Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is rolling out a new installation at the Sperone Westwater NYC this month, composed of his iconic site-specific laser-cut metal towers. Intricate, decorative architectural spirals are made even more fascinating with Delvoye’s sly, humorous metal manipulations.
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"In a culture immersed in technology, Instagram is reviving adventure, face to face community and real relationships. How can something so digital get people out from behind their devices and into the analog world?"
http://instagramis.com/
Directed & Created in full by Paul Tellefsen
Featuring Kyle Steed, Brenton Little & Allison Anderson.
An inspiring 75min DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. Filmed on the heat of live action of the first edition of ®NOVA Contemporary Culture, which happened in July / August 2010, in MIS-Museum of Image and Sound, and SESC Pompeia, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
http://rojoprojects.co/nova
"Alexander Wells works and resides in the sunny town of Brighton, England next to a very loud seagull. He uses both a mix of traditional and digital mediums to create images which allows him to tackle a diverse range of briefs."
If the renaissance took place in modern times, and the models were famous pop culture celebrities, what would the artwork have looked like? This was the theme for Worth1000′s photo manipulation contest and the results were quite hilarious. Master Photoshoppers let their creative juices flow as they imagined how Renaissance artists would have painted the pop icons of today.
The Digital Decade collaboration organised by Designcollector and prize-sponsored by Depositphotos is close to the artwork deadlines. The jury selected 30 Artist to come up with their visual thoughts over the past decade and think of the future. The results will be published in upcoming DCMAG#3 Special Edition and a dozen of illustrations will travel to Barcelona to meet the audience at OFFF Festival. For now we publish the very first previews on Work in Progress sent by artists.
See full list of artist on http://digitaldecade.net/shortlist
The series of handcrafted jewelry by Deimante Litvinaite of Lithuanian studio TADAM! Visually appeals to all dessert lovers -a line of wearable chocolates, mini donuts and coconut confections that look fresh out of the oven.
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Ryan Hamrick is an incredibly talented letterer and designer from Pittsburg. He’s begun a series of lettering how-to posts on his blog that are excellent for anyone looking to hone their skills.
After a brief tease on its Facebook page, Aston Martin revealed the dramatic CC100 Speedster Concept this weekend, and gave the rakish two-seater – along with more than 100 other Aston Martins – a celebratory lap of Germany’s famed Nurburgring race circuit.
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Joe Murtagh‘s work is as dangerous as it is vibrant. The Liverpool based illustrator brews a brilliant batch of chic death and retro decay. His work is unlike anything we’ve ever seen really.
Nabil Elderkin is a director and photographer raised in Australia, currently living in Los Angeles. As a director his works can be seen on http://nabil.com/film and as a photographer we want to focus on his latest project made for Pitchfork Cover Story for Daft Punk and for the next yet unknown publications (Daft Punk in a music store session)
Here are the ink drawings of Loui Jover, a Queensland Australia based artist who has been perfecting his craft since childhood. Check his works on Saatchi Online or Redbubble
London based artist Jacob Everett does huge hand ballpoint drawings with machine-like patterns.
I am a portrait artist working with biro on paper. I produce large-scale portraits using an intricate technique of overlapping elliptical marks, which gradually build to represent the subtle contours of the face. In common with digital images, my works, close up, appear as thousands of tiny ‘pixels’. When viewed from a distance they reveal the subtleties and nuances of individual character.
The best way to recover from the financial coma of 2000s is to celebrate life by art deco! The fuss around The great Gatsby and 1920s style blowed up all design blogs recently is not the begining of a trend but the high five to all kinds of decoration as vitality symbol.
And some more inspiration you can find in a brilliant "Poirot" series...
Image detail for -Investigating Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Apartment on Screen: 1989
With an already incredible editorial portfolio shooting for TIME Magazine, Wallpaper* and Spin, Marton Perlaki is also the co-founder and photo director of award-winning magazine The Room.
“I’ve always been keen on capturing everyday reality by transforming it into photographs that suggests a world beyond reality. Most of my work features contrast in some way whilst striving for clarity and simplicity.”
[box]1. If you love food, then this new project by photographer Beth Galton and food stylist Charlotte Omnes will certainly make your mouth water. [/box]
[box]2. Oli-B’s Beautiful Shapeshifting Abstract Street Art
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[box]4. Spanish photographer Jose Maria Rodriguez Madoz, better known as Chema Madoz, has a unique perspective for black and white photography. He creates unexpected optical illusions, cleverly pairing objects that don’t normally go together for an amusing effect.
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