amazing, morbid artwork by kris kuksi
Posted on | June 4, 2009 | No Comments
check out these amazingly detailed sculptures done by kris kuksi. born in 1973 in springfield missouri. growing up in kansas he spent his youth in rural seclusion and isolation along with a blue-collar, working mother, two much-older brothers and an absent father. open country, sparse trees, and alcoholic stepfather, perhaps paved the way for an individual saturated in imagination and introversion. no shit!
more sculptures, paintings and drawings by kuksi click here
200 gallon water tank landscape photography
Posted on | May 20, 2009 | No Comments
pretty cool and definitely a different kind of landscape photography. the artist kim keever’s large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water. these dioramas of fictitious environments are brought to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he quickly captures with his large-format camera.
http://www.ktfineart.com/artists/kim_keever
heiko klug
Posted on | May 9, 2009 | No Comments
it seems like this decade will be visually recognized for a mix of illustrative fantastic hyper realism computer illustration. there is a whole generation of 20-somethings that illustrates the hell out of their computers. a lot of them fall into the same sort of style bucket. heiko klug’s work sticks out a bit and is quite interesting. check out his portfolio jesar-one.com
plastic bags like silk dresses
Posted on | May 3, 2009 | No Comments
wow, take a look at how poetic these prints look like, almost as if they were a modern still-life painting. the chinese artist huang xu takes shreds of used plastic bags and makes 3d scans, then takes the scan data and turns them into 3d models, illuminates them and makes prints of it. pretty amazing if you think about turning one of the cheapest products on earth, a simple plastic bag into a silk dress impression – a metaphor of the old and new china.
chalk animation for firekites autumn story
Posted on | May 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
this is nicely done but what i like a bit better in blu’s first chalk, stop-motion drawings (click here) is that blu integrated, in a very interesting and surprising way, more of the real environment. it was a play between fiction and reality, less here so, still cool.
japanese topography
Posted on | April 24, 2009 | No Comments
check out these amazing topography images of japanese landscapes done by hajime ishikawa. think they are beautiful and poetic in a very simple and graphical way. i am amazed, not that i’d be into topography that much but i’d definitely hang these up on my walls.
LA glas tower
Posted on | April 24, 2009 | No Comments
“the glass tower by eric owen moss architects is posed to be encourage a re-development in south central los angeles. the building has been in planning since the nineties but was stalled for some years until it was re-designed in 2006 as a single tower. a rail line installed nearby spurred the redesign. the structure is part of the redevelopment of south central LA, an area plagued with poverty and violence for many years. the project was originally conceived of with a structural strategy, consisting of curvilinear ribbons wrapping two main volumes.”
more about it at http://www.ericowenmoss.com
from designboom
just awesome
Posted on | April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
john pasche’s poster design for the rolling stones european and american tour. what is it that this old stuff often looks so cool? i don’t know, maybe because there is some timeless coolness out there.
shinichi maruyama
Posted on | April 19, 2009 | No Comments
shinichi maruyama, born 1968 in nagano, japan now based in nyc, does some amazing photography and art. his kusho fluid series is just beautiful and poetic. take a look at his website.
memento mori & more
Posted on | April 17, 2009 | No Comments
this painting from mac & retna is called “memento mori” and is a latin phrase for “be mindful of death” and can be translated as “remember that you are mortal” or “remember that you must die”. that could seem a little grim, but the point is really to encourage us to properly value and make the most of our time here. like it!
check out more cool stuff from mac & retna
couple other paintings from mac
laure van den hout
Posted on | April 13, 2009 | No Comments
interesting piece of genuine graphic design. the graphic designer laure van den hout created a thesis about the artist gordon matta-clark. “for the design of this thesis i used affiches of him that i collected at a expo where his work was shown. by clipping the text on it you get the feeling you can change the structure of things. which is, in my opinion, a very gordon matta-clark thing to do.”
check out more work. http://www.vijfzes.nl
no commment
Posted on | April 12, 2009 | No Comments
olafur eliasson
Posted on | April 7, 2009 | No Comments
very cool stuff. organized by the sf moma, the museum of contemporary art in chicago will open its doors for olafur eliasson’s “take your time: olafur eliasson” exhibition between may, 1 and september, 13. it is the first comprehensive survey in the usa of works by olafur eliasson, whose immersive environments, sculptures, and photographs elegantly recreate the extremes of landscape and atmosphere in his native scandinavia, while foregrounding the sensory experience of the work itself.
drawn from collections worldwide, the presentation spans over fifteen years of eliasson’s career. his constructions, at once eccentric and highly geometric, use multicolored washes, focused projections of light, mirrors, and elements such as water, stone, and moss to shift the viewer’s perception of place and self.
also, check out the website for this exhibition, like it. moma.org/…
klamauk – or hullabaloo, in a good way
Posted on | April 6, 2009 | No Comments
check out the music label klamauk (which basically means hullabaloo) from mainz, germany. founded by tilman schwarz, michael fluhr and karsten brommenschenkel in august 2008. the label focuses on techno and house (or as they’d describe it: microfunk) releases.
not only do i actually like the music but the guys running the show came up with a cool web device. because the first vinyl release was a black and white print with individual hand coloration from each artist the guys from klamauk wanted to keep the individual element to their releases alive even for mp3 cover art. the website was realized by euro rscg 4d in duesseldorf, germany.
design your cover at klamauk.net/digital and listen to their music at juno or itunes.
mwm graphics
Posted on | April 5, 2009 | No Comments
diversity and quality are two things coming to mind when i look at what matt w moore does professionally. he is a designer, illustrator and generally a creative mind i guess. and, it’s pretty hard to stand out these days where you can find pretty much everything over and over again, where the same thing with just a different name on the tag is only a mouse click away.
doesn’t happen that often that you find someone who does wallpapers, snowboards, art, packaging and other stuff with such a high quality level and unique style.
check out his site and work. mwm graphics
