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ianbrooks:

Moebius Mosaics by Antonio Village9991

Antonio’s mosaic portraits seem to explode from an infinitely tiny point.. or perhaps they’re being sucked in a continuous oscillating blast reminiscent of the Big Bang that created our Universe, but in this series the disparate particles instead coalesce into the recognizable visage of famous people.

Artist: Flickr / Website

ianbrooks:

Naked Paper Collages by Eiko Ojala

It’s amazing the extra dimensions you can conjure from a relatively flat surface, creating sloping, winding contours that interlace to form the delicate topography of a body. Eiko uses paper and just the right blend of negative space and minimalism to discover the very human touch hidden within.

Artist: Website (via: Reddit)

ianbrooks:

Broken and Mutilated Facepaint by Verauko

Using black eye pencil and eyeliner, white eye pencil, black eyeshadow, some coloring, and a little bit of Photoshop (to remove her eyes), Verauko has produced some of the most horrific makeup I’ve ever witnessed, though probably perfect for a night out in Silent Hill.

Artist: DeviantArt

danceabletragedy:

Invisible Artist Liu Bolin - Hide in the City

ianbrooks:

Lasercut Stained Glass Paper Windows by Eric Standley

Riddle me this, Batman: when is a window not a window? Stacking hundreds of colored papers, masterfully laser-cut and interlacing both positive and negative space to create designs that appear to float in midair, Eric’s labyrinthine designs seem to extract influence from the classic stained glass Cathedral windows prominent in medieval France.

Artist: Website (via: Hi*Fructose)

ianbrooks:

3-D Segmented Graffiti by Aske aka Sicksystems

The geometrically interlocking arts of Sicksystems evoke polygonal VR worlds from the 80’s with a surreal new-age spirituality aesthetic via the Lawnmower Man. But the former street artist also moves beyond the realm of 2-D, constructing his extra dimension out of layered plywood and foamed polystyrene, crossing timelines and tapping into an alternate future ensconced in the digital realm.

Artist: Website / Tumblr / Twitter

archiemcphee:

Here’s an activity guaranteed to keep you busy on a wintry day: Build an awesome rainbow igloo in your own backyard! 

“Thanks to an ingenious mother from Edmonton it’s quite possible nobody will every build a plain white igloo again. The adventure began with a kernel of an idea from Brigid Burton, whose daughter Kathleen Starrie and boyfriend Daniel Gray, an engineering student, were coming for a winter visit from New Zealand. Wanting to “keep him occupied” during the frigid winter days that often dip down to -25 °F (-31 °C), last October she began filling paper cartons with colored water and setting them outside to form translucent ice bricks. She hoped Gray’s engineering skills would do the rest. Like a total champ he accepted the challenge and with the help of additional family and neighbors the team spent nearly 150 hours fitting the 500 ice bricks into place. After completion the raingbow igloo was so visually striking the local news showed up to do a feature on it.”

Read the full story at the Global Edmonton and see many more construction photos here.

[via Colossal]

archiemcphee:

Once a woodcarver, Chinese artist Wen Fuliang lives in Shaanxi province where he transforms chicken, goose, and duck eggshells into incredible (and incredibly fragile) works of art. 

Wen Fuliang has practiced the delicate art of eggshell carving for over ten years. The work is done “using a fine diamond bit on an electric rotary tool. The artist sketches a design on the shell, which has been carefully emptied of the yolk and egg white with a syringe. They must then gently but securely hold the egg shell in one hand, the rotary tool in the other and slowly carve away the design in an incredibly time-consuming and skillful process.”

[via Neatorama and Dailymail.co.uk]

archiemcphee:

From the Department of Awesome Interiors comes the breathtakingly elaborate and colourful Peacock Room, located inside the abandoned Sammezzano Castle in Tuscany. The now derelict castle was built in 1605.

Photos via Romany WG and Martino Zegwaard

[via Design You Trust and inthralld.]

archiemcphee:

Artist Josh Ln created this awesome series of anatomical illustrations revealing the unexpected insides of some well known spacecraft. Prints are available via Society6.

[via thaeger]

ianbrooks:

Steampunk Clocks by Rafa Maya / Diarment Creations

When you live in an alternate world where technology never advanced past steam-powered locomotion and beige colors, it helps to have a time-measurement apparatus so you know when to board your airship. Some of these designs available at etsy.

Artist: DeviantArt / Blogspot

ianbrooks:

Drowning From Obsession by Thomas Wightman

As part of a final year class project, Thomas needed to convey his principal theme in the form of a vehicle: creating a paper boat that sailed the edges of a book which, when opened, revealed the cut-out vortex of OCD inside, an experience not dissimilar to drowning, but a tethered anchor represents the truth that there’s always a way out.

Artist: Behance / Blogspot

archiemcphee:

Holy awesomeness Batman, check out this incredible LEGO Batman Batcave!

Built as an MOC collaboration project between Carlyle Livingston II and Wayne Hussey, this remarkable miniature Batcave was created over the course of twelve weeks - 800 hours of labour. It even has all the relevant Bat-vehicles: Batmobile, Batcopter, Batcycle and so on. Altogether 20,000 parts and pieces were used to build the LEGO Batcave, which weighs an impressive 100 pounds. It even lights up using “battery powered LED Christmas lights and LED flash lights cannibalized and rewired to run off one battery.” 

Be sure to visit Carlyle’s Flickr page to check out detailed photos of this amazing creation. 

[via HiConsumption]

ianbrooks:

Litter Bugs by Mark Oliver

This series of urban entomology explores the Arthropod sub-species of the Insecta class: bugs that have developed the adaptive ability to camouflage themselves in their environment so effectively that they render themselves nearly invisible. One man’s trash is another species’ ecosystem.

Artist: Flickr / Behance / Website

ianbrooks:

LEGO Star Wars Hoth Chess Set by Brickplace

The problem with fantasy chess sets is that I’d spend more time playing with the pieces and having them roundhouse kick each other in the face. And the problem with Star Wars anything is that I’m always going to be making lightsaber VWOOSH noises. The problem with LEGOs is that I’m always going to step on that one goddamn piece and the problem with this set is that you’re not able to cut the Taun Tauns open and crawl inside for warmth. Those are just my problems though, of which I have lots, but Brickplace did an incredible job with this Hoth chess set and definitely does not deserve to have his hand cut off in the end (spoiler!).

Artist: Flickr (via: itlego)

(Source: itlego)