Ashes to ashes, dust to… vinyl? Hardcore music lovers live and die music. Now, they can literally die music… or die on music… or something like that. UK company And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their ashes into a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favorite tunes or their last will and testament. [...]
Etsy user LowLevel‘s work is simple: “All stencils are handmade. I use spray paint.” But the series of posters he creates are anything but simple, not because the technique is complex, but the subjects he paints are. Each poster features a historical icon – from the Dic of all dictators Fidel Castro, literary iconoclast Jack Kerouac, blue-eyed crooner Frank Sinatra and many more. [...]
Sihouette cutting is an extremely rare art form these days, but one man is still practicing, or rather, mastering, the all but lost form of portraiture. Master scissor artist Karl Johnson cuts each vintage-inspired silhouette entirely by hand. He simply looks at the person’s profile, either in person or in a photo, and starts cutting the [...]
Another great example of creative urban renewal is Tyree Guyton’s 24-year-strong mission, The Heidelberg Project, where the forgotten neighborhood on Heidelberg Street in Detroit’s East Side has been turned into an outdoor art exhibition. Similar to the Favela project in Brazil, the Heidelberg Project is about healing communities through art. Guyton, founder and artistic director of the Project, [...]
X-rays. They’re so hot right now. First, sexy skeletons, now sexy flowers? Ok, maybe not, but yet another post about using x-ray machines creatively. Hugh Turvey has been fascinated since childhood with getting underneath the surface of things, and you can’t get any more ‘under the surface’ than an x-ray. Turvey first experimented with x-ray [...]
The Japanese just do everything right, especially when it comes to fashion, creativity and innovation. Rie Hosokai, aka Daisy Balloon, is no exception. Hosokai was introduced to balloon art in 2002 when she, ironically, was working in a flower shop. From there she started her own business, then went on to reign supreme in almost every [...]
When you’re a sculptor, the next natural step in your career is mini-golf course designer, right? For artist Bruce Stillman, it was. A long-time fan and creator of landscape sculpture, Stillman decided to turn his Minnetrista, MN farm into a fully functioning mini-golf course, with his works standing in as the props and obstacles to hit [...]
UK artist Patrick Hughes creates “Reverspective” art. What is Reverspective art? Glad you asked: Reverspectives are three-dimensional paintings that when viewed from the front initially give the impression of viewing a painted flat surface that shows a perspective view. However as soon as the viewer moves their head even slightly the three dimensional surface that [...]
Whatever your opinion is on birds (personally, they freak me out), you have to appreciate the work in Andrew Zuckerman‘s “Bird” series. They’re beautiful, colorful pieces of our feathered friends/foe. But what’s most shocking and interesting about these pieces is that they are 100% real photographs, not paintings or digital creations. The colors are so vivid, the textures [...]
