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Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee
(click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall , where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains.Illustrator Rob Dobi Thinks Your Scene Sucks!
We are all victim to the atrocities of today's many scenes and subscenes. Whether you choose to accept it or not, this reality affects us all in one way or another. We all deal with it in different ways, some keep themselves locked up in isolation, holding onto the hope that the scene won't penetrate their stronghold, others simply give in and take on a life of scenesterism – tragic. It's got to the point where you need to know what signs to look out for, where not to be at the wrong time, and most importantly, to know your scenesters.
Designers Spin Spidey-Worthy Webs From Packing Tape
Packing tape has gotten MacGyver out of many a jam, but he never managed to make an entire home out of the stuff. So he could probably learn something from Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen. The team uses nothing but packing tape to create huge, self-supporting cocoons that visitors could climb inside and explore. Installed three times in the past year, the next deployment will be next week from June 9–13 at DMY Berlin's International Design Fair , which is now in its 8th year. The installations, which look like the work of horrifyingly large arachnids, grew in scale and scope as the year progressed, first deployed inside a small Croatian gallery, then an abandoned attic during October’s Vienna Design Week.
hearty magazine | Katsuyo Aoki: Porcelain skulls
Katsuyo Aoki’s porcelain skulls make death a beautiful thing With Halloween on its way and so much death imagery everywhere, it’s refreshing to see Katsuyo Aoki’s take on ghoulishness . Her porcelain skull sculptures feature meticulous vanilla white curly patterned details, that look like they could be made of coral–or maybe icing.
Sketches are a very important instrument for me. The sketch often is the fastest way to visualize and record an idea. Yet, sketches are also very precise and with a little bit of extra effort they can quickly contain detailed information on texture, material and shading of the subject.
Daniel Lieske.com - Digital Art by Daniel Lieske - Sketchbook
The Vader Project The Vader Project is een reizende expositie van 100 Darth Vader helmen die zijn gecustomized door verschillende kunstenaars. Wij bij Froot kunnen vooral Banana-Darth erg waarderen.. <img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-4933" title="2679601654_5098817423_o" src="http://www.froot.nl/wp-content/uploads/2679601654_5098817423_o-590x442.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="442" /> <img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4927" title="2678751415_72183e8a78_o" src="http://www.froot.nl/wp-content/uploads/2678751415_72183e8a78_o.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="787" />
The Vader Project
Twelve Animals: World maps as Chinese zodiac
12 Feb 2009 In a series of illustrations entitled "Twelve Animals," graphic artist Kentaro Nagai rearranges the world map to create the beasts of the Chinese zodiac. Rat