Doesn’t this photo sculpture by Canadian artist Susy Olivera look a lot like the papercrafts you can make yourself? It’s all polygonal as if it’s straight out of the Playstation One. Susy fashions these 3-D models together using photos and foam.
The one shown above is called “Time is Never Wasted.” To me, it bears a resemblance to Alec Trevelyan of Goldeneye after the confrontation with Ourumov. If only he had three more minutes.
Jean Shin is pretty cool. First, we saw her bizarre melted wave of vinyl records (we hope no Journey vinyl was used.) Now, we’re taking a look at Jean Shin’s TEXTile, an interactive sculpture that’s comprised of 22,528 recycled keyboard keys that are fashioned in a way to make it appear as a tapestry. At its base is a customized active keyboard which works with interactive software, so anything you type becomes part of the sculpture when it is displayed on the video projection.
If you just so happen to be in the Philadelphia area, check out the Permanent Collection of Fabric Workshop and Museum. TEXTile and some of Jean Shin’s other work can be found there. If you find that some of the keys on the TEXTile are a little sticky, stay away from them. These are recycled keys, after all.
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We’ve seen a lot of artists this month. From Nikki Cook’s comics to Adam Stennett’s oil paintings, we just can’t get enough! The latest to grace our inbox is Korean artist Jean Shin. The above picture is her sculpture called “Sound Wave,” which is made solely out of melted vinyl records to express the awareness of rising technology which renders each successive generation of recordable media obsolete.
If you’re in the New York area, you can check out some of her work. It’s being displayed at The Museum of Art and Design’s exhibit “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary.” If you’re not willing to make the trip, there’s always her official website to look at, provided below.
Sylvain Calinon’s creation, the Robotic Portrait Artist, has received a makeover. Check out its sweet new mustache and beret! It truly has the look of an artist.
This bot is able to recognize human faces and extract relevant characteristics from them. Then, it draws portraits of captured images by converting them into vector art. The produced result is better than anything I could put down onto paper. Then again, I’m not programmed to draw. If I was, I’d be Bob Ross.
Would you buy someone’s tattoo off of them? No, I don’t mean pay for them to get the tattoo inked into their skin (or teeth), I mean pay for ownership of the ink that is already on their skin. This is probably the first case of selling of a tattoo while still on the owner’s body. Tim Steiner sold the tattoo on his back to Zurich gallery owner Jutta Nexdorf for about $218,000.
Ha, sucker! Doesn’t he know he could have gotten that tattoo himself for $214,500 dollars cheaper? Belgian artist Wim Dalvoye took 35 hours to create this elaborate tattoo of the Virgin Mary. The artsy fartsy Jutta Nexdorf plans on exhibiting Steiner’s back three times a year and when Steiner passes away, Nexdorf will most likely skin him and display the tattoo in his gallery. What an asshole.
The above picture shows Chris Gray’s winning truck tarp design that was selected for FREITAG’s Design-A-Truck Contest. Here’s one 18-wheeler that won’t settle for any gas station that isn’t the least bit artsy. Having trouble making out the design? Allow me: it’s a disproportional girl on a swing in sexy striped stockings. I think it won because of the stockings. The runners up were even more unsavory, one being a matrix rip off and the other being a paper-cut out collage you could’ve made in MS Paint. Once the winner’s design roams the countryside for the next 5 years on this truck as it secures its status in pop culture, the art will be made into a special limited edition collection of FREITAG bags.
It’s all about design. Now, as for some of the other works shown in the top 30, there were a few that stuck out that would’ve suited the look of a truck better but were not so much the look FREITAG was going for. Hit the jump to check out some of the shown 30 that attracted us: (more…)
Inventor Spot wrote up a list of 10 companies they feel create great skateboard deck designs. The companies listed are well known skateboard developers that focus on designs that are anything but ordinary. Element undoubtedly made the list, as well as a few of my other favorites such as Krooked and Baker.
What really disappointed me about the list was the exclusion of Enjoi, a company I believe stands taller than at least five others listed. Graphic artist Winston Tseng designs most of Enjoi’s catalog by himself and has created some fresh and intriguing art that is definitely worth the recognition. Seriously, who the fuck rides Alien Workshop anyway? Rob Dyrdek?
Emilie Darrigade is the world’s youngest tattoo artist. Having worked on her father’s tattoo at the age of five in a Montreal tattoo parlor while under the supervision of expert tattooist Robin Labreche, Emilie managed to fill in a black and yellow bumble bee on her father’s arms without going outside of the lines. Excellent Emilie. You get a gold star! Emilie also plans on working on her father’s next tattoo: a skull with cross bones and fire.
Though spectators claim she can handle the gun fairly well despite its weight, there is no way in hell I’d ever go under the needle with this girl behind it. Only her father would be crazy/cool enough to do that.
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