She produces free-flowing watercolour art - it's beautiful how she blends very sharp lines with very undefined watercolors. I also love the way she mixes mainstream fashion into her illustrations and can incorporate photos for adverts into her work. They are pretty to look at but there is also an element of intensity. They are quite simple pieces but the composition and colour makes them stand out.
The subject of endless psychology experiments and countless awkward moments. Now, thanks to a collaboration between KONE elevators and Finnish design company Marimekko, you can stare intently at wonderful designs rather than floor or the control panel. Marimekko Corporation is a leading Finnish textile and clothing design company that was established in 1951.
“Applying Marimekko designs to elevator cars will turn the ride into an experience that can be continued in other interior designs of the building. The agreement reflects the goal of both parties to make design a part of people’s everyday lives,” says Kirsti Paakkanen, President, Marimekko.
Such a small interior space which are normally rather industrial and boring. They are there functionally, but normally not aesthetically pleasing. These pieces of art, placed within the lifts form a point of conversation and are more visually pleasing than metal or mirrors!
3-D street art has always fascinated me, but I have just come across examples of street art used as ambient media advertising. The first is for T.Com and the second is for Ford.
A am also posting examples of Street Art.
http://www.european-street-painting.com/
Dust Art
Fascinating stuff... It's amazing what people can do with what's in front of us from day to day living. It would interest me for this guy to do some sort of promotional art or something relating to the advertising and marketing industry.
The detail is incredible and his work sort of reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy because as soon as it rains, or as soon as you need to use the car, the art has dissapeared. It also brings into the equation... what would we do without cameras. They catch moments in time which would be forgotten and not as widely seen.
Poker Dogs: Wet Dogs
Visual Music
Jennifer Steinkamp is an internationally exhibiting installation artist who works with new media and video in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception.
(Aria, 2000, Las Vegas)
(Loop, 2000, Washington DC)
Jennifer Steinkamp uses light projection and music in rooms to create calming and dream-like motions. When taking photos of the art, people position themselves within the frame and they become part of the art, something I'm sure Steinkamp intends.
Many famous artists have used music to put themselves into an emotional state and then their art reflects this, so Steinkamp's work is a progression of this in terms of using music and images together. Her choice in music and image are homogeneous but it would be interesting to see how conflicting music and image would be perceived.
Jennifer Steinkamp, SWELL, 1995, computer generated projection and installation with soundtrack by Bryan Brown, the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
I find the work really mesmorizing. The best art is that which is calming and electrifying at the same time.
To see Dervish in motion:
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After seeing Peter Callesen's work using paper I found these works by Yuken Tertuya. He creates these sculptures out of fastfood takeaway bags and paper shopping bags. The Okinawa-born, New York-based artist creates treescapes by meticulously cutting intricate shapes from these bags. His work is fuelled by his political commentary on the environment and globalisation, and is informed by his Okinawan heritage. 
I was watching Graham Norton on TV the other week and one of his guests (Alison Murray) was in the process of knitting an entire house and its contents for charity. Everything in the house was made from wool and stuffing.
About 500 women from across the UK, USA, Canada and Spain sent knitted contributions to the house which goes on show on Friday until 20 September. It just shows that people can pull together to create something wonderful.
So, in my inquest to find out more about the process of making a house from wool, I came across a few other people who have been creating similar things.
This house is made by Tasmanian knitters.
This community art project grew out of nursing homes in and around Hobart, Tasmania. Residents of the homes have some terrific skills and memories, and their carers were looking for some useful projects for them to be involved in that would have both physical, mental and social benefits.
"The knitting site" is a device for remembering, say the ladies who made this house in London.
They had met weekly to prepare, and continued on the day of the event, as the house unfolded before the crowd’s eyes. As they said: “Some people think that the act of building should be hidden behind screens, we like building site stuff - nets and ropes and scaffolding. We knit with them. And while some people think knitting is to remain behind walls, we build walls that are knitted. The knitting site is about bringing the backstage to the fore."
Minnie has turned to some of the oldest, most rudimentary optical technology. Her latest show features photographs of rooms in the now empty 1854 Great Northern Hotel in London, and in most of the images she has turned the spaces into giant pinhole cameras.
The technique is simple. "You just black out the windows with paper or whatever, and make a pinhole. And then you're inside a camera, with the image of the outside projected in it. You can see people walking over the ceiling. It's quite eerie."
One of the photographs, "Room 418", is particularly disconcerting: you don't immediately notice that it is upside-down because, in this state, the projected image appears the right way up. The flat roofs of what look like railway sheds hover over the floor like a daylight hologram, and a wire coathanger rises, from a hook, like a cheap aerial.
Minnie Weisz approaches her subjects, her site-specific works as an artist, as one might approach an archeological dig. She unearths historical references to the buildings she chooses to inhabit, cataloguing these spaces in the context of history, myth and local lore. Weisz uses photography, projections and found material to explore the unseen narratives of the building, engaging with the present, past, real and imagined. Weisz’s application of pinhole technique, allows the building to become an eye, viewing an everchanging outside world which is captured and recorded by the interior and in turn awakening memories and stimulating dreams. A dialogue unfolds between Weisz’s response to the subject and the subject’s response to its surroundings. These processes of reflection and projection, in Weisz's images raise questions about the identity of space, and of real and imagined interior worlds.
Weisz’s work engages the organic haphazardness of London’s architecture, re-mapping memory within the cityscape, offering its secrets to us as we navigate through dreamscapes layered with history and fantasy. Time, memory and place in flux: luminous artefacts, gestures to past and present. Weisz’s rooms and buildings watch each other , in silent witness and look back at us.
(above information taken from other websites)
I like this art because as the weather and time of day changes outside, so does the art. It's such a simple traditional method with eerie results! Seeing this makes me want to have a go... so watch this space!!!
I came across this guy from somebody else's post. It's really taken me back to when I was younger and cut out snowflakes from paper. I loved opening the paper up after cutting it to find out what sort of pattern you have made!
It strikes me that such awesome shapes and figures can be made from a simple sheet of paper.
Some of the works e.g. the birds escaping, remind me of M.C. Escher's work where you are faced with something which isnt real but it's coming to life. The art is jumping out from the paper, it's trying to escape or is about to. There is a sense of reality.
His practise is precise and there is a lot of attention to detail, e.g. 'the other side' (door) where on one side the foot prints have been cut out and placed on the other side.
I am also posting what looks like a sheet of paper. I didn't quite get this one at first ; it almost looks like a cop out in comparison to the others but actually very clever, in my opinion. The piece cut out is a sandcastle on the beach and the curl in the paper is a wave! So simple but brilliant at the same time!
Created by a guy called George. The art takes up to 70 hours to create on a bog standard etch-a-sketch that we all had when we were children!
I appreciate this art because if a mistake is made you cant simply rub it out... it has to be completely erased and you have to start again. Also, by having up and down cursors, to make a diagonal line both knobs must be turned at the same time, meaning great co-ordination is needed.
George concentrates on stars in America so his works are mainly portraiture. The detailing is amazing and he creates proportions accurately.
It was Wednesday afternoon when I was walking back from University. I stumbled across this little piece of 'art'. It took me by suprise as I have never noticed it before. It reads:
"at some point in this conversation you will lie"
To some extent it is true. Nobody has a conversation which is 100% truthful. It might be a white lie, it might be a slight exageration.
It strikes me because somebody has thought about this and made a point of showing it.
I thought I'd share it with you and see if you now notice the smaller things around you.
