Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light. This is kind of flying all over the internet right now, but I couldn’t resist sharing. Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls.
The jaw-dropping light painting above, made with an array of colored airplanes is currently on view at the Fly to Baku exhibition at De Pury Gallery in London through January 29th. (via art wednesday, fasels suppe) Giant Fish Sculptures Made from Discarded Plastic Bottles in Rio. As part of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) an enormous outdoor installation of fish was constructed using discarded plastic bottles on Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The sculptures are illuminated from the inside at night creating a pretty spectacular light show. Love this. See much more over on this Rio+20 Flicker set.
(via hungeree and razor shapes) La experiencia. Los visitantes se descalzan antes de entrar en el esclusa de aire. Una vez adentro, pueden pasear libremente o simplemente acostarse y disfrutar del ambiente adentro de la estructura. La primera reacción es a menudo de sorpresa y placer ante la inesperada belleza de la luz. La luz diurna, filtrada por el pvc coloreado es resplandeciente y su luminosidad tiene un efecto directo sobre los 5 sentidos. Caminando por túneles laberínticos y amplios domos, el público se mueve entre tonalidades de color, ora sutiles, ora saturadas. A los visitantes les estimula descubrir como se mezclan los colores y como transforman las caras y la ropa. No se produce dos veces la misma visita ya que la atmósfera adentro está alterada por los cambios climáticos y las variaciones de la luz diurna. Los visitantes suelen expresar su experiencia comparándola a un viaje adentro del cuerpo humano, o bien a una estación espacial.
Lamps Made from Sawmill Waste and Tree Branches Embedded with Resin and LEDs. For his Brecce collection, Italian designer Marco Stefanelli devised an ingenious way of removing fragments from sawmill scraps, tree branches, and cement fragments, and replacing them with perfectly sculpted resin embedded with LEDs. The resulting lamps retain the organic nature of their original form yet cast a beautifully subdued light. You can see much more on Stefanelli’s blog. (via the awesomer)