Diego Stocco re-purposed the keyboard of a dismantled piano that was in his garden, he built a new instrument by combining it with some other parts he had laying around. He ended up with a mechanical hybrid thing he calls "Bassoforte" (bass + pianoforte). The neck is from a broken electric bass, the bridge is a cabinet handle, the pickups are from a guitar, and the part at the top where the strings are attached is a chimney cap, which works as resonator as well as percussive sound. The track he created is a tribute to his Dad who is a big fan of Western comic books and "spaghetti western" films.
Monday, 11 October 2010
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Steve Bialik
When making Star Wars George Lucas was influenced by Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies. In this series of Japanese woodblock prints, artist Steve Bialik reimagines Star Wars characters as if Star Wars was actually set in feudal Japan.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Jabba the Hutt and Princess Leia
Han Solo and Chewbacca
Boba Fett
Admiral Ackbar
Darth Vader
Emperor Palpatine
Adam Connelly
Adam Connelly is an American artist and designer. His work examines where the borders of the digital and the analog world meet, and how social, cultural, and ideological trends are shaped by technology and art.
Taking inspiration from both the tradition of the painted nude and popular pornography, his work addresses the role that porn has in advancing technology and the subsequent impact on culture and ideology.
Drawing its subjects from the vast pool of freely-available Internet porn, his work delves into issues of public and private identity, privacy, censorship, information sharing, and information awareness.
These paintings are like pixelated digital images, try looking at them from a distance or through squinted eyes.
For more, check out his website - http://www.adamconnelly.com/
Taking inspiration from both the tradition of the painted nude and popular pornography, his work addresses the role that porn has in advancing technology and the subsequent impact on culture and ideology.
Drawing its subjects from the vast pool of freely-available Internet porn, his work delves into issues of public and private identity, privacy, censorship, information sharing, and information awareness.
These paintings are like pixelated digital images, try looking at them from a distance or through squinted eyes.
For more, check out his website - http://www.adamconnelly.com/
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Shadow Art
I found this shadow art amazing. Arranging objects in such a way that, when a light is shone at a certain angle, a shadow is cast, creating an silhouette image.
I particularly like the one of the peices of paper creating profile images of faces.
Click on the images to see a larger version.
I particularly like the one of the peices of paper creating profile images of faces.
Click on the images to see a larger version.
Sia Academia Kinetic Typography Movie
There are a lot of kenetic typography movies floating around the internet, but the style of this one caught my eye.
The song is also very good.
The song is also very good.
Alexander Crispin
I love this number series by Stockholm-based photographer Alexander Crispin.
Done for an ad campaign for the Swedish company SET Revision.
Done for an ad campaign for the Swedish company SET Revision.
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Pete Fowler
Pete Fowler is a Welsh artist well known for his artwork for the Welsh band Super Furry Animals. He is a freelance illustrator and "monster creator" inspired by Japanese art, folklore, myths, psychedelia and super nature. He works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, animation, and sculpture.
Pete's art is done in a postmodern cartoon style. Most of his work revolves around a central narrative and features a recurring set of characters. The "monsters" Fowler creates all reside on "Monsterism Island." Fowler invents extensive back-stories for his characters; each has its own specific traits and levels of "monsterism."
Fowler is most known for his designer toys of his characters, which he himself manufactures with his own company.
Monsterism Artwork
Monsterism Animation
Monsterism Toys
Super Furry Animals Album Covers
Jez Burrows
Jez Burrows is a designer and illustrator living in Edinburgh. His style harks back to classic design and he shows good illustration and strong design skills in his work.
His work is beautifully simplistic, delivering its message with the use of simple shape and the sparse use of colour.
Though it could be digital, his work appears to be hand printed and beautifully textured.
www.jezburrows.com/
His work is beautifully simplistic, delivering its message with the use of simple shape and the sparse use of colour.
Though it could be digital, his work appears to be hand printed and beautifully textured.
www.jezburrows.com/
Banksy
Banksy is a British graffiti artist whose true identity is unknown.
His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, appears in cities worldwide. He turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a piece; he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in the one sitting. So he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour.
Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects include rats, monkeys, policemen, soldiers, children, and the elderly.
After following a white paint trail around the streets of shoreditch it ends up at this stencil.
In late August 2008, marking the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Banksy produced a series of works in New Orleans, Louisiana, mostly on buildings derelict since the disaster.
In August 2005, Banksy, on a trip to the Palestinian territories, created nine images on Israel's highly controversial West Bank barrier. The wall stands three times the height of the Berlin Wall and will eventually run for over 700km—the distance from London to Zurich.
This piece is located on one of the main roads, leading out towards the Bethlehem checkpoint to Jerusalem. It is drawn on the side of a building, not on the Wall itself, largely for security reasons. The soldiers do not take kindly to professional entities spending a lot of time at one place on the Wall. Such people are generally arrested for terrorist activity and accused of trying to destroy, blow up, or weaken the structure.
This wall marks the spot where over 40 people were killed during the first Intafada (the little holes along the top are from bullets).
While Banksy was painting it a lot of people came over, some to shake his hand and others telling him to go away. Eventually the local MP was called out to diffuse the eighty-strong crowd that had built up (by which time Banksy had left and the piece was completed by the local kids.
www.banksy.co.uk/
His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, appears in cities worldwide. He turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a piece; he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in the one sitting. So he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour.
Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects include rats, monkeys, policemen, soldiers, children, and the elderly.
After following a white paint trail around the streets of shoreditch it ends up at this stencil.
In late August 2008, marking the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Banksy produced a series of works in New Orleans, Louisiana, mostly on buildings derelict since the disaster.
In August 2005, Banksy, on a trip to the Palestinian territories, created nine images on Israel's highly controversial West Bank barrier. The wall stands three times the height of the Berlin Wall and will eventually run for over 700km—the distance from London to Zurich.
This piece is located on one of the main roads, leading out towards the Bethlehem checkpoint to Jerusalem. It is drawn on the side of a building, not on the Wall itself, largely for security reasons. The soldiers do not take kindly to professional entities spending a lot of time at one place on the Wall. Such people are generally arrested for terrorist activity and accused of trying to destroy, blow up, or weaken the structure.
This wall marks the spot where over 40 people were killed during the first Intafada (the little holes along the top are from bullets).While Banksy was painting it a lot of people came over, some to shake his hand and others telling him to go away. Eventually the local MP was called out to diffuse the eighty-strong crowd that had built up (by which time Banksy had left and the piece was completed by the local kids.
www.banksy.co.uk/
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