I just loved this music video for Gotye’s “Easy Way Out.” The stop-motion animated video was created over a period of 9 months by Oh Yeah Wow, a production studio based in Melbourne, Australia.
The film’s surreal, but evocative visuals were created to tie in effortlessly with the thematic premise of the song – the mind-numbing and depressive elements of doing the same things, day in and day out.
Hit the jump to watch the music video.
“I want Sen... I want Sen..” Chihiro and No Face from Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli's anime masterpiece. A terrific illustration by cartoonist Dan Hipp.
“The Miracle of Fluo Colours” is a satirical art project by Dimitris Polychroniadis, an architect and scenographer based in Athens, Greece.
Dimitris feels that the humorous message behind his pop sculptures in his photographs is highly relevant to the present situation in his country, although it directly refers to the absurd, almost hysterical levels to which religion has been pitted against politics in the US.
Dimitris says,
Religion often serves as an emotional ‘lender of last resort’ in times of crisis. The idea for this series of maquette sculptures, comes from Christian church signs and billboards in the US. By stripping these religious quotes away from their physical and emotive context, the ‘message’ becomes more absolute, almost surreal. To emphasize this further, the text size has been exaggerated in scale (compared to the figurines) and colour. The project is somewhat ‘street’ influenced by large scale advertising and slogan graffiti. The title of the series generates a contrast: The notion of God-sent miracles as an integral part of religious faith, against the marvels of man-made, modern age, industrial technology and it’s products such as fluorescent materials and colours.
The photographs were shot by Dimitris in collaboration with Michalis Dalanikas.
Check out more images after the jump.
Click on the image to view large. Cornelius Magnet, contributed to the JazJaz Flickr Pool by otacon4130. The illustration is part of a series of 3D artworks featuring "Cornelius the…
Skip is a charming little animated film, whose two central characters unwittingly traverse through time and movie genres, only to finally end up falling in love with each other. Created…
"A President’s Tale" is a silkscreen art print by artist LifeVersa, which is a part of his ongoing "Grey Makes A Wonderful Backdrop" online exhibition. Limited to only 50 pieces, the 18”x 24” print will come numbered and signed by the artist, and will be released on Thursday, March 1st, 2012.
A variant edition of 25 will soon follow the release of these prints. LifeVersa also informs me that 10 complete sets of the "Grey Makes A Wonderful Backdrop" exhibition series will be available for pre-order from this Thursday, February 23rd, 2012.
Hit the jump to see the variant print, as well as to get more details on the special offers available if you pre-order the complete set.
Anne Lindberg, drawn pink (2012), Egyptian cotton thread, staples, 72 x 408 x 120” Placemakers is an ongoing art exhibition at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, which…
Lesser known uses, an illustration by Aaron Thong. Prints are available.
Asha: Jewel of the Nile
In his new series, Glam Bugs, photographer Xavier Nuez finds breathtakingly-ethereal beauty in some of the most humble and unlikeliest of subjects – dead and decomposing insects.
To create his images, Nuez begins with a concept, and fleshes out the characters he wants to create. He then builds tiny sets that can be as small as a few square inches, to provide a perfect backdrop for his “star” bugs. The bugs themselves are those found already dead and dusty in basements, windowsills etc, which are then positioned into desired poses on the sets. He says that lighting setups are often quite complex, as they are required to create tiny shafts of light which won’t wash out the intricate details in the photographs. The final images are then shot on large format film, usually on his 50-year old Hasselblad cameras.
Count Blankfein: Collected Souls
Nuez says,
When I look at bugs magnified through my photographic lens, they become larger than life icons – sometimes appearing as a heroic figure in an epic drama, or a superstar adored by millions, or a tragic victim in a cruel world, or a powerful evil villain.
I am absorbed by the contrast between the reality and the fiction of their stories. They are the anonymous, downtrodden masses whose fate is mostly disregarded: the bottom one-percent. With my camera I dignify these largely rejected creatures, or rather, what they represent; I want to glamorize them, and give them an ambiguous but exciting allure.
I try to see their faces and look into their eyes. Perhaps their expressions contain echoes of untold epic tales. Or, perhaps, in the end, each of them is simply a dead bug, as the cycle of life completes another turn.
Nuez is already well known for his sublime photographs of urban decay and night scenes. Of Spanish origin, he was born in Montreal, and now lives in Chicago. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and groups shows in galleries and museums in North America.
A selection of photographs from Glam Bugs will be featured from February 21 to March 28, 2012, at the Elmhurst Guild Gallery of the Elmhurst Art Museum, Illinois.
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This Gollum vs. Joker mashup would make for such a great poster! “Why so prrrecious,” by DA user Andry Shango.