What would happen if aliens took over all our picture perfect holiday destinations?
Something like this. Franco Brambilla took a series of postcards of popular spots and inserted aliens.
Tag: cool art
Spellbinding art
I love books. The idea of defacing them kind of hurts… but maybe if you find an old copy of something atrocious like Joel Osteen’s “Your Best Life Now” it would be worth turning it into something truly wonderful and edifying… like these sculptures that were used in an advertising campaign in Prague…
I love gangster books. Both novels and the “true” confessions of mob informers who use their tell alls to fund life on the run. I was going to write a gangster novel once. Then I got distracted.
By medieval books… I love medieval books – all those swords…
But swords get tired pretty quickly… what really gets exciting is undersea monsters… and pirate ships…
There are heaps of other creative book based artworks here. Well worth your time.
Banana art – do do, do do do
If your an artist the world is your oyster and bananas are your pearls… or something. Here’s a bunch of banana art.
Saw melon
I saw this watermelon art a couple of days ago – and it’s been floating around waiting to be posted (and possibly haunting me in my dreams since… seriously). There are more of these here. It makes my head hurt.
Songbirds
This is pretty awesome.
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
Why is it awesome?
“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating. I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.”
Found here, from here (in Spanish).
Ping Pong 2.0
Table Tennis. Check. Data projector. Check. Motion Sensor. Ambient fish graphic. Check.
That’s a recipe for an awesomely trippy futuristic/1970s crossover party. Or something. Check it out.
“PingPongPlus is a digitally enhanced version of the classic ping-pong game. It is played with ordinary, un-tethered paddles and balls, and features a “reactive table” that incorporates sensing, sound, and projection technologies. Projectors display patterns of light and shadow on the table; bouncing balls leave images of rippling water; and the rhythm of play drives accompanying music and visuals. In the process, this project explores new ways to couple athletic recreation and social interaction with engaging digital enhancements. ”
Technology rocks
Technology has an incredibly limited shelf life. Remember the floppy disk? They were those square three and a quarter inch plastic things. There were even bigger ones than that once upon a time. Back in the olden days. Coming across a box of redundant technology is just like discovering buried dinosaur bones…
Artist Christopher Locke has created a bunch of fossilised redundant technology.
Time passes in an inking
This calendar is terrific. The ink gradually seeps through the page – filling one digit per day. It was designed by a guy named Oscar Diaz.
“Ink Calendar” make use the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time.
The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are “printed” daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. A calendar self-updated, which enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it.”
Killer Fast Food
Heart disease is a killer. Fast food causes heart disease. So it’s not a huge stretch of the imagination to see the iconic fast food characters as mafia bosses – like this guy did… 
Rubbish Art
Art made from rubbish. How droll.
Actually, this is exceptionally clever…
“Six months’ worth of household waste plus a pair of dead seagulls comprise the heap of refuse. It’s no accident that it took the couple a further six months to make the piece, during which time they were eating and consuming – as you do. On the wall, the shadow figure self-portraits of the artists take a break with a cigarette and a glass of wine.”
There are a few more amazing shadow pieces at that link.
These photos of piles of rubbish are also pretty amazing… more for the vast quantity than for clever creative endeavour.
Art with crayons
Crayons. We all grow up drawing with them – and then most of us graduate to pencils and other less waxy implements. Who knew that you could create such high brow pieces of art with Crayolas. Here they are masquerading as pixels…
Blocktastic
I’ve written about Pacman, I’ve written about Rubiks Cubes, I’ve written about Super Mario Bros, and I’ve written about art. That’s a lot of topics to converge in a single post. But I’ve done it. Well, more correctly, somebody else has – I’m just here to show you the fruits of their labour. Art made from Rubiks Cubes… not just art… geek art. I would have thought a Tetris inspired design would be appropriate – but perhaps too easy…
Stickying around
These are nice. Sculptures made of sticky tape (there are more). From Daily Vowel Movements (possibly the coolest surname based pun ever). That Andrew (one of the many who occasionally comments here) has just been writing a series on jargon which has been most interesting.
Pop art
The latest in a string of retro remakes of popular culture “texts”… this time it’s CD covers getting the treatment – essentially being elevated to serious, high art… here’s a link to some others from Kottke.
