Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago at 3:48 pm. 0 comments
So you’ve seen Eat, Pray, Love but Rick Mereki’s minute-long videos will put the film to shame.
Travelling across 11 countries and flying 38 thousand miles in 44 days, 3 guys went on a journey around the globe capturing and discovering the simple things that make up this world. In one breathtaking linear movement, Move will make you want to run out and travel the world; Eat will make you even hungrier for life; and Learn will teach you there’s no shame in crying at your desk from watching a viral video (damn you, charming, life-affirming music that accompanies!)
Are you digging for your passport already? Cos we are!
Who needs cadavers and bodies when we can perform surgeries on books?
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer aka ‘The Book Surgeon’ meticulously dissects books to reveal a complex albeit eye-opening view of its anatomy. Carefully carving one page at a time, nothing inside those vintage encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books or dictionaries are relocated or implanted, only removed. In a time where books are no longer the most efficient way to store and transmit data, Dettmer’s transformations are both nostalgic and forward-thinking.
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 11:22 am. 0 comments
While some of us take to daily meditation, photographer Natsumi Hayashi finds that daily levitation works just fine. Yep, that’s right. Levitation.
Famously dubbed as ‘Tokyo’s Levitating Girl,’ Natsumi has herself photograped levitating around Tokyo. Her beautifully eerie photos showcase her independence of the earth’s gravity as metaphor for social conventions. Having always been told by her peers to ‘keep her feet on the ground, the teenage photography sensation would rather keep hers off - cheekily taking the English idiom to a whole new level.
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 12:05 pm. 0 comments
Ahh yes, our favorite Glaswegian twee-pop band Belle & Sebastian is back with this super rad video. Been a long time coming B&S!
Illustrator Lesley Barnes directs and animates the video for the Richard X remix of B&S track “I Didn’t See It Coming”, and it couldn’t have been a better pairing of music and animation. Lesley Barnes’s cute style backed by a kaleidoscope of shifting patterns makes this video so pleasurable that we are hitting replay every 4 minutes!
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 3:23 pm. 0 comments
Embroidery extraordinaire Daniel Kornrumpf single-handedly puts all girls to shame in just one fell swoop- or stitch.
A true master with the needle, the Philadephia-based artist creates out-of-this-world embroidered pieces that look like paintings. For this series of portraits, Kornrumpf took the stereotypically drab art form and took it to a whole new level. Depicting the faces of attractive young people with thousands of patiently strung threads, each piece is painstakingly hand-stitched, highlighting the unique details of every portrait.
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 1:02 pm. 0 comments
Ah, that dreadful commute to office for a work-filled day getting you down?
Let Breakbot ease the pain with his new video: Fantasy. Recently released by Ed Banger Records, the video very appropriately features a head-turning art class model causing some serious waves of distraction.
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago at 12:17 pm. 0 comments
Lo-fi trio Best Coast’s latest video for their single ‘Gone Again’ shows us that revenge, like they always say, is a dish.
Courtesy of the Adult Swim’s Kia Single Program and directed by Daniel Garcia, ‘Gone Again’ is typical Best Coast affair- fuzzy, lo-fi surf ditty, mellow guitars and warbles about failed love. As lead Bethany Cosentino croons away in the background, a band of masked girls march into a firing squad and shoot gummy bears, pies and cookies unto a hapless bunch of blindfolded dudes.
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago at 2:50 pm. 0 comments
We have all seen one too many before and after photos on slimming ads and what not, but check out Irina Werning’s before and after photos.
Buenos Aires photographer Irina Werning started an interesting project called ‘Back To The Future’ where she takes someone’s old photo and recreates the picture with the same person many years later. Sounds like no big feat, but Irina is amazingly detailed. The result is a surreal, time-traveling carbon copy that manages to capture a sense of the subject’s biography.
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago at 12:03 pm. 0 comments
Witches are in fashion. Or at least Sofia Ajram’s work is!
Strangely attracted to the world of witchery, occults, magic, vampires, french cinema, Sofia captures psychedelic images of beautiful women, dramatic tension and lucid-dreaming landscapes- all with a click of her camera.
Starting out at Truth Explosion Magazine as a concert photographer in 2007, Sofia’s mesmerising work is now featured in publications such as EnRoute Magazine, Poetic Terrorism, Carpaccio Magazine, just to name a few.
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago at 6:32 pm. 0 comments
We have our modern Where’s Waldo right here in Shandong, China.
Who said becoming invisible was impossible? Chinese artist Liu Bolin does it better than any man or creature. Possibly featured in every major publication out there for his inventive use of body paint and photography, Bolin has created an impressive body of work where he blends into backgrounds so surreally you may not even notice he’s there.
Intended as a protest against the persecution of artists by the Chinese government, Bolin goes through great lengths to stage each photo, sometimes taking up to ten hours per photo.
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