Julien Beever's Pavement Art
Julien Beever draws incredibly complex chalk drawings on the pavement, using viewing angles to create a 3d image.
Website – http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm
Dongzhong School hidden in a cave
A completely unique school within a cave in the Guizhou province of China. Breathtaking surroundings.
“Children attend class at the Dongzhong (literally meaning “in cave”) primary school at a Miao village in Ziyun county, southwest China’s Guizhou province … The school is built in a huge, aircraft hangar-sized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts.”
Gallery (Reuters) - www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1291
5 February 2009 | Other
Melanie Bilenker
At just about 2×2 inches each pieces, this ‘hair art’ jewellery by Philadelphia graduate Melanie Bilenker is dragging the boundaries of detail beyond anything I’ve previously seen. Incredibly weird and really worth a look.
“The Victorians kept lockets of hair and miniature portraits painted with ground hair and pigment to secure the memory of a lost love. In much the same way, I secure my memories through photographic images rendered in lines of my own hair, the physical remnants. I do not reproduce events, but quiet minutes, the mundane, the domestic, the ordinary moments.”
Website – www.melaniebilenker.com
3 February 2009 | Illustration.Other
LCD Clock App
Though I’m not really into the endorsement of products as such, I thought that the visually appealing LCD clock app for the iPhone by ForYou deserved a mention for the shear simplicity and beauty of its design.
Website – www.uuuu.to/app/lcdclock/index_e.html
Chris O'Shea
Chris O’Shea, a design graduate, develops interactive work for both public institutions and private companies from the Tate Britain to the Royal Opera House. His installations centre around the inclusion of multiple users such as with his work, The Average Face, which merged thousands of pictures of visitors to the exhibition at the Wellcome Centre, creating a real-time image of the average face of visitors in relation to different criteria.
Website – www.chrisoshea.org
Polanoid
Polanoid is an engrossing project; a vast and searchable archive of thousands of polaroid pictures and some videos.
“We are building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography.”
Website – www.polanoid.net
As Real As It Gets…
An incredible take on a well known program interface, taking every detail into account.
Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/
7 January 2009 | Other
Could Be Me
I recently stumbled across “Could Be Me” an interesting project encompassing many artists. Quoting from the project, “Could Be Me is a project exploring possibility of one artist occupying another’s space. It is a visual adventure and an interpretation of the same sentence by different artists worldwide”.
Website - http://www.couldbe.me
Les grands ballons de Macy's
A set of vintage images of the balloons from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Website – http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/
5 January 2009 | Other.Photography
Jim Denevan
A very unusual sort of artist who creates “crop circles” within a natural setting on the beach.
Website - http://www.jimdenevan.com
