Real Indoor Clouds by Berndnaut Smilde

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Time magazine named indoor Clouds created by Berndnaut Smilde fascinating idea and its implementation as one of the Best Inventions of the Year 2012. "It requires meticulous planning: the temperature, humidity and lighting all have to be just so. Once everything is ready, Smilde summons the cloud out of the air using a fog machine. It lasts only moments, but the effect is dramatic and strangely moving."

Photography by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

Marc Quinn

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World renowned contemporary artist and mainly figurative sculptor Marc Quinn has a plenty of projects on personal website worth to see. One of his latest work - a real-sized Zombie Boy made a good media appearance. But his truly climax of the year 2012 happened at London 2012 Paralympics revealing a huge sculpture of "Alison Lapper Pregnant" previously sat on Plynth on Trafalgar Square.

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Alphabetical

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The project Alphabetical started in several years ago when Creative Review commissioned Dan Tobin Smith to create "a Letter A" for their Annual. "Each Letter has a different approach but uses Helvetica as the base typography. Most are temporary installations, some use landscape and some were conceived as primarily moving image (such as Letter T).

http://vimeo.com/32911741

New Letters will be added as they are finished and supporting material including work in progress will be added from time to time."

http://vimeo.com/26109378

http://vimeo.com/24924541

Abandoned Paintings

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Hungarian Fine Art Student Bence Hajdu has re-edited some of the most famous paintings like ‘The last supper’ by Leonardo da Vinci or Jacques-Louis David’s ‘Oath of the Horatii’ by erasing the main characters out of the painting. A pure state of silence. I bet that while looking at them one's trained visual brains may start recreating the masterpieces from a scratch.

Brooke Shaden

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First, magician and illusionist and only then a Fine Art photographer from LA - Brooke Shaden gained a close attention from audience and media. "I create images that are rooted in reality yet have qualities that are not from our world. I create the worlds I wish we lived in, and I tell the stories that live inside my mind." http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/ http://www.shadenproductions.com/

360° Book by Yusuke Ono

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At first glance a traditional-looking palm-sized volume, 360° Book by Yusuke Ono (Noiz Architects partner) opens full-circle, transforming into a modern diorama. The book was the winner of the You Fab 2012 laser cutter design contest, based in Tokyo. Speaking about the project Yusuke said, "I am so thrilled to have been selected as the winner of the Free Fab category for You Fab 2012. I like finding new ways to express dimension, and it occurred to me to create this palm-sized book that opens out to form a 3D world. I hope that everyone who opens the book enjoys it and is surprised by the dramatic transformation."

Yes, I was also looking for a video :)

Reincarnation by AES+F for Wallpaper Magazine

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The Russian modern artist AES+F (Arzamasova, Evzovich, Svyatsky + Fridkes) are the masters of revealing all human sins at one time, released provoking work for Wallpaper Magazine. In a marriage of high and low, classical and contemporary, this “digital painting” video by Russian collective AES+F, created exclusively for Wallpaper Magazine, is an odd, surrealistic trip through death and rebirth. The work made in terms of new magazine issue dedicated to Russia "Reigning in Russia"

http://vimeo.com/51951887

Video courtesy of Wallpaper Magazine