Category Archives: Art

Recycled electronic junk combines to form intricate artwork

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Jason Mecier is a mosaic portrait artist.  He uses all kinds of materials–including beans, food, and yarn–to recreate famous artwork and come up with his own machinations.  What grabbed my eye was his work with recycled electronic junk.  As you can see in the Conan O’Brien portrait above, Mecier used electronic circuit boards, cell phones, remote controls, and various cables to reimagine the “I’m with Coco” portrait as made famous by Mike Mitchell.  I’ve posted a handful of creative electronic junk collages in the gallery below, but be sure to check out Mecier’s vast gallery of artwork at his personal website.  Neat stuff.

[Via Gizmodo; 1800recycling; JasonMecier]

Short film: Something Left, Something Taken

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Something Left, Something Taken.  By Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata.

This beautifully designed animated short is a “dark comedy” that follows “a vacationing couple’s encounter with a man they believe to be the Zodiac Killer.”  It’s funny, engaging, suspenseful, and smart.  What’s the phrase again?  Oh right–sit back, relax, and enjoy.

[Via @kpereira]

Wall-painted animation captures the Big Bang, our eventual demise, and everything in between

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BIG BANG BIG BOOM: an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.

Produced by Blu.

This ten minute spectacle captures the birth of life on Earth, the slow but eventual rise to human species, and ends with an interesting twist on how everything might unravel.  How is something so intricate as wall-painted animation made, you ask?  The magic of stop-motion does the trick.  Street artist Blu would paint a sequence of images on a surface, take a picture of said images with a digital camera, paint new images onto the same (or new) surface, take pictures of those, and repeat.  After all the painting and photography was complete, he took the entire collection of images, laid them out side-by-side, and transformed it into a film.  Yes, this is an extremely tedious process; Blu admits this video took “months of work and hundreds [of] buckets of paint”.  The end result is nothing short of exquisite.

[Via NewScientist]

iPhone constructivist monument

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Russian art collective Electroboutique has gone ahead and created this impressive, Tatlin’s Tower-inspired constructivist iPhone monument.  Says the builders:

A giant distorted iPhone 3G, shaped as Tatlin’s Monument to the 3d International. Tatlin’s work is considered one of the avant-garde icons, whereas iPhone is a bright techno-consumerist icon of today. Back in the 20’s of the last centuries avant-garde artists have invented design as a way to bring art into people’s homes. During the 20’s century designers were gradually taking artistic ideas and implementing them into product design. Today we see companies claiming their products are art objects themselves; art has to re-define its role in the society again. The Monument to 3G links together the beginning and the current state of nearly a century of art-to-design dialogue and follows the strategy of re-claiming the designers’ ideas back into art.

[Via Gizmodo; Electroboutique]

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon recreated IRL

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A bunch of dudes collectively known as Cake Group decided to recreate the album cover from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon atop Primrose Hill, in Regent’s Park, London using lasers, neons, and a smoke machine.  Pretty slick, huh?  Look after to break to see how they did it.

[Via Gizmodo; TheDailyWhat; Cake] Continue reading Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon recreated IRL →

Cable Woman

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Connected, by Kasey McMahon.

Connected is a life-size self portrait sculpture created by artist Kasey McMahon.  It’s made entirely of CAT5 ethernet cables and other kinds of wire wrapped around a steel frame.  This modern piece of art is thought-provoking, isn’t it?  What do you think is the artist’s intent with it?  A splintered identity wrapped in digital culture, perhaps.  See the sculpture from different perspectives in the gallery below.

[Via AtypicalArt; Gizmodo]

Art exhibit plays around with your sense of perception

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Feeling Are Facts, designed by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and Chinese architect Ma Yansong.

“Feeling Are Facts” is an art exhibition located at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.  Eliasson and Yansong created a disorienting environment inside an art gallery using artifically produced colored fog, a lowering ceiling, and a sloping floor.  Walking through this exhibit must be challenging and exciting as it forces you to question and reinvent new modes of perception.

[Via DesignBoom; Gizmodo]