(Source: ice-crushed, via this-is-glamorous)
(Source: ice-crushed, via this-is-glamorous)
Costume designs for Carbon Life by Gareth Pugh
Gareth Pugh‘s sculptural designs for new ballet Carbon Life, which had its premier at the Royal Opera House last month.
With choreography by Wayne McGregor and music by producer Mark Ronson, the ballet is a modern fusion of pop, dance and fashion, with Pugh’s graphic designs distorting the body into architectural forms.
A Beached Whale in the Forests of Argentina
Argentinean sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas creates enormous sculptural works that seem like remnants of a science fiction movie set, or bizarre moments from a surreal dream. One of my favorite pieces is My Family Dead (2009), in which he created a life-size blue whale in the woods outside Ushuaia, Argentina. The beached cetacean is pockmarked with tree stumps, making me wonder if it’s being slowly claimed by the forest or perhaps it’s a native resident. Beautiful.
Stockholm-based photographer Philip Karlberg has also been twirling his pencils for some time, and now all that toying has resulted in a photo shoot for Plaza Magazine.
Karlberg’s six famous sunglass wearers were created using 1,200 sticks and photographed over six days.
From top: Karl Lagerfeld - Jackie O - Lady Gaga - Johnny Depp - John Belushi
We envision using something like this for an eyeglass or sunglass brand, a movie theatre, an optometrist office. The fertile pointillist idea continues to fascinate us every time we witness the power of tiny components exploding into huge impact. - Tuija Seipell
{um, just gonna leave this here for reasons…}
8 Inches of Dark Chocolate Cock Filled With… by United Indecent Pleasures
The first product from new erotic brand United Indecent Pleasures is an eight-inch chocolate penis that oozes fondant cream.
The filling comes in six fruit and liqueur flavours, and there’s a firmer chocolate fondant in the base.
Apparently they’re working on chocolate breasts next.
If you have 10 minutes to spare I strongly urge you to watch The Eagleman Stag, a lovely stop-motion short film by UK animator Mikey Please that won the 2011 BAFTA for best short animation. From Jason Sondhi’s review on Short of the Week:
Animated through stop-motion, the film incorporates thousands of hand-created models across 115 sets to tell the story of Peter Eagleman. From a young age, Peter possessed a peculiar awareness of time. Obsessed with the concept that any unit of time represents a differing fraction of one’s life depending on age, he becomes preoccupied with this “speeding up” of time as he grows older, and longs to reverse the process. In the meantime Peter grows, lives, ages. He becomes a celebrated entomologist, and through his work he stunningly stumbles upon a possible solution to his lifetime’s angst.
The foam used to create the models has such strange properties it’s difficult to believe these scenes aren’t digitally rendered. You can see a few making-of shots here.
The Sculptures of Ron Ulicny
Portland sculptor Ron Ulicny has made a living for himself creating just such artworks. From high heel roller skates to a sink spewing Scrabble letters, his art objects frequently require a double take and often leave you with a smile, be it in humor or wonder. Above are five of my favorite sculptures by Ulicny, but you can see much more on hiswebsite.
{Signing off with this light installation called Starry Night by Lee Eunyeol}
Photographer Lee Eunyeol constructs elaborate light installations that appear as if the night sky was flipped upside down with glowing stars and planets nested inside tall grass or between deep earthen cracks. His artist statement is below:
Starry night expresses private spaces given by night and various emotions that are not able to be defined and described in the space. I’ve chosen analogue type for the expression which attempts to install electric bulbs in an objet to be expressed using back space of night by taking advantage of huge studio. There are two spaces in photographs. One is a space before electric bulbs of familiar landscape are installed and the other is a space after electric bulbs expressed by dispersing personal emotion are installed. Unified light from these two spaces generates a mysterious landscape.
Photographic Specimens by Michael Mapes
New York artist Michael Mapes creates elaborate specimen boxes by dissecting photographs and then compartmentalizing individual fragments within plastic bags, glass vials, magnifiers, in gelatin capsules and on insect pins. The boxes exist in an uncanny area between photography and sculpture, functioning both as portraits and as fascinating scientific canvases that make you question the the logic behind the organization of each piece.
{I’m liking those architectural models in this shot photographed by Prue Ruscoe. Although the back garden beckons too…}
{Tonight is the opening gala for my alma mater’s grad show. I’m going to be showing my support to some friends who are graduating from the Environmental Design program. The great thing about an art school’s grad show is that the whole campus is going to feel like an art museum. All the classrooms become little galleries, and you really get immersed into the creativity and you get a good impression of how much time and hard work is put into each project. If you’re in the area, come check it out! It’s free, and it’s open all weekend. Also, if you hang out by the jewelry displays, the students there even sell their work!}
{Harpa Concert Hall in Iceland by Olafur Eliasson and Henning Larsen Architects.}
