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Tiny People Invade Your Home
In ‘Plastic Life’, French photographer Vincent Bousserez creates Lilliputian-scaled contemporary art using plastic figures and household objects. Keen provoker of the double-take and the nervous laugh, he offers us a looking glass through which to see ourselves afresh, as the moulded, not-so-model human beings we are. By juxtaposing his protagonists with everyday domestic items, Bousserez brings their stories disconcertingly back home.
Continue reading...Dead Flies Circus
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Playing with dead insects is something we’d normally deem excusable in children but slightly weird in adults. Not necessarily so when you consider the work of Swedish photographer Magnus Muhr, who takes the carcasses of dead flies, lays them on paper and imbues them with new life through a few strokes of his pencil. Never has the gap between man and arthropod been smaller, as flies swap six limbs for four, and engage in all manner of human activities...
Continue reading...The Giant Hand Buried in the Atacama Desert
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
It looks like the extremity of a giant man, buried by a monumental sandstorm. In the wasteland of Chile’s Atacama Desert, 75 km to the south of the city of Antofagasta, a strange and unexpected sight confronts the eye: four fingers, a thumb and part of a palm, emerging from the sand. Set against the azure sky, this surreal giant hand is of course not made of flesh but stone.
Continue reading...The Legacy of Ernst Haeckel
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
As the faith versus science wars first exploded across the western world, altering forever the place of religion in society, he was one of the most visible and powerful speakers in favour of evolution. But in his haste to popularise this new scientific idea, the ‘Darwin of the continent’ was to perpetuate a fraud that would come to overshadow all his other achievements.
Continue reading...The Microscopic Beauty Of Diatoms
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Within just about any soil and water source imaginable lie the diatoms – microscopic beings whose beauty is similar to that of abstract mathematics. Once favoured for their complex fractal shapes by infamous 19th century pioneering zoologist (and eugenicist!) Ernst Haeckel, diatoms have been a source of inspiration to both scientists and artists ever since. But what exactly are they?
Continue reading...What Became of the Glowing Green Bunny?
Friday, July 10, 2009
What do you get if you cross a bunny rabbit, some jellyfish genes and a madcap Brazilian bio-artist? Alba, the glowing green rabbit. Yes, we know, it's an oldie, but it's a goodie too, and one that's worth retelling, if only to see what became of the bunny. In 2000, artist Eduardo Kac commissioned a French genetics lab to make his genetically modified creation by implanting the albino rabbit with Green Fluorescent Protein from a type of jellyfish.
Continue reading...Beauty is in the Eye of the Pin Holder
Friday, June 26, 2009
Anyone who has lost a piece of work they have slaved over will know the word traumatic sometimes doesn't put too fine a point on it. Yet what if the labour of love you had invested so much of yourself into was smaller than the head of a pin – yet more intricate than many artworks thousands of times its size? Enter the world of micro-miniaturist Willard Wigan, where sculptures stand a fraction of a millimetre tall, all but invisible to the naked eye.
Continue reading...Incredible Origami Art Created With Money
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Get creative and practice the art of paper folding by using up measly dollar bills or foreign currency souvenirs you've got lying around the house to create money origami masterpieces featuring famous people wearing all manner of headpieces from around the world. You'll definitely find some inspiration in our collection of pictures...
Continue reading...The Rainbow Tunnel of Tel Aviv
Monday, June 8, 2009
A visit to Isreal may now include explicit stops at the open underground tunnels of Tel Aviv, where artists Bar & Shay have been hard at work installing colourful lights to the once dull underpasses. The new makeovers brighten up an otherwise unmemorable experience, and have already received acclaim as a great street intervention project.
Continue reading...20 Most Creative Environmental Ads
Monday, June 1, 2009
Like it or not, we're bombarded with advertisements from companies encouraging us to purchase the latest and greatest products they have to offer. Slick magazine ads and tv commercials try to lead us into temptation, but more recently, some of that advertising space has been filled up with a different kind of message to ask us to buy into something else: the protection of the planet. Read on, and you'll discover 20 awesomely creative environmental ads from around the world.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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