The beach animal's muscle can best be likened to a bone that gets longer. Muscles can open taps to activate other muscles that open other taps, and so on. This creates control centres that can be compared to brains.
Read by Samantha Spaulding See all 5 and links to the texts at http://bit.ly/j33tBz
Israeli artist Sigalit Landau left this black gown in the Dead Sea for two years, checking in on it periodically.
You can see the final result, a thick coating of salt crystals in the photos that came out of the project or at London’s Marlborough Contemporary, where they’ll be on display until September 3rd.
Paris artist François Beaurain created these Monrovian animations as part of the 2015 exhibition Making Africa by Vitra Design Museum and Guggenheim Bilbao.
