Over on her Tumblr, Canadian artist Laura Bifano has been posting illustrations of Pokémon, which she draws from her “vague” childhood memories of how they looked. It’s all good, because her Pokémon look way more hardcore than we can ever remember.
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A mixed media (watercolor, ink, charcoal and colored pencil) painting by Olga Noes, an artist currently residing in Germany. Art prints, iphone cases and t-shirts are available at Society6.
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto is the one of the most important proponents of the Neo-Concrete movement, which was formed in Brazil in the 1950s. His most recent installation, ‘Crazy Hyperculture in the Vertigo of the World’ at the Faena Arts Center in Buenos Aires, invites the viewer to touch, smell and walk inside its inner space.
Neto works with abstract installations which often take up the whole expositional space, creating spatial labyrinths in which fine membranes –stretched taught and fixed at various points– containing spices of varying colours and aromas (saffron, cloves) hang down here and there in the shape of enormous droplets.
The main elements and materials used in his works are the elasticity of the fabrics, the force of gravity, spices and polythene foam.
Link to the exhibit’s page on the Faena Arts Center site.
More images after the jump.
“Showbiz ruined me,” by Italian artist Pao. Pao, the founder of Studio Paopao, transforms ordinary objects found in urban spaces into colorful creatures, that bring a smile on people’s faces.…
“Memória Afetiva” (affective memory) – stunning mixed-media artworks by Andre Azevedo, one of the most exciting artistic talents to emerge from Brazil.
Link to Andre’s site [NSFW].
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“PCKTKNFE” is five and a half minutes of pure geeky entertainment. A great blend of animation and live action, the music video was created by artist James Dunhour and musician…
Ulrich Schwanitz, a Netherlands-based artist, makes his bronze sculptures and pendants by creating their digital designs on a computer first, and then by manufacturing them using 3D printers. His latest…
If you are ever lucky to come across one of New York-based artist Skye Nicolas' specially marked one dollar bills, don't just give them away to anyone. These dollar bills…
Photographer Sheila Bocchine travels the world with her pinhole camera, documenting different cultures and "all things beautiful." Her lensless pinhole camera, made from teakwood, uses medium format (120) film to produce gorgeously-surreal, square images.
On the subject of her photography, she says:
“The exposures are longer to compensate for the pinhole, which is why you will see subtle blur and motion in all of my images. Since the world rarely stands still, my pinhole camera captures all the beautiful motion and energy onto the negative, thus resulting with dreamscape-like qualities. I feel like each pinhole photograph is a marvelous dream… a surreal and whimsical moment in time that has swirled around my daydreams before coming out as the perfect pinhole photograph.”
Not all of her photographs are as sunny and cheerful as the ones above; some of the images of “dead” people in her portfolio were intriguingly-creepy enough to make me ask her more about them.
The story behind the photographs was, however, far more innocuous.
Bocchine replied back, saying, "the ‘scary’ photos are from Fear Farm Haunted House in Phoenix. I was at a pumpkin farm picking up some holiday goodies and I spotted a haunted house. There was no one around so I found my way inside. It was daytime, so I didn’t think it would be as spooky as it was, but with every corner I turned my heart raced!”