Danish artist Daan Botlek recently painted this trio of ghostly white figures on an abandoned building in Leipzig, Germany. The paintings were part of the exhibition “If paradise is half as nice (part 2).” For more of Botlek’s street art and illustration work, see his Behance gallery.
via IanBrooks.me
Digital artist Zack Dougherty adds pulsating, morphing, and moving objects to photographs in his curiously mesmerizing animated GIFs. In some of the GIFs he chooses an object in the photo to manipulate, in others he adds absurdist objects like giant black orbs to otherwise ordinary photos. Since 2011 he has posted hundreds of his curious GIFs on his Tumblr blog.
via iGNANT
Artist Olafur Eliasson used a laser cutter to make a model of his house in the pages of a book for his sculpture, “Your House.” The house’s interior is modeled across 454 pages, with each page representing a 2.2-centimeter section of the actual structure. The book was produced in 2006 in a limited edition of 225.
via not shaking the grass, Visual News
photos via not shaking the grass
French street art duo Ella & Pitr (aka Papier Peintres) created a series of whimsical anamorphic picture frame installations for their photo series, “Anamorphoses.” The series was created for an ad campaign for the National Dramatic Center of St. Etienne in France.
The video game-style animation “Barbican: Microcosm Of London” traces the history of London’s Barbican complex from a Roman-era fort to the modern day cultural and residential center that is home to the performing arts venue, the Barbican Centre. The animation was created by UK studio Persistent Peril for the Barbican Centre.
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video via Persistent Peril
Professor Hiroshi Ishii and his students at the MIT Media Lab have created a table that replicates 3D objects presented in front of a camera in real time. In this video by John Maeda, a man places his hands under the camera and the table mimics them, allowing him to hold a red ball using a representation of his hands created by table.
video via John Maeda
Switzerland-based photographer Fabian Oefner has created “Orchid,” a series of photos of paint splashing in a blossom-like pattern. According to a video by The Creator’s Project, Oefner filled a tank with layers colored paint and threw a sphere into the paint, capturing the resulting splash with high-speed photography. The rest of the series can be found at Oefner’s website. Previously, we’ve written about several of Oefner’s scientific high-speed photography projects.
images via Fabian Oefner, video via The Creator’s Project
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Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, featuring a foreword by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk and
afterword by Stuart Mangrum of the Billboard Liberation
Front and Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere.
