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Classic Movie Monsters Papercut
British artists Eelus has crafted in cut paper these stylish and vivid portraits of classic Movie monsters: Wolfman, Dracula, The Thing, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and more.
Paper Sculptures That Defy Expectations
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.
Bee Made 3D Printed Bust and Bottle
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.
Human Towers of Catalonia by David Oliete
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.
Illustrations Playfully Over Photos by Julia Borzucka
Julia Borzucka imposes her playful illustrations over recognizable landscapes making it hard to see those landscapes again without her creative vision peeking back in.
Full Moon over Downtown LA
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.
Design Wish: Whales in the Home
Welded Bicycle Chain Sculptures
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.
Triple Spiral Dominoes from Havesh5
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.
National Flags Made of National Foods
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.
Cut Book Sculptures in Bell Jars from Georgia Russell
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."
Word Machine Episode 7: Robert Hass & Ada Limon
This week's episode of Word Machine brings together poems from two Northern California poets, with the eyes on Manhattan.
Robert Hass
Ada Limón
Organic Ceramic Shapes from Jennifer McCurdy
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."
See also Chaotically Organic Ceramics and Organic Forms in Glass
Advice from a Master - 24 Maxims from Werner Herzog
On the back of Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed is a list of 24 maxims that only Herzog could have up with.
- Always take the initiative.
- There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need.
- Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey.
- Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.
- Learn to live with your mistakes.
- Expand your knowledge and understanding of music and literature, old and modern.
- That roll of unexposed celluloid you have in your hand might be the last in existence, so do something impressive with it.
- There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
- Carry bolt cutters everywhere.
- Thwart institutional cowardice.
- Ask for forgiveness, not permission.
- Take your fate into your own hands.
- Learn to read the inner essence of a landscape.
- Ignite the fire within and explore unknown territory.
- Walk straight ahead, never detour.
- Maneuver and mislead, but always deliver.
- Don’t be fearful of rejection.
- Develop your own voice.
- Day one is the point of no return.
- A badge of honor is to fail a film theory class.
- Chance is the lifeblood of cinema.
- Guerrilla tactics are best.
- Take revenge if need be.
- Get used to the bear behind you.
Hong Kong Shot from a Drone
With a drone photographer Andy Yeung created this project Urban Jungle, which reveals the startling density of life in Hong Kong.
The form of the Body
Strandbeests - Wind-powered Animal-Machines from Theo Jansen
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.
