3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Robin Antar known for her hyper realistic recreation of American legacy - fast food in stones. Her quality of the work lead to the official letter from U.S Gov saying she cannot copyright her work because it to closely resembles famous products.
Tribeca 2017 Storyscapes awarded team of Marshmallow Laser Feast are behind "Treehugger: Wawona" - the VR Experience that is centred on nature's cathedral, the giant Sequoia from the famous Sequoia National Park (California, USA). Wawona is the (local Native American) Miwok’s word for ‘hoot of an owl’, imitating the sound of the Northern Spotted Owl - believed to be the tree’s spiritual guardian.
“The project we chose exemplifies the highest standards of artistry and inventiveness. It explores the potential for new visual forms and investigates unique modes of storytelling that allow us to tap into aspects the world and our lived experience that are intuitively known but seldom articulated. Through its use of poetic abstraction, embodiment, and the viewer’s own imagination and interpretation, we are able to unlock new ways of understanding and experiencing the world around us. We’ve selected this piece because we hope it will inspire others to start creating in ways that take risks and use the limitations of technology to revamp story and experience”
Participants are invited to don a VR headset, place their heads into the tree’s knot and be transported into the Sequoia’s secret inner world. The longer you hug the tree, the deeper you drift into ‘treetime’: a hidden dimension that lies just beyond the limit of our senses. Audiences embark on a journey of abstract visualisation, following a single drop of water as it traverses from root to canopy in these enormous living structures.
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“A month ago I took a photo I had the idea the night before. I imagined a girl being held up by her incredibly long hair—like ridiculously long. Doubtful I’d find a model with hair as long as I envisioned so I just altered the idea to fit the photo shoot I was already doing.
I uploaded the photo and within 5 minutes can tell it was going to do really well. Just not 130,000 likes and 2,000 comments really well. I don’t know what I did or how it happened, but I’m glad.”
Digital artist Luke Choice is obsessed with blocking colours and CG shapes he renders and mix to deliver awesome illustrations
Truck Torrence lives in Los Angeles and makes kawaii pop art under the moniker 100% Soft. He is the designer of the official emoji for Star Wars and creator of the Kaiju Kitties. His work has been shown at Gallery 1988, Bottleneck Gallery, Giant Robot, & Spoke Art.
Working mainly with nude models Italian photographer Giuseppe Palmisano creates projects that eliminates sexual context and female body objectification leaving the viewer a lot of visual puzzles.
This small image session of cliff-jumper champion Lysanne Richard says a lot about photography skills of Felix Renaud
In this new series of paintings, Miami-based artist Jason Seife deftly renders the intricate patterns of old Persian carpets with a mixture of acrylic and ink. While the paintings utilize familiar motifs in rug design like leaves and geometric shapes, Seife introduces colors not normally associated with the heavy textiles, creating his own interpretations that reflect his mood or thoughts while executing the painting.
"Amsterdam based illustrator and graphic designer Timo Kuilder creates visual identities, websites, illustrations, as well as animations. His art is characterised by simple, synthetic shapes that enhance the conceptual aspect of his work. Kuilder also combines his personal work with commercial commissions. His clients include Monocle, Adobe, Bloomberg, De Correspondent and WeTransfer. Besides, the artist often creates an animated version as well as GIFS of his illustrations."
"Technicolor nebula swirl like cyclones across a sub-atomic realm. An endless stream of geometries sequence through the stratification of an atmospheric order that signals life. This is the primordial inception of a new world, in a preternatural cosmos."
Started as a model and a self-portrait artist Hattie Watson transformed into full-body documentary and portrait photographer ready to take off for the next venture behind the lens of her camera
"John C. Kacere was an American artist. Originally an abstract expressionist, Kacere adopted a photorealist style in 1963. Nearly all of his photorealist paintings depict the midsection of the female body. The kitsch paintings make for pleasurable viewing, not least for the sexually-charged subject matter. John’s incredibly tuned hyperreal style lends itself to the flawless skin of the idealised Caucasian bodies he paints as well as it does to the slippery silk and satin folds of lingerie and bedsheets. As the curve of each woman’s hips builds a terrain across each canvas, the scantily-clad female form becomes a landscape of sexual possibility."
"50 years on, John’s work feels more contemporary than ever: were the paintings the photos they imitate, it’s easy to picture them riding high on fourth-wave feminism Tumblr and Instagram feeds."
Digital artist Omar Ail interprets Picasso paintings as a sleek modern digital sculptures
Mass is a site specific installation project by Carson Davis Brown about creating visual disruptions in places of mass (to date: big-box stores, super-centers, etcetera.). At an intersection between Street Art and Land Art, installations are made without permission, using found materials within the retail landscape.
The works are made, photographed, then left to be experienced by passersby and ultimately dissembled by location staff. Photo documentation of Mass works are initially exhibited in a consumer landscape. Printed, framed (in unsold frames) and exhibited in-stores; all without permission.
Senior concept artist at Lyon-based Arkane Studios - Sergey Kolesov shares his latest awesome works done for Dishonored2 computer game
Art director and virtual reality artist Boldtron runs a self initiated agency FANTASARAXIA (previously) in the middle of sunny Barcelona doing a lot of collaborations with famous Spanish agencies like the latest with Serial Cut we reviewed last year. His latest commission was created for local brand Miranda for Lydia in collaboration with Somos Usted agency, revealing a fashion line as like as it imagined on sale in totally virtual world.
Michael Thorsby is an Art Director and Graphic Designer based in Paris. His work is primarily focused on art direction for fashion businesses and the art world but also for clients in architecture and other aesthetically oriented industries.
Since leaving his native Sweden, more than a decade and a half ago, he has lived and worked in Tokyo, Copenhagen and London before settling in Paris.
The seven years he spent in Tokyo had a profound effect on his work, diversifying his visual expressions and uprooting him from his Scandinavian origins.
San Francisco- based artist Monica Johnson shares two series of female glitchy portraits and minimal illustrations
Iceland-based artist James Merry (previously) uses sportswear logos as the basis to his embroidered designs, planting thread-based mushrooms, strawberries, and various flowers on top of Nike swooshes and the ADIDAS logo’s three bars.
Sing-Sing is a collaborative animation, photography, and design studio formed by Adi Goodrich, & Sean Pecknold (previously) They use a lot of vibrant colours and positive energy in creating projects like a lyric video for Fleet Foxes, a few photography and animations works for Headspace, an optical illusion photo series for Sagmeister & Walsh, an Alphabet book and a lot more
