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"Kirk Wallace and Latham Arnott teamed up to bring some US cities to life through as few strokes as possible. Kirk illustrated very minimal cityscapes while Latham animated the resulting images, keeping the original, minimalistic style. While there are only a few popular cities done so far, there will be more on the horizon to keep your eyes out for." via iGNANT
There is no reason to introduce you legendary Gaetano Pesce (Instagram) and here is what we love the most from his recent works.Montanara 2009 Armchairs depicting subjects such as lakes and mountains. If you are not common with Gaetano furniture and design please jump to his gallery on http://www.gaetanopesce.com/
Pesce’s work is featured in over 30 permanent collections of the most important museums in the world, such as MoMa of New York and San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Vitra Museum in Germany, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Pompidou Center and Musee des Arts Décoratifs of Louvre in Paris; he exhibits art in galleries world wide.
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His works can also be provocative, check his recent collaboration with famous actress and producer Stoya made for Allouche Gallery Totally NSFW kids!
Last year, Elena Shumilova took photos of her sons as they played by the Russian countryside. She uploaded the photos online, then they started getting shared, and shared again… until they became a viral sensation, with over 60 million views (including few thousands on DCN).
These photos hit something magical all across the Internet — a sense of nostalgia for a childhood past. She even started getting letters from people in their nineties, saying the photos moved them to tears.
Read more on How to Photograph Your Kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xiQkU8eUC4
Andreas Lie (Instagram) makes animal art via the effect that scared anyone who has ever had a film camera – double exposure. His work combines pictures of animals with their natural surroundings, resulting in fox, wolf or bear shaped windows into the forests that they inhabit. It’s an interesting idea, getting you to consider not just the animals themselves, but also their surroundings. It could be considered as a take on “forest for the trees”, illustrating that we usually don’t think about the animals when we see landscape shots of forests. You can buy some of his art on Society6 store
Alana Dee Haynes (Instagram) is a Brooklyn-based artist who turns the bodies of her photographed subjects into illustrated surfaces, transforming blank skin and clothing into undulating patterns and shapes. via
“Everyone has a certain way they see the world. Some things jump out at people, while others pass them by. I see faces and patterns everywhere. When I look at people, I connect their beauty marks, and find faces in their knuckle lines. It’s just the way I live. So, naturally, I see these things in photographs too. It is not synesthesia, but it is a similar way of viewing multiple layers in things.” (Source)
Text via Instagram blog: “You are telling stories visually and without the need of words,” explains freelance street and dance photographer Omar Z. Robles (@omarzrobles), who is originally from Puerto Rico but now living in New York. Omar started to shoot dancers on streets when he moved to New York City three years ago, but his interest in the ability of the human body to physically share stories and emotions stems from a longtime passion for physical theater, dance and an education in the art of mime. Training under Marcel Marceau in Paris, Omar was influenced by the great French mime’s ability to tell a story without words. “It’s something I find completely exceptional,” he says.
Few posts ago we stated that found double-exposure technique a bit boring but hey look at Brandon Kidwell (Instagram) works they say. This guy levels up the hidden meanings and brings new life to that trend again
Summer is Soon is a series of character drawings by graphic designer Ruslan Suleimanov from Almaty, Kazakhstan. The series featuring humorously familiar characters that we all know and see in the beach during summer. via Joquz
Created to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Abe Kogyo, a Japanese manufacturer of wooden doors, design studio Nendo’s seven doors all have the same basic default design, yet each has been treated with a different idea born from the various techniques and experience held by Abe Kogyo. via mocoloco
Julien de Casabianca started Outings Project to fill the cultural gap between the museum and street. Using nothing but mobile phone people can take photos of abandoned and less-known pictures in museums and transfer them on street walls with the help of Outings team. It is legal until you break a law.
P.s. I bet Julien needs to visit Saint-Petersburg and check the street project done by Russian Museum with the same idea. It was vandalised several if not dozen times until people get used to it, and now you watch Russian Classic Paintings outside.
I think the double-exposure techniques have done enough with photography and no more is a topic of much interest. But can't say the same about things done with hands, like this pencil drawings of Thomas Cian
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Read MoreYoung and talented digital artist Saad Moosajee is back with new works that we mentioned last week on our public flow VOX View more of his recent works on www.saadart.com
London based StudioSmall (previously) are firm believers of less is more, and it shows in their slick new site — featuring beautifully clean work for Dunhill, Fred Perry, Londonewcastle, Modus and Margaret Howell, who they’re celebrating their 10th anniversary with.
Citing Leslie from Spotted SF, Samovar Tea Bar is a "..simply fresh, modern, white, concrete and ceramics heaven. That’s the first thing you’ll notice when you stop in. In fact the design of the space was actually inspired by the cups they serve their tea in. The owner first partnered with Oakland ceramists, Atelier Dion, to custom design the exquisite mugs for this location and the space began to build from there."
Twisted cars is not a news, we've seen VW Beetle squeezed in a sphere by Ichwan Noor and surreal cars by Chris Labrooy. This time talented digital artist Antony Tudisco did something embarrassing with the leading examples of automotive industry calling the personal project "BBOY CARS".
Inspired by Scotland’s Brodick Castle Gardens, British illustrator and artist Johanna Basford (previously) creates incredible coloring books for adults… Johanna told BuzzFeed, “coloring seems to help people think about a time when life was simpler and more carefree.” You can buy a book on her site
Belgian architect group, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, built a church in Belgium that looks completely different from any side of view
From others, the structure reveals itself to be something else entirely - a building that's almost entirely see through. The project, named "Reading Between the Lines," is a composition of 100 layers of stacked steel, that are equidistantly staggered in a way that illusively change in appearance based on where the viewer is standing.
This breathtaking compilation of drone videos from around the world shows how beautiful our planet truly is. For those curious the audio track is a remix of Rather Be by Clean Bandit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK1k0PpCxc
