Art is an energy-costing and time-costing work: to finish these Paper Collage portraits, artist Nathalie Boutté has spent much time in splitting old pages of books into strips and then arranging them into remarkable artworks carefully. The process to make each artwork takes really a long time, but the result? Wow, it’s surprisingly good – as you step backward, the painting then gradually becomes much clearer and more charming.
During January 26 to January 29, 2012, the spectacular Ghent Light Festival held in Belgium and showcased several fantastic light art pieces submitted by designer from all over the world. One of those interesting projects is this cathedral made from no less than 55,000 LED lights. The art installation is very huge, eye-catching, especially when it is turned on with all the colorful lights in the evenings. But quite surprisingly, the cathedral, though has used over 55,000 LEDs, consumes only 20Kwatt / h of electricity, thus making it both a charming art piece and energy-saving project as well.
Why haven’t we realized that even the bottle corks may have lives before? Fortunately it’s still not too late for us to know that truth, and welcome you to this new world of bottle cork animals. They’re made by two Israeli design studios, who packaged all the required body parts in with each bottle of wine, for people to build out a bear, buffalo, bunny, crow, deer or monkey with the cork, so as to recycle your resources in an easy and interesting way.
Instead of rebuilding the roads damaged by the harsh winter in London, a guerrilla gardener Steve Wheen has planted some miniature flowers and trees to create sanctuaries of tranquility in broken urban places. These mini gardens, though not that attractive as normal gardens, has successfully brought the old city and old roads with new appearances, and add some new fun to the urban life as well.
Why hasn’t anyone thought of the good idea before? Created on the back windows of dirty cars, Scott Wade’s collection of dirty pictures (they’re not dirty, actually) look just so wonderful that you even don’t want to wash your dirty cars anymore.
Have you ever thought that your shoes may have their own thoughts and personalities to express? Whatever answers you would offer, at least in designer Gwen Murphy’s mind, the shoes do have something to tell us: their appearances, their emotions, and possibly their dreams too. But if with such unique shoes wearing on your feet (surely these sculptures cannot be worn), you may feel that somebody is rightly looking up at you from the bottom as well… wow, that’s so weird!
A painting is no longer something always keeping still: Scott Garner’s “Still Life” is rightly a painting that can respond to real-world activity. Whenever you rotate the painting, you’ll see that the fruits and vases begin to tumble and finally change their positions. Why? Because the painting is actually made using the game developing program unity 3D, and inside the painting there is a flat-screen television screen with a spatial sensor built behind it to detect the tilt. So whenever somebody rotate its frame, the unity 3D scene can then respond and interact with the users.
Origami is not a new kind of art strange to us, but on the long list of various origami designs we should never lose attention of these unique masks. Each of them is made with a single piece of paper without cuts or glue, while still features amazing details and impressive shapes. The masks are durable too, able to last a long time when hanged on the wall as decorations.
Never stop your imagination about the augmented reality world: after a series of inventions and designs based on the augmented reality technology, artist Andrew Tanner now brings us with his Augmented Reality Ceramics. Normally it’s a delicately-painted plate, but it will turn into something else when you view it with your smartphone downloaded with a unique application- birds, field mice and butterflies will appear in an animated world, moving here and there to add some fun to the ceramic plate.
Street artworks accomplished by artist Pavel Puhov, who cleverly combines the nature scenery, human environments and graffiti together.
The tide rises, the tide falls. The flower blossoms, the flower falls away. Every day on the surface of the Hudson River, you can see a series of giant Tide Flowers built around abandoned posts of long-gone piers- they blossom wilt at low tide and open fully at high tide, creating a beautiful scene that demonstrates the movements of water as well.
No need of unique genes or flexible movements, everyone nowadays can become the Spiderman, a superhero, simply by lying, sitting or standing on the giant building constructed by Leandro Erlich on the ground surface… As you look up into the huge mirror that stands in the front, you’ll then notice: oh my god, I’m now doing something quite impossible in the real world! That’s so cool and I bet you’ll love the moment when you become a superhero.
Sometimes, you eyes may deceive you… This painting on the wall, for example, will completely disappear as soon as you turn off the light. Why and what happened? The truth is: the painting is actually created by the light and the plexiglass airplanes hanging from the ceiling. It’s very surprising, coz we really cannot figure out how the light and those planes managed to draw a painting on the wall. But the result is astonishingly fantastic: it’s so wonderful-looking that I really want to build one in my house.
Fantastic! Who would ever believe that these paintings by French Canadian artist Steven are created using a flame from a candle or torch, if without the video that tells us the truth? Actually, Steven has been working with his unique drawing technique for more than 10 years, during which he has created both monochromatic and colorful paintings, both small-sized and large images. To begin drawing, he firstly uses a candle or torch to leave some soot on a piece of thick paper, and then manipulates the soot with certain tools to develop breathtaking images. The final artworks, just as shown here, not only remain the trails of soot, but also feature stunning details, demonstrating a mysterious and marvelous world constructed with imagination and outstanding skills.
Really unbelievable, but all these fabulous sculptures you’ve seen are truly made with sewing buttons, thousands of sewing buttons. Although the material used to build them is very common, the result turns out surprisingly cool: huge, three-dimensional and bit of see-through, creating a unique beauty that attracts all of us.
