Paper Cuts

With the patience of a saint, Jill Sylvia cuts and sculpts paper into some amazingly precise sculptures.

Link: Jill Sylvia

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Shinichi Maruyama

Shinichi's Kusho series consists of twenty-three large-scale color photographs that represent the interplay of black ink and water, both in midair and on white surfaces. Images are captured with a strobe light, with a shutter speed of between 7,500th of a second to 20,000th of a second.

http://www.shinichimaruyama.com/

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Praxinoscope

All the artwork was created by the director David Wilson. The illustrated, 12" discs are designed to rotate on a record player at 45rpm. A specially sculpted carousel of mirrors is positioned in the centre of the disc and rotated with the artwork in order to create the illusion of a moving image.




Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9e38cuhnaU Here's that video's making of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LSg7f4lFs Here's the designer's site and sample illustrations (which makes the animation good): http://www.davidwilsoncreative.com/moray/artwork.html

Image Search Tool

Next time you're scouring the desert that is Google Images, give this a try. It's a new feature, which allows users to search for similar images.

Here's the video to explain how it works.

-TechPants

192 Creative, Smart & Clever Advertisements

Jacob Cass of the "Just Creative Design" blog has an article on his favorite recent ads. A few of the pieces are great examples of context relevancy.

Link: Creative Advertising - 192 Smart & Clever Ads

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On This Day, April 20

1808: Napoleon, emperor of France, was born.

1836: The territory of Wisconsin (the dairy state) was established by Congress.

2008: We celebrated Joanne's birthday!

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Her Secret is Patience

Janet Echelman's latest installation piece, "Her Secret is Patience", was inaugurated last night in Phoenix, Arizona. During the day, it may look like a bit of tangled fisherman net;but at night, it lights up like a jellyfish under a blacklight.

Janet is known for her large and elegant netting sculptures that often mimic undersea creatures. Here are some of her past pieces...

Link: Janet Echelman Sculpture

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On this Day (Yesterday), April 14

1912: The R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland.

2009: We celebrated David Turner's birthday!

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A Nice Angle on Handcrafted Illustration

Brazilian illustrator, Thiago de Souza Queiroz's portfolio can be found here...

Link: TSQ

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The guru speaks.

Joel Bauer spent 25 years designing his business card. Now he shares his secrets with us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk

rockin' with Jamie

Another busy wednesday in London, definitely not skiving whilst Bruce is on holiday, then Jamie's band t-shirts show up, time to rock!

Playing with Your Food

Sket One created a custom series of vinyl toys for the Subcultures show at Channel 1. Unfortunately, this was in 2006 and the link is now dead. Regardless, we should do our own Coca-Cola Dunny doll.

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Sweet Fashion

Massimo Gammacurta has taken familiar fashion brand logos and rendered them in sugar.

Link: +++Massimo Gammacurta Conceptual Still Life Photographer+++

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Canoe dig it?

A cool bus shelter found on Flickr.

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A Sharpened Sense of Artistry

Melbourne-based, Ghostpatrol, is a stenciling artist that has shifted his quick-style sensibilities to a more delicate medium of colored pencils.

Link: Upcoming-Shows | Ghost Patrol

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