Meticulous, small figures by Kyoko Okubo made from washi, the traditional paper of Japan. The incorporation of natural object into the design gives a symbolic and gentle feel to the minature art.
Website – www.mobilia-gallery.com/artists/kokubo/
[Via Booooooom]
Illustrator James Jarvis and director Richard Kenworthy collaborated on a fantastic new short film for Nike, chronicling the journey of a runner. A video with novelty that just doesn’t fade.
Website – www.onwards.tv
[Via Creative Review]
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (With Buzzing in Our Ears We Play Endlessly), the fifth album by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós, keeps true to its name, bringing to the table an album of unusual and full music. From the strong, rhythmic beat and playfulness of ‘Gobbeldigook’ to the quieter guitar and vocals of ‘Íllgresi’, Sigur Rós juggles new styles with their usual formula to create a new experience that is sure to please and convert the masses.
A real favourite and a strong recommendation.
Website – www.sigur-ros.co.uk
Myspace -www.myspace.com/sigurros
(Live performance of ‘Inní mér syngur vitleysingur’ after the break.)
A playful ad from our friends overseas at Google Japan showcasing their new browser Chrome. Make sure to watch it in all its detailed, stop-motion HD goodness.
Youtube – www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlqImTN1Rw0
Brilliant and colourful work from the London based duo Anna Lomax and Lauren Davies who make up Jiggery Pokery and not too recently won a poster design competition by ‘Don’t Panic‘ with their entertaining scene ‘The Magic Machine’. They specialise in devising unusually surreal and rich environments as well as 3D creations, interactive displays and larger than life props.
Website – www.jiggerypokery.biz
Su Blackwell creates incredible paper-based art created with books as well as separate sculptures. There is a nice installation where she made a thousand cranes from pictures of missing people, basing it on the Japanese legend that those who fold 1000 cranes will get their wish granted.
Website – www.sublackwell.co.uk
Strikingly simple and straightforward advert by BBDO/Proximity.
Website - www.bbdo.com
Thomas Poole has covertly updated his website with a few more photographs, which I missed so this may in fact not be too new.
Website - www.tompoolery.com
Danish photographer Peter Funch’s collection ‘Babel Tales’ is an incredible mix of composition and photosplicing as he takes many photos of individual people with a similar characteristic and interweaves them all into a single photo, using photoshop, to create a surreal scene such as the photographers shown.
Website - peterfunch.com
Extra gallery - v1gallery.com/artist/show/3
Tweenbot, a happy little cardboard robot, was set lose in Washington Square Park to try and traverse from one corner to the other with the help of the masses. The little guy is the creation of Tisch School of Arts student Kacie Kinzer who is conducting an experiment to see our willingness to interact with things within a space with us. In her own words:
“In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.”
Just have to love how “one man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, ‘You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.’”
More robots coming soon.
Website – tweenbots.com
[via Gizmodo]
