Showing posts with label Miniatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miniatures. Show all posts
Meanwhile, on the ocean floor...
Otherworldy Report
The exhibition Otherworldly at the Museum of Arts and Design was as good as I hoped! Here are some of my favorites:
Frank Kunert's Children!:
Patrick Jacobs' Room with Radiator (you had to view it through a little porthole):
Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz's ominous Traveler series of snowglobes:
Alan Wolfson's Canal St. Cross-Section of which Neil took some great detail shots:
And Mat Collishaw's Garden of Unearthly Delights was terrifying:
Obligatory goofball shots:
This shot reminds me of the first issue of Fantastic Four:
Frank Kunert's Children!:
Patrick Jacobs' Room with Radiator (you had to view it through a little porthole):
Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz's ominous Traveler series of snowglobes:
Alan Wolfson's Canal St. Cross-Section of which Neil took some great detail shots:
And Mat Collishaw's Garden of Unearthly Delights was terrifying:
Obligatory goofball shots:
This shot reminds me of the first issue of Fantastic Four:
Otherworldly
This upcoming show at the Museum of Arts and Design looks like it's going to be awesome! Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities:
Faerie Fort
Spent weekend making Faerie Forts with my cousin Atticus. Note the periwinkle shells on stakes to warn off intruders. I want to make a coffee table book all about this singular kid art form.
Gordon Matta-Clark's Splitting Papercraft
I love Gordon Matta-Clark's artwork Splitting so much that I made a paper sculpture of it. Here is what it looks like finished:
You can download the instructions (that include the model itself) here and download a higher quality version of the model here. It only takes about 20 minutes to make!
If you don't know about the piece you can watch the first ten minutes of this video to see how it was done:
Not only was the project itself rad but the collages he produced documenting it were beautiful.
You can download the instructions (that include the model itself) here and download a higher quality version of the model here. It only takes about 20 minutes to make!
If you don't know about the piece you can watch the first ten minutes of this video to see how it was done:
Not only was the project itself rad but the collages he produced documenting it were beautiful.
Don't Eat a Fudgesicle While Viewing This...
...because I did and now I'm sick. Jake & Dinos Chapman's recreation of their 2000 work (ironically destroyed by an accidental warehouse fire) Hell is entitled Fucking Hell. It looks amazing, some critics are already calling it the first major artwork of the 21st century. Comparisons to Bruegel the Younger and Bosch are inevitable and maybe deserved. Here are some photos but this video gives you a much more horrific picture.
Update: Nick pointed out the similarities to this Halo video proving once again that popular culture has already gone ahead and produced something (almost as) equally arresting for the masses while the obscenely rich and cloistered art world continues to sit around and jerk each others largely half-baked and bullshit ideas off. That being said I am still really impressed with the Chapman's piece although not with the current art market as a whole...
Update: Nick pointed out the similarities to this Halo video proving once again that popular culture has already gone ahead and produced something (almost as) equally arresting for the masses while the obscenely rich and cloistered art world continues to sit around and jerk each others largely half-baked and bullshit ideas off. That being said I am still really impressed with the Chapman's piece although not with the current art market as a whole...
Slinkachu
I'm so excited because I finally got the book of London artist Slinkachu's work! He places tiny people all over London in various states of loneliness, despair, or insignificance. Luckily you can see most if not all of the images on his blog but you'll want to have the book handy after EMPs wipe out all your electronics.
I'll be putting my copy on my bookshelf between Banksy's Wall and Piece and White's Mistress Masham's Repose...
I'll be putting my copy on my bookshelf between Banksy's Wall and Piece and White's Mistress Masham's Repose...
Micro Machines
Tilt-shift photography (aka the Adult Swim effect) is great. Monster Truck rallies are exciting. Why hadn't anyone thought of putting them together before?
Check out the guy's other tilt-frame videos on his Vimeo page. [via BoingBoing] This also reignited my former obsession with Micro Machines. I was kind of a boy-failure for not being at all interested in matchbox cars but my passion for all things miniaturized could sometimes disguise my shortcomings.
PS. Also check out the Wired How-To Wiki to learn how to fake a tilt-shift photo in Photoshop without a billion dollar camera. I'm now off to eBay to try and buy micro machines in bulk...
Check out the guy's other tilt-frame videos on his Vimeo page. [via BoingBoing] This also reignited my former obsession with Micro Machines. I was kind of a boy-failure for not being at all interested in matchbox cars but my passion for all things miniaturized could sometimes disguise my shortcomings.
PS. Also check out the Wired How-To Wiki to learn how to fake a tilt-shift photo in Photoshop without a billion dollar camera. I'm now off to eBay to try and buy micro machines in bulk...
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