This art work doesn’t look fantastic. It’s good. You’re saying. But it’s not that good.
Except that it’s composed entirely in staples.
Tag: cool art
Before I die: I’d like to make some cool interactive art like this
Take one abandoned building. Paint it with blackboard paint. Provide chalk. And a prompter for discussing a serious issue. Record the responses. And you have modern art.
If people are answering truthfully – and there’s really no reason to lie in a forum like this – then it’s an interesting insight into what people care about.
I wonder if responses change based on the socio-economic demographic of the location. I assume so.
I’m not sure why there’s a pirate here. Or what he’s writing. “Tried for pi…”
Explosive Art: There’s something very cool about art with bombs
This is amazing. The creation at 2:06 is just mind blowing. And wall blowing.
Chicken Egg? Or egg chicken? That is the question
I like this egg chicken by a guy named Kyle Bean – he called it “What Came First“… for obvious reasons.
For some reason I like the making of picture almost as much as the chicken itself.
I like these vegebodies too. Check them out.
We all take the same photos
I’m guilty. Partially. Of taking the same iconic tourism shot as everybody else. Though I also learned this lesson back in my tourism marketing days – so I’m much more interested in taking photos of people, or odd angles, or trying to do something unique, than I am in taking the same picture that features on post cards you can buy for a dollar – though those do have a place if you’re on a study tour (hence their appearance in the albums from the Greece and Turkey trip we went on last year).
When an artist named Corinne Vionnet noticed that everybody in the world seems to take the same photos she put together this exhibition of overlayed photos of some of the wonders of the tourism world.
“Switzerland-based Corinne Vionnet is our guide to the world’s most famous landmarks, monuments millions have visited before. Her art is created not by acrylic, oil, or watercolor, each piece is made by combining hundreds of tourist photos into one. After conducting an online keyword search and sifting through photo sharing sites, this Swiss/French artist carefully layers 200 to 300 photos on top of one another until she gets her desired result.”
Including the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens.
Here’s my shot from that spot.
This composite shot of New York is interesting too, just because it still has the twin towers.
Ice Scream
I like this.
I have an inflatable scream doll somewhere. I’m thinking I might take him on the road and recreate the painting wherever I go.
From Tastefully Offensive.
Building Utopia: An artistic exercise in inappropriate literalism
Rory Macbeth, an artist, thought building Thomas More’s Utopia was such a brilliant concept he decided to take it somewhat literally. He spray painted every single word of the hundred page novel on this condemned building.
Passive Aggressive Vending Machine
Designers Yarisal & Kublitz put together this “passive aggressive vending machine” to give you the greek restaurant/bull in a China shop experience for the price of a few coins.
Art-key-type: Archetypal Keyboard Art
Remember ASCII art? No. Well. You’re not a nerd then.
But this collection of typed art leaves most of that ASCII stuff for dead – because it’s produced Old Skool. On a Typewriter.
More here, at artist Keira Rathbone’s portfolio.
Incredible Coin Stop Motion
From two guys who call themselves Ninja Moped and do awesome stuff. They want to make a music video flinging 62 pianos over 100 metres in the air. At stuff. How awesome.
You might remember them from this 8-Bit lego stop motion.
Beer Art: painted in beer
This is cool. An artist named Donna Munsel produces/paints art using beer (amongst other things – here’s her portfolio).
Dough, a deer, a dough reindeer
An artist named Christopher Neimann set out to make some cool dough art for the NY Times. He succeeded. I think. There are more there.
Here are some more of my favourites.
Prime Ice
If I were an ice sculptor, a talented ice sculptor, I don’t know how high on the list I’d put “carve a giant autobot” – but having seen this, it’d be up there.
From here.
Circle of Life: Stuffed sculpture style
These aren’t toys. Though they look like it. No. These are art.
This one is called “Leopard with Wilderbeest”
Apparently this is how springbucks “court”
This one is my favourite…
There are more at the sculptor (or knitter?), Jennifer Muskopf’s site.
