Swiss artist Fabian Oefner is a self-described “curious investigator” who captured these wonderful photos of paint caught in centripetal motion– each shot is a perfect capture of a tiny moment in time (sometimes only 1/40000 of a second!) To achieve this effect, Oefner drips a variety of bright acrylic paints onto a metal rod and...
I’m a little frustrated by the lack of photos online, because Risa Hirai’s delicately iced cookies deserve a second and even third look at all the detail. Using simple flour, sugar, oil, and eggs, Hirai crafts entire sets of household objects as cookies, carefully layering icing for bright colors and unexpected textures (the thin slabs...
Brent Christensen built these gigantic, ornate ice castles out of nothing but icicles, which is quite a feat considering that standard ice structures (think igloos) are typically a combination of snow and ice. He starts with a homemade icicle maker, which drips water from racks and forms 3,000 to 5,000 icicles per day, and these...
Japanese architect Junya Ishigami‘s Cuboid Balloon is a marvelously enormous balloon made out of aluminum that weighs over a ton– and yes, it floats! Filled with 1000 m3 of helium, the five-story high parallelotope structure was completely free floating in the atrium of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo in 2008. There’s not too...
I’m smitten with these tiny, colorful tableaus painted by LA-based artist Seonna Hong– some of her recent works are entirely painted using the ubiquitous paint chip as a miniature canvas. Quick strokes paint suggest the staggered outlines of hills and rocks in the wilderness, then barren trees, bears, and children are painstakingly detailed into the...
Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes has been cleverly camouflaging herself into modern backdrops since 2007– her ornate body painting techniques perfectly mimic the elaborate, flowery wallpaper backdrops behind her body, leaving behind subtle traces of her human form. An unblinking eye or the dark swath of her hair are the first indicators of where she’s positioned...
London-based artist Zadok Ben David created this incredible installation by planting up to 20,000 metal flowers into a bed of sand. From one side, the darkened “Blackfield” is a work of cold precision: each flower is etched out of blackened steel in the style of botanical drawings, systemically recording the textbook illustrations of old. Viewed...
This “Sugar Carpet (Tapis de sucre)” by Montreal-based artist Aude Moreau was made with over two tons of sugar, laid out perfectly evenly across an expansive floorspace, then decorated in a Persian rug motif with charcoal and food coloring. The sheer size and detail in this piece is stunning– its precise in its familiar pattern,...
Made by Argentinian artist Luciana Rondolini as part of her “Cosmic Calamity” series, these giant, brightly colored popsicles were placed into the gallery to slowly melt over the course of the day. Visitors could actually interact with the popsicles (lots of sticky hands and surreptitious finger-licking, I bet), and then the next day a brand...
The Hubble Telescope is really amazing, when you think about it– this piece of metal that we launched into space more than 30 years ago is still floating around in the abyss, traveling further and further while still transmitting back to us the mysteries of space. It turns out that the photo data the Hubble...
I wish these beauties could be shipped overseas. These wooden LEGOs by Japanese design studio Mokurukku are a wonderful alternative to the normal bright plastic pieces– there’s something really textural and tactile about wood that can’t be achieved with the shine of plastic manufacturing. They appear to be compatible with standard LEGO pieces, and I...
Self-taught “paper engineer” Benja Harney recently finished his latest show “New Platonic” which was displayed in Sydney, and his perfect 3D paper patterns are beautiful to behold. The layers of platonic solids form flawless repeating patterns which are all held together with interlocking sheets of paper. There’s not a single touch of glue holding these...
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May 14, 2013
Clean, Simple, Minimal Stamped Packaging for Japanese Honey
Apr 19, 2013
The Human Printer: Painstakingly Recreating CMYK Halftone Printing, by Hand
Apr 16, 2013
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