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Designer John Leung from ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects brought us the Parallel of Time Clock last year. Now he presents the “Bias of Thoughts” Bookshelf. The design is based on the famous 2D illusion, now rendered in confounding 3D.
How many shelves are there? Look to the left: four shelves. Look to the right: three shelves. The design is based on the illusion known as the Impossible Fork or Blivet.
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Poster Boy is an anonymous New York City based street artist whose only utensil is a razor. He makes satiric collage-like works created by cutting out sections of the self-adhesive advertisement posters in the platforms of New York City subway stations and pasting them back in different positions. Many of these works have been collected in a book called Poster Boy: The War of Art.
“His cut and slash mash-ups of subway platform billboards only exist in New York City, but Poster Boy’s artful and funny appropriations of advertising have gotten him attention the world over. The New York Times dubbed him an “anti-consumerist Zorro with a razor blade, a sense of humor and a talent for collage”; the Guardian UK said of his work, it “is witty, web-savvy and economical…and the only materials it requires are chutzpah, imagination and a 50 cent blade.”
Poster Boy tweaks corporate copy, replacing it with incisive and playful puns and turns of phrase rich with innuendo and political punch. Beautiful models turn ghastly and iconic spokespeople become the mouthpiece for Poster Boy’s ideas.”
Advertisements are turned into political statements, which draw the eye quicker than the original ads. Poster Boy’s works force one to think deeper about the nature of what is being advertised. Neatorama has a few photographs from the 96-page book, which will be released July 6th by Mark Batty Publisher. Amazon is taking pre-orders now.
Back to the Future The new sci-fi made retro…again.
This summer, The Vader Project launches the final chapter of its four-year art odyssey. The iconic collection features 100 Darth Vader Helmets re-imagined by today’s most notable artists. Completing its epic world tour, The Vader Project returns to Los Angeles this weekend for a special ten-day exhibition in Hollywood as a preview to the upcoming Freeman’s Auction in Philadelphia.
The Los Angeles Preview Exhibition is free to the public with an opening reception on June 11 from 6-10pm. The show will also feature a 200-plus page, full-color, limited edition catalog that is being produced for the auction and is available for pre-order now at The Vader Project. On June 12, the space will present a catalog signing event with over 20 participating artists in attendance beginning at 2pm on June 12. The Los Angeles Preview Exhibition will be open June 12-20 daily from Noon to 6pm.
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It’s easy to imagine how hard it would be to make something complex out of LEGO bricks. But let me try to convince you that the opposite – making simple things out of LEGO – is just as hard if not harder. Once you take a look at Christoph Niemann’s book I LEGO® N.Y.
Christoph, an award-winning illustrator, children’s books author and a former New Yorker himself, was inspired to create a series of miniature New York vignettes using his son’s LEGO toys after a few cold and dark winter days in Berlin. He then posted photographs of his creations along with scribbled captions on his New York Times blog.
The key to Christoph’s LEGO MOCs (that’s "my own creations", for those of you who don’t know the LEGO lingo – say that three times fast) is their simplicity: he captured the essence of New York City – both the iconic (like the Empire State Building LEGO) and the mundane (the man standing on a subway platform, with a giant rat scurrying by his feet) in fewer pieces than one might think possible.
Here are but a few of the clever collections from the book (which features all of Christoph’s original creations, plus 13 new ones): more …
While surfing the web not so long ago, I ran across a little gem of a drawing. At first glance, you may say that it’s just a drawing of a cat and a mouse but take a closer look: the cat is literally made of the letters C-A-T and well, you can guess what letters of the alphabet make the mouse.
It took a little sleuthing to find the artist, Margaret Shepherd, who turned out to be a noted calligrapher and author of bestselling books
[*Note: The Palmer Method of penmanship, developed by Austin Palmer in the early 1900s, focuses on cursive writing. The method fell out of favor and was later replaced by a movement to teach children manuscript or block letters]
Margaret is kind enough to provide more examples of her calligraphy art for our viewing pleasure: more …
Neatoramanaut Dennis wrote to us about the awesome Mario-themed shelves, end table and clock that he and his girlfriend (and video game lover) Judith built for their apartment. Check out the warp pipe, built out of garbage cans that serve as a table to keep their cell phones organized and charged, and the clock, which features the scene from the Game Boy video game Super Mario Land. Dennis told us that Judith, who is a mechanical engineering student in Germany, is also working on a Koopa shell for the shelf.
More photos (including an unrelated but super-awesomely-cool light saber Judith built for him as a birthday present): more …
It’s rather hip for modern artists to skip traditional art media and forgo stuffy art galleries for empty factories and abandoned industrial spaces to showcase their art, but not a lot of them can pull off what French visual artist Baptiste Debombourg did.
In his installation Aggravure, Baptiste spent 75 hours creating the image of falling Phaeton* on a wall in a very, very unusual manner. Read on to find the what he used: more …
