Sao Paulo City, Brazil based typography and illustration print artist Adhemas Batistais a self-taught digital artist that is world-renowned for his colorful and distinctive illustrative style that he brings to his projects. Batista has worked for advertising agencies, design studios and interactive shops around the world and has developed skills in creative and art direction, illustration, interactive, photography and photo manipulation.
” I admit that I AM a quitter. I quit dancing. I quit sports. I quit smoking. I quit my job. But the one thing I will never quit is art. You would have to kill me first. Even then, I’ll still make a pretty dazzling, bloody impression on the pavement!” – Sheridan Johns
An interactive media installation called Firewall created in collaboration with Mike Allison. A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and create fire-like visuals and expressively play music.
http://vimeo.com/54882144
Aerosynlex (Creative director at Earnest Endeavours) has updated recently with some colorful and energetic new project work. His portfolio is definitely wild and imbued with a kinetic energy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bx78D3KifP0
Love these surreal photography of Canadian artist, Joel Robinson, where he has plants and trees emerging from the veins of an anonymous human arm
To summarize the 12.12.12 day we decided to post Zeitgeist 2012 by Google and Filmography 2012 by Gen Gen Gen together. You still have a time to do something special today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xY_MUB8adEQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68aKCIXZ-LY
Intriguing digital photo manipulation work by Larissa Kulik, artist hailing from Ostrov, Russia. View all of her artwork here
Inspired by the light refraction Ruslan Khasanov created an experimental type "Lumen" based on a lens effect.
http://vimeo.com/52305654
Without bothering Jung and its "Puer aeternus" or Pascoli with its "Little Boy", we can certainly agree that, somewhere inside each of us, there's a young core, instinctive, creative but also innocent and naïve. Check the personal project of Cristian Girotto "L' Enfant Extérieur" (The Outer Child) where he did an impressive retouch on Quentin Curtat's photography.
One of the best short animation I've ever saw. Luis Paris uses only black and white colour with a smart negative space transitions what makes the movie outstanding and captivating. http://vimeo.com/53032371#
Something about these objects are not as they seem: New Anamorphic Illusions by Brasspup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=UUeQEKFH31vvD-InkTGSvCrA&v=tBNHPk-Lnkk
With LIFE OF PI, director Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain"; "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with another survivor...a fearsome Bengal tiger. For this post we used the illustration of Victo Ngai he did for New Yorker magazine for the film review article. Amazing piece of art, read more about it on Drawger
Watch the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX2HBsHbNZM
Celebrating the landmark 1977 Eames film, Powers of Ten™, The Powers Project invited 40 innovative artists from around the world to produce original segments for each power of ten using a variety of digital and film techniques. This new, collaborative homage playfully transplants the film’s journey from the physical universe to a unique, imagined universe of graphic abstractions.
View all projects on http://cargocollective.com/powersproject meanwhile watch the short we liked, created by British artist MRK called The Powers of Ten: Lymphocyte.
http://vimeo.com/53439232
Wonderful award-winning animation from Kim, Young-jun
http://vimeo.com/42480177
ONEQ is an illustrator mixing Japanese and American art styles when dealing with manga designs. "I was born in 1981 in the city of Kumamoto on Japan’s southeast Kyushu island. My work as an artist includes a variety of genre such as magazine artwork, DVD cover art, apparel and clothing art, and manga illustrations. I mix Japanese and American art styles when dealing with manga designs. My artwork might be defined as pop style with an underground flavor. I like to create simple images in my work." http://kotemufu.exblog.jp/ http://www.behance.net/oneq-japan
Loic "e338" Zimmermann is a French visual artist living in Los Angeles and working as a concept designer. Check his vivid illustrations we selected for this post
"Filmmaker, graffiti artist, and photographer Erdal Inci lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey where he has been experimenting with cloned motion in video since 2004. Over the past few months Inci has converted several of these hypnotic videos into gifs and posted them online" via Colossal
Vlad Rodriguez aka Pixeldomestiko, influences by Pop Art & Sick Popular Culture, in its visual style recalls the illustrative modern mixed with classic art. Check his epic digital artworks
Jean-Sebastien Rossbach is an award winning illustrator, concept artist, and painter concentrating his talent mostly on covers for novels, video games, comics featuring mythological female heroes in all their beauty. He recently published a catalogue of personal works made in the last decade titled "Burning Inside"
Gonzalo Arevalo Condemarin is a virtuoso behind the lens. With his scintillating, innovative and breathtaking collection of color and black-and-white portraits, Condemarin is a gallery owner’s dream.
