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Okay seems we skipped global freezing as stated on the first, January sheet of Apocalypse Tomorrow calendar drawn by Moscow based artist Andrew Tarusov. Check all other sheets made in the love to pin-up and feel free to buy this calendar from the author's website http://tarusov.com/
Designcollector set a goal to release Mobile & Printed Magazines "DCMAG.NET" for each season in 2012. This will be a 20 pages hardcopy magazine available for print-on-demand with world wide delivery. Also there will be a Mobile version following the successful DCMAG for iPad in 2011.
Follow the Official Call For Arms on DCMAG.NET
[box]Required: Yours the very best latest artwork/photography that float our boat (check what we like on DC & Daily) We have: 20 slots for each season (aprox. 4-6 Issues a year) Deadline for Winter 2012: End of February No Deadline for Participants Selection. Enter[/box]
No Budget only Brave Hearts.
Touch of Evil is the New York Times magazine's video gallery of cinematic villainy, inspired by nefarious icons and featuring the best performers in film from the year 2011.
Directed by Alex Prager
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"The generously-proportioned bottoms and bulges of Renaissance beauties have been slimmed down by Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano to illustrate changing perceptions of feminine allure."
"Miss Giordano used Photoshop to slim down famous buxom nudes by Botticelli and Titian and bring them into line with 21st century concepts of what women should ideally look like." read more on Daily Telegraph
We made an animated GIFs to show all absurd of being slim by following some proprietary canon.
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Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru, and lives and works in San Jose and Philadelphia, United States. Her recent photographic work is a conspicuous exploration of sensual surfaces in which the body is deliberately confused with nature and nature with the body.
Paredes’ photography demonstrates that the body of the woman – her own body – is a sacred zone, not profane, to restore its perception as something miraculous amidst the technological chaos that currently surrounds us. The body is revealed as a tool, a space for signs, and a creation that is intimately connected to our surrounding natural environments.
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Instant playful image effect made us stick to Kaleidolism website. Load your image and make some "kaleidolism". This simple service is brought you by 2pxBorder studio from New Zealand.
Find 10 minutes to watch this short animation movie "SEED" directed by Daniel Bird and Ben Richardson.
"The two directors have been kicking ass since winning Best Animated Short at Slamdance 2010 with Seed. Daniel Bird spent a year creating short films for Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. He is now working as a commercial director. Ben Richardson just won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for his DoP work on Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. Check out the previous Richardson/Zeitlin collaboration Glory At Sea for some non-motion-graphics, but very magical realism, filmmaking." says Motiongrapher
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UK based digital artist Richard Davies creates mouthwatering celebrity portraits for commission and personal use. Most of works done for covers in music, cinema and editorial industries.
Norway born, Sweden raised and New York based contemporary artist and photographer Simen Johan has the unique view of animal world, please check it all
Death Spray Custom is an artist living and working in London. He shares very little personal information but a lot of visual overdose. Recently caught our eyes with "Delight & Destroy" project making a custom protest as a decoy on bonnets of classic sport-coupe cars photographed by Neil Bridge.
I think it is just beautiful. "The marketing team behind the movie Chronicle built three RC planes in the shape of human beings and flew them around New York City to create the illusion of superheroes zooming around iconic landmarks." writes This Is Colossal
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Russian illustrator and artist Aske Sicksystems synthesizes elements of Soviet era cubism, constructivism and futurism through vector art into semi-sculptural works of art.
His latest project is a "Sneaker Head," so to speak: a cross between a Nike Air Force 1 Duckboot and a wolf's head, executed as a painted plywood artwork for the Nike Store Moscow.
Also check another Aske's plywood installation created for International Festival of Contemporary Music and Media Arts MIGZ.
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For his earlier works check our post from October 2011
South Devon-based filmmaker Danny Cooke has documented the dying art of letterpress in a short film titled ‘Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film’.
Beautifully crafted, the under 8-min documentary showcases one of the only few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, located at Plymouth University.
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"These figurative human and equine sculptures are by a trio of Beijing-based artists who go by the name Unmask Group. Liu Zhan, Kuang Jun and Tan Tianwei met while at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and have been producing sculptural work together since 2001."
"These seemingly incomplete stainless steel works show figures in a state of dissolution or perhaps just the opposite, emergence. Regardless, the delicate lines and smooth curves left by the absence of materials make them appear almost sensual. These particular pieces were on display at H.T. Gallery through last month." via This is Colossal
Tyler Jacobson recently graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in Illustration. At present he is pursuing a career as a freelance illustrator and is represented by Richard Solomon and New York City.
His clients include Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight Games, Simon and Schuster, Texas Monthly Magazine, The Weekly Standard, The Deal. Currently, he works in oils on board and digital mediums. Check his Behance profile to discover full portfolio.
Here is a little wise contemporary art quiz made by Tae Kitakata and Brittany Powell talented duo that aimed tor release Low-Commitment Project every monday of 2012. The Sandwich Artist is Brittany's first year opening project. Guess what artists are represented in sandwich?
We a happy to announce that our self-released books of Russian Illustrators are available for Mobile devices!For only few bucks you get an iPad/iPhone eBook of "Russian Illustration WOW1" and FREE PDF copy of the second volume!
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Alba Prat is a Spanish Fashion Designer from Barcelona who studies fashion design at Berlin University of Arts. Prat's final year project is making a lot of good noise in the fashion industry.
Inspired by the first Tron film of 1982, she kept the futurist concept, androgynous aspect and straight silhouettes in her design pieces with the touch of the avant-garde glamour and under the futuristic shapes and laser-cuts.
The materials used are wool, leather, cotton and neoprene (a material that becomes our second skin and protects us when we are in the deep waters of the ocean).
The project "Synthetic Oceans" was created to be the final project of Prat's graduation year in Fashion at the German school University of Künste in Berlin. This represents the transition that the aquatic world experiences mixed with the result of the industrialization era.
It's a project focus in the hundreds of tons of plastic that are dumped in the middle of ocean every year creating serious and complicated situations for the living species that live in there and the need of adaptation that they have to don't be killed or die.
The collection "Synthetic Oceans is a ‘cold and dark atmosphere where the beauty of the mutations and the defense mechanisms that its inhabitants embrace is to be seen’.
We can see in the fashion pieces the resembling of the cubist movement, the clean line features and shapes in garments combined with chunky wedge boots with the use of grey, black and silver as a colour palette.
"Through different techniques I have created cube patterns on the surface of some of the materials. Giving the designs a technical yet minimalist character."
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PressPausePlay film that we watched at OFFF festival is available now on Vimeo and through PPP website.
"The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era."
Russian based street art master Pavel 183 brakes the myths of graffiti vandalism by revealing outdoors installations and modifications of post-urban suburbs of our capital. His works a full of social less politic sense and can be valued as an equal act of contemporary art and most of times his stuff is cooler then we see in modern museums around the world.
Interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/multimedia/2012/02/120202_moscow_street_art.shtml
RIP 01.04.2013 :(