3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
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The central allegory of Mortality and Time - skull - may never loose its trend in art. Skull is a main subject of Tom French's figurative drawings. In his works he carefully combines detailed photorealism with strong elements of abstraction and surrealism, focusing on the reflection of the conscious and subconscious mind. His work seamlessly merges the use of academic tradition with contemporary urban realism.
RIP 1982 - 2019 :(
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Crystal clear photography from Sweden artist Gustave Adbage, we draw your attention to the project called "Without Natural Light"
Conceived by the advertising agency W+K from Sao Paolo, the following video presents graffiti artists putting their art everywhere, without even destroying the city landscape. he whole thing is part of the newest campaign for Smirnoff that answers to the quote “Don’t wait for the extraordinary night”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-3N1_WBl1QI
Fashion and celebrity photographer Max Abadian from Montreal
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
"Films have been an integral part of fashion marketing for sometime now but recently we're seeing them taking a much more prominent role in fashion retail. Films of Fashion is a new website that aims to archive the world's largest collection of fashion films. Including films from current seasons as well as past collections, each film is accompanied by detailed retail information allowing the viewer to purchase any of the pieces in the video. " says Protein
New pencil drawings from gifted illustrator and graphic artist Marco Mazzoni http://marcomazzoni.tumblr.com/
I think today is a perfect date to think about our small blue planet Earth. This documentary is a good case to think about it again not from a view point of a snowboarders slicing the ice, but the explorers showing how fast it disappears. Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of climate change. Using time-lapse cameras, his videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL0bSMv2XEzaQuzeuaSHvxroPBvgYPAQ5S&feature=player_embedded&v=eIZTMVNBjc4
Using a rotring pen on white paper, Cornwall-based artist Mark Lascelles Thornton has embarked on a massive architectural drawing project called the The Happiness Machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ffDDry55CfQ
With personal photography project "Plastic Pacific", Melbourne-based Kim Preston takes us closer to the understanding of environmental issues that Earth faces daily.
Pavel Paratov Motion designer of a new wave, shows off a new trend in typography animation with dynamic effects. His new work is an animated font ALQUIMIA
http://vimeo.com/53344583
We a chasing the last symmetric date in our life - 12.12.12By the time this post goes live, One Day on Earth’s third installment will have begun somewhere on this crazy planet of ours.
On December 12th, 12.12.12, across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and other inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period and contribute their voice to the third annual global day of media creation called One Day on Earth. Together, we will create a shared archive and a film.
http://vimeo.com/52038148
Born in 89' under the Brixton sun, Abe has successfully progressed from early aged doodles, to firmly realized pencil works. Her drawings have graced a multitude of mediums; from album covers to exhibition walls and a London bus.http://www.tsabe.co.uk/
A cosy tribe of tiny monsters from South America is waiting to be adopted by a good family. These are the illustration works by Juan Carlos Paz, talented artist from Madrid. Find more monsters on his Behance profile.
These clear plastic playing cards by MUJI, the Japanese brand that never ceases to amaze, are indeed astonishing. I think it is not late to have them for Christmas or New Year
Landscape photography from French artist David Keochkerian
Sculptures made with coloured Staedtler pencils by Lionel Bawden
"The American photographer Julie Blackmon has a unique way of portraying everyday life. Her works are rich in geometric shapes and details, stolen directly from Dutch and Flemish painters of about 400 years ago while in their setting and lighting they evoke the paintings of Edward Hopper."
As a child I always admired the short animation (little did I know that it was Pixar) of two lamps Mother and Son went alive. Here is a little flashback from am anamorphic project called Pinokio Lamp. The iconic Anglepoise lamp has been given a new lease of life by students at the University of Wellington. They’ve transformed the inanimate desk light into Pinokio, an object that expresses a range of movements and behaviours, and demonstrates an awareness of its environment by responding to external stimuli.
http://vimeo.com/53476316